Experimentation and dialogue are central to the creative process of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, and in their works light, matter, and space are as intimately connected as they are to landscape, history, and architecture. This is clear from

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Approaching Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano’s work we are drawn to the pentagonal temptation of charting the perimeter of their design strategy with five paragraphs in a vocalic sequence. The first one focuses on their artistic autobiography, be

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   Listed as Historic Artistic Monument in 1941, the castle is now a museum and houses the headquarters of the Fundación de Arte y Pensamiento Martín Chirino, devoted to the legacy of the Gran Canaria-born sculptor.  The Castillo de la Luz is for the ci

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   Mistrusting the supposed efficiency and container so often used nowadays, we devised a building closely linked to a place and to a faraway memory. A building in which each space is configured individually, in a time that is subject to transforming i

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Austria   Throughout history architecture has tended to be expressed through volumes in difficult relationship with their urban surroundings. The enlargement of the Joanneum Museum, on the contrary, arose with the express intention of acting within the limits

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   Conceived as the fusion of a museum and a park and connected by a series of green spaces in the city, the new building is buried and with its green roof creates a prairie with a sinuous pedestrian path. This green surface is pierced by a group of cyl

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The Barceló Market area in Madrid includes public spaces, buildings and temporary installations belonging to one same complex. Its multiple denomination – market/sports center/library – soon speaks of collective engagement and reveals the social cond

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   It is evident that the practice of architecture cannot encompass all the complex mechanisms that generate the city. However, it possesses a decisive power to transform the urban experience, both in its spatial aspect and in its construction, through

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   United Kingdom   The project is the result of a competition that was organized by the Bristol Royal Infirmary for the purpose of renovating the frontage of its main building, raised in the 1960s. The objective was not only to give the institution a new image, but al

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   Concebido como una escultura tallada, el proyecto responde tanto al contexto urbano como al histórico. Situado en un céntrico solar ocupado por distintos edificios desde el siglo xviii, sustituye al hotel de 1955, demolido en 2019. Un corte vertical

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Estonia   The new center devoted to the Estonian composer preserves the pines in the woods around it, aiming in this way to foster dialogue between architecture, music, and natural environment.

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   Post-war german architecture now enjoys recognition and protection today, which, with the exception of some unique works, it lacked for years, associated with the utilitarianism and pragmatism that prevailed in the reconstruction of the war-devastate

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   On the outskirts of Hamburg, in the Altona borough, this exhibition building dedicated to the art of writing offers a voyage through the history of pens manufatured by the firm Montblanc, founded in 1906. The outcome of a competition held in 2016, th

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The artist’s home is a museum category in itself. It represents the real experience of the rooms, objects, furniture, and spaces where, in another time, creators not only resided but also produced their works and shared their personal and family life

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The CEU campus Moncloa includes several university buildings raised at different times for education and research. The new Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences is located on a triangular site in Madrid’s Colonia Metropolitana. The plot’s

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   Repetition through variation: both principles are implicit in programs characterized by the recurrence of the same type of space or architectural element. This impression was perhaps our first thought when reading the competition brief for the design

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   The idea of combining the terms ‘archive’ and ‘avant-garde’ holds within itself a contradiction. The fusion of these two concepts may seem paradoxical at first glance, as an archive is created to safeguard the documentary legacy of the past, while th

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   China   Developed from a afar due to the pandemic, the project reinterprets elements from Chinese tradition, such as the ceramic pieces of the facade which, arranged in the production warehouse, evoke the Terracotta Army of Xian. Located at the foot of Mount

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   Since the day in September 1908 that a journalist working for La Veu de Catalunya gave the region a name which described its dramatic geography and topography, the Costa Brava – a rugged land of fisherfolk – has honed its image as a paradise by the s

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   France   The deep meaning of the concept of ‘building the city’ lies in the ability to generate public space. While the public nature of a place is essentially a consequence of its citizens’ activity, the architect’s responsibility is to create the conditions

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The Madrid practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano have won first place in the competition to build a museum in San Felíu de Guíxols (Girona) to house part of Carmen Thyssen's art collection, joining those already existing in Madrid, Málaga,

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   France   The firm led by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, which runs offices in Madrid and Berln, has landed first prize in the competition to build the new Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Vannes, in Brittany, with Richard Faure as associate architect

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The Madrid practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has won the international competition to refurbish, restore, and expand St.Clare’s Convent as the new home of the Pontevedra Provincial Museum. Their scheme was selected over those of the ot

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   United States   The Madrid practice Nieto Sobejano has won the Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition, carrying the day over five other finalists: David Chipperfield Architects (London); Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York); Johnston Ma