The school of architecture at IE University and TU Graz is putting on an intensive 8-day studio-based design workshop that will be held in Madrid, from July 6-13. This year’s program, titled “Emptiness: The Potentials of Vacancy”, will deal with the consequences and opportunities that derive from the gross overbuilding of the past decade. After years of construction-fueled euphoria, we are now confronted with the after-effects: a city riddled with empty masses, incomplete plans, and urban spaces hastily conceived and neither fully constructed nor consolidated. The moment is challenging and profoundly liberating; it is a crisis that demands creativity and gives us license to invent. For more information, please visit here.
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'Emptiness: The Potentials of Vacancy' Summer School Session
Madrid Idom Office / ACXT
Cinema Center in Matadero de Legazpi / ch+qs arquitectos
Escuelas Pias de San Anton / Estudio Gonzalo Moure
Olympic Tennis Centre / Dominique Perrault Architecture
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Architects: Dominique Perrault Architecture
- Area: 100 m²
- Year: 2009
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Manufacturers: GKD Metal Fabrics, ULMA Architectural Solutions
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Professionals: LKS, Madrid, Perrault Projets, TYPSA
Arganzuela Footbridge / Dominique Perrault Architecture
Architects: Dominique Perrault Architecture Location: Parque de la Arganzuela, Madrid, Spain Engineering: MC2 – Julio Martínez Calzón (stucture) / TYPSA (mechanical engineering) Built area: Footbridge 150 m (section 1) 128 m (section 2) length, 5 to 12 m width Completion: 2010 Photographs: Georges Fessy, Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Public Library Vallecas / Exit Architects
- Area: 3691 m²
Red Bull Music Academy / Langarita Navarro Arquitectos
- Year: 2011
Housing Building in Carabanchel / Amann Canovas Maruri
Carabanchel 19 / Sheppard Robson
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Architects: Sheppard Robson
- Area: 7600 m²
- Year: 2006
LAH! Restaurant / IlmioDesign
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Architects: IlmioDesign
- Area: 350 m²
- Year: 2011
Roncero House / ALT arquitectura
- Year: 2011
AD Classics: AD Classics: Torre Blancas / Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza
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Architects: Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza
- Year: 1969
Architecture Classics: Puerta de Europa / Philip Johnson + John Burgee
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Architects: John Burgee, Philip Johnson
- Year: 1996
In Progress: New Repsol Headquarters / 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.
A.M.A. Headquarters / Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos
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Architects: Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos
- Area: 10000 m²
- Year: 2010
Vallehermoso Sports Centre / ABM Arquitectos
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.