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Torre
Caja Madrid (Spanish: Caja Madrid
Tower) is a skyscraper located in
the Cuatro Torres Business Area in
Madrid, Spain. With a height of 250
m (820 ft) and 45 floors, it is the
tallest of the four buildings in the
Cuatro Torres Business Area complex,
surpassing Torre de Cristal by less
than a metre.
Designed by Lord Foster, it was
first known as Torre Repsol and
would have served as headquarters
for Repsol YPF oil and gas company.
During the construction of the
tower, Repsol decided to change the
location of its future headquarters
and the financial institution Caja
Madrid purchased the building for
€815 million in August 2007. Cuatro
Torres Business Area (CTBA) (Spanish
for Four Towers Business Area) is a
business park located in the Paseo
de la Castellana in Madrid (Spain),
on the former Ciudad Deportiva of
Real Madrid.
The area contain the tallest
skyscrapers in Madrid and Spain (Torre
Espacio, Torre de Cristal, Torre
Sacyr Vallehermoso and Torre Caja
Madrid). The construction of the
buildings finished in 2008. Madrid
is the capital and largest city of
Spain.[3] The population of the city
is roughly 3.3 million (as of
December 2009); the entire
population of the metropolitan area
(urban area and suburbs) is
calculated to be 6,386,932. It is
the third-most populous municipality
in the European Union
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