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Madrid - torres blancas
This apartment building, built between 1964 and 1969, is considered the best example of Spanish organicismo of the time, and for many, is one of the greatest achievements of this style can be found in the world.
It is a masterpiece of Francisco Javier Saenz de Oíza, designed in collaboration with John Daniel and Rafael Moneo Fullaondo, then a member of the team's architect. The achievement is a living example of collaboration between Saenz de Oíza and construction Huarte (now merged OHL), also drafted in another landmark building in the city of Madrid, BBVA Tower on Paseo de la Castellana, opened in 1981 . Both were enormously influential achievements in the architecture of the city during these two decades and have the admiration and recognition by the international community of architects.
Torres Blancas was once an experiment, a proposal favored by the construction company, whose role in the culture of the 60 was critical in supporting the forefront. John Huarte, who since his company made some of the finest buildings in the 60s and 70s, and sponsored publications which were known contemporary culture in a culture of Spain by the Franco esclerotizada and development. Huarte family, through its construction, undertook this residential tower against convention and stands as a model in the residential architecture in height.
The White Tower building, and called for lifting the original two towers covered with white marble dust mixed into the concrete, was the first building in height and is considered an architect of the most successful of its author, who suggested it a synthesis of rationalism and organized, capable of changing the architectural debate of the late'60s.
Madrid - torres blancas
This apartment building, built between 1964 and 1969, is considered the best example of Spanish organicismo of the time, and for many, is one of the greatest achievements of this style can be found in the world.
It is a masterpiece of Francisco Javier Saenz de Oíza, designed in collaboration with John Daniel and Rafael Moneo Fullaondo, then a member of the team's architect. The achievement is a living example of collaboration between Saenz de Oíza and construction Huarte (now merged OHL), also drafted in another landmark building in the city of Madrid, BBVA Tower on Paseo de la Castellana, opened in 1981 . Both were enormously influential achievements in the architecture of the city during these two decades and have the admiration and recognition by the international community of architects.
Torres Blancas was once an experiment, a proposal favored by the construction company, whose role in the culture of the 60 was critical in supporting the forefront. John Huarte, who since his company made some of the finest buildings in the 60s and 70s, and sponsored publications which were known contemporary culture in a culture of Spain by the Franco esclerotizada and development. Huarte family, through its construction, undertook this residential tower against convention and stands as a model in the residential architecture in height.
The White Tower building, and called for lifting the original two towers covered with white marble dust mixed into the concrete, was the first building in height and is considered an architect of the most successful of its author, who suggested it a synthesis of rationalism and organized, capable of changing the architectural debate of the late'60s.