Tag Madrid

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.

13-08-2020

MO de Movimiento, a masterful makeover in Madrid

MO de Movimiento is a smart conversion of what was once Madrid’s Espronceda Theatre and part of the old EFE News Agency. Owned by Proyectos Conscientes, the restaurant was crafted by Gonzalo Machado and Mafalda Muñoz with conceptual designer Lucas Muñoz, and is heavily geared towards sustainability, social responsibility and inclusion.

11-06-2020

Architecture and video games, Game On exhibition in Madrid

Game On is the first major international touring exhibition to explore the history, culture, future and potential of videogames. The exhibition curated by the Barbican Centre was first shown in London in 2002 and has since toured to over 30 countries worldwide. In Spain, it was coordinated by Fundación Canal, with a new design by Smart & Green Design.

28-04-2020

Compluvium House, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos inspired by antiquity

Antiquity inspired the Spanish firm, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in their latest project in Madrid. The plan of Compluvium House is what defines it: an open, central courtyard encircled by all the rooms.

25-03-2020

Touring the museums of the world... from home

From Triennale di Milano to the London Design Museum, from the Prado in Madrid to the Uffizi in Florence, from the Louvre in Paris to the Vatican Museums and the Guggenheim Museum on the other side of the ocean: these are only a few of the museums that have closed their doors physically but can now be toured via the new media.

26-02-2020

MultiPly, a carbon neutral installation at Madrid Design Festival 2020

MultiPly, an eight-metre-high wooden pavilion is a collaboration between Waugh Thistleton Architects, the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) and ARUP to respond to two of the greatest challenges of our time: the growing need for housing and the urgency to fight change climate, presenting as a solution the fusion of modular systems and sustainable building materials.

18-02-2020

Madrid Design Festival 2020, awards and key players

With the motto “Redesigning the World”, the third Madrid Design Festival transforms Madrid into a cutting-edge space of design and creativity, with world-renowned events. Because design plays an important part in finding creative solutions to the challenges of our times.

15-01-2020

The third Madrid Design Festival, Redesigning the World

The title of the third Madrid Design Festival, which will run throughout all of February, is “Redesigning the World”. The festival features leading lights in the world of Spanish and international design alongside emerging talents, to address some of the most pressing issues facing society in the near future.