USS In show at exhibition HINCHABLES

Urban Space Station (USS), a project by Angel Borrego Cubero and Natalie Jeremijenko is part of the exhibition  “HINCHABLES, La Galería. Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño español”, an eclectic collection of projects of different scales, with different objectives, made from different parts of the world by Spanish authors throughout the 21st century with a common denominator: The use of air as a structural key, theme and generating element. The exhibition opens on November 16, at the Architecture Centre Las Arquerías de los Nuevos Ministerios in Madrid and has been curated by Carmen Blasco, Carmelo Rodríguez Cedillo, Ángela Gayol, ESPACIO LANUBE, Luis de LaMadrid. A catalog edited by Con Arquitectura, accompanies the exhibition.

Factoria Cultural awarded Best Rehabilitation Project at NAN Awards 2016

At the 10th edition of the NAN Architecture and Construction Awards, our Factoría Cultural in Matadero Madrid won the Award for Best Rehabilitation Project. The other winners for Projects are: RCR Arquitectes – Award for Best project of a Spanish office abroad; Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra – Award for Best non residential project; Ohlab – Award for Best energy efficiency project; Vallribera Architects – Award for Best residential project. Cruz and Ortiz have received the Honorary Award NAN.

Factoria Cultural, 3rd Prize RTF Sustainability Awards – Offices

Factoría Cultural Matadero Madrid has won the 3rd Prize at Rethinking The Future Sustainability Awards – “Office” category. RTF Awards is a competition organized by an editorial from India, focused on innovation and sustainability in the built environment

Speaker at the Seminar Alternatives XIII Spanish Biennial

13-14.10.2016, Granada, Seminar Alternatives XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture: “San Isidro. Open Factory. Premises for rescuing an abandoned industrial heritage site”: Angel Borrego Cubero will talk about the Cultural Factory in El Matadero Madrid as a successful example of intervention into industrial heritage.

Exhibition at the 13th Spanish Biennial of Architecture

At the 13 Spanish Biennial of Architecture we participate at 3 levels since we got awards both at “Research” (with Historia de la Escuela) and “Dissemination” (with The Competition) sections and we were finalists at “Built works” (with Factoría Cultural). If you happen to visit Granada, before October 12, you can visit the exhibition of the 13th Spanish Biennial of Architecture. Free entrance, 10-18h, Palacio Carlos V – Alhambra

Selected for the 15.Biennale di Venezia

Factoría Cultural Matadero Madrid, designed by Ángel Borrego Cubero /Office for Strategic Spaces, has been selected to be part of the Spanish Pavilion at the 15 Biennale di Venezia – Architecture (May 28 – Nov 27, 2016). The pavilion, curated in this edition by Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintans, is titled “Unfinished” and gathers 55 selected architecture works, 7 photography series and 12 entries to the call for ideas.

Finalist at the 13th Spanish Architecture Biennale

Factoría Cultural en el Matadero Madrid (Cultural Factory at the Contemporary Art Center El Matadero) is one of the 20 shortlisted buildings at the XIII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo. There were 449 entries from which the jury selected 22 awards, 20 shortlisted and 59 selected buildings. Photo: Simona Rota

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