Place
Edificio Focsa
Edificio Focsa, e/M y N Calle 17, La Habana
Y-shaped concrete tower rising above Vedado, once among the tallest of its kind built anywhere.
This guide to Edificio Focsa in Havana opens with a death inside one of its elevators in the year two thousand, then rewinds to February of 1954, when engineers insisted no concrete tower this tall could be built cheaply and builders answered with climbing molds that poured floor after floor without a crane. It traces the tower's brief run as one of the most modern addresses in the city, complete with its own bank and rooftop restaurant, before decades of power shortages changed daily life inside.
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