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Individual homes in Madrid (5)
Let’s come back to the inception of this series, the question raised on monday by biblio (66): has there been or not a residential densification in these neighborhoods?. Cadastral data (upper image,...
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Barrio de Salamanca (1)
The Municipality of Madrid has just published the Draft Plan that will eventually supersede the 1997 General Plan. A good moment to take a look back some 150 years at a plan that really influenced the...
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Barrio de Salamanca (2) Size
Lot area in sq m in the Barrio de Salamanca How to describe how big something is? well, I can tell km, or any other measurement unit; or say that an entire airport runway would fit in (which is not the...
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Barrio de Salamanca (3) Offices and homes
Housing area- office area ratio for the lots in the Barrio de Salamanca and the surrounding areas One of the main aims of urban planning in Europe since the 1980′s has been to avoid a destruction of...
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Barrio de Salamanca (4) Parking
Lots with parking space, according to cadastral data A neighborhood designed 150 years ago, many buildings from the XIXth century. As a result, scarce parking when compared to other areas. So City Hall...
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Barrio de Salamanca (5) Years
Year in which the first building in the lot still existing at the begining of 2013 was built Here we are, in Madrid, capital of a vanished empire, a city in the old world. And this central area has a...
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Barrio de Salamanca (6) Density
Let’s go back to the inception. The project for the urban extension of Madrid was prepared between 1857 and 1860 by Carlos María de Castro, including the current Barrio de Salamanca, and set to take...
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Barrio de Salamanca (7) Future
Main uses by lot: economic activity (blue) and housing (orange) The draft revision of the 1997 Madrid General Plan (PGOUM) has been published few days ago. The new document should address an...
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Unexpected meetings on streets (1)
Madrid, Cuatro Caminos square. An extensión of a public library, I don’t know the architect…
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Unexpected meetings (3)
Madrid, january 2014: Herzog and De Meuron’s BBVA headquarters in progress (and the sky, so much more suprising…)
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Unexpected meetings (4)
Madrid, some years ago: a new city bylaw allows conservation works on façades to be protected by an adds-covered tarpaulin. So over the years we have had 20 m high wonderbra adds (or George Clooney,...
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Unexpected meetings (5)
Madrid, Puente de Vallecas. Not a bad lab for so many slums around the world, as it has become a formal part of the city. The puzling thing here is this temporary parking, set to be part of a wider...
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Biblio (79) The Phototeque of the Spanish Historical Heritage
The Ministry for Education, Culture and Sports hosts this interesting resource on the internet. It is curious to see on the heading image the “Thorns Crown”, a work by Higueras in the Ciudad...
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Unexpected meetings (6)
One of these ideas you sometimes hear among architects is that of making expressive façades, that can change over time and situations. Which is rather close to what you would see changing your point...
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Modest yet articulate
An angle lot between Preciados and Carmen streets in Madrid. The building is modest, but the way in which the different elements are placed over the main façade surface attracts the eye (albeit I...
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Where to live with 200.000 €? (1) Madrid
What is the euro for? Among other things, you can compare the cost of items across cities in Europe. As housing goes, 200.000 € can buy a home, but where and at which surface? 55 sq m of recently...
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Maps 2014 (10) Home price mapping in France and America
Map by trulia.com There are three main ways to get data on real estate prices: conducting a study based on standard assumptions (usually comparing with neighbouring properties is factored), using...
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Biblio (82) Thoughts on the revision of the Madrid General Plan
Madrid’s General Plan is being revised, a complex moment in which there is a confrontation (sometimes far from harmonious) between the hopes and interests of all those related to the city. This...
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Rising sun as of march 31, 2014
The new BBVA headquarters in Madrid, by Herzog and De Meuron, as of yesterday. The kind of image that can produce many ideas about what it means, but clearly an element in the skyline.
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