Founded in 1994, the Barcelona-based studio Miralles Tagliabue EMBT – directed by Benedetta Tagliabue since the premature death of Enric Miralles in 2000 – stands out for a creative process that is characterized by its poetic approach and the attenti

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the year of the dragon, Benedetta Tagliabue completes three decades of work under the name EMBT. Twenty-five years since the premature disappearance of Enric Miralles, his initials and his spirit remain present in the activity of a studio that has

Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley, Benedetta Tagliabue   The Princeton and Columbia professors, busy today organizing the Triennale, talk with the the Milanese architect in her hometown. Beatriz+Mark: This issue documents thirty years of projects. The last time we had a conversation about EMBT was sixteen

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   More than any other building type, the architect’s home is a faithful reflection of their language, desires, and concerns; in sum, of their style. The house the authors designed to become their family residence is a true laboratory of experimentation

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   The embt office and the Fundació Miralles are located in a modernist building in the center of Barcelona, close to the Ramblas and Plaça Reial. The property is a characteristic example of late 19th-century architecture and reproduces a typology which

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Netherlands   Peter Blundell Jones Look at a couple of photos, or worse the plan, and the cacophony of forms seems to suggest that in this final work Miralles really went over the top.With scant respect for a fine Neoclassical work, he seems to have produced a bui

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Germany   La Escuela de Música de Hamburgo, en cuyas aulas reciben formación musical jóvenes entre 4 y 25 años, es el resultado de un concurso ganado en enero de 1998. El edificio, que comenzó a construirse en febrero de 1999, tiene 1.600 metros cuadrados y al

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   Located in Barcelona’s Maresme region, the library was drawn up in life of Enric Miralles and its construction began a decade ago; since then the project has gradually evolved until is recent completion. The proposal started out as a single large roo

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Escocia   El Parlamento de Escocia, que en 1560 creó la iglesia protestante independiente de Roma y rechazó la autoridad del Papa, tras la devolución de su autonomía política como región dentro del Reino Unido en 1998, convocó el mismo año el concurso para su

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   One of the main charms of the old Santa Caterina market, a neoclassical building with a metallic roof and structure, was the way its surface developed in one single floor and with a height of six meters, so managing to open up the dense urban fabric

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   The university of Vigo offers its students the possibility of studying in three Galician cities: Pontevedra, Orense and Vigo. In this last city, the different schools take up a green, undulated terrain close to mount Marcosende, which serves to name

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Germany   The process of urban transformation of the Speicherstadt, in the south of Hamburg, began in the year 2000 with the aim of converting an area filled with port warehouses into a mixed-use district with residential and tertiary buildings of human scale.

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

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   Designed by Benedetta Tagliabue and Joan Callís of the Catalan firm Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, this pavilion in Barcelona stands beside the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital, a work of Lluís Domènech i Montaner. The building is part of an international ne

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   China   Para realizar el proyecto del Pabellón de España en la Exposición Universal Shanghái 2010, la SEEI organizó en 2007 un concurso público de ideas al que se presentaron 18 de los estudios españoles de mayor proyección internacional. El jurado eligió el

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   China   Considered to be one of the most prominent and sought-after Chinese artists of the 20th century, Zhang Daqian was a close friend of Pablo Picasso, whom he met in Paris in 1956. This encounter marked the start of an intense artistic exchange and also

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   China   Fudan university is part of a wide network of universities and their respective buildings located in Shanghai and its environs. It is also a very special university with an extensive history and a very unique character. Aside from the main campus, th

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   The open and organic architecture of the parish marks a contrast with the heavy and compact center of the city with a radially undulating roof that reinterprets the archetypal form of Romanesque and Gothic aisles through nature.

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, ilimelgo architectes   France   The Barcelona-based studio of Benedetta Tagliabue, in collaboration with the Paris firm ilimelgo architects, has refurbished Le Palais des Fêtes, an old events hall in the city of Romainville, 10 kilometers from the French capital, enhancing the stru

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   The basic idea is to create an urban park integrated with the naturalness of the beaches and the sea, with the purpose of promoting culture, well-being, and sport, through various functions and activities that aspire to extend the use of the park thr