Aaand...after Sofía Reina and lunch we walked several blocks to the Caixa Forum building. It looks like it's floating and next door, there's a building with a beautiful garden growing up the side. I had read about such vertical gardens years ago so I was very excited to see it. In the peak of the Madrid heat I could feel the cool air coming off of the garden.
We saw a very interesting exhibit of Russian revolution-era architecture inside the Caixa Forum. The whole building was just too cool! August says the building is "psycho." Spencer says the building was as interesting as the art within.
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| Side-view, vertical garden. I want one on the front of my house, but it would just bake! |
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| Water feeding the vertical garden drains into a small rock-lined trench beneath it. |
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| Caixa Forum on left. |
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| Auditorium in the Caixa Forum. |
That vertical garden is amazing!!!
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