As every year for more than three decades, and coinciding now with the 40th anniversary of AV magazine, the Yearbook 2025 gathers in a double issue a selection of 25 works which now include, as in the previous edition, buildings by Spanish studios in

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Under the impact of climate change and the acid rain of political polarization, architecture needs resistant redoubts in which to take shelter to prepare for the disorder that is coming. This selection of Spanish buildings documents a series of preci

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Valencia’s ‘dana’ and Trump’s triumph set the coordinates of the year in Spain and the world. Just a week apart, the catastrophic flash floods of Tuesday 29 October and the landslide presidential election of Tuesday 5 November marked an inflection po

gmp Architekten, Ribas & Ribas, L35 Architects   Spain   The main objective of the renovation was to give Real Madrid’s stadium more flexible and dynamic, readjusting its massive form to the scale of the city around it. The asymmetrical envelope flows with curved surfaces to reflect the diffused light in a

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Spain   Built in the 13th century, the listed ensemble of the Reales Atarazanas (Royal Shipyards) is in a privileged spot in the center of Seville: the Arenal quarter, halfway between the Guadalquivir and the monumental complex of the Cathedral, between the

Matos Castillo, Rueda & Pizarro, Tabuenca & Leache, Estudio Álvarez-Sala   Spain   The objective of the project is to turn the old Salesian convent into offices for the Union of Municipalities of the Comarca of Pamplona, in the heart of the Navarrese capital. Interventions on the abandoned heritage building is minimized. Demolition

Kauh arquitectos   Spain   This landscape intervention by the Granada-based firm KAUH – Vincent Morales Garoffolo and Juan Antonio Sánchez Muñoz – reclaims the unique heritage site of La Hoya for the city of Almería. La Hoya is a gorge located on the edge of the historic quart

Arquitectos Ayala   Spain   Located in the Scientific-Technological Park of Almería (PITA in Spanish), to the northeast of the city, the new Financial Center of the Banco de Crédito Cooperativo-Grupo Cajamar is the result of a competition, celebrated in 2019, which proposed the

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   The new classroom and library building is organized as a compact structure, with a perimeter bay of classrooms that braces, in its interior, three large voids placed diagonally along the section that harbors two multipurpose rooms and a canteen. The

Harquitectes   Spain   The Sabadell-based studio Harquitectes has transformed an old industrial building located in Esplugues de Llobregat into the corporate headquarters of the pharmaceutical company Galenicum. With a new envelope that provides better insulation to cool t

Bajet Giramé, JAAS Julià Arquitectes Associats   Spain   A collaborative work of the Barcelona firms of Pau Bajet, Maria Giramé (Bajet Giramé) and Manuel Julià (JAAS), the renovation of Alfacs is being carried out gradually, in yearly phases, so that this campsite of the Catalonian municipality of Alcanar,

Pablo Millán   Spain   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

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   In addition to serving lunch menus at tables, an establishment located on the town square provides a home-delivery service to facilitate the everyday life of elderly residents. The quintessential space for socializing in small municipalities, the bar

Arquitecturia   Spain   An old construction on the premises of the agricultural cooperative of Flix – a municipality in Ribera de Ebro, a comarca of the province of Tarragona – has been turned into a cultural center. Counting a built area of 524 square meters, the new spac

Verne arquitectura, Alejandro Maortua    Spain   A joint work of Verne arquitectura – Víctor Larripa, Javier Martínez, Daniel Ruiz de Gordejuela– and Alejandro Maortua, the project involved designing a pelota court and a series of spaces for different uses in Aguilar de Codés, a small locality in N

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   In 2004, the city of Naples invited, under the motto AAA (Architecture, Archaeology, and Art) invited prominent firms to propose designs for the new metropolitan line. The plan, aside from improving the connection between the outskirts and the city c

PRÁCTICA   Romania   The Spanish firm Práctica – Jaime Daroca, José Mayoral, José Ramón Sierra – was commissioned to regenerate 15 kilometers of the banks of the Sommer River that lie within the Rumanian municipality of Cluj-Napoca. An outcome of a 2017 competition, the

Michèle & Miquel, Da Vision   Taiwan   Under debate today as are the colonial experiences of other world powers, the Japanese occupation of Taiwan had nevertheless set out to be a ‘model’ domain, and here lies the seed of its modernization. Though aimed at the greater glory of the metropo

Francisco Mangado, Archipelago | baev   Belgium   Fair premises resulting from a 2019 competition – in the city of Liège, in Belgium’s French-speaking Walloon Region – have opened on the banks of the river Meuse. A work of the Navarrese practice of Francisco Mangado, in collaboration with the Belgia

estudioHerreros   Argentina   The new building of the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires (MALBA) opened on 22 September in Belén de Escobar, a municipality 45 kilometers from the Argentinian capital. After a joint intervention in the public areas of the museum, which ha

Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, Mendoza Partida, BAX studio   Norway   The Kunstsilo Art Gallery has opened in what was a grain silo raised in the 1930s, in the Norwegian city of Kristiansand. The transformation of the huge agricultural facility built with reinforced concrete to harbor a collection of over 5,500 Nordic

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   The result of an international competition, the project emerged from a take on two fundamental observations of the place: the concept of frontality in relation to Karlstor (one of Munich’s medieval city gates)…

Barozzi Veiga   Germany   Kiefersfelden is located in the region of the Bavarian Alps, in the south of Germany, near the border with Austria, in an impressive natural landscape of mountains, forests, and green prairies. The small municipality, of some 7,000 inhabitants, is an

Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   For the purpose of mitigating its visual impact, a building raised in the historical quarter of the town maintains the scale of neighboring constructions and uses traditional materials. Connected by an open gallery, two volumes are composed in terrac

MAIO   Spain   A falta de una fórmula mágica para hacer frente a la crisis habitacional, la construcción de viviendas de alquiler social se ha convertido en una de las claves de la intervención pública y ha producido algunos de los edificios más notables de los últ

Carbajo Barrios   Spain   Developed by a group of owners constituted as a cooperative, this project for 34 dwellings in Santiago de Compostela is situated in the area around the Ermite de Santa Marta, next to Rúa Monte de Conxo. This way of associating reduces construction co

Vivas Arquitectos   Spain   This shelter in Barcelona’s Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district can take in a hundred homeless women. A work of the firm VIVAS Arquitectos (César Vivas and Cristian Vivas), it has a day center and a night center seeking to assist and accompany its residents