Inhabiting a city involves walking it, thinking about it and imagining oneself living in some of its buildings. Madrid has a few thousand cubic kilometers for which any Madrilenian would sigh. To feed envy or satisfy curiosity there are festivals like Open House.
Open House is an international architecture festival that celebrates this year its tenth edition and allows you to visit year after year a hundred buildings or architectural firms that are usually closed to the public.
And this year it has already announced the celebration of a new edition that will take place at the end of the month -between September 26 and 29.
Which buildings can be visited this year
“In these 10 years we have had great architects of reference such as Higueras, Fisac, De la Sota, Gutiérrez Soto,” said Paloma Gómez Marín, director of the festival. And through this look at the past (their past and that of the city) they wanted to do something special: compile the ten most representative works of the festival.
The complete list with the (more than one hundred) participants of the festival you have in this link: here is where you can also book your place to visit the buildings, although some visits do not require prior reservation.
The big bets of Open House for this 2024 are the following:
- Hipódromo de la Zarzuela. Architects: Arniches, Domínguez y Torroja.
- Castel building.
- Castelar Building. Architect: Rafael de la Hoz Arderius.
Architects: Arniches, Domínguez and Torroja. - Círculo de Bellas Artes. Architect: Antonio Palacios
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- Torres Blancas. Architect: Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza.
- Instituto: Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza.
- Cultural Heritage Institute. Architect: Fernando Higueras.
- CEDEX.
- CEDEX, Center for Hydrographic Studies. Architect: Miguel Fisac.
- CEDEX, Centro de Estudios Hidrográficos.
- Maravillas Gymnasium. Architect: Alejandro de la Sota.
- CEDEX, Centro de Estudios Hidrográficos.
- Barceló Cinema – Barceló Theater. Architect: Luis Gutiérrez Soto.
- Hexagons Pavilion. Architects: Corrales and Molezún.
- National Auditorium. Architect: José M. García de Paredes.