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Swimming with some of the most notable firms in the industry, UNStudio, with b720 Arquitectura and engineering firm Esteyco, rose to the top of the competition pool with a winning design for Madrid-Chamartín Clara Campoamor.[...]

Madrid's Ombú, a historic office building used by the Spanish infrastructure and energy company ACCIONA, has just reopened with a sustainable new design...

Frustrated with the “ludicrous charade” of the COP25 World Climate Summit in December, Spanish design collective luzinterruptus turned to visual protest by creating the temporary guerrilla art piece, “Death by Plastic.”...

In Madrid’s affluent residential district of La Moraleja, local architectural practice CSO Arquitectura has given a dated 1980s home a modern makeover with a focus on energy efficiency...

On the side of a large roundabout in Madrid, Spanish architecture firm Rafael de La-Hoz has realized the eye-catching Oxxeo project, a five-story office building with a LEED Platinum Core & Shell certification...

Reposted from Manhattan Contrarian December 17, 2019/ Francis Menton A few weeks ago (November 22), in a post titled “Who Is Winning The Climate Wars?”, I undertook to begin documenting the ever-growing chasm between...

Reporting right from Madrid, where climate hypocrisy was alive and well at COP-25 Craig Rucker They came for your car, your light bulb, your dishwasher and washing machine, your toilet, your electricity, your airline flight...

From Reuters Matthew Green, Valerie Volcovici MADRID (Reuters) – Major economies resisted calls for bolder climate commitments as a U.N. summit in Madrid limped toward a delayed conclusion on Saturday, dimming hopes...

Opened in March 2018 and located in Madrid, Spain, the VP Plaza España Design hotel is committed to sustainability efforts in both its design and daily practices...

Since the launch of its first electric scooter in 2015, Gogoro co-founder and CEO Horace Luke has frequently been asked when the startup is going to expand beyond Taiwan...

Investors are still pouring millions into scooter startups, albeit sometimes at flat valuations. At the same time a little cash is flowing the other way, in cases where cities have realized the importance of prioritizing...

Enorme Studio teamed up with MINI to create an urban installation that taps into concepts of sustainability and urban regeneration. Called Mountain on the Moon, the experimental project comprises three mobile structures:...

A symphony of color has taken to the air above Plaza Mayor in Madrid. The aerial sculpture is the work of none other than American artist Janet Echelman, who the City of Madrid commissioned to help celebrate the plaza's 400th...

A symphony of color has taken to the air above Plaza Mayor. The instantly recognizable aerial sculpture is the work of none other than American artist Janet Echelman, who the City of Madrid commissioned to help celebrate...

It took less than four months to build this modern prefab home in a factory, and only five hours to assemble it on-site. The minimalist modern abode is set in Valdés, a small town in Asturias, northwest of Madrid. Studio...