Madrid Spain, New skyline

[mad-country]

Cuatro torres business area, it´s the four first skycrapers in madrid, repsol Tower 250 meters; mutua tower 250 meters; sacyr tower 236 meters and spacer tower 223 meters.

Repsol tower
Norman Foster
250 m.

Sacyr-Vallehermoso tower
Carlos Rubio & Enrique Alvarez-Sala
236 m.

Cristal tower
Cesar Pelli
249 m.

Espacio tower
Pei, Cobb, Fred & Partners
226 m.


Constructión status
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/ctba21-1.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/ctba17-1.jpg


more images
http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/
http://www.skyscraperlife.com/showthread.php?t=1004
http://www.urbanity.es/foro/forumdisplay.php?f=11

[czsz]

Dull setting; timid designs. Can't Madrid take an architectural cue from Barcelona, or would that wound its steely pride?

[mad-country]

if you do not know Madrid I advise to you that trips to see it will surprise the new architecture to you, the beter architecture in europe

more images
http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/
http://www.skyscraperlife.com/showthread.php?t=1004
http://www.urbanity.es/foro/forumdisplay.php?f=11

[MidtownGuy]

You're right, that setting is really dull. Would have been better if their heights
were more varied.
The tower to the far left of the first photo(with the cutout area at the top) is the only halfway decent one.

[ablarc]

Those 4 skyscrapers look like hell in the middle of nowhere.

Ugh.

They are individually ugly, have no rational relationship to each other, and fail utterly at the ground plane.

This is as bad as architecture gets.

[mad-country]

In the Zone of these skyscrapers (Chamartin) they are going away to construct other 19 of Different heights. Before finalizing year 2012

This is the future financial center (older render)
The four towers are de blue towers in render

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/145013.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/508659.jpg

[mad-country]

more images
http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/
http://www.skyscraperlife.com/showthread.php?t=1004
http://www.urbanity.es/foro/forumdisplay.php?f=11

[MidtownGuy]

Thank you for these pictures and information.
I'm hoping to visit Madrid later this year. Marvelous city!

[canguy23m]

It looks very modern. The setting was probably chosen there because the city's core is full of historical buildings that can't be torn down or don't fit the skyscraper settings.

[BenL]

The Norman Foster design is really lovely but I do think the other three towers look decidely average and somewhat plonked down with little thought for their surroundings or height variation. Perhaps when the cluster develops they'll look better...

[mad-country]

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/1.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/5.jpg


more images: http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/2007/02/madrid-centro-histrico.html

[mad-country]

Rafael de la Hoz
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/DSC09727.jpg

http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/


http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/repsolypf3.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/repsolypf2.jpg
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/repsolypf1.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/fxc3.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/cuatro.jpg



http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/DSC00084.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/camaras.jpg

http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/
more images: http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/2007/02/edificios-singulares-de-la-comunidad-de.html

[kz1000ps]

Cesar Pelli really likes to repeat himself.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5738/320429jl8.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/renderik4.jpg

[czsz]

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/DSC00084.jpg

Typically I would find the contrast afforded by a modern building here opportune...in this case, it works horribly.

The signage is particularly atrocious in its cheapness. It looks like a tacked on billboard. In fact, I had to stare at this for awhile to make sure the whole thing wasn't still under construction.

[mad-country]

more images
http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/
http://www.skyscraperlife.com/showthread.php?t=1004
http://www.urbanity.es/foro/forumdisplay.php?f=11

[mad-country]

more images
http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/
http://www.skyscraperlife.com/showthread.php?t=1004
http://www.urbanity.es/foro/forumdisplay.php?f=11

[MidtownGuy]

Thank you for sharing all of this information and pictures with us. It is really appreciated, and very exciting to look at.

On the building that czsz mentioned- are those rods, like the ones on the New York Times Tower?

[czsz]

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/100_0216.jpg

Wow, I hope this is an architectural trend that does not get exported.

[mad-country]

more images
http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/
http://www.skyscraperlife.com/showthread.php?t=1004
http://www.urbanity.es/foro/forumdisplay.php?f=11

[mad-country]

Typically I would find the contrast afforded by a modern building here opportune...in this case, it works horribly.

The signage is particularly atrocious in its cheapness. It looks like a tacked on billboard. In fact, I had to stare at this for awhile to make sure the whole thing wasn't still under construction.


It was I build left, and now it is a school of dramatic art for children and young people and a shelter for young people where it is possible to be slept and to be had breakfast by 20 € for minors of 25 years and 25€ for greater. And in addition a sustainable building and to present design.

If you come to Madrid you are welcome, from Madrid to the sky

[kz1000ps]

You really think that they look like? I believe that there is no comparison

You gotta be kidding me. It is literally the exact same shape just reversed, and yours is taller and has darker glass. Sure the Philly tower (Cira Center) doesn't have a roof garden, but the way how the corner cut rises is identical.

Please look again, because I'm in shock that you don't see it:

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5738/320429jl8.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w229/mad-country/renderik4.jpg

[mad-country]

edited

[mad-country]

More CTBA images

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3704/madridinprogresslargewf3.jpg

others projects in madrid
http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/

[homeandaway]

Wow!, i never realised that Madrid was so clinical!.
~Alex~

[mad-country]

:) tower space 224 metters, the top

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4458/img5183ru8.jpg

[mad-country]

http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/116/urbanityem4.jpg
until the crystal tower finalizes, tower space is the higher tower of Spain, from today 224 M.

MORE IMAGES : http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/

[homeandaway]

Madrid is quite cool!.
~Alex~

[mad-country]

New CTBA images.
http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/2938/pano12smallqv5.jpg
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9564/pano5ei0.jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/6466/qweqewqewe1smallrp0.jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/3472/pano17smallib9.jpg
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/7953/ctbaokqp3.jpg
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/3983/pano2v2smallqe0.jpg

[mad-country]

new images may 2007
construction status

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/1631/yrytrhs6.jpg

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1470/4564654im7.jpg

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/849/dsc01634fp7.jpg

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8010/21si2.jpg

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2151/dsc01476rd5.jpg



http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/1489/11smallim2.jpg



http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/1393/dsc01463cr3.jpg

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/7347/48er8.jpg



http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/9974/mayookmediumlu1.jpg

and the next building in the new financial center zone, the international center congress

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/337/01noseponeelsolmediumpo9.jpg

[mad-country]

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8322/qweqewqewe23smallkt7.jpg


http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/3261/ctbaabr11xp8.jpg

[MidtownGuy]

That one looks a lot like the Freedom Tower doesn't it (except for the sloped top).
I'm going to Spain in July, for the first time, so if anyone has any experiences or tips to share, I'd be grateful! Madrid, Seville, Cordoba, Granada, Barcelona, Ibiza. Woot woo!

[Eugenious]

I hear the Spanish real estate market has cooled off alot since the crazy times of years past. Does this mean they will stop this frenzy of construction?

[Viktorkrum77]

I wanna see them build that. T'would be very cool if they succeed, but it doesn't seem economical with all the holes through it.

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/1280/madridcongressqq9.png (http://imageshack.us)

[Zephyr]

I know the topic is the new skyline, but Madrid's skyline is less interesting than Madrid itself. A very affordable city to tour, and with a rich history, and easy to get around with or without an auto. The backdrop of the greater skyline is spread far out, and requires distance to appreciate it all.