Bacardi Building, Art Deco skyscraper in Old Havana, Cuba

The Bacardi Building is a twelve-story Art Deco skyscraper in Old Havana featuring a red granite facade, golden glazed tiles, and brass details throughout. The structure showcases colorful terracotta reliefs and geometric patterns, with interior wood paneling that extends across the office spaces and lower-floor mezzanine.

Bacardi commissioned the building through an architectural competition won by Esteban Rodríguez-Castells and Rafael Fernández Ruenes, with José Menéndez Menéndez as architect-engineer. Construction began on 6 January 1930 and was completed by December of that year. After the 1959 revolution, foreign companies left and the building was nationalized in the early 1960s. The Office of the Historian of Havana restored it in the late 1990s, and it now serves as an administrative building for that institution.

The bat is the Bacardi company emblem, and a bronze bat crowns the tower, lit at night above the glazed polygonal top. The name recalls the fruit bat that, according to company lore, inspired the brand. Inside, the entrance lobby and mezzanine keep imported marble and granite finishes; the mezzanine originally held a bar and reception areas.

The building stands at the corner of Avenida de Bélgica (formerly Monserrate) and San Juan de Dios, in the Las Murallas section of Old Havana, on a 1,320 m² lot. It now serves as an administrative office building of the Office of the Historian of Havana, so the interior is not a public attraction; the stepped facade, the glazed ceramics and the bronze bat on the tower are seen from the street. The bat is lit at night.

The bat atop the tower is bronze, set over a glazed polygonal structure lit at night. The building's water system relied on a cistern holding 8,700 US gallons, pumped to a 4,800-gallon tank inside the tower. Its four elevators had separate roles: two passenger cars for ten people each, a 1,800 kg furniture lift, and a goods lift between basement and first floor.