Alwah House appears in the Dubai desert as a refuge, like an oasis, conceived with a flower’s natural logic in mind. Partly embedded in the ground, it is organized through patios and pathways that lead to spaces revealed a little at a time, respectin
Carquero Arquitectura – Carlos Quevedo, Carlos Peinado, Fernando Prieto – designed the Zona Base-Incubazul building in the city of Cádiz, an incubator of high-tech business focused on the blue economy. Covering nearly 2,000 m², the facilities are des
The project addressed the operational needs and requirements of a large outdoor space for vehicles of street-cleaning services to park and circulate in. This determined the building’s position within the plot, at the western end of the industrial est
The new Harbormaster’s Building in Ayamonte, located at the marina, stands out on account of its bold materiality and angular geometry, evoking old coastal defensive constructions. It is an architecture of strong presence, rooted in the landscape by
The new Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (UniBZ) is the outcome of a competition organized by the NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, won in 2018 by the Italian firm Olivieri Office, based in Genoa and Trent. It is located
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
In Seville, in an environment characterized by its heterogeneity – very diverse in architecture, uses, and sizes – this residential complex seeks to effect a morphological continuity between the new construction and the adjoining buildings and public
The intervention on this terrain in the province of Jaén resulted from contemplating and reflecting on how olives fall to the ground – some half-buried, others dispersed or leaning on one another. With a built area of 5,966 square meters, the hexagon
The project is located in a dense urban node, and it is precisely the need to adapt to this context that leads to the decision to replicate the chamfer typical of Barcelona’s urban planning. The library appears as a sculptural volume set on a square
Located within the complex of the Colegio Bienaventurada Virgen María de las Irlandesas – designed in 1964 by the Sevillian brothers Fernando and Joaquín Barquín y Barón –, the project foresaw the construction of a kindergarten, as well as solving
The Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, built by order of King Philip II, was not only a political and religious utopia, but also an environmental one that shaped the mountainous woody landscape around. Precisely in a special enclave of this lan
The pavilion’s premises flank a large void that serves to give continuity to the public circulation route, conceived as a meeting place under the protection of an ethereal roof structure.
A tower containing unobstructed spaces is the solution adopted on a small plot from which a ‘fab lab’ seeks to take part in revitalizing the port area of the city of Caen. The brief left the program largely undefined, which gave rise to a series of s
The Seville firm Baum Lab – Marta Barrera Altermir, Javier Caro Domínguez, Miguel Gnetil Fernández – was commissioned to refurbish an 18th-century house-with-courtyard in the old quarter of the city of Seville. The intervention on a built area of 310
Rising over one of the main highways of access into the city, in the eastern part of Madrid, the firm SUMA – established by architects Guillermo Sevillano and Elena Orte in 2005 – proposes a freestanding block of co-op apartments and studios for a yo
In the historic center of Gratallops, a municipality of Tarragona province, amid narrow streets and houses between party walls, a winery with a built area of 1,289 square meters adapts to its L-shaped plot. With walls as thick as 1.75 meters at most,
LAP Arquitectos, renovation of conference and exhibition center of Córdoba Córdoba-based LAP Arquitectos – Rafael Pérez Morales, David Pérez Herranz, Rafael Pérez Herranz – undertook the renovation, improvement, and adaptation of the Conference Cente
In the old quarter of Seville stands this house, a work of the local firm Vázquez Consuegra. The lot is very irregular, long and narrow. The project reuses a metal structure of floor slabs and pillars that addresses a different sort of program, not t
In a clearing in the pine woods of the south slope of Mount Abantos, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the Madrid practice of María José Aranguren and José González Gallegos has built this one-family house on a plot blessed with privileged views of the
Play-time is a project for seven short-term rental apartments in the Madrid district of Ciudad Lineal. The developer chose the place with the idea of searching for ‘an oasis in the middle of the city,’ and the project intends to intensify that condit
On the Isla de La Cartuja, next to the Pabellón de la Navegación – built in 1992 by the same studio – and at the foot of Sevilla Tower, designed by César Pelli, sits the eighth venue of CaixaForum, a network of cultural centers promoted by la Caixa,
The site where the new Development Center goes up is located on the urban border of the small town of Calamonte – north of the province of Badajoz, 61 kilometers from the capital of the province and only 7 kilometers from Mérida, the capital of the r
Several snaking concrete footbridges crisscross to form the ‘Braided Valley,’ a network of paths that flow over the Vinalopó River and integrate it into urban life.
The new Cipi (center for innovation and promotion of Iberian products) takes up the complex known as Tiro a Pichón, which was built in three phases – at the beginning of the 20th century, between 1936 and 1941, and in the 1950s decade – and used orig
The winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2024 have been announced in Brussels. The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), by Gustav Düsing and Max
. It is neither frequent nor rare for the FAD Award to be shared by two works on an equal footing. But whereas past ex aequo winners were very different in nature, this time the two awardees address similar concerns with a proactive audacity pointing
Along with museums, opera houses, and national assemblies, a specifically modern type of architecture that developed in the course of the 19th century was the center for teaching and learning. First were the universities, which were updated to serve
Despite all the media hype surrounding the opening of the CaixaForum of Seville, it’s hard not to succumb to nostalgia if we compare the building with what it could have been: the poetic intervention at the Royal Dockyards that the Caixa Foundation b
Ha abierto sus puertas en el centro de Madrid el Museo ABC del Dibujo y la Ilustración, situado en la antigua fábrica de cervezas Mahou de la calle Amaniel, una construcción de finales del siglo XIX que, tras una profunda remodelación, albergaba hast
«Una gran burbuja de aire sobre un basamento de hormigón», así describen Eva Luque y Alejandro Pascual —Los del Desierto— el pabellón polideportivo que acaban de terminar en el municipio de Garrucha. Los invernaderos de la zona, a base de perfiles de
En el paseo Echegaray y Caballero de la capital maña, dentro del parque fluvial de San Pablo, se ha inaugurado la Escuela Infantil Casco Histórico, de la que son autores Santiago Carroquino, Ignacio Grávalos y Patrizia Di Monte. Con capacidad para 7
La localidad granadina de Huéscar cuenta con una muralla cuya Torre del Homenaje fue revalorizada mediante una intervención de Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas, que la convirtió en espacio público. Poco después se descubrió el antiguo pósito de la ciudad,
En el Monte Hacho, el principal accidente orográfico de la ciudad de Ceuta, los sevillanos José Morales, Sara de Giles y Juan González Mariscal han levantado 127 viviendas de protección oficial, de las cuales 41 unidades son unifamiliares, y el resto
