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Ibiza- Sainz de Baranda
The title is about streets, not the island… With a total length of 720 m and a width of 30 m, lateral sidewalks slightly over 2 m, and a central promenade of 11 m, Ibiza and Sainz de Baranda streets...
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Calle Serrano (Madrid)
Serrano: 1,3 km of centrality, 31 m wide Serrano is one of the thoroughfares of the barrio de Salamanca, the Madrid extension of the XIXth century which is today one of the most powerful central areas...
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Calle Sánchez Barcaiztegui
Calle Sánchez Barcaiztegui, in Madrid, is some 600 m long, but the section I’m going to write about is just some 200 m. A supermarket, some shops, a load of cars, and trees whose dimensions seem quite...
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Away
Take the calle Doctor Esquerdo, in the inner ring of Madrid. Quite far from open fields, but suddenly, the far away rolling wheat fields appear on the background…
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Felipe II square in Madrid
In the beginning, there was a bullfighting ring, with a wide, alas short, avenue focused on it (a bullfighting ring placed in a city block in the middle of a grid gives you scarce chances for...
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Puente de Vallecas (Madrid)
Puente de Vallecas appears as a settlement at the end of the XIXth century, by profiting of the “border effect”: already in the municipality of Vallecas, some things were still posible, which was no...
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Madrid Sur
What do all shantytowns would like to be when they grow up? a formal city. The shantytown of Palomeras Bajas, appeared during the large migrations to Madrid (1950s-1960s), was transformed during the...
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Personalities?
A façade by the Manzanares river, in Madrid. An architecture whose qualities are absent, and some variations. As seeing a suburb sprawling subdivision, but on elevation…
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Asphalt snakes
M30 freeway near Avenida de la Albufera, Madrid The western edge of the M30 motorway in Madrid has been buried; but the eastern part remains on surface, and the way in which it has been contorted to...
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El Escorial, July 7th, 2013
Northern Madrid city, as seen from El Escorial The Catalan architect Oriol Bohigas once published an article titled “Uglier than El Escorial”, in which he criticized (to a degree to which I could...
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How to cope with high temperature in Spain’s summer (3) Green
A swimming pool in the courtyard of a city block in Madrid Sur Urban trees allow a more comfortable thermal sensation through shadow, moisture and wind moderation. And grass can also help. All those...
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Two powers
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a significant church, on Calle Imperial (Madrid).
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The Telefonica building
This first madrilean skyscraper (1926-1929), built on the Gran Vía, that wide cut through the center of Madrid started about a century ago, combines features from buildings of that moment in Chicago...
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Plaza de la Villa
The old City Hall, in Plaza de la Villa, as seen from Calle Mayor. A sunny day…
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Santa Cruz Palace
The Spanish Foreign Office has its headquarters here, near the Plaza Mayor.
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