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Ciudad BBVA

Headquarters of BBVA · Calle Azul, 4, 28050 Madrid, Spain

Aerial view of an oval glass tower rising from a large low-rise office complex with roof gardens, surrounded by roads and a city district — La Vela and the low-rises of Ciudad BBVA · © Herzog & de Meuron

Oval tower with horizontal bands of glass and shading fins above a paved plaza planted with young trees — La Vela from the plaza · © Herzog & de Meuron

Lit oval tower and a long low-rise façade of white fins at dusk — Ciudad BBVA at dusk · Alvarodiazsantos / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Oval tower framed by two curving three-storey office wings around a planted courtyard — La Vela between the low-rises · © Herzog & de Meuron

Oval tower seen down a long courtyard between glazed office wings at dusk — Looking toward La Vela · © BBVA

Illuminated oval tower at night reflected in a long water channel between buildings — La Vela at night · © BBVA

Curved tower façade with horizontal shading fins seen from below beside a young tree — La Vela from below · © BBVA

Oval glass tower above a low-rise complex with green roofs, with skyscrapers on the horizon — Ciudad BBVA and the Madrid skyline · © BBVA

In numbers

Architect: Herzog & de Meuron (Basel / Barcelona)
Executive architects: CBRE FM Arquitectos · Ortiz y León Arquitectos
Engineering: Arup (structure, building services, façade)
Landscape: Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten and others
Gross floor area (architect): 251,979 m² (2,712,276 sq ft), of which 138,393 m² below ground
Complex (BBVA): 114,000 m² (≈ 1,227,000 sq ft)
Site area: 59,125 m² (636,415 sq ft)
La Vela: 93 m (305 ft), 19 floors
Built: Competition 2007 · construction 2009–2015
Certification: LEED Gold
Sun shading: 2,800+ fixed brise-soleils in 20 types; 49,000 m² of glass façade
Parking: Up to 3,000 cars underground

Source: Herzog & de Meuron project page “324 New Headquarters for BBVA” · bbva.com — “Así es ‘La Vela’” (2015), “Ciudad BBVA: A design by Herzog & de Meuron” (2015). BBVA's 2018 article gives 823,490 sq ft for the office space; the architect's figure includes the car parks below ground.

Questions

Where is Ciudad BBVA?

Ciudad BBVA is at Calle Azul, 4, 28050 Madrid, Spain. It is the headquarters of BBVA.

Who designed Ciudad BBVA?

Architect: Herzog & de Meuron (Basel / Barcelona). Executive architects: CBRE FM Arquitectos · Ortiz y León Arquitectos. Landscape: Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten and others. Gross floor area (architect): 251,979 m² (2,712,276 sq ft), of which 138,393 m² below ground. Source: Herzog & de Meuron project page “324 New Headquarters for BBVA” · bbva.com — “Así es ‘La Vela’” (2015), “Ciudad BBVA: A design by Herzog & de Meuron” (2015). BBVA's 2018 article gives 823,490 sq ft for the office space; the architect's figure includes the car parks below ground.

When did BBVA come to Ciudad BBVA?

2015: Ciudad BBVA and La Vela. Herzog & de Meuron won the 2007 competition; construction ran from 2009 to 2015. By September 2015 the new Madrid headquarters in Las Tablas housed 6,000 people. In 2018 the King and Queen of Spain unveiled a plaque on La Vela.

Ciudad BBVA in BBVA’s history

2015
Ciudad BBVA and La Vela
Herzog & de Meuron won the 2007 competition; construction ran from 2009 to 2015. By September 2015 the new Madrid headquarters in Las Tablas housed 6,000 people. In 2018 the King and Queen of Spain unveiled a plaque on La Vela.