CaixaForum Madrid it is a modern art gallery and museum constructed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The building combines walls from an old and abandoned power station that previously occupied the site, and a new construction of floors which are encased with oxidized cast-iron. Just opposite to it is an art installation of green plants growing on the wall of the neighboring building.
CaixaForum includes galleries, administrative offices and a restaurant in the upper levels, as well as an auditorium below ground level. Is conceived as an urban magnet for art-lovers and all people of Madrid and from outside. The attraction is not only its cultural program, but also the building itself that seems to desobey the gravity law.
