AV Proyectos 120 dedicates its last dossier of the year to the most recent projects by Alberto Campo Baeza, examples of an architecture that surrenders to the naturality of logic, and lets gravity and light order the space. Next, the issue presents t

Alberto Campo Baeza, Raphaël Gabrion   France   Two volumes wrapped under the same skin of black concrete organize the project. On top of the first one of the them, a large horizontal plinth housing workshops and services, emerges a sort of cubic volume that protects the museum collections...

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   Like a boat stranded on the rocky coast of Tarifa, the concrete house is embedded in the terrain in the form of linear prisms that stretch out towards the sea horizon, creating terraces and different covered spaces with each staggering...

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   Taking the slogan ‘good, nice, and affordable’ as motto, the house adapts to the steep slope – with 10 meters of difference in level –, perched as it is on the terrain in a staggered manner. The local masonry walls further integrate the volume into

Alberto Campo Baeza   Mexico   As if it were the deck of a ship stranded between two beaches, a horizontal platform on a huge stone box that seems to have emerged from the bowels of the Earth offers views of the distant sea...

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   A bold concrete volume, rising four heights, rests on a sloping terrain facing the Mediterranean Sea. Like a belvedere, two platforms with outdoor stairs are confined by a retaining wall along its side facades and rear area...

Alberto Campo Baeza, Laps Architecture   Spain   From outside, the library is read as an exposed concrete stone box, entirely glazed on the north facade, including its corners, and the roof. Through adequate openings, natural light floods the immaculate double-height reading room...

Alberto Campo Baeza, Pablo Millán   Spain   A slender roof shaped as a tall canopy is designed to protect the vast excavated space from the weather. It is formed by a rectangle held by four pillars, where a series of light footbridges mark the walking paths for visitors throughout the archaeol

Alberto Campo Baeza   United States   From an understanding of the facade as an element capable of transmitting messages, the enclosure of this Trajan skyscraper, with a squared floor plan, is completely wrapped in led screens, which turn the tower itself into a means of communication...

Alberto Campo Baeza   United States   The city’s strict building codes are the main conditioning factor of the project. In close dialogue with the property, the building is designed as a pattern of round pillars and reinforced slabs that reduce their section close to the edge with a meta

Alberto Campo Baeza   Armenia   The building stands in front of mounts Ararat and Aragats like a white box on a plinth. The program is distributed vertically, reserving the outdoor floor and the podium for large public events and the intermediate levels for the classrooms...

Alberto Campo Baeza   Armenia   The one-floor nursery of the school is organized in a simple square floor plan structured by equidistant fair-faced reinforced concrete columns. Both the walls of the building and the enclosure are white to guarantee the requested security...

Alberto Campo Baeza, Miguel Quismondo   United States   The Robert Olnick Pavilion, designed by the architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo, is an extension of the museum Magazzino Italiam Art, in Cold Spring (New York). Arranged perpendicularly to the existing building, separated from it, the

ENORME Studio, Néstor Montenegro, Smart and Green Design   Japan   Besides an easterly route from the Philippines to Acapulco, the Augustinian friar Andrés de Urdaneta discovered a north-flowing current towards the Japan Sea. Both phenomena helped Spain create an enriching commercial and cultural channel in the Paci

Javier Terrados, Fernando Suárez Corchete, Icaria Atelier   Japan   The geometry which configures the spaces is directly related to the evocation of the aquatic world: the layout of undulating surfaces can suggest water landscapes for some or wandering among boat hulls for others...

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, External Reference   Japan   The proposal stands out for its organic forms and its contact with the natural environment, establishing at the same time a connection with the sea world. The project includes several aquatic elements built using sustainable materials...

Francisco Mangado, MAM Architecture   Japan   To simplify and lighten the construction of the pavilion, its design takes as reference the apparent formal simplicity of old wooden ships, while the layout of the interior spaces is inspired by the constellation of Aquarius...

Selgascano, FRPO   Japan   The base is designed with prefabricated modules which transport the rest of the material, and which are assembled with three cranes that become part of the pavilion. A large fabric is stretched out over the more than thirty inflatable spheres that fo

The urban canopy that protects the whole plaza is built with two triangular timber porticoes from which hangs a huge Alicantina-type rolling shutter in a dark green tone which pays tribute to this symbol of Mediterranean culture.

With great success Logroño’s International Festival of Architecture and Design, aka Concéntrico, has for nine years now filled the northern Spanish city with imaginative ephemeral installations aimed at rethinking the urban environment and public spa

TAKK Architecture   Spain   After the fire that destroyed this old Castilian house only the stone walls remained. Its refurbishment has been carried out through the insertion of a concrete structure that completes and visually replicates the original construction...

Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects (ATTA)   Germany   The Paris-based Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane – founder of the architecture firm ATTA – was commissioned to build this cabin, raised on a stone base with a timber structure enclosed with thatch, a material

Langarita Navarro   Portugal   Olimpo Nômade, a city for the performing artists at an itinerant music festival, is made up of three elements: an inflatable doughnut is the lounge area; a camp of bubbles, the dressing rooms; and a mirrored cube, the space for the headliners...

Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, has been selected to conceive the 22nd Pavilion. Ghotmeh’s Pavilion will be unveiled at Serpentine South in June 2023.  This pioneering and prestigious commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Ellen van Loon   United Kingdom   In more than 13,000 square meters, the new cultural venue for Factory International – the institution that  organizes the Manchester International Festival every two years – is designed to accommodate all kinds of performing arts. 

Until 31 March 2024, the MEIAC of Badajoz displays the pictorial work of Godofredo Ortega Muñoz (1899-1982), carried out decades ago, placed alongside the contemporary photographs of José Manuel Ballester. The initiative came from the foundation of t

During the lockdown imposed by the pandemic, archaeological photographer Luigi Spina had the opportunity to roam freely – and even to reside in – the ruins of the polis that was buried by the Vesuvius in the year 79 AD, including visits to some of th