© Nick Pironio

Architects: Aguinaga y Asociados Arquitectos - Eugenio Aguinaga, Jose María Jiménez Urrutia, Ignacio López Fernández
Location: Bulevar de la Naturaleza nº 1ªA a 1N (garaje nº 3), Parcela 1.34, Ensanche de Vallecas, Madrid, Spain
Area: 5,568.68 sqm.
Client: Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda de Madrid (EMV)
Quantity Surveyor: Manuel López Lara
Completion: 2008
Photographs: José Latova

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© Miguel de Guzmán

Architects: Amann-Canovas-Maruri – Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, Nicolás Maruri
Location: Avenida de la Peseta, Carabanchel, Madrid, Spain
Client: EMVS (Department of housing, Madrid Council Government)
Site area: 4441.33 sqm
Built up area: 13419,81 sqm (including parking areas)
Completed year: May 2009
Costs: 6.957.818 €
Colaborators: Gonzalo Pardo Díaz, Beatriz Amann Vargas, Ana Arriero Cano, Ignacio Díaz González, Sara de la Fuente Sanz, Susana Velasco Sánchez, Cristina Parreño Alonso, Ana López, Rafael Marcos, Carlos Ríos, Rafael Palomares, Javier Gutiérrez
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán, David Frutos

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© Miguel de Guzmán

Architects: María Langarita and Víctor Navarro 
Location: Madrid, Spain
Collaborators: Gonzalo Gutiérrez, Juan Palencia, Ana Rosales
Landscaping: Jerónimo Hagerman
Client: Matadero Madrid
Completion date: 2011
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán

   
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© Dennis Gilbert

Architect: Sheppard Robson
Location: Madrid, Spain
Client: Empresa Municipal De La Vivienda y Suelo
Contractor: Prasi
Project Year: 2006
Project Area: 7,600 sqm
Photographs: Dennis Gilbert

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The proposal for the new Sculpture Museum of Leganés by MACA is the result of setting a few specific objectives to accomplish. Their main objectives include the importance of providing appropriate exhibition spaces, adapting the new building to the urban surroundings and gardens nearby, and demonstrating flexibility while creating an iconic design for visitors. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© Hisao Suzuki

Architects: Aranguren & Gallegos Architects
Location: Alcalá de Henares, Madrid
Collaborators: Arturo Alberquilla Rodríguez, Pablo Aranguren López, Luis Burriel Bielza, Silvia Díez González, Pablo Fernández Lewicki, Simón Francés Martínez, Mónica Fresno Fernández, Blanca Juanes Juanes, Roberto Ortiz De Landázuri Monagas, José Antonio Rodríguez Casas, Javier Rubio Montero, Marta Sorribes Gil, José Antonio Tallón Iglesias.
Building Engineer: Fernando Pérez Marcos
Structural Engineer: CEIDER INGENIERÍA SL
Project Management: IDOM
Installation Engineer: ETINSA SA
Lighting Engineer: LPM
Photographs: Hisao Suzuki

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© Usio Davila

Architect: IlmioDesign
Location: Calle Maria de Molina 50, Madrid, Spain
Project Team: Andrea Spada, Michele Corbani
Client: Sigla S.A.
Project Area: 350 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Usio Davila

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© Silvio Posada

Architects: ALT arquitectura / Ángel Luis Tendero, Bernardo Cummins
Location: Madrid, Spain
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Silvio Posada

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Courtesy of Broadway Malyan

Architect: Broadway Malyan
Location: Madrid, Spain
Quantity Surveyor / Project Manager: EC Harris
Structural, Mechanical & Electrical Engineer: Fulcrum / Mott MacDonald
Contractor: Sateco.
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Broadway Malyan

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The Torre Blancas is an architectural icon of the Spanish Organicism movement. Designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza and completed in 1969, this exposed concrete tower rises 71 meters above the Madrid skyline. It also stands as one the most complicated and innovative reinforced concrete structures of the era, absent of the typical rectilinear qualities associated with cast-in-place concrete. More details after the break. read more »

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The twin office towers known as Puerta de Europa I and II located in Madrid, Spain defy the typical conventions of skyscraper construction. Designed by American architects Philip Johnson & John Burgee and commissioned by the Kuwait Investment Office (KIO), these structural expressionistic towers straddle one of Madrid’s most important boulevards – the Paseo de la Castellana. More details after the break. read more »

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Laboratorios Jorba is commonly referred to as the Pagoda because its rotating floors create a shape reminiscent of tiered eaves found in traditional pagodas. Built by Spanish architect Miguel Fisac, the tower stood on the outskirts of Madrid between 1968 and 1999. The Pagoda was a strong example of Fisac’s playfulness and skill as an architect, and a master of concrete.  More after the break.

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Courtesy of Rafael de la Hoz

After selling the previous Repsol tower, designed by Norman Foster to Caja Madrid, Spanish architect, Rafael de la Hoz was commissioned to design the company’s new headquarters. In an extensive area in southern Madrid, he designed a set of four buildings, which are intended to reflect the image of a campus.

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© Duccio Malagamba

Architects: Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos
Location: Madrid, Spain
Client: Bouygues Inmobiliaria
Project Area: 10,000 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Duccio Malagamba, Javier Ortega

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Courtesy of Flickr CC License / Samuel Agudiño

Next week we will be taking our Architecture City Guide to Madrid and we need your help. To make the City Guides more engaging we are asking for your input on which designs should comprise our weekly list of 12-24. In order for this to work we will need you, our readers, to suggest a few of your favorite modern/contemporary buildings for the upcoming city guide in the comment section below. Along with your suggestions we ask that you provide a link to an image you took of the building that we can use, the address of the building, and the architect. (The image must be from a site that has a Creative Common License cache like Flickr or Wikimedia. We cannot use images that are copyrighted unless they are yours and you give us permission.) From that we will select the top 12-24 most recommended buildings. Hopefully this method will help bring to our attention smaller well done projects that only locals truly know. With that in mind we do not showcase private single-family residences for obvious reasons. Additionally, we try to only show completed projects.

This week we are headed to Madrid.

Example of the information we need for your suggestion:

Puerta de Europa / Philip Johnson with John Burgee
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Plaza de Castilla, 28046, Madrid, Spain

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Located in a central area of Madrid, in the district of Chamberí, the new Vallehermoso Sports Centre, designed my ABM Arquitectos, is taking the place of the old stadium complex built in the 1950’s. The former complex included the locally famous athletics stadium and a number of complementary sports facilities. Since closing to the public in 2007 and demolished in 2008, the Town Hall is planning the construction of a new Sports Center which is starting to become a reality after this project was selected as the design winner along with a new athletics stadium that will be developed later on. The construction of the new sports centre will start in 2012. It will be a gentle building in its architectural expression. It will embrace the city and interact with it creating a meeting point and an activity focus. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© Jesús Granada

Architects: Aranguren & Gallegos Architects
Location: Madrid, Spain
Client: Grupo Vocento
Photographs: Jesús Granada

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© Miguel de Guzmán

Architects: Brut Deluxe Architecture + Design
Location: Madrid, Spain
Client: City Council Madrid
Project year: 2009 – 2010
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán, estudio BD

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César Gª Guerra © FÜNDC

Architects: FÜNDC
Location: Madrid, Spain
Client: Pozuelo de Alarcón Municipality
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 10,500 sqm (underground), 2,216 sqm (above ground)
Photographs: César Gª Guerra, Anna Pericas, P. Gil

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The Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, Chicago, and IE School of Architecture & Design, Madrid/Segovia, have joined forces to launch the IE/IIT Summer School, set to take place from July 8 to 15, 2011. The course, headed ATLAS ON DENSITY, will explore the cross implications of levels of density and sustainability from the sprawl of American suburbs to the extreme density of Asian cities.

The intensive 8-day studio-based design workshop will be held in Madrid and will provide enthusiastic architectural undergraduate and graduates worldwide with a stage for debating contemporary architectural and urban ideas, digital and analogue techniques, with an emphasis on inventive design and communication abilities. Using Madrid as a laboratory, participants will explore the architectural, urban, and environmental implications of density. Tutors from Chicago, Madrid, and Singapore, will use their own metropolitan backgrounds to enrich the potential evolution of Spain’s capital.

With Madrid serving as headquarters, case study subject, and site for field research, students will investigate specific urban sustainable challenges. For more information, visit the workshop’s official website.