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// Governance★ Long read

The square that could not be planted

At two in the afternoon on the last day of July 2024, a Greenpeace technician points a thermographic camera at the granite of the Plaza Mayor and the screen returns a number close to sixty-three degrees. A few hundred…

Tobias Hager·8 min·Madrid
// Housing★ Long read

Madrid’s invisible architects

The drawings arrive at the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid identified only by a word. Not a studio name, not a logo, not the practice's carefully built portfolio — just a lema, an alphanumeric codeword chosen…

Tobias Hager·8 min·Madrid