Some 35 percent of the building’s apartments have been sold, Campos said, a relatively small proportion with so little time before its scheduled delivery in early 2014. “Look at that clean water,” he said, pointing to a beach from the giddy heights of the Intempo.įar below, Spanish, British, French and German tourists walked along the beach’s new promenade. “You see, there is no reason for controversy: there are 11 elevators,” said Guillermo Campos, technical architect of the building’s property developer Olga Urbana, who is determined to rebuff newspaper articles saying the builders forgot one elevator shaft.Ĭampos rejected concerns by Greenpeace Spain and others about the environmental impact of concentrating so many people in a single building. Soon, the concrete floors and bare wires will be transformed into two 300-square-meter luxury duplex penthouse apartments, their glass walls overlooking several kilometers of beach on one side and hinterland on the other. The building’s twin towers are covered in copper-colored windows and joined at their summit by a vast inverted pyramid, its concrete facade still open to the elements. STRETCHING INTO BLUE skies far above other towers crowding the Spanish resort of Benidorm, the Intempo skyscraper stands as a hard-to-miss beacon of excess from the days of Spain’s property bubble.įloor numbers flash by on a blue screen as a new elevator soars up this 180-meter (590-foot) giant on the skyline of Benidorm, a mass tourism resort on eastern Spain’s Mediterranean coast.Īt the foot of the 54-floor building - touted as the highest residential skyscraper in Europe - a semi-Olympic swimming pool waits to be tiled before welcoming the 1,000 residents who developers hope to lure to its apartments.
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