An abstract geometry just to cover the rail platforms in Atocha, by Rafael Moneo
Month: August 2013
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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Biblio (56) Retail in Brussels
The regional observatory on retail in Brussels has published its 2011 report on the status quo in the metropolitan area. An interesting view of the situation in the capital of Europe… which is far from stable, as in most of Europe.
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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 justification of the change of legal status of this and other areas.
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Barajas
So many planes, so little time…
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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, near the airport. Not that high tech, when you saw the building process…
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Biblio (55) Housing price index in Spain
The Spanish Statistical Institute calculates its housing price index according to a methodology defined in cooperation with other European states, and adapted to the specificities of the national housing market. Worth a read.
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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 remediate it…
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Madrid Sur-1
A sharp corner made of social housing in a soft street
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Matadero 3
But when do you eat?
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