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Structure: Celosia Housing
Location: Sanchinarro, Madrid, Spain
Completion: 2009
Architect: MVRDV
Co-architects: Blanca Lleó asociados, Madrid, Spain
Structural Engineer: Estudio José Luis de Miguel, Madrid ES
Technical architect: Apartec Colegiados S.L. Madrid ES; Enrique Gil
Constructor: BEGAR, Madrid ES

AEInterest: Six-story-high blocks; blocks of houses seen as separate prefabricated figures; blocks positioned in checkerboard pattern leaving openings for gardens in between.