MADRID | Ctba Towers | 800ft+ - Page 11

CityKid · #**201** Posted **Oct 23, 2007, 9:45 PM**

From www.elpais.com:

http://www.elpais.com/graficos/espan...pepunac_1/Ges/

It's all in spanish but has an interesting diagram of not only the towers in relation to its neighbors, but also a diagram of the underground infrastructure that has been and will be added.

dbee84 · #**202** Posted **Jan 6, 2008, 6:10 PM**

People are already moving into the Espacio tower. All the top floors have been occupied by:

Canadian Embassy

Australian Embassy

British Embassy

Company Villar Mir

Posh Restaurant

hmmm, randomly:

Plompy Lfeata · #**203** Posted **Jan 6, 2008, 11:53 PM**

this is the first time i saw this post, madrid should be very glad to have both a pelli and a foster building going up! it looks like they made a very nice impact on the skyline, im happy for spain!

Complex01 · #**204** Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 1:22 AM**

They look really nice. Love how they reflect the clouds. Very Kewl...

FrancoRey · #**205** Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 2:02 AM**

Niiiice...I look forward to seeing these boys in real life sometime this year in the summer months.

dbee84 · #**206** Posted **Jan 31, 2008, 6:44 PM**

TWO DAREDEVILS JUMP OFF TORRE CRISTAL

Last week two parachuters dressed up as window cleaners, climbed to the top of the cristal tower, and to everyones amazement jumped off the top.

The full story and video:

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/0...201196616.html

A render by fersky, on urbanity:

Lecom · #**207** Posted **Jun 22, 2008, 7:45 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by FastFerrari82

NICE TOWERS....been a while since ive seen them but came along very nicely...but one looks like the freemdom tower with bofA crown...but who cares...very nice Madrid

Freedom Tower reference has been going around for a while, but I never noticed the BofA touch to it. Good catch.

dbee84 · #**208** Posted **Dec 23, 2008, 8:25 PM**

OPERACION CHAMARTIN JUST APROVED

This includes building 15 skyscrapers in the area north of CTBA, building between starting in 2010 and lasting 10 years, it will be one of the biggest construction sites in Europe. This project has been on the table for 15 years and had finally been aproved, a partial reason sais the mayor of Madrid, "is to get that sector out of the crisis" It will cost 10953 M Euro, provide 16000 homes and provide construction work for 20000 people.

The exact designs are not out yet, but they say one will be larger than CTBA, 7 over 200m and the rest around 150m. Looks like we´ll finally get a real skyline.

ALSO:

The giant cheese is already under contruction (digging, anyways)

and the giant toothpick between the kio towers is 30m out of its 90m high.

(fake pic)

Fabb · #**209** Posted **Dec 24, 2008, 7:16 PM**

I hate the giant cheese.
I'm also surprised by the lack of density.
Hopefully, the tall one will be really tall and nice.

dbee84 · #**210** Posted **Dec 25, 2008, 10:37 AM**

Yes, I too wouldve prefered all of them clustered together.

But I expect in the long run, the gap between the 2 smaller clusters will be filled by more, as now they have old small hosuing.

dbee84 · #**211** Posted **Dec 26, 2008, 4:48 PM**

Heres another great render produced by "Fersky y Renovatio" presented in the www.urbanity.es/foro spanish srchitecture forum.

It gives a better idea of how the towers will be distributed, theres a reasonable cluster around the CTBAs.

This is the current distribution of number of floors:

1 X 55 floors
3 X 40
4 X 35
3 X 30
1 X 25
2 X 22
1 X 20

3 X- to be decided

I still think we should have one monster scraper 400m+, to become the symbol of Madrid, but we´ll have to wait and see

gelu1123 · #**212** Posted **May 22, 2009, 2:21 PM**

22-05-2009

GCB™ · #**213** Posted **May 25, 2009, 9:13 PM**

CTBA

By the way, here is the Obelisco de Castilla: