Madrid Announces Design Competition to Remodel 11 of the City´s Public Squares
The municipality of Madrid´s Area of Sustainable Urban Development, in collaboration with the Official College of Architects of Madrid, has announced a design competition to remodel eleven public plazas in the outskirts of the Spanish capital city as an urban regeneration strategy for the city´s periphery.
Parque Mirasierra en el distrito Fuencarral-El Pardo. Image © Comunidad de Madrid [Flickr], bajo licencia CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
The municipality of Madrid´s Area of Sustainable Urban Development, in collaboration with the Official College of Architects of Madrid, has announced a design competition to remodel eleven public plazas in the outskirts of the Spanish capital city as an urban regeneration strategy for the city´s periphery.As part of the strategic plan, Regenerate Madrid, the competition, ?Plaz-er?, seeks to ?contribute to the creation of an upgrading program for the civic plazas located on the city´s periphery, understood as representative spaces with a singular and identifying character for the local areas population that should be reinforced through the new project."?The plaza is where citizen identity is formalized, for this reason, this type of public space is fundamental for social cohesion in the area?, explained the organizers. The plazas chosen are divided by ?difficulty of function, size and complexities." The competition is open to qualified architects, with either a degree from Spain or from abroad (UK, Iceland, Liechtenstein, N...
Parque Mirasierra en el distrito Fuencarral-El Pardo. Image © Comunidad de Madrid [Flickr], bajo licencia CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
The municipality of Madrid´s Area of Sustainable Urban Development, in collaboration with the Official College of Architects of Madrid, has announced a design competition to remodel eleven public plazas in the outskirts of the Spanish capital city as an urban regeneration strategy for the city´s periphery.As part of the strategic plan, Regenerate Madrid, the competition, ?Plaz-er?, seeks to ?contribute to the creation of an upgrading program for the civic plazas located on the city´s periphery, understood as representative spaces with a singular and identifying character for the local areas population that should be reinforced through the new project."?The plaza is where citizen identity is formalized, for this reason, this type of public space is fundamental for social cohesion in the area?, explained the organizers. The plazas chosen are divided by ?difficulty of function, size and complexities." The competition is open to qualified architects, with either a degree from Spain or from abroad (UK, Iceland, Liechtenstein, N...
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