Reply With QuoteDull setting; timid designs. Can't Madrid take an architectural cue from Barcelona, or would that wound its steely pride?
Madrid Spain, New skyline
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
more images
http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/
http://www.skyscraperlife.com/showthread.php?t=1004
http://www.urbanity.es/foro/forumdisplay.php?f=11
Last edited by mad-country; May 26th, 2007 at 08:21 AM.
Dull setting; timid designs. Can't Madrid take an architectural cue from Barcelona, or would that wound its steely pride?
madrid it´snt barcelona its diferent
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
Last edited by mad-country; May 26th, 2007 at 08:49 AM.
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.
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.
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
Last edited by mad-country; May 26th, 2007 at 09:37 AM.
Last edited by mad-country; May 26th, 2007 at 08:49 AM.
Thank you for these pictures and information.
I'm hoping to visit Madrid later this year. Marvelous city!
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.
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...
madrid city center
Last edited by mad-country; May 26th, 2007 at 09:37 AM.
singular buildings
Rafael de la Hoz
http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/
http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/
more images: http://ciudadanomad.blogspot.com/200...unidad-de.html
Last edited by mad-country; May 26th, 2007 at 08:11 AM.
Cesar Pelli really likes to repeat himself.
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.
Last edited by mad-country; May 26th, 2007 at 08:50 AM.
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