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BIG’s Macondo Park Opens as a Temporary Cultural Landscape for Shakira’s Madrid Residency

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Following the opening weekend of Shakira's Madrid residency, Macondo Park has officially opened at the Iberdrola Music venue in Villaverde, Madrid. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in collaboration with Komodo and Vampire, the 185,000-square-meter temporary destination surrounds the venue designed by BIG for Shakira's concerts, extending the venue with a series of cultural and public spaces inspired by the fictional town of Macondo from Gab…

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In Madrid, Shakira is opening a theme park and an earthly paradise dedicated to Latina culture. And of course to Shakira herself, who her thirty-year-old...

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Macondo Park forms a central square with 12 pavilions, connected by colored walkways. The constructions were assembled in ten days, and after the concerts they will be dismantled and used again. Inspired by a fictional city...

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Madrid has become the world’s epicenter of Ibero-American culture. For four consecutive weekends, the Spanish capital hosts the most ambitious artistic residence in the recent history of live music: 12 historic concerts by Colombian superstar Shakira, integrated into the final stretch of her tour Women no longer mourn World Tour. However, the real phenomenon does not occur only when the 55,000 people per night fall over Shakira Stadium — the inf…

After the opening weekend of Shakira's show season in Madrid, Macondo Park was officially inaugurated in the Iberdrola Music space in Villaverde, Madrid. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in collaboration with Komodo and Vampire, the temporary destination of 185,000 square meters involves the arena designed by the BIG for Shakira's shows, expanding the site with a series of public and cultural spaces inspired by Macondo's fictional city, fro…

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ArchDaily broke the news in Santiago, Chile on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
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