In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can contemplate the sunset from a rooftop, in the capital of Madrid, some images that could well be titled: Red Hot White Towers.
And it is that the sky is dominated by the candilazo, a meteorological phenomenon in which the clouds in the sky show a wide palette of colors that goes from pink to the most intense orange.
As part of the phenomenon of scattering of sunlight, in the morning and afternoon hours, when the sun is closest to the horizon, the light that reaches Earth is soft tones between red and orange.
In a certain way, when this light passes through the clouds, it illuminates them and it could be said that it colors them with those hues.
The candilazo is also known as arrebol, which is the red color that is seen in the clouds illuminated by the sun’s rays, especially at dawn and at sunset.
The Torres Blancas building was designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza and completed in 1969. It is a concrete tower and rises up to 81 meters under the sky. The curious thing is that it is not a white building nor are it two towers, but only one.
It is one of the most innovative structures of the time since it breaks with the typical conventions of residential architecture.
It is an example of organic architecture, with the peculiarity that it is applied to a luxury housing block instead of economic ones.
The intention of the architect was to create a building with different dwellings, very tall and that would grow as if it were a tree.
With his idea, he created a structure covered vertically by stairs, elevators and installations, surrounded by terraces grouped as if they were leaves. It contains 23 floors for homes and offices.
