Puerta de Europa
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The Puerta de Europa ("Gate of Europe") towers are two twin office buildings in Madrid. They were built in 1996 by the Kuwait Investments Office (hence their initial name "Torres KIO") and designed by the American architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee. Each building is 115 m tall with an inclination of 15º. They are located near the Chamartín railway station - on the sides of the Plaza Castilla bus station, north from the Paseo de la Castellana and near the Cuatro Torres skyscraper park.
After the Torras KIO fraud case, KIO had to sell the buildings are now owned by Cajamadrid and Realia.
In the 1995 Satanic comedy film The Day of the Beast, the buildings are said to be shaped as a diabolical signature and the place of birth of the Anti-Christ on Christmas Day of 1995.
