Wednesday, October 29, 2008

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MADRID, MADRID

Saturday, October 18.

The guided tour to the outskirts of the town starts from the very site of the Cuatro Torres, aligned north end of the Castellana and still under construction. The works were completed, probably in spring of 2009, they rascacielos alter forever the skyline of the city.
In general, it can emphasize the separation between the more formal approach and creative of the two large American studies (Cesar Pelli, Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners, offering complex geometric shapes, obtained by cuts and rotations) and the more typological pragmatic and European projects (Alvarez y Sala, Norman Foster).



continue east, towards Sanchinarro.
Here, in a sign of poor and anonymous, the Dutch MRDRV have created a "superblock" residential or parallelepiped tower features a lively patchwork in the outer covering and a huge central hole, designed as mirador the cityscape.
A sheet hung from a window, in part, reads:
"balconies for drying clothes? No, just design."

The journey continues to the south.
several requests, Sergio sudden an interesting keynote on the themes of the skyscraper and the city gate. Meanwhile
arrive at your destination, or the suburb of Villaverde, where with little effort, we find the residential complex of Chipperfield. The composition of the free
full of prefabricated panels covering the earthy colors and voids of glass windows help to defuse the compactness of this huge monolith.


A lady, probably a tenant of the building in question passes in front of our group, shakes his head and says,
"This building an es mierda!"
We were just wondering, stimulated by Sergio on this point, because often the things that appeal to architects do not like ordinary people ...

setting interventions Carabanchel of housing designed by different architects local (Aranguren y Gallegos; Madridejos Ochinaga y; Albarola y Martorell, Foreign Office), differs instead for an approach essentially a function and a greater focus on the urban scale.


Our tour ends in the district of Usera, where the Public Library José Hierro shows, cryptic and impenetrable, like an urban sculpture.
After a little shopping area in the late afternoon of Puerta del Sol, the event is all set for the dinner at the Ene Restaurante, Calle del Nuncio in La Latina. Here, on our comfortable chairs designed by Charles, one of the great designers of the tradition of our country, we taste of tuna and ternera solomillo. Someone on the ground floor, eat lying on a kind of tatami, and fatigue prende il sopravvento: Margherita, nove anni, si addormenta dopo le prime portate. La piccola Cecilia, invece, stasera non ce l'ha fatta ed è già in albergo a riposare.

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Domenica 19 ottobre

L'autobus ci lascia in Glorieta Puerta de Toledo, teatro di un progetto di riqualificazione ad opera di Navarro Baldeweg, il quale sottolinea il carattere pubblico e istituzionale new products (a community center, a senior center, library) elevated by a pedestal of gray granite that defines the northern edge of the square and find a kind of small acropolis.
Here begins our tour through the major contemporary interventions made in the old center.
Then we walk the narrow winding alleys of the neighborhoods of El Rastro, where every Sunday morning as there is a flea market, and the barrio of Lavapies, where we can appreciate the redevelopment of the Plaza Lara (Linazasoro) and the new Olympia Theatre (Paredes Pedrosa y).
The next stop is the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, recently expanded by the addition of Jean Nouvel volume of a triangular cantilever roof surmounted by an imposing red shiny metal. Overall, the prospect is not very convincing to Atocha, while the extraordinary large courtyard that has been created between the volume and the new palace, or a real square blanket that is a real piece of city.



cross the road to get to the Atocha station, designed by Moneo, where the most important elements of the composition of the lantern are cylindrical and parallelepiped clock tower. Always
Moneo is responsible for the enlargement of the Prado Museum. Although you must keep the immense difficulties inherent in the project, the feeling is that the great English painter in this case is not a fair amount of courage and boldness.
courage and boldness but that does not lack for Herzog & de Meuron. The two extraordinary
Swiss architects have recently converted a former factory into a multi-cultural center (Caixa Forum) by means of a daring work of subtraction (in fact they have eliminated the base of solid granite) and subsequent addition (the people raising with an irregular rectangular steel courtain).


The most extraordinary aspect is structural, we are in ten or twenty architects and engineers and we are all there, waiting patiently to get in queue to ask how do you feel about ...
After a good paella at the restaurant of the Caixa, which we view from a little disappointed at the lack of attention to detail, is only time for a quick foray into one of the great museums of the city.

Thanks to Mikaela, in Clare, to John and all the fellow travelers of the College of Architects of Monza.

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02, 03

Venerdì 17 ottobre.

Piove anche a Madrid, chi l'avrebbe mai detto?
L'acqua inizia a scrosciare proprio nel momento in cui l'autobus lascia il nostro gruppo in Calle Mayor, ma dura assai poco, giusto il tempo per scatenarci nella ressa alla ricerca di un paraagua portatile nei negozietti di chincaglieria gestiti dai cinesi.
La passeggiata nel centro storico di Madrid procede dunque senza intoppi: la meravigliosa Plaza Mayor, capolavoro dell'urbanistica seicentesca spagnola, the Plaza de la Villa, the Almudena and the Palacio Real - sumptuous Baroque work of the Italians and Juvarra bags - and finally the Callao and Gran Via, lined with fine old buildings fin-de-siecle.
Here the group was disbanded. Some of us continue until the elegant Circle of Fine Arts, designed by Palacios in his early twenties, one of the best examples of Madrid of the century, and then dine in one of the oldest in Madrid, the Hlardy located near the Puerta del Sol, between slender cast iron columns, old creaky wooden floors and walls painted in warm colors and crisp.

Our first day was spun off smooth, despite my fears to board an Alitalia flight just venerdì 17...
Al nostro arrivo all'aeroporto di Barajas, poco dopo le undici, abbiamo trovato ad attenderci Mikaela e l'autista che, senza perdere tempo, ci ha accompagnato in una prima ricognizione della città, in particolare della zona immediatamente a nord-est del nucleo storico, gravitante attorno al Paseo de la Castellana (le Torres Blancas e il Banco de Bilbao di Sainz de Oiza, l'Hotel Puerta America di Nouvel e altri, le KIO Torres a Puerta Europa di Philip Johnson e Burgee & Ass.)


La Castellana è l'arteria principale della città, la taglia tutta da nord a sud: essa costituisce da sempre, almeno dalla metà del XIX secolo in poi, la sua colonna vertebrale. For this reason, the people of Madrid considered the true river of the city, since the Manzanares is, however, in a secluded and not very strategic.
In the afternoon we finally got off the bus to stretch our legs and enjoy some tapas at Café Teatriz, a stylish restaurant created by Philippe Starck in an old theater to see the Girasol building, one of the most famous of Coderch, and ending with a visit to the Santiago Bernabeu, one of the temples of world football, recently renovated dall'Estudio Lamela.


According to recent statistics it is the Bernabeu, and not the Prado, the most visited monument of the English capital ...

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL '08




From October 18 to November 9, 2008 party in the cities of Parma, Reggio Emilia and Modena, the Festival of Architecture, edited by Charles Quintelli (
Professor of Architectural Composition and Urbana University. of Parma).

12 papers presented in the form of exposure, three weeks of live events, 9 related initiatives organized by institutions and organizations participating in the Festival will talk about the "Public Landscape." Go to the program