Tag Madrid

23-03-2022

Espinosa+Villalba: Educan, multispecies architecture in Brunete, Madrid

Educan is an educational form of architecture in which dogs, humans and other species coexist and learn together. Espinosa+Villalba’s project demonstrates how rural buildings normally relegated to margins of the discipline of architecture can become outstanding arenas for innovation.

02-02-2022

EQUIPO 01’s ephemeral sustainable space

Spanish studio EQUIPO 01’s pavilion for the international tourism trade fair FIRTUR, held in Madrid, is inspired by the valuable architectural and cultural heritage represented by Spain’s Paradores Nacionales hotels. The entirely recyclable stand aiming to achieve zero carbon emissions has been presented with an award for sustainability.

14-06-2021

UNIÓN, a project by Boa Mistura and Myke Towers that unites six countries through art

The latest project by Boa Mistura, the Madrid-based creative collective, in collaboration with the Puerto Rican artist Myke Towers spans 6 countries and aims to materialise those invisible bonds like art, music and sports, which connect people and places beyond cultural, racial or social differences.

10-06-2021

UPHouse by cumuloLimbo studio, or: how to enlarge a space elegantly

The #UPHouse project, by Madrid-based architecture firm cumuloLimbo studio, is a sustainable intervention within an existing building. By adding a staircase and a new mezzanine-style floor, the architects have managed to give the house 50% more living space.

04-05-2021

Radical Curiosity. In the Orbit of Buckminster Fuller: an exhibition

25-09-2020

The new headquarters of the Boa Mistura collective in Madrid

Located in the Puente de Vallecas district, near Madrid’s M-30 ring road, the new headquarters of the famous creative collective of artists, Boa Mistura occupies the ground floor of a 1960s building. A project completed with the professionals from Estuyo Studio and Imaginean.

14-09-2020

ENORME Studio completes the new XEITO offices

Since the architects from ENORME Studio began their project for the new XEITO offices in Madrid, the world has turned upside-down. But their approach to design characterised by flexible spaces and solutions means that the new offices are perfectly useable even in this pandemic.

10-09-2020

Richard Rogers leaves Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners after 40 years of architecture

A few weeks after his 87th birthday, architect Richard Rogers retired from the board of directors of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the practice he founded more than 40 years ago; within the next 2 years his name will be removed from the name of the studio. Thus ends the career of the famous architect who worked on projects such as the Centre Pompidou (with Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini) in Paris, Lloyds of London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome or O2, also in London, a large tensile structure on Greenwich peninsula.