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26-603: The first part of the park was inaugurated on April 29, 2003. The rest of the Park is under construction. The most significant areas of the finished part are: The first stage of the project “the Linear Park on the River Manzanares” by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura was completed in 2003. The geographical location of the park, south of Madrid , is crucial to the city, which is spreading progressively towards

52-496: A former cement factory known as La Fábrica . Ricardo Bofill , then 23 years old, founded the Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 by with the encouragement and support of his father, the architect and builder Emilio Bofill . From the start, Bofill had the vision of a multidisciplinary team that would bring together architects, engineers, planners, sociologist, writers, movie makers and philosophers to generate original design ideas with

78-543: A location in the Community of Madrid, Spain is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (RBTA) is an architecture firm that was founded in 1963 by Ricardo Bofill , initially as Taller de Arquitectura ( lit.   ' Architecture Workshop ' ). It is headquartered in Sant Just Desvern near Barcelona , in

104-556: A social and political purpose. Initial members of the team included Bofill's relatives and childhood friends such as Anna Bofill , Xavier Bagué and Ramón Collado; writer José Agustín Goytisolo ; actress Serena Vergano ; and visionary polymath Manuel Núñez Yanowsky  [ es ] , a former fellow activist of Bofill within the clandestine Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia . They were joined in 1966 by Peter Hodgkinson , in 1971 by writer Salvador Clotas  [ es ] , and in 1976 by architect Jean-Pierre Carniaux . At

130-427: A video presenting the Taller' s work in 1981, the group's building approach went from one extreme to the other in the space of two decades: from a strong emphasis on artisanal craftsmanship in the early 1960s, to large-scale heavy industrialization using precast concrete in the early 1980s. In the latter period, a division of labor existed between the two offices of Barcelona and Paris, with design functions centered in

156-409: Is a natural, building free setting for outdoor sports such as jogging and biking, water related activities at a large rowing canal, and open air cultural activities and events. The project foresees covering the sewer exits at the northern end of the park and isolating the water purifiers and electricity plant to hide the installations from view and mask possible emanating smells. This article about

182-476: Is led by his two sons, Ricardo Emilio Bofill and Pablo Bofill . With much simplification, the design style of RBTA can be described as having gone through four phases: the geometrical combinations of the early projects in the 1960s and early 1970s, inspired by Utopian socialism , vernacular architecture and critical regionalism ; from the late 1970s, a turn towards ostensibly classical forms associated with large-scale utilization of precast concrete ; from

208-589: The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line ( 1 , ​ 2 , and ​ 3 trains) are located on West Broadway. The Sixth Avenue Elevated , formally the Metropolitan Elevated Railway, opened on June 5, 1878. It ran above College Place, West Broadway, and South Fifth Avenue from Murray Street, where it turned from Church Street, to Amity (West 3rd) Street, where it turned to Sixth Avenue. The Sixth Avenue El

234-617: The TriBeCa neighborhood, ending at Park Place. Prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks , West Broadway continued southward into the World Trade Center site , ending at Vesey Street . It was once considered "Rotten Row". West Broadway was once two streets: Chapel Street below Canal Street, and Laurens Street above it. In the early 1750s, Trinity Church laid down a street grid on its property, known as King's Farm, between

260-433: The 1830s, the neighborhood was a red-light district nicknamed "Rotten Row", and by the 1860s it was beset by poverty, filth, and violent crime. An 1860 proposal to widen Laurens Street and extend it north one block to Washington Square Park was carried out in 1869 and 1870. In addition, a roadway was built to connect West Broadway to Fifth Avenue, introducing carriage traffic into Washington Square Park, and Laurens Street

286-579: The Algerian government on urban planning and housing-related issues, culminating in the creation of an experimental new agricultural village at Méchraâ Houari Boumédienne near Abadla , Bechar Province . Some of the Taller' s architects have moved on to create significant architecture firms of their own, e.g. Manuel Núñez Yanowsky  [ es ] in 1978, Nabil Gholam in 1994, and Philippe Chiambaretta  [ fr ] in 2000. Following Ricardo Bofill's passing away on 14 January 2022, RBTA

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312-791: The Friends of LaGuardia Place. The sculpture was commissioned as part of a project to beautify and revitalize that section of the street, whose buildings had been torn down many years before by Robert Moses to be part of the Fifth Avenue South connector to his never-built Lower Manhattan Expressway . The southbound M20 bus of the New York City Bus system runs on West Broadway from the five-way intersection with Varick Street and Leonard Street south to Chambers Street . The Franklin Street and Chambers Street stations of

338-466: The Hudson River and Broadway in lower Manhattan. About the same time, Trinity founded King's College, now Columbia University , and donated a plot of land bordered by Barclay, Murray, and Church Streets for its campus, to which the school moved in 1760. According to a 1755 map, "Chappel Street" was part of this grid, running from Barkly (Barclay) to just past Warrens (Warren) Street and ending at

364-549: The Meseta and needs open ground to break the urban tissue and to provide citizens with contact with nature. The ambition of the project was to transform an area containing the capital's sanitation and electricity supply infrastructures into a major park that will also meet the recreational and sporting needs of the surrounding districts . The previous studies on the treatment of the river that begun as part of Madrid 's sanitation plan were followed by Bofill's design project. The park

390-605: The Paris office moved into a purpose-built space at 18, rue d'Enghien, in the former seat of newspaper Le Petit Parisien ; it eventually closed in 2000. The Taller also maintained an office in New York City (on 394 West Broadway ) from 1987 to the early 1990s, and other offshoots at various times in Montpellier , Tokyo , Chicago , and Beijing . In the late 1970s, the Taller de Arquitectura collaborated with

416-560: The architectural signature of the 1980s" in the country. West Broadway West Broadway is a north-south street in the New York City borough of Manhattan , separated into two parts by Tribeca Park. The northern part begins at Tribeca Park, near the intersection of Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), Walker Street and Beach Street in Tribeca . It runs northbound as a one-way street past Canal Street and becomes two-way at

442-471: The former and industrialization and project execution in the latter, led at the time by Ramón Collado. The pivot towards classicism has arguably been the most debated of these successive shifts. Critic Geoffrey Broadbent wrote in 1981 about RBTA's recent work: "The point, of course, is that having shocked people once [with the geometrical plays of the Taller's early period], if you want to keep shocking them,

468-432: The intersection with Grand Street one block farther north. West Broadway then operates as a main north-south thoroughfare through SoHo until its northern end at Houston Street , on the border between SoHo and Greenwich Village . North of Houston Street , it is designated as LaGuardia Place , which continues until Washington Square South . The southern part of West Broadway runs southbound from Tribeca Park through

494-530: The late 1980s to the 2000s, a gradual distillation of that classical inspiration into a more abstract vocabulary that still referred to formal geometries and increasingly used steel and glass as its prominent materials; and in the 2010s, a partial return to vernacular inspiration, particularly in projects in the Muslim world such as Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. As noted by Peter Hodgkinson in

520-966: The most outrageous thing you can do, as an avant-garde artist, is to go back to the Classical!" According to Peter Hodgkinson , the influence of Charles Jencks played a role in prompting the Taller' s Classicist turn in the late 1970s. In a noted study of France's evolving social structures and landscapes published in 2021, political scientist Jérôme Fourquet and journalist Jean-Laurent Cassely wrote that "the monumental projects designed by Spanish architect Ricardo-Bofill in Noisy-le-Grand ( Les Espaces d'Abraxas ), in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ( Les Arcades du Lac ) and in Montpellier (the Antigone neighborhood ) are basically

546-510: The palisade which protected the north end of the city. In the 1760s, Trinity Church ceded its streets between Fulton and Reade Streets to the city and Anthony Rutgers' heirs, owners of the land north of Reade Street, mapped their property into streets and lots. In the 1790s, Chapel Street was graded and paved from Murray to Reade Streets and extended to Leonard Street. In 1831, the New York City Common Council renamed

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572-552: The two blocks from Murray to Chambers Street were renamed to be part of College Place. Laurens Street belonged to a different grid. In 1788, the Bayard family, dividing their farm into blocks and lots for sale, laid down eight streets parallel to Broadway, numbered from east to west, plus seven cross streets. A few years later, the numbered streets were named, and by the turn of the century they were renamed again for Revolutionary War officers, including Henry Laurens (see map ). By

598-426: The two blocks of Chapel Street between Barclay and Murray Streets "College Place". A decade later Chapel Street was renamed "West Broadway" with the same purpose as that behind the renaming of East Broadway , to reduce the traffic congestion on Broadway itself, but both names were used for over twenty more years. An 1835 map calls Chapel Street "West Broadway" but an 1850 map calls it "Chapel Street". Around 1850,

624-527: The very beginning, the Taller was hosted in the offices of Emilio Bofill's firm in the Banco de Vizcaya building on Plaça de Catalunya 5, then moved to a temporary location on Calle de Calvet , then in 1965 to the new building designed by the Taller on Calle Nicaragua 99. It moved to La Fábrica in 1975. From 1971 the Taller shifted its focus to France, and worked on prominent projects in state-sponsored new urban centers ( villes nouvelles ). In 1991,

650-399: Was officially renamed South Fifth Avenue in an attempt to improve its image. The 1860 proposal to widen Laurens Street had accompanied a proposal to widen College Place and extend it southward to Greenwich Street. It was finally carried out in 1895, when Laurens Street and South Fifth Avenue were both made part of West Broadway. In 1967 the section of the street north of Houston Street

676-401: Was renamed "LaGuardia Place", after former mayor Fiorello La Guardia . It features LaGuardia Gardens, between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets, which includes a commissioned statue of the "Little Flower", as La Guardia was nicknamed. Sculpted by Neil Estern, with a pedestal designed by architect Ruth Shapiro, the bronze statue was dedicated in 1994, and was commissioned and donated to the city by

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