DPR-Barcelona, publisher of our MADRID book, part of the team awarded at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

DPR-Barcelona, publisher of our MADRID book, part of the team awarded at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

We are very happy to announce that DPR-Barcelona, publisher of our The Kent State Forum on the City: MADRID book and developer of its augmented realities content, was part of the “Radical Pedagogies” team, coordinated by Beatriz Colomina (Director of Graduate Studies, Ph.D. Program at Princeton University, School of Architecture). The team was awarded a Special Mention for contributing to the section Monditalia at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, directed by Rem Koolhaas. DRP-Barcelona conceived an interactive exhibition wall at the international exhibition in Venice.

German studio GMP Architekten to redevelop Real Madrid’s Bernabeu Stadium.

German studio GMP Architekten to redevelop Real Madrid’s Bernabeu Stadium.

The competition to design Real Madrid’s new Santiago Bernabéu stadium has a winner. The soccer club has chosen the project presented by German firm GMP Architekten and the studios L-35 and Ribas&Ribas over those from Rafael Moneo and Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron; Norman Foster and Rafael de la Hoz; and Carlos Lamela and Populous. See article on El Pais for more info.

Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition at CaixaForum Madrid.

Sebastião Salgado’s exhibition at CaixaForum Madrid.

CaixaForum Madrid is hosting a beautiful exhibition on photographer Sebastião Salgado. “Génesis” opens today and will run until May 4, 2014. The over 200 photographs on show, an unprecedented photographic tribute to our planet, are the result of eight years’ work and some thirty journeys across the world explored by Sebastião Salgado. For more info, please see the CaixaForum Madrid website.

TU Delft students on visit at El Campo de Cebada by Zuloark.

TU Delft students on visit at El Campo de Cebada by Zuloark.

Wouter Vanstiphout, Chair at the Architecture Faculty of Delft University of Technology, had his students visit Madrid, as part of their graduation studio “Follow the Money”, in order “to explore the effects of the county’s property bubble and the (sometimes) harsh consequences of political games and real estate speculation on the built environment.” {Read more}