Torre Planetarium
residential in Costa del Este, Panama City
The Torre Planetarium was a proposed two-tower skyscraper in the design development stage located in Panama City. The taller tower, Tower 1, was planned to be 343.4 metres (1,127 ft) tall and have 92 floors. The second and shorter Tower 2 was planned to be 305.8 metres (1,003 ft) tall and contain 82 floors. Both buildings were intended to have two levels of basements. The original design for Torre Planetarium was a 300 metres (984 ft) tall, 82-story tower.
“Torre Planetarium” enters the record as residential in Costa del Este, Panama City. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Torre, Planetarium and residential can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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