Standing 181 metres high with 36 floors, the Caleido Tower, located next to the Cuatro Torres Business Area complex, is the seventh tallest building in Spain. Highlights of this building include not only its original inverted T-shape structure but also its outdoor space, composed of large green areas spread over 33,000 m2, known as Parque Caleido. The shopping and restaurant area, opened on 29 September 2022, offers a wide variety of fashion boutiques and restaurants serving cuisine from all over the world, spread over an area of 16,000 m2.
The construction of this tower is based on what is known as blue architecture, an architectural approach that combines the well-being of people with respect for the environment. The project, designed by the architectural studios Fenwick Iribarren and Serrano-Suñer Arquitectura, is inspired by the monolith of the film 2001: Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick as well as the Seagram Buildings in New York and the John Hancock Center in Chicago. It is a quadrangular prism covered with two panels of black glass that create between them an air chamber allowing for more efficient air conditioning, earning this building a gold class LEED environmental certification.
The west view of the building looks like an inverted T. Sitting atop the plinth are the garden areas, which will also provide a campus for the Institute of Business (IE), as well as public access to the different areas of the building, in which Grupo Quiron Salud will have a centre dedicated to sports medicine, Olympia.
Espacio Caleido: shopping, leisure, hot art and gastro area
