Atelier POEM   Spain   The studio of Alice Cecchini and Roman Joliy, Atelier Poem, has designed this open shelter for Foresta Collective. The group operates between Germany and Spain and promotes education based on direct experience with nature. The project is a spatial re

Pedro Pitarch Meii   Spain   Pedro Pitarch and Meii, in collaboration with Socotec, have won first prize in the competition organized by Cartagena’s city council for the renovation of its circus theater. Their scheme is structured around a key intervention: the full transformati

Alventosa Morell Arquitectes   Spain   Located in a small coastal town in Tarragona, Casa CLO sits on a sloping plot, adapting to the topography and trees. The site has rocky ground and a very steep inclination, accessible only from its lowest point. The existing trees, the slope, and pla

Cayuelas Arquitectos Desarrollo Urbano   Spain   This project, undertaken on a reduced budget, aims to upgrade the Pilar Factory in Motril as an industrial museum of sugar. The intervention is being executed in different phases, understood as steps in a process of long duration, in such a way that

ba-rro   Spain   DZR is the transformation of an industrial facility in Madrid's Carabanchel district into a 174 m² home that explores new ways of living. The project began with a former car wash, creating a hybrid space where domestic uses coexist with activities th

estudio veintidós    Spain   Located in the mountains of Riaza in Segovia, the Soto de Sepúlveda house stands on the remains of an old stable built with rough stone masonry and rammed earth. The original roofs and interior partitions were in an advanced state of ruin, which call

Ignacio Olite Koldo Fernández Gaztelu Made.V Arquitectos   Spain   The winning proposal in the competition to build 80 social housing units in Soria is based on a simple but meaningful image: trucks numbering 26, the exact number needed to transport the prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels that make up

Francisco Reina (Reina & Asociados) Eduardo Martínez Moya (Edartec)   Spain   The western section of the Royal Artillery Factory in Seville has been transformed to house the Magallanes Center for entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries. The project resulted from a 2019 competition and covered an area of approx

FRPO   Spain   The Ávila thermal power plant -- designed by FRPO, the Madrid-based practice of Fernando Rodríguez and Pablo Oriol, covers an area of 1,720 square meters and is the studio's second collaboration with DH Ecoenergías. This company is in Spain a pioneer

Lucas y Hernández-Gil - Kresta Design   Spain   At Piamonte 21 in Madrid, Laconicum has opened its first permanent physical store. The project, carried out by Cristina Domínguez Lucas and Fernando Hernández-Gil Ruano, takes personal grooming as a form of culture with roots in the classical world.

Ismael Medina Manzano   Spain   The renovation of this 60 m² apartment, located on the outskirts of San Sebastián and built in 1966, is tackled as an architectural experiment that challenges established lines of domestic logic. The project investigates new ways of living based on t

Carbajo Barrios   Spain   Foxos is a beach located south of A Lanzada, in the municipality of Sanxenxo, Pontevedra. It is an enclave of great environmental and scenic value, defined by a cliff-lined coastline crowned by gentle hills that form a unique natural environment. Thi

Coll-Leclerc   Spain   This library is part of the Olesa de Montserrat Cultural Center complex in Catalonia’s Baix Llobregat county. It is located in the municipal park, a site used for vegetable gardens and farmland before becoming Hotel Gori – City Hall since 1933 – and

Pachón–Paredes   Spain   The Espacio D project involved turning a 33 m² space in Madrid’s Prosperidad neighborhood into a studio, workshop, and store for the jeweller Deassín. What was a dry cleaner’s is now a multipurpose space, but preserving memories of the original use.

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   When Clotilde García del Castillo decided to open up what had been her home to preserve the memory of her husband, little could she have imagined that a century later it would be crowded with people eager to see where Joaquín Sorolla had lived and wo

Pereda Pérez Arquitectos Lignum   Spain   Pereda Pérez and Lignum’s proposal to reinterpret the Valley of Cuelgamuros is situated within a context fraught with symbolic dispute. Conceived by the Franco regime as a monumental burial place for its founder and a space to legitimize the National

MADhel Marmolbravo Miel Arquitectos   Spain   De peus a terra is a residential project promoted by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB). The building, located in the Bon Pastor neighborhood, offers 50 social housing units and blends into an environment endowed with a strong

OFS architects   Spain   The buildings blend with their urban surroundings, dominated by towers, through carefully selected materials and proportions. The prefabricated concrete of the facade, with predominantly vertical elements and a tone that evokes the stone of nearby co

Carquero arquitectura   Spain   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

Carles Enrich   Spain   This residential project in Castelldefels fragments its volume for the sake of greater urban and visual permeability, enhancing the connection between the urban fabric and the pine forest next to it. The site’s intricate topography, with a level diff

Flores & Prats   Spain   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

Spain   On the ledge of Es Jonquet ravine, bordering the Bay of Palma, stands a chain of old flour mills. At the end of this group, the project converts the old Molí d’en Garleta into a museum that explains both the building’s unique history and the Balearic

Flores & Prats   Spain   The project stems from a context of global crisis, in which trends leading to isolation and individualism have become entrenched, and in which collective housing offers a unique opportunity to restore confidence among social strata and promote commun

Following its restoration, the original stretch of the tunnel designed by Juan de Villanueva, in Madrid’s Campo del Moro gardens, has been reopened to the public by Patrimonio Nacional, Spain’s National Heritage organism. It is a unique construction,

Ignacio García Pedrosa   Ángela García de Paredes   Building abroad lays bare the dual nature of our work as architects; duality in questions both immaterial and material, irrational and rational, in both design and construction. On the one hand, during the time of design, the input of experience, kno

Sergio Sebastián   Is there something different in the practice of architecture when the job at hand is to work upon another kind coming to us from the past? In this case, architecture shows us – even more clearly if possible – its nature and its proclivity for dialogu

Josep Ferrando   Contemporary collective housing requires regarding buildings as something more than the sum of private units; it should be seen as an open system, a domestic infrastructure capable of sustaining life without imposing any particular way of living. In

Founded by siblings Amaia and Julen Rodríguez, Gravity Wave is a Spanish start-up that works with thousands of traditional fishers, collecting abandoned nets and marine debris in ports across Spain, Italy, Greece, and Egypt. The company sorts, recycl

¿Cuáles son los retos culturales, sociales, técnicos y medioambientales que deben afrontar un arquitecto hoy? ¿Qué rasgos caracterizan el pensamiento y la crítica contemporáneos y cómo actuar a partir de ellos en el mundo de la cultura? ¿Cómo manejar

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two academics distinguished with the National History Prize have published in 2025 essential books to get to know each other better. The jurist Santiago Muñoz Machado, who received it in 2018 for Hablamos la misma lengua, a political history of Spani

Kosme de Barañano   One of the many paradoxes of the Spanish art scene: that a private institution, rather than a national museum, was first in showing the work of Robert Rauschenberg forty years ago; the same institution that is currently celebrating its centennial. In

While training as a painter at the Academia de Belas-Artes in Lisbon, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva decided to take anatomy classes at the school of medicine, keen as she was on studying in detail the complexion of the bodies she was made to draw; and

“The useful raised to the rank of symbol.” That is how Martin Chirino would define his own creations, sensual drawings in the air that nonetheless, just like humble farming implements, were born of the sweat of the forge and the clash of the hammer.

The Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), in collaboration with the Madrid-based firm Ortiz.León Arquitectos, is responsible for building a luxury hotel at 27 General Perón Street in Madrid, a project by Ibervalles Socimi. This intervention will tra

With the tallest tower nearing completion, the Sagrada Familia basilica faces the final stretch of its construction, and for the as yet undefined Gloria main facade, the contractors have asked Javier Marín, Miquel Barceló, and Cristina Iglesias for a

Editeca, as it did with the Instituto de Tecnología de la Construcción (ITEC), has signed a strategic agreement with the Clúster de La Rioja en Innovación de la Construcción (ARIC) with the aim of bringing BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodol

The architect and photographer Iñaki Bergera (Vitoria, 1972) has for over a decade been documenting the ruins of the Panticosa spa facilities, in the heart of the Pyrenees of Huesca. Initiated in 2011, his Standstill Architecture photographic series

What to expect from the grandson, son, brother, and brother-in-law of painters other than a life with a paintbrush in hand? Raimundo de Madrazo did not disappoint, but he set a distance with his family when he moved to Paris during the Second Empire

Eduardo Mediero   This publication revisits ten years of architectural and urban experimentation in Logroño, whose festival Concéntrico has put La Rioja’s capital on the map of contemporary debate. Instead of just documenting the 150+ projects exhibited, the book is a

José María Ezquiaga   The protean personality of Salvador Rueda combines a scholar’s rigor, which impregnates both his theoretical mind and his professional practice, with a communicator’s power. Frequenters of his writings and works enjoy the spin of unexplored perspect

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The torrid temperatures of August came with flames and ashes: devastating wildfires that also inflamed impotent spirits and the intimate desolation of losing two friends essential to our history. These material flames and those emotional ashes are mi

The Gran Teatre del Liceu, in collaboration with the Port of Barcelona and the administrative bodies of the consortium, is working on a second venue: Liceu Mar, to go up at the Moll d’Espanya. The project aims to create an innovative, accessible, and

El Economista   Víctor de Elena   Adif has approved the Partial Interior Renovation Plan (PPRI) to transform Chamartín Station and its surroundings, as part of the Madrid New North project. This is a green light for the construction of four towers, two of which will be high-rise offi

The project ‘Gardens for an Acrobat’ has won the competition organized by the Madrid Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS Madrid) for the construction of 166 affordable rental apartments in the Mahou-Calderón area of the Arganzuela district. The

“Thus do we command that all things which were given to the churches, or will from here on be given to them by kings or others faithful to God, shall ever be safeguarded.” As we undertand it, preserving heritage is largely a modern discipline, but a

For the first time in Spain, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao dedicates a retrospective exhibition to the American artist Barbara Kruger, from her early collage compositions with cutouts of images and texts to her famous large vinyls. Phrases like “Who i

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