Monday, July 12, 2010

Madrid Webcam - Torre Caja Madrid Web Cam

Madrid city skyline, Chamartín railway station, and Torre Caja de Madrid

After a tournament lasting a full month, the World Cup 2010 finally crowned their champions last night, with European Champions Spain emerging as worthy winners.

The morning after has dawned bright as the the country wakes up to their new status as Champions of the World.

This is the live view of the Torre Caja Madrid (Spanish: Caja Madrid Tower), 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