Campus de la Justicia, Madrid - Contemporary or Futuristic?

MADRID CIVIL COURTS OF JUSTICE, Spain 2007
PROGRAM: Courts of Law.
CLIENT: Campus de la Justicia de Madrid
ARCHITECT: Zaha Hadid Architects
Design Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect Juan Ignacio Aranguren
Competition Team: Andrés Arias Madrid, Jimena Araiza Olivera Toro, Brian Dale, Amit
Gupta, Ho-ping Hsia, Sara Sheikh Akbari, Tomas Rabl, Paulo E.
Flores.
SIZE: 74,448 sqm: 49,033 overground / 25,415 underground

"ARCHITECTURAL PROPOSAL
The formal language and architectural articulation of the design aims to break the static configuration of the surrounding buildings. The design’s soft and dynamic tectonic turns it into an immediate reference for the masterplan, without the need to exhaust maximum building heights.

By way of horizontal shifts of its mass, a sense of elasticity is introduced into the design allowing the building to be grounded at its elevation to the masterplan campus. This elasticity draws visitors into its interior, and permits the building to ‘float ‘above the ground plain."

Very nice building!