TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   With its marés stone walls and vaults the dwelling reinterprets the traditional distribution of the courtyard-house, now decomposed into units that are shifted from the center to the perimeter to play with the geometry of the floor plan and cross ven

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   To maintain the domestic scale of the urban fabric of Artá, the new health center replicates the structure of load-bearing walls parallel to the street of the old city and preserves the construction of the roof with Arab tile, emphasizing the identit

TEd’A arquitectes   Belgium   The new church reconstructs a hillock that was located behind the second city wall of the 17th century, now disappeared. The old pit will be cleaned and emptied out to facilitate the formwork process of the future structure. The geometric halls of th

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   The topographic drop of the plot is solved with a central courtyard that favors cross ventilation and with a structure of longitudinal loadbearing walls that connects both sides of the house, defining and organizing the interior spaces around the cou

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   To reduce the project to a domestic scale, the program is divided into several sequenced spaces that go from the collective to the private. Local resources are combined with strategies aimed at making the building work on its own...

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   The built area of the house takes up the full length of the plot. Scattering the program across the site permits creating outdoor interstitial gaps that are controlled by the built space, turning the exterior and the interior into one same element. L

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   The material palette of the Can Ribas factory is combined with the usual greenhouse type in the historic center of Palma to create a building of continuous galleries that uses the orientation of its facades as temperature control mechanisms. The peri

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   The concrete structure of the protected building in ruins is reinterpreted in wood to reconfigure the space. Each one of the warehouses features green oases that function as thermal cushions and contribute to the urban renaturalization process...

TEd’A arquitectes   Switzerland   The extension respects and complements the building of 1978, functioning as a single entity without giving up its autonomy. The new structure goes through the perimeter of the original building, creating a courtyard that connects both volumes...

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Spain   Taking as reference the Sevillian system of pergolas, a cloud of solar canopies held by a forest of slender columns will protect the research building, the garden, and the plaza, creating a variety of public spaces underneath it... 

Dorte Mandrup   Spain   The huge canopy that rests on the rhythmic structure of timber supports, along with the greenery that fills all floors, brings air and shade into the complex spaces created by these green ‘lungs,’ reinterpreting the traditional Andalusian courtyard h

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, COBE Architects   Spain   Thought up as a system rather than as a building, the timber ‘villa’ is protected by an energy production roof fit out with solar paneles that autonomously generate a comfortable microclimate for visitors and staff of the new research center...

AGI Architects   Spain   Based in Madrid and (Safat) Kuwait, the firm headed by Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea and Nasser B. Abulhasan AGi Architects won a public competition organized by the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda to find designers for projects

Carles Enrich   Spain   Since its blasting during the First Carlist War, Jorba Castle has been little more than a hodgepodge of ruins high over a small town of the Catalonian comarca of Anoia. But the earth moving carried out in the course of what was to be a simple adjustm

Carquero arquitectura   Spain   The Cádiz firm Carquero arquitectura – led by Carlos Quevedo Rojas and Carlos Peinado Maduelo – consolidated and restored the space around the Sant Francesc y Pardala towers of the castle located in the capital of the comarca Los Puertos de Morella.

Santiago Varela Botella, Santiago Varela Rizo   Spain   On a hill with craggy slopes in Xixona, a municipality in Alicante province, stands the medieval Castillo de la Torre Grossa (Castle of the Great Tower), called so in reference to one of its main keeps. The start of restoration work in 2019 drew atte

Sergio Sebastián   Spain   The refurbishment of this chapel, a project of Sebastián Arquitectos, is included in the second phase of a series of interventions on the French Way as it passes through Aragón. Facing the Leyre mountains, amid elms and oaks, the building once treasu

Sergio Valadez   Spain   The archaeological enclave of Acinipo, within the municipality of Ronda in Málaga province, features one of the oldest theaters of Hispania, built in the 1st century BC. The objective of the project drawn up by Sergio Valadez was to facilitate readin

MAD Architects   China   The idea of nature in the east – connected to the cultivation of the spirit – gives rise to the concept of city committed to the emotional well-being of its dwellers. True to this premise, the Beijing-based studio of Ma Yansong proposes a sports park

On view through 22 May at the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid is a retrospective of Bruno Munari (Milan, 1907-1998), the first ever to be presented in Spain and so far the most complete exhibition ever held, outside Italy, on this multidisciplinary ar

Inspired by memories from his childhood, Todd Hido has devoted over twenty years to capturing the feeling of isolation that comes at night in the archetypal suburban neighbor-hoods of America. With no illumination what-soever aside from the diffuse l