The assignment was to create an altarpiece for a recently restored Madrid basilica. It was decided that the centerpiece would be the Tabernacle, in the presence of Jesus in the Sacrament, and that it would be suspended in a cloud of light – expressin
The amphitheatre of the ancient Roman city of Obulco, located in the small municipality of Porcuna in Jaén, was discovered during preventive work on a peripheral site. The work revealed an imposing masonry structure corresponding to the south façade
The new library presented by the team led by Alberto Campo Baeza is the most distinctive and emblematic element of the French Lycée extension. The result of a widely publicized international competition held in 2018, the brief’s main goal was to plan
The new library is the most distinctive part of the French Lycée expansion project, the outcome of an international competition held in 2018. The main objective was an orderly, unified complex, as well as economy of means in terms of form, materials
The second Forêt Monumentale is being held in the Roumare woods, in the French region of Normandy. It is an open-air artistic promenade, featuring thirteen monumental installations in dialogue with the landscape. Prominent among them is Compluvium, a
The Mumbai-based firm Spasm – founded by Sangeeta Merchant and Sanjeev Panjabi – was commissioned to build this house amidst a coconut grove in Nandgaon, a town in the Murud region. In Urdu, one of India’s more than twenty official languages, parikra
The new public library in the Butarque neighborhood of Madrid’s Villaverde district satisfies an old demand of the community, being the first library to be built by the Madrid City Council in this area. The design revolves around the idea of creating
The Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) invited the practice of Alberto Campo Baeza to take part in a competition to build a school in Armavir, very close to Mount Ararat. Having won the bid, the firm was assigned the task of designing a nursery at the e
The Waldorf School in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, was thought out as a small village for children nestled within the woods. With organic shapes to fit in with the natural environment, the buildings had to be constructed quickly and cost-efficiently
The project ‘Pool with a House’ is situated on a hillside in Altos de la Zubia, a suburban development with views of the city of Granada. Juan Antonio Serrano and Paloma Baquero break away from the typical relationship between a house and its swimmin
The apartments are grouped in two slender bays, separated transversally and disaligned longitudinally to form accessways to the units. These corridors are hollowed out in crossing double heights, giving an impression of weightlessness. They are clad
Declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 2014, the La Calderona cistern in Porcuna (Jaén) was a water tank of the Roman city of Obulco, believed to have been connected to a hydraulic infrastructure of the municipium, possibly public thermal baths. Dur
In the Teatinos-Universidad district of the city of Málaga stands the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, a work of LLPS Arquitectos (Eduardo Pérez Gómez and Miguel Ángel Sánchez). The complex – with a built area of 31,639 square meters – is br
When Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Teresa of Jesus, reached Beas de Segura and founded one of her “dovecots of the Virgin” with which she would reform the Carmelite order, this town of Jaén already had a community of nuns: the Poor Clares whose
When in 1964 Bernard Rudofsky filled the MoMA galleries with ‘Architecture Without Architects,’ among cave houses of Cappadocia and adobe huts of Mali he included two photographs of Mojácar taken by José Ortiz Echagüe, with a short text in which he b
The Robert Olnick Pavilion, designed by the architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo, is an extension of the museum Magazzino Italiam Art, in Cold Spring (New York). Arranged perpendicularly to the existing building, separated from it, the
As part of the first TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, this temporary pavilion made of sackcloth rises inside a scaffolding on the Plaza del Humilladero in Granada. P+S estudio de arquitectura (Francisco Javier Parada and Laura R. Salvador) built an
The government Building is located at the Teatinos campus, west of the city of Málaga. It hosts the presidency of the University among several other services, which were scattered through the city until now. The project also includes an additional 80
Two interventions shape new urban spaces in two Panamanian cities. Firstly, the ‘Corredor Urbano’ (urban highway) threatened to isolate the more modest districts of the city of Colón, so the project occupies the leftover sites around the intersection
Heaven on Earth. That is how I have more than once described my intention when designing the houses I have built, every single one of them. This is the latest. All the more reason to make it a piece of Heaven on Earth. In Venice. It is an honor for a
The site is a sloping plot with a far view of a landscape that is none other than Madrid’s western mountain range. It seemed logical to build a vertical house with the more public or shared spaces on top, framing stunning views to enjoy. An eye over
The brief was to build a house on a hilltop outside the city of Toledo. The hill faces southwest and offers views of the distant horizon, reaching the Gredos Mountains to the northeast. The 60x40-meter site has a 10-meter drop. At the highest point w
The project ‘Between Cathedrals’ sought to carry out an intervention worthy of the most significant location in the history of Cadiz, the oldest city of the West: the empty space between the Old and New Cathedrals, facing the sea. The objectives were
On a hill north of Madrid, with the sierra as backdrop in the distance, a house for Ana. Once again, we try to build the loveliest house in the world. And to capture the 360º panorama of the landscape, we propose a belvedere at the top of the house
The expansion of its Teatinos Campus has enabled the University of Málaga to equip itself with cutting-edge facilities and greatly improve its offer of academic programs. One of the beneficiaries of this is the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therap
Small-scale projects have the potential to be laboratories for ideas, materials, and narratives. This is highly experimental ground in our practice, which we usually present like aggregates of smaller grain size than a good compact block of concrete.
What does it mean to gather together a decade or so of work signed “estudioHerreros” into a monograph? What is it to compact such a diversity of programs, scales, sites, and cultures into a relatively slim volume? The flexible but resilient plastic-c
In his sarcastic evocation of Spain, Mario Praz described it as an anti-romantic “pentagonal peninsula,” in a geometrical metaphor that could be completed in this way: “Pentagonal peninsula whose center and sides are full, but which is otherwise bare
Madrid has a new gallery, called ‘Espacio SOLO,’ which will showcase the cross between different contemporary artistic fields. Taking up an entire floor of the historical building that stands at Plaza de la Independencia 5, a work of the architect Se
The Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM) has split the 2018 COAM First Prize among three works: the Sala Equis renovation by Plantea Estudio, Espacio Solo by Estudio Herreros and Jens Richter, and the book Oíza by Javier Vellés. On the other hand,
Accompanied by President Juan Manuel Santos, in January this year the estudio Herreros and Bermúdez Arquitectos inaugurated the new convention center of the Colombian capital. In accordance with its name, Ágora-Bogotá, the building – the result of a
Shortly before the University of Mexico pinned on him the Attolini Medal, the Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza received this year’s COAM Award for the Sports Center of Francisco de Vitoria University in Pozuelo de Alarcón, in Madrid. It is an i
Sobre el chaflán de una antigua manzana industrial, Álvaro Soto y Javier Maroto han construido para la EMVS de Madrid un edificio de viviendas de realojo que resuelve la difícil geometría del solar mediante dos movimientos. Por el primero, los cuatro
La recientemente inaugurada Biblioteca Municipal María Lejárraga, situada en la localidad de Ogíjares y diseñada por el estudio granadino M57 —liderado por el tinerfeño Rubens Cortés—, se levanta sobre una antiguo secadero de tabaco declarado Bien de
Concebido en continuidad con la Sede Central de Caja Granada del 2001, también obra del estudio madrileño de Alberto Campo Baeza, el Museo de la Memoria de Andalucía o MA se alza como un gran volumen prismático de hormigón, rematado por un edificio
