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Madrid will soon have a new ConVENTION Centre

The project by architects Tuñón and Mansilla is a large rising sun that emerges among the four new skyscrapers on the Paseo de la Castellana

The future International Convention Centre, which will be located in the new financial and business area  in the north of Madrid, will spread out over 70,000 m², will have a 15,000 m² exhibition area and will be located inside a 62,000 m² urban park. The project will provide Madrid with the largest and most avant-garde convention centre in Spain.

The site of the former Real Madrid Sport City now accommodates the four tallest skyscrapers in the city: Torre Espacio, Torre Sacyr -both completed and standing at 236 meters tall-, Torre Cristal (Mutua) and Repsol Tower -the two latter are still under construction and will tower 250 metres above the city. They will compose Madrid's new skyline and will be "illuminated" by the new Madrid Convention Centre, an ambitious project with which architects Tuñón and Mansilla won the call for ideas that sought designs for this new infrastructure that hopes to strengthen and encourage business tourism in Madrid.

The project entitled "Madrid, donde no se pone el sol" ("Madrid, where the sun never sets") was designed by a team of architects formed by Emilio Tuñón, Luis Moreno Mansilla and Matilde Peralta del Amo, who propose a large bright structure with different floors and a circular layout, which is oriented towards the East and the West, where the sun rises and sets. According to the authors, it's a "rising sun, halted by the optimism of knowing that Madrid is a city that lives, works and has fun at all hours of the day and night, a city where the sun never sets." Its symbolism and representative aspect made the jury select this project from among the 135 proposals from the first stage and the six that made it through to the final stage. Precisely the day that the winner was selected, the architects were receiving the prestigious 2007 Mies Van der Rohe award that recognised their work on the venue they had designed for the Castilla y León Contemporary Art Museum (Musac).

Madrid is a leading city when it comes to staging trade fairs and conferences. Given its know-how and experience, as well as its competitive costs, every year 4,000 conventions and meetings are staged in the city attracting over 700,000 visitors. This capacity will be increased with the city's third Convention Centre which will add the seating space of its auditoriums and halls to those in the Municipal Conference Centre in the Campo de las Naciones and the Convention Centre in the Paseo de la Castellana, as well as the Ifema Convention Centre and the different venues that are located around the city and stage this type of events.  

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