La architecture and physiognomy of Madrid It is going to change considerably, if 2021 is benevolent and allows it. And there are several projects that have either started or are planning to do so now or will end this new year, which are going to turn the capital into a city focused on citizens and sustainability. And in De Salas We have compiled them so that our clients and friends are well informed.
The project Madrid New North We already mentioned it in our blog, it will be more than three million square meters over five kilometers and will go from the surroundings of the Plaza de Castilla to near the mountain of El Pardo. The construction of 10.500 homes and nearly half a million square meters of urban parks and green areas is planned. A new lung for architecture Madrid.
Also in the northern area, the new stadium Santiago Bernabeu will change that area of the city. It is designed by the studio GMP Architecture, L35 Architecture y Ribas & Ribas Architects and the works began last 2020. The innovations will have a fixed roof and another retractable one, will add 3000 more spectator capacity and will mean an urban change, with 20.000 square meters of green areas in place of the current parking lot, and Rafael Salgado Street will become pedestrian.
Since May 2019, the Plaza de España and its surroundings have been undergoing an intervention process that will include green, cyclist, and pedestrian areas and will also provide continuity to the area by connecting it with the Temple of Debod, West Park and Royal Palace. To achieve this, traffic lanes have been reduced to make way for pedestrian areas again, as well as the planting of a thousand trees.
Under the suggestive name of Metropolitan Forest hides a green infrastructure that will extend over 75 kilometers and will contribute to the rebalancing of the city, reducing CO2 emissions, increasing pedestrian and cycling paths... A project, in short, that seeks to improve the health of the population. It is a large green ring road that will connect the Manzanares and Jarama rivers and involves, among other things, the planting of 450.000 trees as well as the burying of the 600 meters of the M-30 as it passes through the site left by the stadium. Vicente Calderón at Madrid Río. Architecture green.
Puerta del Sol has been remodeled for six years and the second phase of the redesign of the square will be carried out by the architects José Ignacio Linazasoro and Ricardo Sánchez and will begin in this first quarter of 2021. At all times we have sought to recover the origins, thinking about the pedestrian, with fountains, benches and emblematic statues such as El Oso y el Madroño, La Mariblanca and the statue of Carlos III.
And last but not least, the diagonal line of metro, which will turn line 11 into the great axis that will cross Madrid with its 33,5 kilometers and that will connect eleven of the twelve lines as well as seven of the city's transport interchanges and will reach strategic points for mobility, such as Atocha or the airport.
For many reasons, we expect 2021 as the great shock to a turbulent 2020 that revolutionized the way we had until now of living, and that in De Salas We hope that, first with what is closest, such as our city, and then moving away to other geographical points, it will remake our vital “architecture” making way for a new but healthy way of moving forward with our dreams. Welcome 2021 to our lives.
Gala Mora
DESALAS Lifestyle
