Wisma 46

Wisma 46 is a 46-floor office tower in the BNI City complex on Jalan Jenderal Sudirman, a main avenue in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is 261.9 meters (859 feet) tall to its roof and has a 10-meter antenna on top. It was finished in 1996 and was the tallest building in Indonesia until 2016.

People call it the fountain-pen building because its curved roof ends in a steel point like a pen nib. After Monas, it is one of the best-known icons of Jakarta. Zeidler Roberts Partnership and DP Architects designed it, and it has 24 elevators, six of them super-fast.

Look and design

Zeidler Roberts Partnership and DP Architects designed the tower. It has a modern shape with a curved top, and its blue-glass body is covered with a square-patterned glass facade. At both sides the glass is hidden by hollow concrete walls that are also square.

The tower stands on a 15-hectare site in the city center and has 140,028 square meters of floor space.

Inside

Wisma 46 has 46 floors of offices and 2 underground floors for cars. It has 24 elevators, and 6 of them are super-fast ones that travel at up to 360 meters per minute.

In 2016 the Gama Tower, 285.5 meters tall, took the title of Indonesia's tallest building. The tower also appears on the cover of the book Indonesia Etc. and in the video game Need for Speed: Underground 2.

On the globe

The model shows a white block of small square windows clasping a blue-glass shaft whose curved roof ends in a steel nib.