'JC36' is a 5-storey, L-shaped office building, allowing for 1 or 2 tenants per floor, articulated around a central elevator lobby, technical and bathroom spaces and orientated towards the interior garden its implantation configures. It is a compact block, poised on a base that is open towards the street and interior garden and opaque around the elevator lobby and entrance. The building’s north curtain wall façade facing the main street is folded inwards at its equator, creating a play of lines and reflections and giving a new rhythm to the street. The demolition phase was completed at the beginning of the year and the site will be fully prepared for construction by mid-June 2010. The project will be seeking a BREEAM sustainability classification of ´very good´.

The project is currently in the commercial design stage, wherin the proposed architecture is being aligned to suti the specific needs of each of the building's future tenants.

We can but offer our sincerest wishes for a timely and sustainable resolution to the country´s internal conflicts. We hope that one day works can resume on this notable infrastructure, conceived as a vehicle of progress and education while serving as a model of modern, responsible edification.

This rehabilitation project for Mutua Madrileña´s iconic office building on the Paseo de Castellana in Madrid is to include a total interior redesign as well as significant changes to the façade- IAD's design team is currently working on a number of impacting proposals. The project´s first phase was completed in October 2009, transforming the entrance hall and the building´s common areas. The principal concept for the interior design was the communication of clean functional planning through the use of contrasts.