Rafael Moneo has done something very odd, even unorthodox, to the Prado, Madrid’s world-renowned city-centre art gallery. He has spent the past five years directing the construction of a major new extension to the vast neoclassical building, designed by Juan de Villanueva in the 18th century. Flying in the face of 21st-century orthodoxy, he has avoided the temptation to design an “iconic” (in other words, showy) gallery that might have rivalled Frank Gehry’s phantasmagorical Bilbao Guggenheim; or, closer to home, the prismatic sensationalism of the planned extension to London’s Tate Modern, promised by Herzog + de Meuron.

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