Caixa Forum Building...

We have a new building in Madrid; the Caixa Forum designed by the famous Swiss architects Herzog & DeMeuron…

It’s fundamentally a temporary expositions building, with conference rooms, library and cafeteria (on the last floor)… The building conserves the volume of the old ‘Mediodía’ electric station; the existing brick volume was literally raised from the ground to permit the entrance in the building and enlarged by a new rusty steel volume on the top…

The building is situated in paseo del Prado in a really privileged position, near to Atocha station, the Prado museum and the Reina Sofia art center museum… u cant miss it…

The vertical garden is the work of Patrick Blanc.

To know more about it…
http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/centros/caixaforummadrid_es.html