Prado Museum Expansion, Madrid, ES

We proposed a radical solution to this competition to create additional space for Madrid’s most important art museum. Whereas the competition asked entrants to attach a new space at the back of the main museum building, We connected the four buildings of the museum with an underground central spine of shared facilities, temporary galleries, retail spaces, cafes and entrance lobbies. Running beneath Calle de Felipe IV, this would include servicing and parking facilities, freeing up local streets from stationary cars and buses.