KIO Towers
Madrid's very own ultramodern twin version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, this pair of highly controversial gravity-defying torres was built at the beginning of the booming '80s to symbolize a new economic dawn. Financed by the Kuwaiti Investment Office (hence the name), their completion was delayed well over a decade due to a financial scandal. Evocative icons of smoked glass and concrete, they stand at the northern end of the Castellana Avenue on either side of Plaza Castilla like jet-age exit gates to the city, though their once uniquely dominant presence has now been eclipsed by the four huge CBTA towers farther up the avenue.
Madrid's very own ultramodern twin version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, this pair of highly controversial gravity-defying torres was built at the beginning of the booming '80s to symbolize a new economic dawn. Financed by the Kuwaiti Investment Office (hence the name), their completion was delayed well over a decade due to a financial scandal. Evocative icons of smoked glass and concrete, they stand at the northern end of the Castellana Avenue on either side of Plaza Castilla like jet-age exit gates to the city, though their once uniquely dominant presence has now been eclipsed by the four huge CBTA towers farther up the avenue.
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