b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos ESTEYCO UNStudio   Spain   The railway complex is transformed into a large courtyard that generates several internal itineraries around the platforms and the tracks, guaranteeing connectivity and improving pedestrian circulation between the accesses from each side. The archite

Neither the dictator Primo de Rivera nor the Republic saw the materialization of the dream of a hub in the north of the capital that would untangle the city’s rail network. This was not achieved until the years of Francoist developmentalism, when Cor

Adif has publicly named the teams selected to go on to phase two of the competition to transform the Madrid–Chamartín station: UNStudio with b720; RSHP with Luis Vidal; Souto de Moura with Francisco Mangado and José María Ezquiaga; Grimshaw with Carl

Miguel Aguiló   Everything fits in the city. There is room for all the dwellings, offices, stores, and parks needed or wanted by citizens. And for people to be able to live, work, shop, and relax in these places, they have to be built in the spirit of city-making. T

Eduardo Mangada   It is often said that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” In general terms, I do not believe this to be true. Nevertheless, there are concrete cases in which the aphorism does ring true. I am referring here to the dazzling, expensive, extravagant,

El País   Eduardo Mangada   El conocimiento en estos días de un contrato secreto de la Operación Chamartín, en el que se establecen las condiciones de la venta de 1.200 millones de metros cuadrados públicos titularidad de ADIF, a una entidad privada constituida por el BBVA y el

Eduardo Mangada   Madrid City Hall is reviewing its General Plan of 1997 through two work documents: a ‘Preadvance’ and an ‘Advance’. Stripped of all technical-administrative paraphernalia, these initiatic documents clearly reflect the theoretical and cultural sustena