This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on 20 November 2001 in the Cultural category.

[1] Originally constructed between 1958 and 1961, van der Rohe designed the corporate Office Building, and Felix Candela designed bottling plant and distillery cellars of Bacardi & Co.[1] The bottling company's owner, Jose "Pepín" Bosch, had originally commissioned Van der Rohe to design the company's headquarters in Santiago de Cuba and Bacardi's plant in the outskirts of Mexico City.

Felix Candela designed the buildings to incorporate large concrete shells: "long-barrel vaults" and umbrella domes at the warehouses and workshops.

[1] These materials allowed for above average illumination indoors, and along with overall design, it created a unique architectural collection.

The factory roof was originally formed by three vaults 4-centimeter (1.6 inches) thick and 26 meters (85.3 ft.) square in plan with 2.5 m. (27.9 ft.) overhanging arches on each side.