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The Majestic "M" Skyscraper Phalanstery

A peculiar M-shaped skyscraper marks Benidorm's skyline. Yet another utopian structure, I thought to myself at its sight.
It's known as the "Intempo Building"...
I call it, the "Mojito Building"!

The skyscraper's official name is Edificio Intempo Benidorm.

It's a luxury 47-story residential complex standing 200 m tall, consisting of two parallel towers connected at the top with an upside-down cone-like segment between floors 38 and 44.

Should I say there are two skyscrapers?

Technically there's really just one building with two connected towers (which are distanced by a 20 m-wide gap), it's not a twin tower complex, unlike the Petronas Towers in Malaysia (which I was lucky enough to visit back in 2011).

Now back to this "M-shaped phalanstery"...

This weird utopian luxury apartment building reminded me of Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise high-rise building, which appeared in the Back to the Future II film.

The Intempo building is just one of dozens of concrete skyscrapers that make up Benidorm's rich skyline.

Benidorm is a small city of seventy-something thousand inhabitants, but has a skyline like Hong Kong or Dubai. I was dazzled at its sight and couldn't believe how few people actually live in Benidorm.

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