30 / 08 / 2019 - News
Alfonso Vegara interviewed at “Vanguardia” in “MundoPlus”
Alfonso Vegara was interviewed at “Vanguardia” in “MundoPlus” discussing intelligent cities and our Chile Diamond & Batuco projects. He also discussed his participation at the “Do! Smart City Santiago 2019” event in Santiago de Chile.
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29 / 08 / 2019 - News
Alfonso Vegara as the Key Note speaker at Do Smart Santiago 2019
Alfonso Vegara was the Key Note speaker at Do Smart Santiago 2019. The International Summit took place 27th August following the theme: The Power of the Cities. Metropoli shared the work on the vision […]
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31 / 07 / 2019 - News
Indonesia’s Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning & the Director of Spatial Planning visit the Ecobox
On July 29th, The Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning, Mr. Sofyan A. Djalil and the Director of Spatial Planning, Mr. Aria Indra Purnama visited the Ecobox, the Headquarter of Metropoli in Madrid. The […]
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19 / 07 / 2019 - News
Presentación del Diamante de Medellín en la Cumbre Mundial de Alcaldes
El Diamante de Medellín es un “Proyecto de Territorio” para definir una visión compartida del futuro de la Ciudad de Medellín y del Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá en relación con los ámbitos […]
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28 / 06 / 2019 - News
Findeter & Metropoli MOU to develop Colombian Diamond Project
We are excited to announce Findeter-Metropoli MOU to promote the development of strategic projects proposed in our Colombian Diamond project. Findeter is the Colombian Development Bank that offers integral solutions for the development of […]
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04 / 06 / 2019 - News
UN Habitat First General Assembly in Nairobi
Metropoli attended the UN Habitat First General Assembly in Nairobi on 27-31 May 2019. Executive Director Mrs Maimunah Mohd Sharif and UN Habitat team set the ground for a new generation of collaboration with private […]
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30 / 05 / 2019 - News
Senior Minister of Singapore Mr. Tharman visits the Ecobox
On May 23rd, the Senior Minister of Singapore Mr Tharman visited the Ecobox, the Headquarter of Fundación Metropoli in Madrid. The objective of this visit was to get to know first hand innovations strategies in […]
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22 / 05 / 2019 - News
Digital Enterprise Show
Metropoli participated in the panel “20th century cities, 21st century challenges. Shaping the urban life thanks to digital”. Manuel Gavaldón, of our Head of Business Development, was part of the panel where he exchanged our ideas and philosophy with […]
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10 / 05 / 2019 - News
Ecopark Smart City Initiative, Vietnam
Metropoli is honored to have signed a Strategic Partnership with Ecopark and Ecotek regarding Ecopark’s Smart City Initiative. Ecopark is currently one of the big players in pursuit of initiating and implementing a Smart City […]
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10 / 05 / 2019 - News
Santa Cruz Diamond
“Santa Cruz Diamond” projects the potentials of the Metropolitan Region. Metropoli presented the project to the Municipal Authorities and Departmental Government in Santa Cruz. It aims for a sustainable territorial development that will boost Santa […]
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09 / 04 / 2019 - News
Vietnam’s Inaugural Urban Planning Awards
Metropoli’s Founder & CEO Dr Alfonso Vegara participated in Vietnam’s inaugural Urban Planning Awards commissioned by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, who is leading the transformation of the country into an economic powerhouse. Dr […]
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05 / 04 / 2019 - News
Metropoli team visits East OCT in Shenzhen China
Alfonso Vegara visits East OCT in Shenzhen China with FM´s Senior International Advisor Alex Camprubi and Annie Jiang to discuss possibilities of development of OCT and it´s integration to YanTian District. The meeting was hosted […]
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01 / 04 / 2019 - News
Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2020
The Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize is a biennial international award that honours outstanding achievements and contributions to the creation of liveable, vibrant and sustainable urban communities around the world. We would like […]
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13 / 03 / 2019 - News
Fundación Metrópoli as an Endorsing Partner at the 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress
We are delighted to be an Endorsing Partner at the ISOCARP upcoming 55th Congress on megacities in Jakarta, September 9-13, 2019. 55th ISOCARP WORLD PLANNING CONGRESS With urbanization continuing at pace and a globalizing economy, metropolitan […]
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25 / 02 / 2019 - News
Alcobendas City Project by Metropoli, cited in “La Ciudad Demanda más Vivienda” La Razón Newspaper
“El Plan Maestro, con el que se pretende revitalizar la ciudad tomando como ejes el Distrito Centro y el Polígono Industrial, que son las áreas más necesitadas de reordenación». Este proyecto, diseñado por la Fundación […]
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25 / 02 / 2019 - News
UN-Habitat Visits Metropoli
Executive Director of UNHabitat Maimunah Mohd Sharif and Senior Strategic Officer Pacome Kossy visited Metropoli headquarter in Madrid, the Ecobox. Exciting to explore opportunities for collaboration in the realm of cities around the world.
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21 / 02 / 2019 - News
IE x 12 Resilient Cities: Alfonso Vegara, Singapore
As part of the commitment of IE School of Architecture and Design to the art of city-making, one city will be in the spotlight each month to understand how it is positively adapting and moving forward […]
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20 / 02 / 2019 - News
Alfonso Vegara visita el parque tecnológico Garaia
El pasado 8 de febrero, el fundador y presidente de honor de Fundación Metrópoli, Alfonso Vegara, visitó las instalaciones del parque tecnológico Garaia y la experiencia cooperativa de Mondragón. Esta visita se produjo en […]
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12 / 02 / 2019 - News
Official Launch of Al-Ula’s Vision
Pleasure to be part of the Official Launch of Al-Ula’s Vision, one of the world’s most ambitious preservation projects for the natural, historical and cultural heritage of Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia. By Invitation – HRH Prince […]
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20 / 12 / 2018 - News
Fundación Metrópoli Presents the Alcobendas City Project to the Community Council
Fundación Metrópoli has presented the main ideas and strategies of the Alcobendas City Project to the Community Council of the city of Alcobendas. The project provides an opportunity for designing the future of Alcobendas in […]
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05 / 12 / 2018 - News
Honored of being selected for the Alcobendas City Project
We are very pleased to share that following a competition process Alcobendas awarded the “City Project” to Fundación Metropoli. Our project sets the strategic actions that will transform and connect the Centre and Business Areas of […]
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27 / 09 / 2018 - News
Chilean Minister of Housing & Urbanism visits Fundación Metropoli
We had the pleasure of receiving today the Chilean Minister of Housing & Urbanism and his team. The relationship between the Ministry of Housing & Urbanism and Fundación Metropoli aims to create competitive advantages for […]
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06 / 09 / 2018 - News
The 9th ASEAN Connectivity Symposium
“Towards Effective Implementation of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025” Singapore lead the Symposium for the ASEAN integration Strategy on 6 September 2018. Fundación Metrópoli presented in “Connecting the Cities in ASEAN”, sharing our […]
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03 / 09 / 2018 - News
VIETNAM Ministry of Construction Delegation visit our headquarters in Madrid
It was a pleasure hosting the VIETNAM Ministry of Construction Delegation at the Ecobox, our headquarters in Madrid, on Friday 31st of August. Participants included the following: Deputy Minister of Construction – Bà Phan Thị Mỹ […]
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10 / 07 / 2018 - News
Fundacion Metropoli’s Book Launch in Beijing
By Alex Camprubi Last June 3 Fundacion Metropoli launched at the Instituto Cervantes of Beijing the Chinese edition of the “Territorios Inteligentes” book. The heritage of Territorios Inteligentes in this Chinese edition comes in the middle of an […]
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09 / 06 / 2018 - News
Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of UN-Habitat visits the headquarters of Fundacion Metropoli
Dr. Alfonso Vegara and other profesionals of Fundacion Metropoli met last Saturday 9 of June, at the Ecobox, headquarters of the Foundation, with Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of UN-Habitat. During the meeting numerous topics […]
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18 / 05 / 2018 - News
XII EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING AWARDS
AIRPORTS, CITIES AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 18 May 2018, at the Maison de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable de Paris-Charles de Gaulle. Celebration Ceremony of the The XIIth European Urban and Regional Planning Awards and ECTP-CEU […]
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03 / 05 / 2018 - News
Culture in Sustainable Urbanism Workshop
Metropoli Ecosystems has been part of the workshop “Culture in Sustainable Urbanism” organized by UN-Habitat and Think City. The event was held at Khazanah Nasional’s office in the Shard, London on Monday 30th April. […]
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26 / 04 / 2018 - News
AA Streetware Book Launch
As a Knowledge Partner of AA Streetware Southeast Asia we would like to invite you to the Book Launch at the Architectural Association London Bookshop. “These books present three years of design research developed […]
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21 / 03 / 2018 - News
Seoul, South Korea conferred Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2018
Seoul, the capital city of South Korea, has clinched the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2018. Through a combination of visionary leadership and active engagement of its citizens, Seoul has flourished to become an […]
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