And suddenly spring. After a week of record-breaking rainfall, the sun has been showing up this weekend and at last it seems that we have really changed season. A feeling that is reinforced if you walk around Chamberí, where the Fundación Casa de México en España (Calle de Alberto Aguilera, 20) has returned to install, for another year, its now legendary floral façade.
With more effusiveness than other years, the institution is once again launching its message of Welcome Spring 2025 with a new intervention for which more than 10,000 natural flowers typical of Mexican landscapes such as flamboyant, guayacán and tabachín have been used.
This year’s design is by Cristina Faesler, designer and cultural promoter, and Mathew Holmes, architect. On this occasion, it “celebrates the biodiversity of Mexican forests and jungles by recalling native species”.
Among these species are butterflies, which take on special relevance in the montage: no wonder, considering that only in Mexico alone can be found 9% of the known species of butterflies on the planet.
That is why a total of 17 of these lepidoptera (the sulfur butterfly, the blue morpho, the comet butterfly, the Mexican baronia, the lemon butterfly or the monarch butterfly) dot the design of this edition, with which they want to make the public reflect on “our connection with nature and the importance of protecting it“.
Dates of Casa de México’s floral façade
As the raw material of this installation is natural, the intervention is necessarily ephemeral: it can only be visited for a few days, from March 21 to March 30.
More buildings with floral or natural facades
In addition to this proposal of Casa de México, in Madrid we can find several buildings whose facades have plant elements. In fact very close to this location we can find the mythical Princesa Building by Fernando Higueras, where vegetation and concrete coexist in one of the most recognizable facades of Madrid architecture.
It is not the only building of his where this architect wanted to combine both elements, and Serrano, 69 is proof of this. However, perhaps one of the most famous cases is undoubtedly the great vertical garden that decorates the headquarters of CaixaForum Madrid, designed by the French botanist Patrick Blanc.
There he built a large plant wall 24 meters high with more than 15,000 plants that make up a kind of “living painting”.