What does a factory's ability to stay in production depend on today? Design and construction, preventive maintenance, up-to-date technology, adaptation to market demands, efficient management? Aspects that, for the most part and within their historical context, were surely also shared in their beginnings by the longest-lived factories in the world that still maintain their original activity.
What does a factory's ability to stay in production depend on today? Design and construction, preventive maintenance, up-to-date technology, adaptation to market demands, efficient management? Aspects that, for the most part and within their historical context, were surely also shared in their beginnings by the longest-lived factories in the world that still maintain their original activity.
Penitentiary centers have been innovative buildings, symbols of demands or temporary lodgings for illustrious prisoners. Today, many of them no longer exist and, if they do, they have greatly changed their function. We delve into the history of four of them: La Modelo in Barcelona, La Modelo in Madrid, Carabanchel and the Women's Prison in Ventas.
Miguel Fisac's "Pagoda", an iconic building of contemporary Spanish architecture built in 1965 for the JORBA laboratories, was demolished in 1999. Currently, there is an initiative to reconstruct the building on the grounds of the former Air Hospital in Madrid.
In the 1970s, the Madrid City Council expropriated the stalls of the Trafalgar market and demolished the building to build a subway parking lot and a landscaped plaza. The demolition was controversial as the building had great architectural value and the traders did not receive any compensation. The history contrasts with the present day Plaza de Olavide.
