CaixaForum Madrid, Contemporary art museum in Centro district, Spain.
Description
CaixaForum Madrid is a cultural center in the Centro district of Spain that presents contemporary art inside a redesigned industrial structure on Paseo del Prado. The outer wall supports a vertical garden holding more than 15,000 plants from 250 species.
History
Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron converted the former Mediodía electricity plant into this cultural center, which opened in 2008. The renovation preserved the brick shell while creating new exhibition spaces inside.
Culture
The venue takes its name from the Catalan savings bank "Caixa" combined with the Latin word for public square. Visitors find rotating exhibitions that draw on modern movements alongside chamber music performances in the ground-floor auditorium.
Practical
The entrance sits at Paseo del Prado 36 and the center opens daily from 10 in the morning until 8 in the evening. CaixaBank customers enter without charge, while other visitors pay 6 euros (about 6.50 dollars).
Did you know?
The structure seems to hover above the pavement because the architects removed the base. This effect creates an optical trick beneath the metallic mass.
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