Etching with aquatint
Approx 24x31cm
2019
Edition of 50
Handprinted on 220gsm Fabriano
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be33440b6e1a4bed6cda57a87a31fea2b5442e1138d8b9b32b53081b43fc93b0/Torres-Blancas-WEB-1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdde15983ca9c44410cfb775faed562880b6a347847e52a0f606a121509e1323/Torres-Blancas-WEB-2.jpg)
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza completed this massive concrete tower in Madrid in 1969. A residential block, its cylindrical volumes contrast heavily with the majority of reinforced concrete Brutalist buildings found at the time; the semicircular balconies creating a sense of of deeply interlocking forms. Today, the building has faded somewhat; the concrete grey and grimy, the wooden shuttering protecting the balconies flaking and rough - and yet it still seems like a building from an imagined future (albeit dystopic), rather than from an aspirational Modernist past.