Madrid: The Latest Architecture and News
Behind The Scenes: Not Only a Car Wash / Lina Toro
Parais@ / Manuel Ocaña
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Architects: Manuel Ocaña
- Area: 51 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Ikea
Concretizing the Global Village: How Roam Coliving Hopes to Change the Way We Live
Growing out of the success of coworking, the latest big phenomenon in the world of property is coliving. Like its predecessor, coliving is predicated upon the idea that sharing space can bring benefits to users in terms of cost and community. And, like its predecessor, there are already many variations on the idea with numerous different ventures appearing in the past year, each tweaking the basic concept to find a niche.
There are a lot of existing accommodation types that are “a bit like” coliving—depending on who you ask, coliving might be described as either a halfway point between apartments and hotels, “dorms for adults” or “glorified hostels.” And yet, despite these similarities to recognizable paradigms, countless recent articles have proclaimed that coliving could “change our thinking on property and ownership,” “change the way we work and travel,” or perhaps even “solve the housing crisis.” How can coliving be so familiar and yet so groundbreaking at the same time? To find out, I spent a week at a soon-to-open property in Miami run by Roam, a company which has taken a uniquely international approach to the coliving formula.
A chalet in Madrid´s sky / Idoia otegui_arquitectura
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Architects: Idoia otegui_arquitectura
- Area: 200 m²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: Alser contrucciones S.L.
Duplex in Madrid / Marta Badiola + Jorge Pizarro
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Architects: Marta Badiola + Jorge Pizarro
- Area: 225 m²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: Rmc Mettron S.L.
Bathyard Home / Husos Architects
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Architects: Husos Architects
- Area: 130 m²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: Atipical, Husos, Divitec, Mecanismo, Verticales Forme
7 ECO LOFT / José María de Lapuerta + Paloma Campo
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Architects: José María de Lapuerta, Paloma Campo
- Area: 700 m²
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: AUSTRAL, BEDV arquitectos
Los Olivos 53 Houses and 58 Garages / Espaciopapel
Raumplan House / Alberto Campo Baeza
Hernandez Residence / Daniel Valle
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Architects: Daniel Valle
- Area: 320 m²
Madrid Rejects Current Renovation Plans for Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
At the beginning of 2014, gmp was selected through a competition to redesign Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu stadium, as part of a larger project being implemented by Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez. In addition to expanding the capacity of the stadium and covering it with a metallic, retractable roof, the project consisted of constructing a 12,250 square meter retail center and hotel, and an underground parking lot for up to 600 cars.
Now, however, the Madrid City Council has rejected the current renovation plan for the stadium. Speaking with local media, Chief of Sustainable Urban Development, José Manuel Calvo, explained that the current authorities will only support projects that are “consistent with public interest, [that] don’t involve new uses of public land and that are confined exclusively to the area currently occupied by the stadium’s facilities.”
Arup Releases Report Envisioning a Greener Madrid
Arup’s Foresight + Research + Innovation, Madrid Sustainability and Master Planning, and Landscape Architecture teams have released Madrid + Natural, a series of guidelines to address climate change within the city.
The forward-thinking report to seeks to provide “multiple nature-based solutions to regulate Madrid’s urban environment and respond to problems like pollution, increased heavy storm events, drought, periods of abnormally hot temperatures, and local biodiversity loss.”
Covered Riding Arena Refurbishment / BETA.ø architecture office
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Architects: BETA.ø architecture office
- Year: 2014
Biombombastic / elii
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Architects: elii
- Area: 24 m²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: Dionisio Torralba Construcciones
Gust Restaurant / Zooco Estudio
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Architects: Zooco Estudio
- Area: 394 m²
- Year: 2015
Madrid Río Wins Harvard's Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
Madrid Río, a 120-hectare linear park that transformed the banks of Madrid's Manzanares River, has been awarded the Harvard Graduate School of Design's 12th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. Designed by Burgos & Garrido, Porras & La Casta, Rubio & Álvarez-Sala, and West 8, the public park completed its final phase this year - 10 years after being announced as winner of project's international competition.
“The decision to award Madrid Río the Green Prize in Urban Design was motivated by the jury’s desire to highlight the potential for thoughtfully planned and carefully executed mobility infrastructures to transform a city and its region,” commented jury chair Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning at Harvard GSD. “The extent to which the project harnesses the deployment of new infrastructures as an opportunity to repair and regenerate the city through carefully articulated design interventions is particularly valuable within the context of contemporary urbanization globally.”