Tag Madrid

08-03-2023

The fifties in Madrid: design meets ceramics

An exhibition set up for the Madrid Design Festival, currently under way, focuses on a little-known period in Spanish creativity between the fifties and the late sixties, when a handful of designers decided to import the forms of modernity to a nation that was still anchored to the past. And used ceramics to do so.

29-11-2022

Transformation from an old bazaar into a restaurant, designed by ARQUID

The architects of the ARQUID studio have completed the renovation of an old bazaar in Madrid. The pre-existing structure was reborn as La Más Rica restaurant, offering a fusion between the maritime culture of Galicia with the more industrial style that frames the history of the Chamberí neighbourhood, where the building is located.

19-09-2022

FICUS OFFICE metamorphosis from warehouse to office designed by ARQUID

The Spanish architecture firm ARQUID has transformed an old industrial warehouse in Madrid into its new offices. FICUS OFFICE starts from a ficus plant that becomes the heart of the space and of the design, for a healthy and efficient working environment that supports the creativity and well-being of those who work there.

04-05-2022

Espinosa and Villalba: a home for “rur-urban” life in Cercedilla

Enrique Espinosa and Lys Villalba are working together on a house inspired by the theme of migration between city and country in Spain. In Cercedilla, a small town near Madrid, the architects have made a home built in the 1970s into a manifesto of contemporary living.

23-03-2022

Espinosa+Villalba: Educan, multispecies architecture in Brunete, Madrid

Educan is an educational form of architecture in which dogs, humans and other species coexist and learn together. Espinosa+Villalba’s project demonstrates how rural buildings normally relegated to margins of the discipline of architecture can become outstanding arenas for innovation.

22-02-2022

LuzInterruptus shares people’s memories at LuzMadrid

The LuzInterruptus group’s Life Lingers On Blank Pages is a light installation of great visual and emotional impact created for LuzMadrid, Madrid’s International Light Festival. Light, wind and rain were the key ingredients for an artistic interpretation of the theme of freedom of speech.

11-02-2022

Madrid Design Festival 2022, fifth edition

The city of Madrid will host the fifth edition of the Madrid Design Festival this February and March. The Festival is celebrating its first five years by consolidating an open and inclusive model, a showcase and a space for engagement, beauty and reflection. The Festival sees the participation of 637 professionals with 41 exhibitions, more than 200 activities and 7 installations.

02-02-2022

EQUIPO 01’s ephemeral sustainable space

Spanish studio EQUIPO 01’s pavilion for the international tourism trade fair FIRTUR, held in Madrid, is inspired by the valuable architectural and cultural heritage represented by Spain’s Paradores Nacionales hotels. The entirely recyclable stand aiming to achieve zero carbon emissions has been presented with an award for sustainability.

14-06-2021

UNIÓN, a project by Boa Mistura and Myke Towers that unites six countries through art

The latest project by Boa Mistura, the Madrid-based creative collective, in collaboration with the Puerto Rican artist Myke Towers spans 6 countries and aims to materialise those invisible bonds like art, music and sports, which connect people and places beyond cultural, racial or social differences.