It functions as the main office of Petroperú, a state company dedicated to refining, transporting, distributing and marketing oil in Peru.

The building, designed by the architects Daniel Arana Ríos and Walter Weberhofer, was the winning design in a contest organised by the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado in the early 1970s.

The building, strategically located in central San Isidro, was projected to host the offices of state company Petroperú, being inaugurated in 1973.

[2][3] It stands at the intersection of Luis Bedoya Reyes and Canaval y Moreyra avenues.

It has twenty-two floors and three basements in addition to having a helipad on top and is part of the architectural style known as brutalism.