The Spanish Pavilion at the 15 Biennale di Venezia was awarded the Golden Lion. The Cultural Factory in El 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.
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New docu-series about Professor Isasi’s classes
Justo Isasi, Professor at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid: “We architects think in lines, that is, musicians think in notes, painters in colors and those who who write think in arguments. But we, almost inevitably, have to think of lines. So this lesson is mostly about Intelligence and Imagination. And for that, we have to make lines … ”
This is the first episode of a series of 6 videos titled “Pensar a rayas/ Thinking in lines”. It is an initiative by Angel Borrego Cubero and produced voluntarily and non-profit by OSS in collaboration with ETSAM. The series will be disseminated with the collaboration of Plataforma Arquitectura and Archdaily.
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.
Dissemination Award at 13 Spanish Architecture Biennial
The feature documentary The Competition produced by Office for Strategic Spaces has been awarded an Architecture Dissemination Award at the XIII Spanish Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.
Research Award at the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture
Research Award at the XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism ( XIII BEAU, Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo) “Historia de la Escuela” (The School History) a research conducted by Ángel Borrego Cubero within the Research Group Emergent Practices of the Architectural Design Dept. of the School of Architecture from Madrid – ETSAM. Authors: Ángel Borrego Cubero (coordinator) Juan Herreros, Emilio Tuñón, Jacobo García-Germán, Lina Toro, David Archilla, Alberto Pieltaín, José María Sánchez, Juan Paulo Alarcón Carreño (scholarship MPAA). Collaborators on behalf of Office for Strategic Spaces: María Ángeles Peñalver Izaguirre, Simona Rota.
Publication in AMC Le Moniteur
AMC – Le Moniteur (FR) #249/ March 2016, features our project “Factoría Cultural Matadero Madrid” on pages 96-99.
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
Angel Borrego Cubero appointed Leading Professor at Master of Architectural Communication
Angel Borrego Cubero has been appointed a Leading Professor of Audiovisual Project, carried within the Master of Architectural Communication (MACA) of the ETSAM – UPM, which starts in February 2016.
4th Prize at design competition Espacio Mahou
The entry “Mensaje en una botella” (Message in a bottle) by Office for Strategic Spaces won the 4th Prize in the competition for the upcoming Espacio Mahou, organized by Mahou San Miguel with the collaboration of the Architects’ Association from Madrid (COAM). Out of 160 entries, 5 offices only were selected as finalists to go to the second stage of the competition, Office for Strategic Spaces – OSS being one of the five.
Credits. A project by Office for Strategic Spaces/ Author: Ángel Borrego Cubero/ Architecture Team: Ana Isabel Alonso, Pablo Fernández Cueto, Belén Relloso/ Consultants: Xavier Aguilo – BAC (structure), Alex Ivancic- Aiguasol (sustainability)
Jesús Cerezo – Envolventes Arquitectónicas (glass)
Factoria Cultural won the Award COAM’15 with Special Mention
Ángel Borrego Cubero has been awarded the COAM Award’15 with Special Mention for his work Factoría Cultural, an creative industries hub at Matadero Madrid. The Awards COAM are annually given by the Architects’ Association from Madrid to the best architecture achievements in the region of Madrid. See here the awarded works.
