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Itinerary
Glass is an elusive and fascinating material, loaded with a number of attributes that make it unique but at the same time dilute its own personality. Glass combines solidity with transparency and, in doing so, confuses many of the principles that we usually associate with the fundamental elements of architecture and construction. Added to this combination is its ability to reflect what is around it.Thus, glass is capable of making walls and even entire buildings disappear and blend into their surroundings, as is the case in the {Consejo Consultivo de Castilla y León (Advisory Board of the regional government of Castilla y León)||0000011716}. But it is also capable of giving shape to such hermetic and sculptural volumes that rise up in our cities as if they were the crystals of a geode, as the Torre de Gas Natural in Barcelona or the Basque Health Department Headquarters in Bilbao show us.
Itinerary curated by
Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana
Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA)
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In addition, the combination of transparency and reflection turns its surface into a screen that can be calibrated to project a myriad of images. From the texture generated by the light trapped on the façade of the Centro de las Artes (MUNCYT), (National Museum of Science and Technology), to the colour that illuminates the public space generated by the Museum of Contemporary Art of León (MUSAC), and the drawings that merge with what is behind and in front of the façade of the Marsamar Office Building in Alicante.
Finally, and as if all this were not enough, glass can follow different manufacturing processes and take on very different shapes. For this reason, we can find it reduced to a thin veil in the Torre Puig or curved and stacked to roundly outline the two volumes of the Kursaal Auditorium and Congress Centre in San Sebastián. And we can even see it converted into the bricks that raise the 11 March Memorial in Madrid towards the sky, a construction that reminds us once again that this material is at once primitive and technified, light and solid, transparent and opaque, and all the series of opposites that we are capable of imagining.
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Tuesday to Saturday: from 11 to 20 h.
Sundays and holidays: from 11 to 15 h.
La Arquería de Nuevos Ministerios
Paseo de la Castellana, 67
28046 Madrid - España
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Martes a sábado: de 11 a 20 h.
Domingos y festivos: de 11 a 15 h.
La Arquería de Nuevos Ministerios
Paseo de la Castellana, 67
28046 Madrid - España
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