Woermann Tower
Spain CCC ES
Ábalos y Herreros
Casariego-Guerra
2004
Type
Mixed
Tags
high rise buildings, Spain ccc
Visitability
Allowed
Description
The Woermann Tower is a virtual forest from which to enjoy the utopia of living within a hybrid landscape. The tower rises above the city in full harmony with this idea: a forest of natural and artificial shadows without scale, but also an Atlas that leans down to admire the landscape beneath its gaze and which is set back on the ground floor, making way for pedestrians, and raising its public facilities to the height of the treetops. With this double conception, vegetal and anthropomorphic, the Woermann tower aims to represent the culture of our time: the tower is intended to give shape to the illusions, desires and fantasies of a society that tries to combine nature and development, a way of life that is intense and respectful of the landscape, another form of beauty.(Description provided by the architects)