“Plaza Sur” and the project for “Poligono Sur” in Seville

Public Administrations have specified several projects that are going to change the image of one zone which name in Seville is synonymous of social exclusion.

The fisrt one is refered to a urbanistic side, and the idea has been to destroyed the illegal yards that were built in the street without any control. In parallel, the Public Infrastructure Department of the Andalusian Government has developed and ambicious plan in which it’s planned to invest 45 million of Euro for the houses restoration, recovering the public spaces and normalyzing the illegal occupying.
The first difficult work was to create a census, and this is giving the first successes, so at Martinez Montañes Neighbourhood was checked how many legal or illegal occupancy or how many were empty of the total amount of this 1424 houses.

The same work is being repeated in other five districts, that with Martinez Montañes one, take part of “Poligono Sur”. Andalusian Government thinks that is possible to normalize at least 1000 property contracts in 2008. At the same time 1270 housed have started to be rebuilt, and 96 have been finished and they’re working with other 290, meanwhile the legal procedure has been started for other 692 in 40 blocks.

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Shoes of Danube River (Budapest)

Budapest the Hungarian Capital, has 1,7 Million of inhabitants ( checking the 2005 census ). It’s the seventh city in size of the European Union.

In some point of this city, in the Danube bank, the visitor discovers the surprising image of a long row of shoes, as the people had left them there before throwing to the river. Really, this surprsing image is an artistic work, that tries to make remeber the savagery done while the second world war.

In this point, the juwes from Varvia Ghetho, were tied in pairs, and after shooting one of them, both were thrown out to the river. This row tries to make remeber this killed people, as they hadn’t disappear, as the shoes were waiting for their owner after thei bath session in the river..-

Thanks to Jose Luis for the pic.

The Justice Campus of Madrid

With the following article we want to revise the current status of the design definitions of the Justice Campus of Madrid. This huge project will be a great architectonic national and international museum, due to its planning and solutions.

The complex will be composed by 15 buildings, all of them with circular floor plan as the master plan defines. Its distribution is organized as the following graphic indicates:

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