Cuatro Torres Business Area

Cuatro Torres Business Area
Cuatro Torres Business Area
Área de Negocios de las Cuatro Torres
	Torre Espacio: Henry N. Cobb

The Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA), also known as the Área de Negocios de las Cuatro Torres (

Real Madrid. The area contains the four tallest skyscrapers in Spain, and four of the ten tallest in the European Union: the Torre Emperador, Torre de Cristal, Torre PwC and Torre Cepsa

. Construction of the buildings finished in 2008.

Since the site was developed a fifth tower, Caleido, was subsequently completed in 2021.

CTBA buildings

Building	Year Finished	Height	Floors
Torre de Cristal	2008	249m	52
Torre Bankia	2009	248m	45
Torre PwC	2008	236m	58
Torre Espacio	2007	224m	57
Torre Caleido	2020	181m	36

Torre de Cristal

Designed by

Dragados,^[1]

Torre de Cristal (Spanish for Crystal Tower), with a height of 249 meters, is the tallest building in the country. In April 2007, its structure surpassed the height of Torre Espacio.

Torre Cepsa

Designed by

Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas,^[2]

the 45-storey Torre Cepsa (Spanish for Cepsa Tower), with a height of 248 m, is the second tallest building in the area, surpassed by Torre de Cristal by 1 meter.

It was first known as Torre Repsol and was to have served as headquarters for the oil and gas company

Repsol YPF. During the construction of the tower, Repsol decided to change the location of its future headquarters, and the financial institution Caja Madrid (currently Bankia) purchased the building for €815 million in August 2007.^[3] In 2015 it was loaned to Cepsa

for its main headquarters and hence the tower was renamed again as Torre Cepsa.

Torre PwC

Designed by Carlos Rubio Carvajal and Enrique Álvarez-Sala Walter and built by

five-star hotel Eurostars Madrid Tower, which occupies 60% of the tower, with rooms between floors 6 and 27 and at its upper part, a two-storey dining room offering a panoramic view of the city. It is the only tower with double skin facade and it is covered entirely of glass in the form of flakes. On the upper deck there are 3 wind turbines

capable of producing wind energy for use in the building. A production of 25 kWh is estimated.