Less than ten kilometers from the center of Barcelona, Badalona was one of the region’s main industrial hubs, with an urban fabric in which factory buildings and workers’ housing always coexisted. Since the end of the 20th century, Badalona has been
Like a small city, the Dar Al Marefa school in Dubai spreads out in modular volumes set between streets and squares, encouraging discovery and learning. Using standardized components, the project of the Catalonian firm RCR – Rafael Aranda, Carme Pige
As a result of the close collaboration between the architects and the owners – the Suqué-Mateu family –, the project to build the new winery, by fields of vineyards and a country estate, started to take shape a decade ago. The relationship with the l
A Madrid business school has expanded its facilities with the construction of new teaching spaces that together have the effect of consolidating the entire campus around a pine grove. A stone vault built with 777 pieces parameterized and fitted toget
A small space for prayer rises amid hundred-year-old oak trees and becomes a visual reference in the expansive Manchegan landscape where a large rural estate is located. Situated not far from the new residence of its owners, the chapel is the result
This building, with its striking white facade looking seaward, is conceived as a continuation of the long, extensive walls of the old ‘maritime’ cemetery of Cádiz. The project works on the full volume, which mends the urban fabric within the limits m
A result of the international call for ideas convened by Bocconi University to extend its facilities in Milan, the project for the new campus sits on grounds located south of the current university campus, between a park and the urban environment clo
The proximity of a highway, though slightly burrowed, conditions the project from the beginning. An acoustic cushion formed by an earth mound materializes the first part of the project, becoming a forest of pine trees that emulates others in the area
gh On the coast of Adeje, south of Tenerife, in a touristic site currently under development and marked by the presence of the sea and the nearby mountains, stands the new Congress and Exhibition Center, baptized Magma The project emerges from the
The project reuses a water deposit of the old CEPSA refinery and transforms it into a cultural space that preserves the industrial spirit and heritage of the area. As the immediate environment develops, The Tank Cultural Center takes the stage and wi
Situated opposite a water tank, this site closes the corner of the block with a slatted envelope which remembers the typical bay windows of the ensanche. The top flat is set back, hidden behind its warm skin. Close to the bullring
Located on the banks of Aveyron River as it goes by Nègrepelisse, a small rural community in the French Midi-Pyrénées region, La Cuisine Art Center is a cultural space devoted to culinary art, understood as an integral activity linked to the territor
The museum devoted to Pierre Soulages – artist born in 1919, one of the fathers of informalism in France – rises in a park of his hometown, Rodez, very close to the great Gothic cathedral that lords over the urban fabric. The location determines the
Located outside Hofheide, a municipality in the northeast of Brussels, the crematorium goes up on a marshy basin that stresses the horizontality of the landscape. The main building, surrounded by a lake, is framed within a perimetral promenade that a
The studio of RCR Arquitectes in Olot, Gerona, has been under transformation over more than one decade. In 2004 the architects bought the old Barberí foundry building, then in ruins, with the objective of transforming it gradually into a workspace th
Sobre el emplazamiento de una vieja mina a cielo abierto en Lens, SANAA ha construido una nueva filial para el Louvre, tan atmosférica y lírica como precisa y funcional.
Opening on to a garden, life in this residence is freely distributed through a series of platforms which appropriate the void left by the walls and the roof of an old construction.
Located opposite the main axis of Avenida da Boavista and just a few meters from the Quinta da Avenida semi-detached housing complex – also by Souto de Moura –, this commercial and office building is conceived as a large plinth on which a series of i
Designed as a tribute to the work of the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, the most famous and long-lived among Portuguese directors, the Casa do Cinema is a small reinforced concrete construction of two levels, resembling a film camera the two large len
Located between the Duero River and the Atlantic Ocean, the Porto neighborhood where this residential block goes up corresponds to the area where the city grew beyond the medieval walls throughout the 18th century. The urban fabric in this zone is de
The origins of the monastery of Santa Maria do Bouro, located some ten kilometers north of Braga, are dark and surrounded by legends as those of many other medieval monasteries. Apparently, already in 1162 and on this site on the left of the Cavado R
Como organismo público responsable del Puerto de El Musel, la sede cuenta con una planta baja para usos representativos y otra superior para servicios administrativos. El acceso habitual se hace por el garaje, por lo que éste recibe tratamiento de en
Un cuerpo prismático de dos plantas para oficinas se apoya sobre dos volúmenes; uno de ellos avanza hacia el mar y alberga el salón de actos y la cafetería, el otro, destinado a archivo y garaje, ancla el conjunto al terreno. El muro cortina que envu
With a double program that includes a police station and the Civil Defense premises, the building should be, due to its social role, a representative rather than impositive volume, and is set forth since the competition as a pavilion with a horizonta
On view through 15 August at Museu de la Garrotxa in Olot (Girona) are 48 black-and-white photographs taken by Hisao Suzuki (Yamagata, Japan, 1957), considered one of the best photographers of contemporary architecture of the past 30 years. The exhib
I. A light volume of metal panels supported by thin columns rises in the middle of a dense forest facing the sea, allowing large pine trees to pass through the structure and continue to grow, in an unusual inversion of the image of the cabin suspende
El día 29 de febrero, una semana después del fallecimiento de Luis Moreno Mansilla, y a los pocos días de la desaparición de Manuel de Solà-Morales, falleció en Santa Cruz de Tenerife, la misma ciudad en la que había nacido en 1952, el arquitecto Jos
Una pila de cajas de vidrio de diferentes alturas, rodeadas de cerchas trianguladas de acero, define la ampliación proyectada por el arquitecto suizo Christian Kerez para un complejo escolar en Leutschenbach, a las afueras de Zúrich. El proyecto trat
El antiguo Colegio Convento de Dominicos de Santo Tomás, que forma parte del conjunto monumental de Alcalá de Henares, alberga el nuevo Parador de Turismo de la ciudad complutense, tras una profunda rehabilitación y ampliación llevada a cabo por el
Located on top of the Girtannersberg, a hill overlooking the Swiss town of St. Gallen, the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences is among the most significant examples of the architecture of the sixties in the country. The exposed concrete constru
A lo largo del siglo XX, el vidrio se ha ido convirtiendo en un elemento más y más activo de la arquitectura. Se han buscado soluciones para dotarlo de unas cualidades físicas que lo adaptaran a las exigencias arquitectónicas, entre las cuales los tr
The sevillians Cruz & Ortiz quote Nabokov with obsessive frequency. I have only seen such fervor for the Russian writer in Ángel Díaz, an architect given to reciting whole paragraphs from his works in the dawns of Seville, and in my uncle Manuel Fern
Just as the annals of twentieth-century architecture began drawing to their close, a thrilling and largely unexpected denouement was provided by Frank Gehry. The completion of his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao of 1991-1997 in the Basque country’s largest
In Henry R. Luce’s hortatory 1941 editorial “The American Century,” which appeared in his Life magazine a few months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into World War II, the publisher urged his countrymen to abandon th
Older than 25 and younger than 35 years of age, Spain has a full and promising starting line-up, composed of both individuals and collectives that participate in numerous leagues and will appear, more and more often, in European competitions. In a pa
While I am aware that architectural education may need restructuring in order to bring it into line with the societal needs of the next century, I feel that in the case of the ETSAM a certain discretion is in order. The record of the Madrid school ha
The most influential teacher for Wiel Arets (1955) was the Belgian Geert Bekaert, who taught architectural history and theory at Eindhoven and from whose classes Arets remembers always leaving with a new book to read. He also quotes travels and conve
The new headquarters of a broadcasting station illustrates the popularity of the fold among an artistic avant-garde that exchanges Derrida for Deleuze.
La estrecha coordinación entre las partes implicadas en la construcción y le recurso a métodos de diseño muy avanzados han permitido materializar la compleja geometría del museo bilbaíno.
With the seventies arrived a profound crisis, which in Spain proved to be not only economic but also political, coinciding with the transition between regimes. The crisis provoked many dismissals, and one of the least necessary and perhaps least just
No existen fronteras de escala para el talento plástico de este creador polifónico, que ha obtenido, a los 42 años, un reconocimiento internacional poco común.
