Key facts
- Type
- Office
- Location
- Pº de la Castellana 259 , CTBA , Madrid, Spain
- Owner
- KPMG , Mutua Madrileña
- Architectural
- 249 m (817 ft)
- Tip
- 250 m (820 ft)
- Top floor
- 210 m (690 ft)
- Floor area
- 59,827 m (643,970 sq ft)
- Architect
- César Pelli
- Main contractor
- Dragados
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- skyscraper
- Part of
- Cuatro Torres Business Area
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Madrid
- Manufacturer
- Grupo ACS
- Official website
- www.torredecristal.com
- Image
- Torre de Cristal (Madrid) 05a.jpg
- Height
- 249
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- architect
- César Pelli
- Commons category
- Torre de Cristal, Madrid
- main building contractor
- Grupo ACS
- date of official opening
- 2009-00-00
- floors above ground
- 52
- Commons gallery
- Torre de Cristal
- inception
- 2009-00-00
- floors below ground
- 6
- located on street
- Paseo de la Castellana
- number of elevators
- 27
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Encyclopedic overview
The Torre de Cristal (Spanish for Glass Tower) is a skyscraper in the Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA) in Madrid, Spain. Built between 2004 and 2008, the tower stands at 249 m (817 ft) tall with 52 floors and is the current tallest building in Spain, as well as the fifth-tallest in the European Union.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Torre de Cristal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.