The Torre Cepsa (renamed in June 2014, before was Torre Bankia)( en, Cepsa Tower) is a
skyscraper located in the
Cuatro Torres Business Area
Área de negocios de Cuatro Torres (ANCA or CTBA), Spanish for "Four Towers Business Area", is a business district located in the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, Spain, on the former Ciudad Deportiva of Real Madrid. The area contains the fou ...
in
Madrid
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,
Spain
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. With a height of and 45
floors
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, it is the second tallest of the four buildings in the Cuatro Torres Business Area complex, surpassed by
Torre de Cristal by less than a metre. It is the
second tallest building in Spain and the
4th tallest building in the European Union.
Designed by
Lord Foster
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, it was first known as Torre Repsol and would have served as headquarters for
Repsol YPF oil and gas company. During the construction of the tower, Repsol decided to change the location of its future headquarters and the financial institution
Caja Madrid
Caja Madrid, formally the Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid, headquartered in Madrid,Inicio
." C ...
purchased the building for
€
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815 million in August 2007.
In 2016 it was bought by
Amancio Ortega
Amancio Ortega Gaona (; born 28 March 1936) is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of Inditex fashion group, best known for its chain of Zara and Bershka clothing and accessories shops. As of November 202 ...
, Europe's richest man and founder of global fashion group and
Zara owner Inditex (ITX.MC), for €490 million euros through his property investment arm, Pontegadea Inmobiliaria, one of the biggest property companies in Spain. He purchased the tower from Abu Dhabi tycoon
Khadem al-Qubaisi
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, whose fund had exercised a last-minute purchase option from Spanish lender
Bankia
Bankia () was a Spanish financial services company that was formed in December 2010, consolidating the operations of seven regional savings banks, and was partially nationalized by the government of Spain in May 2012 due to the near collapse of ...
(BKIA.MC), its previous owner.
It was built by a joint venture of
Dragados
ACS, Actividades de Construcción y Servicios, S.A. () is a Spanish company dedicated to civil and engineering construction, all types services and telecommunications. It is one of the leading construction companies in the world, with projects i ...
and
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, S.A. (), or FCC, is a Spanish construction company based in Barcelona. Until November 2014, over 50 percent of the shares were owned by a company controlled by the daughter of its founder, Esther Koplo ...
.
Structurae database
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Gallery
File:Torre Caja Madrid (CTBA) 03.jpg, ''Torre Caja Madrid'' under construction
File:Torre Repsol en Madrid2.pav.jpg
See also
* List of tallest buildings in Spain
This is a list of the tallest buildings in Spain. Since 2008 the tallest building in Spain has been the tall Torre de Cristal in Madrid. In recent years the number of skyscrapers in Spain has significantly grown, out of the buildings in this lis ...
* List of tallest buildings in the European Union
This list ranks the tallest buildings in the European Union that stand at least tall, based on standard height measurement. This means that spires and other architectural details are included in the official height, but not Radio masts and towe ...
* List of tallest buildings in the world
This list of tallest buildings includes skyscrapers with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least . Non-building structures, such as towers, are not included in this list (for these, see '' List of tallest buildings and structu ...
* HSBC Building (Hong Kong)
HSBC Main Building is a headquarters building of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, which is today a wholly owned subsidiary of London-based HSBC Holdings. It is located on the southern side of Statue Square near the location of the ...
, Fosters first skyscraper. It was also vertically segmented.
References
External links
Fosters and Partners official site
Halvorson and Partners Structural Engineers official site
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Foster and Partners buildings
Office buildings completed in 2008
Skyscraper office buildings in Madrid
Modernist architecture in Madrid
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