Landscape & Urban Design Issue 29 2018 | Page 25

associated with these and large urban infrastructures. It is the most important project executed in Madrid over the last few decades and probably one of the most ambitious projects carried out in Europe in recent times. This is perhaps the first project following a new approach of integrating large infrastructures and the built fabric of cities with the natural environment that surrounds them, producing a place in which the landscape, the city, the architecture and the urban infrastructures combine to create greater environmental biodiversity and a city that is greener and more habitable and sustainable. The project was highly complex and to solve the issues it was vital to use solutions that almost reached the limit of what is technically possible. Landscape & Urban Design 25