According to Wallpaper*, the building on Cuesta de San Vicente in Madrid used to be a print shop where the magazine Semana was printed, and then stood abandoned for about forty years. The street runs down from Plaza de España toward the river, and somewhere nearby once stood the Quinta del Sordo, Goya's house, where he painted the Black Paintings.
Now it houses SOLO CSV, the second venue of the collection of Ana Hervás and David Cantolla, co-founder of the animated series Pocoyó. The center opened in June 2025. estudioHerreros reworked the building. The old concrete frame was covered entirely in white plaster, and everything new was assembled on site by carpenters and metalworkers, with no wet trades.
Juan Herreros wanted every space to be an interior for one person and an exterior for another. A shared passage runs through both floors, narrow like a corridor in places and wide like a street in others. The rooms along it only seem to connect directly; in practice that is not always the case. Downstairs, in the basement, there is a museum: a dark hall with the massive columns of the old frame. A glass greenhouse on a metal frame was set inside the former workshop.
Along the passage there are small "cabinets," each with its own function: food trucks, micro-galleries, a cinema-studio, a documentary film archive, a library, a vinyl collection, a kiosk, a club. They were built by hand, and the project description specifically says the craftsmen understood how fragile the future of their trade is.
The first SOLO venue, near the Puerta de Alcalá, was also designed by Herreros. There is some confusion about the print shop on Cuesta de San Vicente: the old Rivadeneyra plant, where Semana and the newspaper As were published, is listed at No. 28, while SOLO CSV is at No. 36. The complex at No. 28 was bought by a Dutch group for a The Social Hub hotel.
