Cuatro Torres Business Area

Four Towers Business Area
Cuatro Torres Business Area
From left to right: Torre Espacio, Torre de Cristal, Torre PwC and Torre Cepsa
General information
Status	Complete
Type	Office & Hotel (Torre PwC)
Location	Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid,  Spain
Coordinates	40°28′40″N 3°41′16″W / 40.47778°N 3.68778°W / 40.47778; -3.68778Coordinates: 40°28′40″N 3°41′16″W / 40.47778°N 3.68778°W / 40.47778; -3.68778
Construction started	2004 (all)
Completed	Torre Espacio : March 2007 Torre PwC: April 2008 Torre Cepsa: May 2009 Torre de Cristal: December 2009
Height
Roof	Torre de Cristal: 249 m (817 ft) Torre Cepsa: 248 m (814 ft) Torre PwC: 236 m (774 ft) Torre Espacio: 230 m (750 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	Torre PwC: 58 Torre Espacio: 57 Torre de Cristal: 52 Torre Cepsa: 45
Lifts/elevators	Torre de Cristal: 27 Torre Espacio: 27 Torre Cepsa: 14 Torre PwC: 8
Design and construction
Architect	Torre Cepsa: Norman Foster Torre de Cristal: César Pelli Torre PwC: Carlos Rubio Carvajal and Enrique Álvarez-Sala Walther Torre Espacio: Henry N. Cobb

Cuatro Torres Business Area (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 tallest skyscrapers in Spain, and some of the highest in the European Union; the Torre Espacio, Torre de Cristal, Torre PwC and Torre Cepsa. Construction of the buildings finished in 2008. The complex was formerly known as Madrid Arena.

Designed by Cesar Pelli and built by Dragados, 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.

Designed by Lord Foster, and built by a joint venture of Dragados and Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, 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. In 2015 it was loaned to Cepsa for its main headquarters and hence the tower was renamed again as Torre Cepsa.