Benidorm Prepares To Add Spain’s Tallest Residential Tower

Benidorm is preparing to adhd different elephantine to its skyline. The TM Tower, presently nether building beside Poniente beach, will emergence to 230 metres, making it nan tallest residential building successful Spain and nan 4th highest building successful nan country.

The only structures taller are 3 of Madrid’s Cuatro Torres business district: Torre Cristal (249 metres), Torre Moeve (248) and Torre PwC (236). TM Tower will surpass Torre Emperador, which stands astatine 224 metres.

Benidorm is nary alien to vertical landmarks. Its 192-metre In Tempo building is presently nan nation’s tallest residential block, while nan Gran Hotel Bali, astatine 186 metres, has dominated Poniente since 2002. According to nan master website Skyscraper Page, nan metropolis of 70,000 inhabitants already boasts 108 skyscrapers, a fig acold retired of proportionality pinch its size.

The task is being developed by TM Grupo Inmobiliario, a Torrevieja-based institution controlled by nan Serna family. The developer, known for its activity on nan Alicante seashore and successful Mexico, besides sponsors Valencia C.F. TM Tower will connection 64 floors of one-to-four-bedroom homes, covering a built area of complete 38,000 quadrate metres. Completion is scheduled for 2028, pinch finance estimated betwixt €80 and €100 million. Prices are expected to commencement astatine €600,000.

Architect José de la Peña, from Seville-based workplace Bakpak, said El País nan creation was inspired by marine forms, pinch volumes resembling stacked corals. He stresses that building vertically frees up abstraction for communal areas, noting that nan building will inhabit only six per cent of its plot.

Former municipal designer José Luis Camarasa, who shaped Benidorm’s municipality exemplary complete 4 decades, highlights nan city’s agelong contented of high-rise planning. Since nan 1963 improvement scheme scrapped tallness limits, Benidorm has aimed to emulate New York’s density while preserving onshore for nationalist use. The latest plan, approved successful 2024, foresees 20 caller residential towers, including affordable housing, and 20 edifice towers, while ensuring 65 per cent of nan onshore is ceded for nationalist spaces.

For Camarasa, nan vertical exemplary represents ratio and respect for nan surrounding environment: “In 50 years Benidorm has built 30,000 homes. That aforesaid number was sometimes thrown up successful conscionable a fewer years successful different coastal towns.”