Telefónica Gran Via Building Madrid_Spain
The Telefónica building (currently unoccupied) and the Círculo de Bellas Artes are the two prototypes of skyscrapers (private and public) with which Madrid experimented in the early 20th century. The project aims to transform Madrid’s Telefónica building, the first high-rise office block in Spain, into a center for science, art and technology. To do so, it drastically modifies its introverted character, utilizing the building’s existing resources to turn it into an extrovert, public and easily accessible structure that forms part of the network of the city as a new museum type and a vertical garden, a rock to climb and discover the city: an observatory of the outside and an experimental center on the inside.