Local firm Studio Noju has updated a two-storey Madrid apartment within the Torres Blancas high-rise with a renovation that remains "in constant dialogue" with the original apartment design.
Designed in 1961 by architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíz, Torres Blancas is a 71-metre-high exposed concrete tower featuring cylindrical shapes that create bulbous balconies on its facade and curved rooms inside.
Studio Noju renovated the largest apartment in Torres Blancas
Studio Noju overhauled the 1040 unit ? the brutalist building's biggest apartment ? to balance its history with contemporary design details, according to the firm.
"Our interior design proposal for the apartment takes inspiration from the original ideas that the architect came up with for the building," studio co-founder Antonio Mora told Dezeen. Recovered terrace space is characterised by green tiles
A key part of the project involved expanding the apartment's exterior area on the first floor from 15 to almost 80 square metres to create the amount of outdoor space that existed before multiple past renovations of the tower.
This expansion added terraces that are characterised by curved floor-to-ceiling glazing and slatted crimson shutters. These open onto gleaming green ceramic tiles that take cues from 1960s interiors and form built-in benches, fountains and planters that follow the terraces' meandering contours.
Visitors enter at a semi-circular foyer
"The outdoor spaces have been once...