Puerta de Europa
Puerta de Europa (dt. Gate of Europe ) is the name of two skyscrapers converging at an angle in the Plaza de Castilla , one of the most important squares in the Spanish capital Madrid , which is close to the northern main train station of the city ( Chamartín train station ). The twin towers designed by Philip Johnson and John Burge were built by the Kuwait Investment Office , or KIO for short , until 1996 . As a result of this developer, both buildings are also known under the name Torres KIO (Eng. KIO towers ).
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The left tower facing north is called Puerta de Europa I ; he wears the logo of Bankia . On the other hand, the high-rise building on the right, facing south, is titled Puerta de Europa II ; this is provided with the company logo of the real estate company Realia . Each of the two buildings is 114 meters high, has 26 floors and is inclined at 15 degrees to the vertical . There is a helicopter landing pad on each roof of the two skyscrapers. In order to avoid confusion when approaching helicopters , one of the two heliports was marked blue, the other red.
This landmark, which redefined the skyline of Madrid, is not open to the public. Built during the unrestrained construction boom of the 1990s, the Puerta de Europa was caught up in economic reality when the real estate bubble burst in 2008. Seen in this way, the two sloping high-rise towers on Plaza de Castilla , which were once supposed to be a symbol of the dawn of modernity, had become an iconographic synonym for the temporary imbalance of the Spanish economy in the 2010s.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ N , 3 ° 41 ′ 21 ″ W.