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Telefonica Madrid building

Rafael de La-Hoz

In the north of Madrid, at the end of a new urban intervention known as "Las Tablas", Telefonica's new headquarters, known as District C, will house all the company's employees - 14,000 people - in a single corporate campus for the first time in the company's history. To the north of Madrid, at the end of a new urban development known as "Las Tablas", the new Telefónica Headquarters, known as Distrito C, will house all the employees of the company - 14,000 people - in one single corporate campus, for the first time in the firm's history.
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The administrative buildings are distributed around a canonical patio or atrium - the campus lawn - according to an additive principle on two different hierarchies. The strictly corporate program hierarchy - office space and facilities - and the hierarchy designed to foster and organize the social and interactive activities of employees. The administrative buildings are distributed around a canonical patio or atrium - the Lawn of the campus - according to a system of additions for two different hierarchies. The hierarchy for the strict corporate program - surfaces and utilities - and the hierarchy that sets out.

Read the full text in the printed edition of Arhitectura, nr 1/2011