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Torres Blancas in Madrid

TORRES WHITE

Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza
Avenue America.Madrid Spain 1964
Brief Description

The building, of 71 meters, is a cylinder structure based around its perimeter surrounded by wooden lattice balconies. It has twenty plants, intended for home and office, plus two additional floors on top of the building. An intermediate plant is reserved for general facilities and a rooftop pool meandering. Oíza The claim was to build a unique residential building, high-rise, to grow organically, as a tree, stairs vertically tour, lifts and facilities, like the tree wood vessels and terraces curves as if they were clustered branch leaves.
Photography:Federico Garcia Barba
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Exterior View
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