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In 1960 Shell oil corporation decide to expand and move to a new headquarters in Chuao. The project is imple-mented by Diego Carbonell, MIT graduate architect, who design and supervised the building next to José Miguel Salvador and Lino Vaamonde. Unlike the former headquarters of Shell beaux arts architecture (located in San Bernardino), the new headquarters was devised as a crisp impecable, austere and rigorous parallelepiped, an isolated object located in an emerging peripheric environment. At his inauguration, the sober 17-story building was the only constrution built in Chuao, north area of El Guaire, and was linked to Las Mercedes oil district. The volume presents the core circulation located on the south facade, allowing to free up the north face. Both facades are protected by brie soleil aluminum elements that gives the building its special character. Equipped with a large movie theater, 1,000 parking stalls ten elevators, central air-conditioning in all areas and tecnological ser-vices for the employees, the building stands out for its simplicity, harmonious conjunction of its lines, shapes and colors. The porticoes located on the ground floor entrance give scale to the visitor. This work was part of the urban character buildings built as the headquarters for the oil companies in the decade of the fifties.
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