The huge futuristic spiral known as El Helicoide has a reputation as the country’s worst torture center. It has become a “dark site” where different Venezuelan police forces have their headquarters, ...

In a 2007 book on El Helicoide, a state-of-the-art mall planned for 1950s Caracas, German-Venezuelan architect Dirk Bornhorst writes, "The whole construction was conceived as an artistic urban ...

In the centre of the Venezuelan capital Caracas, an extraordinary space-age building towers over the sprawling slums below. El Helicoide was once the symbol of a rich and promising nation. Today, it ...

Perhaps modeling what would be the architectural icon of your country’s capital off the infamous Tower of Babel isn’t the best idea. But it wasn’t superstition that brought down the gargantuan spiral ...

To learn about the Holocaust and other horrific events, we can visit museums and historic sites like Auschwitz. But how do we grasp the abuses of modern-day dictators when their jails and torture ...

Although construction was never completed, El Helicoide (The Helix) in Caracas remains one of the most important relics of the Modern movement in Venezuela. The 73,000-square-meter project, designed ...

Argentine authorities Sunday admitted they feared that Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) First Corporal Agustín Nahuel Gallo might have been transferred to Caracas' infamous El Helicoide prison ...

El Helicoide, an abandoned mall in Caracas with an iconic dome, is used by Venezuelan intelligence to hold dozens of political prisoners, according to an NGO ...

A former Venezuelan political prisoner got the idea to create a virtual reality tour from the Anne Frank museum. Virtual reality offers a chilling 3D look inside Venezuela's spiraling prison BOGOTÁ, ...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro marked the start of Christmas celebrations on October 1 by launching fireworks from El Helicoide, a Caracas detention facility widely documented as a site of ...