MADRID HIGH RISE TO HOUSE VERTICAL CAMPUS
MADRID HIGH RISE TO HOUSE VERTICAL CAMPUS
A tower planned in Madrid will be home to the first vertical university campus in Spain, and will also house a medical center, GQ reports. Caleido, as the high rise is known, will become a fifth tower in the city's Cuatro Torres area. Architect Mark Fenwick told the source that Caleido will stand 181 m, and will include retail shops, cinemas and spaces devoted to esports. Caleido is being designed as an inverted "T," with the bottom four floors for the medical center, retail and part of the campus. A tower atop this podium will rise another 34 floors and be home to the Instituto de Empresa. It will have a gym, a swimming pool, classrooms, a library and other facilities. It will accommodate 6,000 students and more than 500 faculty and staff members.
INDIA RAIL STATION MISHAP ACCELERATES UPGRADE PLANS
A May 8 incident in which an escalator at the Dum Dum Metro Railway station suddenly reversed, causing several injuries, has prompted Metro officials to accelerate a plan to replace creaking equipment over the next 18 months, The Telegraph India reports. Metro Railway has invited bids for four new escalators at Dum Dum station, including the one that had abruptly reversed, and 11 more escalators are to be replaced at Rabindra Sadan, Rabindra Sarobar, Belgachia, Chandni Chowk, Esplanade and Netaji Bhavan stations. The 24 stations on the north-south route have 78 escalators, of which at least 25 have exceeded their lifespan of two decades. thyssenkrupp holds maintenance contracts for more than 50 of the units, while Johnson and Schindler are responsible for keeping the rest in shape. Almost half the 30 Otis escalators are more than two decades old.
CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY ON MISSISSAUGA SQUARE
Construction is underway at the site of Mississauga Square, a residential high rise in Mississauga, Canada, Urban Toronto reports. The 33-story, Turner Fleischer Architects-designed condominium and townhome project being developed by Plaza will bring 392 one- to three-bedroom units, sized from 457 sq. ft. to 2,090 sq. ft., and priced between CAD315,000 (US$242,000) and CAD900,000 (US$692,000) to Hurontario Street in the Toronto suburb. Crews onsite have begun work on an earth retention system to support safe excavation for the tower's underground garage. Mississauga Square is one of several projects on the city’s main north-south corridor that will benefit from an upcoming Metrolinx Light Rail Transit project.
