Newsroom Panama reports on an award bestowed on one of Panama’s icon highrises, The Revolution Tower.
PANAMA’S stand out F&F tower on Calle 50, has been named as one of the top 12 most colorful high rises in the world by Emporis a leading database of information about building and construction projects, based in Hamburg, Germany.
The Emporis Skyscraper Award is the world’s most renowned prize for high-rise architecture.
TheF&F tower is the most recognizable and most photographed building in Panama and can be seen from most corners of the city.
Designed by Pinzón Lozano & Asociados Arquitectos, The spiral-shaped tower has a central axis around which the upper 39 stories of the 52-story skyscraper twist. The bottom 13 stories are used for a parking garage.
Glinting blue and turquoise shades form a conspicuous color combination that makes the nearly 243-meter-tall skyscraper clearly stand out from its surroundings.
A press release says High-rises don’t have to get lost in the gray concrete jungle: some are a real riot of color, with vivid facades in scarlet, turquoise or canary yellow – or even combining all the colors of the rainbow. Facades such as these break the drabness of so many concrete tower blocks, and their creative designs stimulate the imagination. A list of the world’s most colorful high-rises has now been compiled by Emporis (www.emporis.com), the international provider of building data.
In the case of Colorium, probably the best-known building in Düsseldorf’s Medienhafen (“Media Harbor”), the name says it all: the building’s exceptional aluminum ribbon window facade, consisting of over 2,200 panels of glass, was screen-printed with 17 different geometric patterns of single or up to four colors. The top floor juts out well over the harbor basin and particularly catches the eye with its signal-red coloring and night-time illumination.
The positively idyllic-seeming First World Hotel in Genting, Malaysia, radiates joie-de-vivre, fun and – not least – rest and recuperation from humdrum routine from every inch of its luminous bright facade.
It is hardly surprising, then, that the almost five-hectare First World Plaza in and around the hotel
complex has a comprehensive range of entertainments on offer, including an amusement park, casino, theater stage and further attractions.
The shimmering copper-colored facade of Mercury City in Moscow, on the other hand, might not be able to compete with the fascinating play of colors at the First World Hotel, but, with its imposing and noble visual appearance, succeeds in demonstrating that a brilliant show is perfectly possible with just the one color. The skyscraper, which measures just under 339 meters, stands out on the skyline of the Russian capital and also impresses through its environmental friendliness and sustainability.
Colorful buildings do not just provide a welcome change from uniform-appearance blocks: bright colors also have a positive effect on the mood and on the memory and reaction times of those looking at them, as researchers at the University of Essex in England have recently discovered. In the cold time of year, when, in many countries the weather is often gray, radiant colors in a vibrant cityscape can indeed help to drive away the winter blues.
The most colorful high-rises shown in the montage are
Al Attar Tower Dubai UAE, 130 m.
Broadcasting Tower Leeds Great Britain 69 m.
Colorium Düsseldorf Germany, 62 m.
F&F Tower Panama City Panama 243 m.
First World Hotel Genting Malaysia, 140 m.
Hotel Porta Fira L’ Hospitalet de Llobregat Spain, 113 m.
Mercury City Moscow Russia, 339 m.
Oficinas en el Parque Monterrey Mexico 98 – 115 m.
The Arlington, Charlotte USA 94 m.
Torre Net Padua Italy 80 m.
Varyap Meridian Istanbul Turkey 100 m – 188 m.
William Beaver House New York City USA 159 m.