Bank of Bilbao in Vitoria - Spain

Abstract

This building, built on the same ground as the old branch, is made up of basement, ground floor, three upper storeys and attic and top-attic. In the basement the strong box services were installed; also the files, cloak room; general lavatories; and engine rooms for the air-conditioning and heating installations. The ground floor was designed for service to the public, and is made up of: a half-basement in which the cashier services are located; safety deposit boxes; hall for the public and lavatories; and a mezzanine, including: small offices for direct attention; women's bank, and small washrooms. The first floor is for the management, and here are located the offices of the director, the head of credits and head of personnel, as well as secretarial services, meeting room, visitors' room and offices. The remainder of the floors have been left for future expansion. The foundation, basement and floor of the half-basement are in reinforced concrete; metallic structure, and frameworks on the basis of metallic rolled sections and ceramic blocks in the rest of the building. The façade of the ground floor is polished granite and glass; the three upper storeys, in smoke plate glass, and the two attics, in polished granite, the same as the final crowning of the building. The vertical communication of the building is established by means of: two elevators, an employees' stairway that goes from the basement to the top floor, end a public stairway, from the mezzanine to the first attic.