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Status
  
Complete

Construction started
  
1954

Opening
  
October 15, 1957

Floors
  
34

Province
  
Community of Madrid

Type
  
Residential, Office

Completed
  
1957

Height
  
142 m, 162 m to tip

Opened
  
15 October 1957

Owner
  
Metrovacesa

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Location
  
Plaza de España Madrid, Spain

Architects
  
Julián Otamendi Machimbarrena, José María Otamendi Machimbarrena

Similar
  
Edificio España, Plaza de España, Torrespaña, Torre Picasso, Monumento A CERVANTES

Vistas de madrid desde la planta 32 de la torre de madrid


The Torre de Madrid (Spanish: Tower of Madrid) is one of the tallest buildings in Madrid. It measures 142 metres in height, has 36 floors and was constructed between 1954 and 1957. It was designed by the architects Julián and José María Otamendi Machimbarrena as an assignment of the Metropolitan Real Estate Agency, for whom already they had built the Edificio España.

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Map of Torre de Madrid, Plaza de Espa%C3%B1a, 18, 28008 Madrid, Spain

It is situated on the Plaza de España, being a symbolic building for the plaza and the city. It holds offices and apartments. It was the highest office building in Western Europe until 1967, when it was surpassed by the 150-metre high South Tower in Brussels. The Tower appeared in numerous Spanish movies released in the 1960s.

The tower was conceived to be the tallest concrete building in the world at the time of its completion and until the construction of Torrespaña was the highest building in Madrid. The lead architects also envisioned that the building would harbour 500 stores, spacious galleries, a hotel, and even a cinema. Furthermore, the tower was equipped with twelve elevators of the fastest model of the time, permitting users to travel 3.5 metres per second. The works were finished on October 15, 1957.

The Tower of Madrid is found in the Plaza de España, at the end of the street of Gran Via, in the heart of the Spanish capital. Along with the 117-metre-tall Edificio de España, situated in the same plaza, they form an interesting architectural assembly. Both enjoy protection on the part of the City Hall of the capital. It was the tallest building in Spain until 1982, when it was surpassed by the Torrespaña telecommunications tower.

It forms part of the Gran Via skyscraper zone, to the contrary that most of the skyscrapers with a height of 100+ metres in the city, situated in the financial district of AZCA, in the neighborhood of Tetuán.

On April 28, 2005, the tower was put up for sale by the real estate agency Metrovacesa along with the Edificio España to vote part of the acquisition of the French company Gecina. The price was about 400.000.000 €.

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Data

  • Height: 142 m
  • Number of Floors: 37
  • Position of height in Madrid: 13th (May 2007)
  • Order of height according to the date:

  • 1982: 1st place
  • 1987: 2nd place
  • 1988: 3rd place
  • 1992: 5th place
  • 2002: 7th place
  • 2004: 8th place
  • 2006: 9th place
  • 2007: 13th place
  • In 25 years has descended from 1st place to 13th place.

    In Media

    The building is depicted in 1984 movie The Hit. A part of it is shot in an apartment in one of the upmost floors and its balcony.

    References

    Torre de Madrid Wikipedia