The Torre de Madrid was built from 1954 to 1957 and opened on October 15, 1957. The article gives its architects as Julio Otamendi in the infobox and as Julián and José María Otamendi Machimbarrena in the text. The client was the Metropolitan Real Estate Agency, and the article names no style, calling it a high-rise, mixed-use building. It was designed to be the tallest concrete building in the world when completed.
The roof is 466 feet (142 m) high and the antenna spire reaches 531 feet (162 m). The infobox gives 37 floors and the text 36. Twelve elevators run at 3.5 meters per second. It was the highest office building in Western Europe until 1967 and Spain's tallest until 1982.
Metrovacesa put it up for sale in 2005 for about 400 million euros, and a 2012 redevelopment added apartments on floors 10 to 32. The Hotel Barceló Torre de Madrid occupies floors 1 to 9.
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