Office building on the Paseo de Recoletos, Madrid/Spain

Abstract

The projected building is an attempt to respond to the problems resulting from the construction of a modern office building in a significant, characteristic and consolidated urban environment of Madrid. Among the problems considered by the authors are their relationship with the existing medium-sized buildings, as well as location (the corner of a consolidated block on the avenue-axis Castellana-Recoletos), arquitectonic language (composition of façades), and construction and construction materials (stone and glass). Therefore, the building is conceived from a plan of necessities (offices set in "landscape floors"), and as an expression of its urban location, in an area whose uniqueness and importance themselves have suggested the shapes, the materials and their expression.