Diego Santomé, ‘Gravedad, tension y estabilidad’ (2012)
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Diego Velázquez
The ‘Portrait of Prince Philip Prospero’, a 1659 portrait of Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias by Diego Velázquez.
Eduardo Arroyo
Eduardo Arroyo, ‘6 laitues, 1 couteau et 3 épluchures’ (6 lettuces, 1 knife and 3 peels)
Luis Galán García & Daniel Fernández Pascual
Luis Galán García & Daniel Fernández Pascual, ‘Road Trip through Madrid’s Bubble Challenge’ (2010)
After a decade of unprecedented real estate development, Madrid starts to deal with its contemporary ruins: on one hand, more than 47,000 empty apartments wait for a first buyer (Asprima report/Dec.2009), and on the other, hundreds of kilometres of perfectly paved streets run between eerie blocks, waiting for a first construction on their sides.
‘Road Trip through Madrid’s Bubble Challenge’ is an on-going photo-reportage of these frozen in time areas of development. Can they become the natural protected areas of the future?
Sietes
The Sietes (sevens) village in northern Spain, painted in the trademark palette of Windows 7,
to coincide with the launch of the new operating system. (2009)
Photos by Jacinta Lluch Valero
Don Justo’s Self Built Cathedral
Do it yourself: Justo Gallego Martínez is building his very own Cathedral in Mejorada del Campo near Madrid, Spain.
This is no “model” cathedral and he is neither a qualified architect, nor engineer, nor bricklayer — he is a farmer. “The plans have only ever existed in my head” and have evolved over time in response to opportunity and inspiration.
