The Architect · Ana · Madrid
The Salamanca grid
I walk this grid for the doorways. The portales — the entrance halls — are tiny museums of stone, glass and brass.
The 1860s 'expansion' grid — wide straight streets, grand bourgeois apartment blocks, ironwork balconies, doorways with mirrored vestibules. The Madrid of order and money.
— Ana, The Architect
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