1973 - (Barcelona, Spain)
With a built area of over 28,000 square meters, this apart-hotel in the Port Fòrum area of Barcelona presents a ground-level and first-floor plinth that on plan reaches the edges of the plot, and two volumes that form a V on plan and rise to the 18t
Until the time Eusebi Guëll moved his textile factory there and established a workers’ colony with the help of Gaudí, Santa Coloma de Cervelló was just a farming village on the banks of the Llobregat, and its modest past is still evidenced by the old
Over and above the neighborhood’s street-level shops, the dwellings are organized around a courtyard and a staircase that has landings thanks to the existence of an alternative passageway along the outside. By means of a large ceiling fan, the heat t
Integrated into the landscape of Pals, a municipality of the comarca of Baix Empordà, in Catalonia, this house rises over the remains of an old farmhouse named Mas Geli, of which only two facades with buttresses and a pair of spaces with stone vaults
The residential building on Carrer Palamós is integrated into an urban fabric of La Trinitat Nova, a Barcelona neighborhood characterized by isolated blocks. Volume-wise, it presents a series of setbacks that break up the large scale of the developme
With a simple design and a bioclimatic focus, the LA House is laid out around a central fireplace, surrounded by four brick volumes. These four solid-looking ceramic boxes are placed at the ends of the house and contain the rooms. In contrast with th
Flaunting its name, the Madrid Moderno development was in 1906 dubbed in the newspaper ABC as “the most European of Madrid neighborhoods”: an ensemble of garden-city schemes of which barely twelve small houses remain, survivors of real-estate pressur
At the foot of the Collserola mountain range, in the Barcelona municipality of Sant Just Desvern, this social housing development presents continuous terraces on all its facades, which widen at the corners to form spaces in direct contact with the li
MO.CA is a prototype for a self-sufficient mobile dwelling, built using zero-kilometer laminated wood and digital construction techniques. It was developed in the Advanced Ecological Building & Biocities (MAEBB) masters program offered on the Valldau
So exacerbated by the romantic imagination of modernisme, the medieval character of Barcelona’s old quarter is less attributable to ogee arches and flamboyant traceries than to the relationship between the alleys within the confines of the old walls
In the Cuadrat Valley estate of Catalonia’s Les Garrigues region, these facilities for the production of organic oil are located on a hill formed by old terraces that were built to cultivate the land. At the top is a reception pavilion where visitors
This residential complex of the Barcelona Municipal Institute for Housing and Refurbishment (IMHAB) is located in a zone of textile colonies established in the mid-19th century behind the hill of Montjuic. Here fabrics were dyed and dried on the mead
This tower recreates extreme building situations for the training of firemen – using double and triple spaces, spiral staircases, cat ladders, wells, doors, windows, etc. Cantilevered balconies are used for rappelling exercises and vertical rescue dr
A clean-up of the rear brick wall revealed the word .lavadero, the place having been one of the public laundry spaces built in Barcelona during the 19th and part of the 20th centuries, at the intersections of the torrents flowing down from the Collse
The 290-square-meter house is located in La Guardia Pilosa, a locality belonging to the Barcelona municipality of Pujalt, which was abandoned in 1967 but has gradually been repopulating and currently counts 20 inhabitants. Carried out by Labaula Coop
Placed behind the main facade, the staircase shaft functions as a patio that favors natural ventilation while protecting the living space from street noise and disturbances and controlling the views from and to the exterior.
In Gavá, a municipality in Barcelona province, in the comarca of Bajo Llobregat, this residential complex takes the form of three stepped volumes to adapt to the natural slopes of the terrain. With a built area of 16,509 square meters, the project se
This 144-square-meter residence is squeezed between party walls, on a plot that stretches in an east-to-west direction. The west facade faces the town’s main street, and the east side is used for wheeled access. The urban regulations allow: a volume
The Rec Comtal is one of the most important hydraulic infrastructures of Barcelona, having suppled the city with water and irrigated the territory of the Besós agricultural basin from the 10th century to the mid-20th. Because of urban growth, a large
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
A work of the Asturian firm sukunfuku Studio – Miguel Huelga and Iria de la Peña – this museum stands on the slope of Mount Castillo, surrounded by the winding road that leads to the caves it harbors. Inserted into a complex topography, the C-shaped
This social housing block is organized around an atrium-like central void, optimizing energy efficiency while creating opportunities for encounters among neighbors in the same way that the large landings of the stairs do. Undertaken for the Institut
A joint work of the architects Jaume Bach, Anna Bach, Eugeni Bach, Xevi Bayona, and Alba Colomer, with the collaboration, too, of the civil engineer Lluís Pauné, this urban intervention emphasizes the geometry of boundaries between what are known as
On the south border of Sant Fruitós, a municipality of the Catalonian comarca of Bages, this school rises on the north part of the plot, facing the avenue Sant Joan. The complex tries to concentrate its facilities along that side, including the preex
“Can only have been painted by a madman.” Edvard Munch penciled this phrase on The Scream, the very famous, disturbing work showing the fjord of Oslo in the background: the same place that is the site of the city’s new icon, the Munch Museum, built b
What does it mean to gather together a decade or so of work signed “estudioHerreros” into a monograph? What is it to compact such a diversity of programs, scales, sites, and cultures into a relatively slim volume? The flexible but resilient plastic-c
The youngest generations of architects have demonstrated that Catalan architecture can well pursue courses deviating from the cosmopolitanism of disseny and Barcelona. It is true that the teaching and practice of the profession in Catalonia has to a
It was to highlight the eroded footprint of a 12th-century castle that the Catalan architect Carles Enrich set about restoring the Merola Tower in Puigreig, a municipality of Barcelona province. The project was urgent, following the 2016 collapse of
The primary objective of the EMAV Can Batlló project, designed by Julià i Capdevila, was to open up to the city an exceptional industrial block located in Barcelona’s Bordeta neighborhood. In the process, it respected the typological and material fea
Perfection is route more than target. In the 16th century, the mystic St. Teresa of Ávila praised a life of poverty and humility in The Way of Perfection, and the same title served the writer Pío Baroja to express regenerationist concerns in the earl
The winners of the four categories of the fourth European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention (AADIPA), given in a ceremony held in June at the Catalonia Institute of Architects (COAC) in Barcelona, are: under Intervention in Built Heritage
A posthumous work of the architect Antonio Jiménez Torrecilla, who passed away in 2015, has been inaugurated: the Alcázar Genil station of the Metro of Granada. Characterized by the particular povera and at the same time minimalist image that its aut
On view through 17 January 2019 at the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin is ‘Enchanting Traces: Reflections on b720 Arquitectos,’ a retrospective exhibition on the firm established in 1997 by Fermín Vázquez and Ana Bassat, working from offices in Ba
The Barcelona practice of Jordi Badia (BAAS), in collaboration with the local firms Grupa 5 Architekci and Maleccy Biuro Projectowe, recently completed the new Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in the Polish town of Katowic
With a temporary intervention, Anna and Eugeni Bach have managed to make Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion lose its materiality.
From adapted homes to collective residences through senior or assisted housing, there are many living models that give a dignified response to the special needs of people in the twilight of life.
In the humble words ‘brick’ and ‘tile’ lies the simplicity, only apparent, of a material that has come down to our days with very specific technological variations. Nevertheless, the modest nature habitually attributed to brick is quickly proven wron
It should come as no surprise that as the ‘crisis’ reveals itself to be less cyclical and rather endemic, the demand for architecture declines. Spain, one of the hardest hit since 2008, in particular because of the exponential growth of its construct
Hacer una casa con jardín en una ciudad jardín es el reto que los barceloneses Manuel Bailo y Rosa Rull han asumido en este proyecto, construido en Igualada (Barcelona), en la que una pérgola estructural resuelve la transición entre el espacio interi
Ajeno a la estética pompier tradicional en este tipo edificatorio, el Gran Casino Costa Brava, del estudio barcelonés b720 liderado por Fermín Vázquez, se sitúa sobre los antiguos jardines del Gran Hotel Monterrey, en el centro de Lloret de Mar (Gero
