Alfonso Vegara interviewed at “Vanguardia” in “MundoPlus”

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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Alfonso Vegara as the Key Note speaker at Do Smart Santiago 2019

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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Indonesia’s Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning & the Director of  Spatial Planning visit the Ecobox

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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Presentación del Diamante de Medellín en la Cumbre Mundial de Alcaldes

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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Findeter & Metropoli MOU to develop Colombian Diamond Project

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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UN Habitat First General Assembly in Nairobi

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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Senior Minister of Singapore Mr. Tharman visits the Ecobox

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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Digital Enterprise Show

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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Ecopark Smart City Initiative, Vietnam

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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Santa Cruz Diamond

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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Vietnam’s Inaugural Urban Planning Awards

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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Metropoli team visits East OCT in Shenzhen China

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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Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2020

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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Fundación Metrópoli as an Endorsing Partner at the 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress

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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Alcobendas City Project by Metropoli, cited in “La Ciudad Demanda más Vivienda” La Razón Newspaper

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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UN-Habitat Visits Metropoli

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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IE x 12 Resilient Cities: Alfonso Vegara, Singapore

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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Alfonso Vegara visita el parque tecnológico Garaia

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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Official Launch of Al-Ula’s Vision

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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Fundación Metrópoli Presents the Alcobendas City Project to the Community Council

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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Honored of being selected for the Alcobendas City Project

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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Chilean Minister of Housing & Urbanism visits Fundación Metropoli

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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The 9th ASEAN Connectivity Symposium

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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VIETNAM Ministry of Construction Delegation visit our headquarters in Madrid 

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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Fundacion Metropoli’s Book Launch in Beijing

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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Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of UN-Habitat visits the headquarters of Fundacion Metropoli

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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XII EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING AWARDS

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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Culture in Sustainable Urbanism Workshop

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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AA Streetware Book Launch

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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Seoul, South Korea conferred Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2018

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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