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MVRDV's central idea for the Mirador was simple and radical in equal measure: take the closed courtyard block that fills the surrounding streets of Sanchinarro and tip it on its side, turning the inward-facing patio into a sky-high lookout open to the Madrid skyline. What makes the building legible as architecture — rather than just a large residential slab — is the way its nine mini-neighborhoods announce themselves as distinct entities, each clad in a different material and color. Here all of them are visible at once: the grey ribbed concrete of the upper block cantilevering out over the void, the clean white panels of the tower below, the charcoal dark block at lower right, and a flash of red at the base. Against a saturated cobalt sky, the building reads exactly as MVRDV intended: not as a single monolithic gesture, but as a small city, stacked.
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