Madrid’s housing stock is set to change over the next decade with major advanced projects such as Madrid Nuevo Norte o its southern equivalent of the city. And although the creation of housing in the former Cuatro Caminos depot (the emblematic Antonio Palacios building, controversially demolished three years ago) is not exactly a new neighborhood, it will ostensibly modify an area bordering Chamberí.
The Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility Area will take to the Cibeles Plenary next week the initiative of the urban management of the Specific Planning Area of the Cuatro Caminos Metro Park. This means that it is getting closer and closer to the start of the works announced some time ago.
The Cuatro Caminos Metro Park, as it will be called, will be a 60,000-square-meter plot comprising six buildings (a 100-meter tower), a 1,000-space subway parking garage, a renovated underground parking garage area and a large park between the streets of Bravo Murillo, Pablo Iglesias, Reina Victoria and Esquilache.
A total of 443 homes will be built – of which 10%, or about 40, will be public housing.
The old Cuatro Caminos depot
On June 7, 2021, the demolition of the the Cuatro Caminos Car Depot the first depot in Spain and one of the most emblematic places of the Madrid Metro, inaugurated in 1919.
Despite years of neighborhood protests and efforts to preserve the site as a cultural heritage site, Metro de Madrid’s need to auction the land prevailed. In its place, what will be the tallest tower in Chamberí, Verde zones and new subway parking garages will be built.
The only preserved part of the work of Antonio Palacios will be the entrance arch to the platforms and a section of the East Wall.