Torres Blancas is one of our favourite buildings in the world. We have visited it for years with students, clients and fellow architects, and have always enjoyed watching it evolve. That is why working on its rooftop has been an honour.
We created the new planters for the top terrace, 3D printed with recycled plastics. They are a take on the amber glass blocks so characteristic of the building: the same translucent ochre tone, now in a continuous piece that follows the circular floor plans and the curves of Sáenz de Oiza.
They replace the previous fibre-cement planters, a material that no longer met today's sustainability criteria. The new ones are lit from within: at dusk they glow like the glass blocks of Torres Blancas, and the rooftop is once again the garden in the sky that Oiza imagined.
