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TORRE AGBAR

Torre Agbar
144 metres/474 feet
33 stories
Completed: 2005

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Some facts about Torre Agbar:
- designed by French architect Jean Nouvel;
- named after the Barcelona water company Aguas de Barcelona,
that owns the building and has its headquarters in it;
- the building is of reinforced concrete, covered with a glass façade,
with over 4,400 windows cut out of the structural concrete;
the building has two outer skins; The first one,
that covers the concrete structure, is a layer of polished aluminum in 40 different colours.
The second skin is made up of 59,619 sheets of clear glass.
- the building has a special lightning scheme;
some 4,500 LED's give the building a yellow, blue, red and pink colouring;
this lightning scheme though only illuminates the building on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights;
- The building has temperature sensors on the outside that regulate the opening and closing
of the glass blinds of the facade of the tower, reducing the consumption of energy for air conditioning;
- the shape of the tower is not circular, but slightly elliptical;
- its shape and (to a little lesser extent) size is similar to that of London's 30 st Mary Axe;
- the building goes straight up from the first to the 15th floor;
from the 16th to the 25th floor the building is curved,
while the 26th to 33rd floors are part of the top dome;
- the total weight of the concrete and glass structure is 250 tons;
- the building costs were approximately 100 million euro (us$125 million);
- the building was officially inaugurated in September of 2005.


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