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Matadero 2
An asylum right was granted to that previously agrarian device; as an artistic temperament, it risked its life in the open fields…
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Madrid Sur -2
What is in a street? sometimes not that much, if you do not have stores and the central space is occupied by such an ugly layout. But you still have space, so someone can come in some years to...
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Ciudad de la Justicia
Can there be shipwrecks 300 m from the sea? yes, indeed (even if this seems more of a saucer wreck). This is the only element built of what was meant to be a new judiciary campus in northern Madrid,...
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Valdebebas
Valdebebas, as seen from the Campo de las Naciones. The cranes are not a sign of a revived building industry in Madrid, but rather of a court ruling nullifying the 1997 Plan General for a lack of...
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Arrivals hall in Atocha
And now rail stations have separated departures and arrivals halls, as airports do… Still a Rafael Moneo architecture, as in the station from the 1990s…
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Atocha extended
An abstract geometry just to cover the rail platforms in Atocha, by Rafael Moneo
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Tokyo: the size of the core
Tokyo presents itself as the biggest metro area in the world, with over 35 million residents. But as nearly any metropolitan area, it has a core. And that core says some things about how the city is,...
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Elevator
Here is an image which is becoming familiar in the landscape of cities like Madrid. After the 1936-1939 Civil War the Spanish population entered a dynamic of strong urbanisation which during the...
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Sister cities (3) Capitals
Capital cities can be divided in two kinds: those that have become capitals by the sheer force of the reality (even if they are not political capitals, as New York, which is only the capital of its...
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Unexpected
This is a good example of what has been often said of the difference between a public space and a private one, especially that of a retail mall. The snap was taken last sunday in Calle Preciados, the...
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Individual homes in Madrid (1)
Faced with the issues mentionned in biblio (66), I asked myself what is happening in Madrid. Some exemples follow regarding neighborhoods created at the begining of the XXth century, locally called...
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Individual homes in Madrid (2)
Again an eastern neighborhood, but in a more central location and subject to clear transformation dynamics Building year is not that homogeneous: there is a number of buildings dating from 1926,...
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Individual homes in Madrid (3)
What once was an area created under the low cost homes act has become, just north of the posh core of Madrid, an exclusive zone. Altough it is a pre-civil war development, there are almost no homes...
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Individual homes in Madrid (4)
This is no longer a pre-civil war design, but rather one from the sixties. Madrid was still a rising capital in a southern Europe country that was far from buoyant, but a minority was already able to...
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