Roberto Conte photographs Madrid's brutalist architecture
Roberto Conte's latest photography series explores Madrid's brutalist architecture to draw attention to a style not usually associated with the Spanish capital.
The photographer, whose work often depicts concrete modernist and brutalist buildings, captured a selection of Madrileño brutalism that includes the Torres Blancas by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíz and a Le Corbusier-informed church by Cecilio Sanchez-Robles Taríns.
The 25-storey Torres Blancas, perhaps the most famous building in the series
The oldest and probably best-known building in the series is the Torres Blancas, designed in 1961 and initially meant to be part of a pair.
The 71-metre-high building, with its cylindrical details that lend it an organic feel, is Conte's own favourite. "It's an incredible building, with cylindrical elements that intersect each other in an ascensional progression that is reminiscent of some Japanese metabolist solutions," Conte said. "Moreover, each detail of the building is absolutely interesting."
The building has striking cylindrical elements
To do it justice, Conte came back and shot the tower at different times of the day, a method he also used for the Cultural Heritage Institute of Spain by Fernando Higueras Díaz and Antonio Miró Valverde.
Conte believes the imposing building (top image), nicknamed Corona del Espinosas or Crown of Thorns for its unusual crowning, is one of the buildings that best represent brutalism in Spain.
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