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Five of the Best Exhibitions from Madrid Design Festival 2019

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Madrid Design Festival 2019 took place from 1 to 28 February in various locations throughout the city, presenting both national and international projects, and offering visitors the opportunity to discuss and share ideas on the state of Spanish design.

Five of the Best Exhibitions from Madrid Design Festival 2019

Design To Go—Spain Part II

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Design To Go

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In this installment of Design To Go, Diane Burk travels to Spain, visiting the beautiful cities of Barcelona and Madrid. The biggest city on the Mediterranean, Barcelona is a cultural, economic, entertainment, educational and tourism center for Southern Europe. Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in Spain as a whole—and boasts many of its historic buildings and districts kept intact.

August 2017: Spain Part II

Design To Go—Spain Part I

Submitted by Diane Burk on

Design To Go

Read Time: 1.5 minutes

In this installment of Design To Go, Diane Burk travels to Spain, visiting the beautiful city of Barcelona. The biggest city on the Mediterranean, Barcelona is a cultural, economic, entertainment, educational and tourism center for Southern Europe. The city is home to famous architectural works of Antoni Gaudí, and boasts both many UNESCO World Heritage sites and museums to visit.

July 2017—August 2017: Spain Part I

Projection Mapping Light Show Tells the Story of the Guggenheim Bilbao on Its 20th Anniversary

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From October 11-14th, the 20-minute-long multisensory production Reflections combined music, light and projection, creating a show on the building’s north-facing titanium facades that told the story of the museum’s genesis and design.

Projection Mapping Light Show Tells the Story of the Guggenheim Bilbao on Its 20th Anniversary

Madrid Xanadu

Honor Award
Madrid Xanadu, The Mills, Kiku Obata + Company

Madrid Xanadu is the largest entertainment and retail destination in Europe and even includes Europe's largest indoor snow sports facility. The design objective was to create a world-class shopping and entertainment destination where architecture and design combine to engage imagination and create an exceptional experience.

Kiku Obata & Company

Voices

Honor Award
Voices, Forum Barcelona 2004, Ralph Applebaum Associates and Mona Kim Projects

A celebration of the act of human communication and linguistic and cultural diversity, Voices was one of the main features of an international exposition. The exhibit aimed to draw attention to the conditions of liberty that are a foundation for the necessary dialogue among cultures. The exhibition needed to present two contradictory views: cultural diversity as a heritage we must preserve and communication as essential in an increasingly interdependent world.

Ralph Applebaum Associates, Mona Kim Projects (creative direction of graphics and AV)

Zubiarte

Merit Award
Zubiarte, Sonae Sierra, ID8 Studio/RTKL

Zubiarte is an international retail attraction hewn from design elements that are unique to Bilbao, Spain. The city's industrial heritage is clearly referenced through the building's use of stone and brick materials, complemented by numerous steel accent elements.

ID8 Studio/RTKL

Hand to Hand

Merit Award
Hand to Hand, PRINT IT!, María de Ros, Daniel Loewe

What could be more universal than the language of pointing hands? That was the premise of two separate “Hand to Hand” wayfinding/art installations, one staged in an old building in Madrid’s city center and the other held as part of Barcelona’s ExpoHogar, a biannual fair of interior design and decoration.

María de Ros, Daniel Loewe
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