Sacyr's Blog

Ghost cities, abandoned airports and theme parks. Large wasteful megaprojects share common mistakes, from bad planning to poor cost estimation, problematic execution and other external factors.

With its imposing figure and prime location, the Cristo Rey (Christ the King) monument in Cali, Colombia, inevitably brings to mind other colossal monuments such as Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro or the Virgin of Peace in Venezuela. We look at how it was built and what secrets this symbol of peace conceals.

Spiders build their webs out of their own bodies. Louise Bourgeois did the same with her sculptures. We look at how this French-American woman became an influential figure in contemporary art.V

The architect Rem Koolhaas no longer sees New York as a physical reality, but as the epicentre of certain values that no longer resonate with him. There was a time when he fought against the idea of this great city as a lost cause. He put his reflections into an iconic book: ‘Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan’.