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		Arquitectura Viva	30/07/2012
		Arquitectura Viva published last week a serie of the latest pictures from The Reader's House on their website.
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		IN PROCESS_THE CLOUD	24/05/2012
		The Cloud is a dense space built with a very light material, it is 98% air. The material, expanded polystyrene, is assembled in a massive way ensuring optimal mechanical performance, and is protected with a layer of resin that completes the construction system providing what the foam does not have: stability, durability and color. The lightness of this technology makes movable what would otherwise be immovable.
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		"En-caja"	13/12/2011
		"En-Caja" is a collective exhibition that studies a cube of 20 x 20 x 20 cm, without two of its faces, and divided in two parts. Antón García-Abril has participated in this project among a group of painters, sculptors, architects, designers and photographers who have intervened in order to make a creative work around this cube. This exhibition also celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Gallery.
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		BAC students in Hemeroscopium	08/08/2011
		Some students from the Boston Architectural College have visited Spain this summer. During their trip, they had the chance to visit the Hemeroscopium House: “This project gets to the very essence of what architecture means: a gravity-defying composition of abstract elements, suspended impossibly overhead, deftly framing space with a fine eye for proportion, detail and experience of the inhabitant”. Read their impression here.
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		Visitors at the Reader's House	13/04/2011
		The building site of the Reader’s House in Madrid’s Old Slaughterhouse is about to become a mediatheque where creative processes and artistic training will be developed in an environment of arts and education. This project, whose competition was won by Ensamble Studio in 2006, has sparked an enormous curiosity in many people. Today, Felipe Samarán and his students of Universidad Francisco de Vitoria will visit the construction site and will be guided...
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		Ensamble Studio in 'Monitor'	15/02/2011
		The Russian magazine ‘Monitor’ has interviewed Antón García-Abril, Ensamble Studio’s founder. He explains that Ensamble is “a team in search for architectural application of conceptual and structural experiments”, and shows their way of working, through an analysis of their most recent works, like the Reader’s House or the Cervantes Theatre, which are currently under construction. Read the interview inside.
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		Ensamble Studio by N2C	16/11/2010
		Neo2City interviewed Antón García-Abril in his office in downtown Madrid, Ensamble Studio. García-Abril talked about their ongoing projects (Cervantes Theater) and explained how he and his team work, highlighting the importance of the concrete in their works, both precast (Hemeroscopium House, Berklee Tower, Reader's House) and mass (the Truffle).
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		Hemeroscopium House in 'The New York Times'	11/11/2010
		The real-estate section of the newspaper 'The New York Times' offers today a large article on the House Hemeroscopium and focuses on how the architect of this work, Antón García-Abril, built the house from three giant concret I-beams, two concret segments of an irrigation canal and two steel girders, all anchored by a 20-ton granite slab.
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		Balancing Act	06/09/2010
		Balancing Act is a play of balance. Two structural lines in the longitudinal space of the Arsenale buildings, which operate as a reagent to modify the original space. The interference caused by generating a diagonal incision, cuts on the bias the previous line marked by the old structure.
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		First bridge at Reader's House	21/07/2010
		Today, the first of the eleven bridges that would be part of the Reader's House, work by Antón García-Abril & Ensamble Studio at Matadero in Madrid, has been installed. The placing of the bridge and the following ones has been possible thanks to a pneumatic system placed over railways that would introduce the 24 meter and 53 Tn beam through the existing holes in the building, where it was rested and placed in its proper position.
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		Truffle building starts	29/07/2009
		Ensamble Studio finds a truffle!!! The black truffle, about 400 tons weigh, will be unearthed in the coming weeks. We will keep you informed of updates to this discovery.
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		Reader's House building starts	29/06/2009
		Working begins on the International Centre for Research, Development and Innovation of Reading: 'Reader's House'. The project, located at the Center for Contemporary Creation 'Matadero Madrid', is the result of a contest which Ensamble Studio won in 2006. Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation, which sponsored the project, has assembled a multidisciplinary team to work together in the shaping of the International Centre, among which are Ensamble...
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