Edificio Fiat Concord, Rationalist office building in San Nicolás, Argentina.
The Edificio Fiat Concord, now Torre Mirafiori, is an office tower on Cerrito Street at Viamonte, beside the Teatro Colón. Its curtain wall alternates blue glass with orange anodized aluminum panels cut in diamond points, and a large digital clock crowns the top. The reinforced-concrete structure has a base, three parking basements and 18 upper floors, with a 60.15-metre frontage on Cerrito.
Fiat Concord planned offices in central Buenos Aires in 1954 and bought the corner of Cerrito and Viamonte the next year. When the city allowed tower buildings in 1957, the project was enlarged and a competition won by Rafael Amaya, Miguel Devoto, Alberto Lanusse, Eduardo Martín and Augusto Pieres. Impresit built it from May 1961 to November 1964; Banco Itaú later absorbed tenant Banco del Buen Ayre in 1998.
The lobby holds a mural by Croatian artist Šime Pelicarić made with painter Raquel Forner. The building's name comes from Fiat's Mirafiori plant in Turin, and the tower was long known as Edificio Fiat Concord before taking the Mirafiori name.
The tower has three basement parking levels, a base with a ground-floor exhibition hall and two upper floors, and 18 tower floors, the last of which holds the machine room. The core holds four elevators and two freight elevators, and the 60.15-metre frontage runs along Cerrito Street.
A large digital clock at the building's top displays both time and weather conditions. It serves as a recognizable landmark for people moving along Avenida 9 de Julio.
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