IDOM   France   Southeast of Nantes – in the municipality of Bouguenais, which belongs to the French cantón of Rezé – rises this building by IDOM – Gohar Manrique San Pedro, Inés López Taberna, Iñaki Garai – which ensued from winning a competition to improve the cit

IDOM   Spain   Located at Plaza de Cruces in Baracaldo, this new-build construction harbors laboratories and animal research facilities of the Biocruces Institute. The project drawn up by Idom under the direction of Gonzalo Carro presents eight floors, three of whi

IDOM   Spain   El proyecto de Idom, dirigido por Jesús María Susperregui Virto, responde a un modelo de hospital de alta especialización, docente e investigador, centrado en la asistencia al paciente. Con 35.000 metros cuadrados de uso sanitario, el edificio compac

AAPP / Agence d’Architecture Philippe Prost   France   Posed on the site of one of the bloodiest battles waged during the Great War, the huge ring lists on its inside the names of the 579,606 of different nationalities who perished. 

GAZ Arquitectos   Spain   Established in 2001, the Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco (Higher Music Center of the Basque Country) used to be housed in San Sebastián’s Miramar Palace. The new building, located in Plaza de Europa at the Ibaeta campus of the UPV-EHU (Unive

César Azcárate IDOM   Spain   Popularly known as “the Cathedral,” the old stadium of the Athletic Club of Bilbao dated back to 1913, and was one of Spain’s oldest. In 2004 the City Council began to plan its replacement with a more modern facility with greater capacity, located pr

ACXT Arquitectos   Spain   The archive is located on María Díaz de Haro street, near Bilbao’s main street, on a plot between party walls measuring 20 meters wide and 70 meters deep, belonging to one of the urban blocks in the expansion areas of the city. Below grade, the build

ACXT Arquitectos   Spain   The main purpose of this laboratory for the company Arteche in the municipality of Mungia, in the province of Vizcaya, is to accommodate a large space for testing high-voltage transformers. Such a specific and dangerous use made it necessary for the

ACXT Arquitectos   Spain   Las viviendas se sitúan en una zona de expansión de la ciudad de Vitoria hacia el oeste, en el polígono de Zabalgana. En la parcela se desarrolla un bloque orientado al este y al oeste en sus frentes más largos en el que se da cabida a 65 viviendas r

Alexis López Acosta Xavier Iván Díaz Martín   Spain   Las ciudades crecen habitualmente redibujando sus periferias. El emplazamiento del proyecto es resultado de un plan de reconversión de antiguos terrenos industriales en una zona residencial de media densidad. Las primeras intervenciones se enfrentan

Rafael de La Hoz   Spain   Instead of maintaining several centers indifferent locations of a same city, an habitual organization for many multinational companies, Telefónica has opened this new business campus that brings together all its centers on a single plot in the urban

Soriano y Asociados Arquitectos   Spain   The construction of the Guggenheim Museum and the Euskalduna Palace – the latter as a venue for conventions, concerts and operas – on a brownfield site along Bilbao’s estuary has consolidated this part of the city, which already featured the Fine Art

With space, architecture, and the object as starting point, the photographs of Aitor Ortiz (Bilbao, 1971) invite spectators to observe from a different perspective, free from the limitations imposed by a specific context or landscape. The exhibition

Just as the annals of twentieth-century architecture began drawing to their close, a thrilling and largely unexpected denouement was provided by Frank Gehry. The completion of his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao of 1991-1997 in the Basque country’s largest

Cultural habits and social ceremonies demand appropriate settings, that crystalize into memorable gestures. The libraries of Seville and Valencia are identified by their material consistency and by the importance given to their interior spaces, while

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Bilbao ingresó en la toponimia mítica de la vanguardia en 1929. Ese año se estrenó en Berlín una obra de Bertold Brecht con canciones de Kurt Weill, una de las cuales era la famosa Bilbao-Song; sin embargo, la acción de la obra teatral se desarrollab

Joan Sabaté   Rafael Moneo has been described as an architect who is not interested in cultivating a personal style. Antón Capitel, said that Moneo takes the discipline as “the reflective use of diverse resources, in search not of an architecture of its time, but

Ignacio Paricio   ¿Artesanía o industria? La chapa metálica se ofrece hoy con formas muy diversas que responden a los últimos avances tecnológicos en producción y puesta en obra. Sin dejar de lado las soluciones artesanas, la chapa se ha convertido en un producto que

Aitor Ortiz   Ostfildern  2011  
Hatje Cantz   - 200 Pages 

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