Caixa Forum StairCase...

I'm sorry if I'm not posting every day but work is really "killing me" lately... I hope to get back to normal really soon... :-)
I leave you with a Caixa Forum Interior, the big staircase... It reminds me some of Escher drawings!... what do you think?!?... I'll try to post some sky watch tomorrow...

New and Old overlayer...

The Jeronimos church and the new Moneo building (Prado museum ampliation) superimposed... This view is of complex comprehension, much criticized by many, but from my point of view very rich... it gives complexity to the urban landscape; isn't this what "the city" is all about?... layers over layers of time and space and life - and what ever you fill like - on the same place?!...

Inside Los Jeronimos

Since in the last few posts I'm showing some Madrid interiors here is one more... :-)
It's the church of "Los Jerónimos", this beautiful temple that originally dates from 1505, assumes it's actual appearance in the late XIX century cause of the serious damages inflicted by Napoleon troops in the beginning of the same century. The cloister was integrated on Prado museum ampliation by Rafael Moneo. On its large history, 500 years, it has been, church, convent, hospital, headquarters, warehouse...

Ooohhh!!...and before I forget this is my 150th post... :-)

...in MNCARS belly...

The new MNCARS building by Jean Nouvel, has some very interesting spaces, here the bar/restaurant under the concert hall; the ceiling you see above is literally the belly of the concert hall.

Edificio Girasol (Sunflower Building)

The Sunflower Building, is a modernist architecture building designed in 1964 buy the architect J. A. Coderch. The name of the building cames from that, literally, the building opens to the sun trajectory and is closed on is northern face (as in the photo)... From this facade it really look abstract, I love it.

Congreso de los Diputados

Yesterdays photograph talked about the Equality demonstration made in front of the Congreso de los Diputados (the Parliament building)... I realize that I was not telling anything about this emblematic Madrid building so...

The Congreso de los Diputados Building, has a neoclassical style. It was designed by the architect Narcisco Pascual y Colomer, and built between 1843 and 1850. It sits by the Carrera de San Jerónimo (San Jeronimo Street) downtown Madrid where before was the holly spirit convent. Just one more thing the bronze Lion you see, are two one on each side of the acess stairs to the building, is the work of the sculptor Ponciano Ponzano and made in the Maestranza de Sevilla in 1866 from the enemy canons of the 1860 war in Africa...

To know more...

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