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Las Terrazas de Benidorm

Las Terrazas de Benidorm is a pair of 101-metre residential towers from 2005 on Calle Presidente Adolfo Suárez in Poniente. Their trademark is the semicircular wine-red roof.

Benidorm skyline drawn from building data: heights to scale, west to east Poniente Levante TM Tower · 230 m Intempo · 187.1 m Gran Hotel Bali · 186 m Gran Delfín · 158 m Torre Lúgano · 158 m Sunset Sailors Tower 1 · 151 m Neguri Gane · 148 m Edificio Kronos · 140 m Benidorm Beach · 126 m Edificio Don Jorge · 124 m El Mirador del Mediterráneo · 123 m Torre Levante · 120 m Costa Blanca I · 116 m Miragolf Playa 2 · 115 m Gemelos 26 Torre I · 114 m Gemelos 26 Torre II · 114 m Torre d'Oboe I · 114 m Torre d'Oboe II · 114 m Sunset Sailors Tower 2 · 113 m Sol de Poniente 2 · 112 m Beni Beach · 110 m Sunset Cliffs Torre 2 · 106.2 m Miragolf Playa I · 105 m Playa Azul · 105 m Torre Pinar · 105 m Residencial Islamar 2 · 104 m Residencial Islamar 3 · 104 m Torre Poseidón · 103 m Sunset Waves I · 101.5 m Sunset Waves II · 101.5 m Hotel Port Benidorm · 101 m Las Terrazas de Benidorm 1 · 101 m Las Terrazas de Benidorm 2 · 101 m Torre Doscalas · 100.4 m Gemelos 22 Torre 1 · 100.2 m Gemelos 22 Torre 2 · 100.2 m Coblanca 41 · 97 m Delfín Tower · 95 m Hotel Flamingo Oasis · 95 m Gemelos 20 Torre 1 · 94 m Gemelos 20 Torre 2 · 94 m Torre Coblanca · 94 m Sol de Poniente 1 · 92.7 m Tropic-Mar · 92.6 m Edificio Ónice · 92 m Sunset Drive East · 92 m Sunset Drive West · 92 m Londres II · 91 m Torre Sakura · 91 m Costa Blanca II · 90 m Coblanca 40 Torre 1 · 89.3 m Coblanca 40 Torre 2 · 89.3 m Hotel Meliá Benidorm · 89.3 m Hotel Meliá Benidorm Torre 2 · 89.3 m Principado Marina · 89.3 m Edificio Circo · 89.2 m Torre Benidorm · 89 m Cibeles 1 · 88 m Cibeles 2 · 88 m Sunset Cliffs Torre 1 · 86.7 m Balcón de Poniente 1 · 86 m Balcón de Poniente 2 · 86 m Coblanca 37 · 86 m Eagle Tower · 86 m Edificio El Olivar 1 · 86 m Edificio El Olivar 2 · 86 m Sierra de Bernia 1 · 85.9 m Sierra de Bernia 2 · 85.9 m Torre Capri · 85.9 m Torre San Remo · 85.9 m Gemelos 12 Torre 1 · 85 m Gemelos 12 Torre 2 · 85 m Las Damas · 85 m Sandos Benidorm Suites · 83 m Residencial Miranda 1 · 82.6 m Residencial Miranda 2 · 82.6 m Hotel RH Victoria · 82 m Parque Europa 1 · 82 m Parque Europa 2 · 82 m Parque Europa 3 · 82 m Torre Europa · 82 m Coblanca 32 B · 81.1 m Old town

The story

The two towers were finished in 2005, with 30 floors each and all-concrete construction. According to the city’s skyscraper brochure of 2011 they are by the architects J. L. Candela and F. Pérez Segura. CTBUH today ranks them 23rd in Benidorm and 66th in Spain. They belonged to the first wave on this street, together with Torre Pinar (2004), Miragolf Playa and Sol de Poniente (2005); Islamar followed in 2010, later the TM towers.

The roof as a hallmark

What sets Las Terrazas apart from the city’s many concrete towers is the top: a semicircular roof in burgundy red that, according to the brochure, gives the building the look of an opened scroll. The name probably refers to the apartments’ terraces, but that is not documented.

Nothing public is documented about the developer, contractor and number of apartments; newspaper reports on the construction could not be found. No incidents or awards are known either. The towers are among Benidorm’s quiet giants: tall, but without headlines.

Good to know

  • 101 metres, 30 floors, two towers, completed in 2005.
  • Semicircular wine-red roof as a hallmark.
  • CTBUH: 23rd in Benidorm, 66th in Spain.
  • Same street as the Islamar towers, five years younger.
  • A photo essay names the same pair of architects for Las Damas on Levante beach.

Open questions

  • Developer, contractor and number of apartments are not documented.
  • One source gives 32 instead of 30 floors and 100 instead of 101 metres.
  • The architects’ full names survive only as initials.

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