READ MORE editorial www.acciona.com We have transformed an industrial warehouse into our ideal vision of a corporate complex for the future W editorial hen Joan Miró encountered criticism of the seemingly childish simplicity of his paint-ings, he would say that learning how to paint like a child had taken him his whole life. Similarly, the art of engineering con-sists of finding the simplest solutions to the most complex problems. That same purity of form and concept is perhaps the most outwardly apparent trait of an iconic project designed for ACCIONA, and, we believe, for all of Madrid: Ombú. It would be easy to get swept up in its esthetic charisma, falling under the spell of its inspirational architecture, land-scaping, and workplace environment. It was designed for that purpose. Even more important, however, is its deeper rationale, editorial the underlying proposition made manifest in its form. We have trans-formed an industrial warehouse into our ideal vision of a corporate complex for the future. Ombú is the embodiment of ACCIONA’s overar-ching goal: regeneration, making a positive contribution to the revival of degraded social and natural ecosystems. Construction, energy, property development, water, infrastructure, innovation... All of our areas of expertise come together in a building with highly respected sustainable architecture certifications. A build-ing that minimizes emissions, consumption, and waste. A building that opens its naturescape to local communities, whose model of heritage restoration and urban development humanizes the city. A building that achieved all this under the guidance of Norman Foster, a master of sen-sitive architecture. Any project with these distinctions is a good neighbor to have. That’s the same way that McIntyre, the biggest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere, is viewed by the Australian graziers who lease the compa-ny the lands it will be built on. A good neighbor is our scientific man-agement of urban forests, which will help plant one million trees in five years, and ensure that they thrive. Another good neighbor is the infrastructure funded and managed by our most cross-cutting business, Concessions, which seeks simple yet sophisticated solutions to design that neighborhood to be sustainable not just today or tomorrow, but for decades to come.