These 23 homes, surrounded by pine trees, are located beside the Camiral golf course of Caldes de Malavella, a municipality in Girona province, in the comarca of La Selva. A work of the architect Jaime Prous in collaboration with Antón Monedero, Àle
An office building rises on an irregular plot of land in the form of a fragmented prism clad in a modular lattice of concrete that combines ‘tapatío’ tradition with contemporary techniques. On the various floors, which shrink in area the higher one g
THE SUMMER camp cabin is part of a series of commissions of the same type carried out by the studio in different areas of Catalonia, promoted by the Fundació Catalana de L’Esplai, a non-profit educational association. The project takes three essentia
The house follows basic geometric rules, so simple that they concentrate the whole strength of the project. Like the Ricarda House of Antonio Bonet – basic source of inspiration for this house – the AA house is based on the addition of a series of sq
A place of transition between the built city and the natural space of the sea and the beach, the new waterfront of Poniente Beach is not conceived as a frontier or edge, but as an intermediate space that makes this transition permeable. Structured as
Included in one of the new metropolitan plans of the city of Barcelona, the building groups 56 apartments, several shops and a parking garage in Lesseps square – in the De Gràcia neighborhood –, which has recently undergone an important redesign, in
The new headquarters of the Basque Health Department go up on a corner site of the capital of Vizcaya, the last plot that remained empty in the heart of the administrative and financial district of Bilbao. Until now, the institution’s staff was distr
El tramo de la Diagonal que atraviesa el Distrito 22@ —área de reinvención de la ciudad ligada a las nuevas tecnologías— está marcado por una secuencia que, teniendo por fondo la conocida silueta de la torre Agbar, comienza en la nueva sede del grupo
The project for the extension of the Science Park of Granada, a commission assigned after a call for ideas held in the year 2003, conceives the intervention from the outset as an opportunity to address urban distribution issues that go beyond the pre
Located on the new Diagonal Avenue, across from the park designed by Jean Nouvel in the north stretch of the urban block, the building, which includes retail and parking areas and 68 apartments, addresses a double condition: it acts as facade of an o
Located in the agricultural terrains thatspread along the road joining Torroella with Palafrugell, in the Ampurdán region of Gerona, the new hotel completes the facilities of the Empordà Golf Club. The flatness of the land is only interrupted by the
In the small town of Casas de Alcanar, south of the delta of the Ebro River, in a rich agricultural land where the farm fields stretch out until they meet the sea, a plot of quite unique dimensions (it measures 250 meters in length and 18 meters in w
En un solar irregular se dispone una torre trapezoidal de ocho alturas y un bloque longitudinal separado del anterior por un patio ‘atrio’ que atraviesa la parcela. La articulación entre ambos cuerpos se resuelve con un núcleo de comunicación vertica
This project to regenerate and define the urban fabric, through the construction of three new residential pieces, has been carried out in a typical block of the Cerdá Ensanche. Two corners opposite the block remain open, thus creating an itinerary th
Located within the boundaries of a new park of 90,000 square meters east of the city (in a residential area between the urban core and the harbor area of El Grau, within the limits marked by the beltway), the Auditorium and Congress Center has become
Los constructores de paisaje siempre se han debatido entre la aproximación racional, basada en geometrías lineales y sencillas, y la orgánica, que intenta una reproducción pintoresca de la naturaleza mediante geometrías complejas. El planteamiento co
Desde un extremo de uno de los dedos de la explanada arranca la pasarela peatonal. Un puente de 19,5 metros de longitud cuya misión es dar continuidad al frente marítimo uniendo la gran plaza del Fórum con el parque de la Paz y configurar al mismo ti
A orillas del mar, limitando con el parque de los Auditorios, se sitúa la nueva zona de baños. Un espacio donde nadar en aguas tranquilas, bucear sobre un fondo poblado con jardines subacuáticos, e incluso tomar el sol sobre rocas naturales o escollo
El nuevo centro de convenciones encuentra en los antecedentes urbanos de los barrios circundantes la inspiración para su forma. Hasta mediados del siglo pasado, la zona que éste ocupa actualmente estaba poblada por construcciones efímeras y precarias
All the urban activity that Avenida Diagonal concentrates in its long itinerary through Barcelona’s Ensanche was trapped, transformed and outstretched towards the sea by (as it was tagged during the celebration of the Forum of Cultures) the‘esplanade
The celebration of the Universal Forum of Cultures meant for Barcelona the opportunity to redesign and merge into the built fabric a vast extension of industrial terrains and port facilities that were no longer in use in the northern coastal edge of
Between the neighborhoods of Almozara and Delicias, historically separated by the railroad tracks, and next to the old station of Caminreal – a work by Gutiérrez Soto that today houses the Railroad Museum – stands the new intermodal terminal of Zara
Built in the year 2000 on the mountain of Montjuic, by the Olympic Ring and with impressive views of Barcelona, the Botanical Garden is a triangular mesh of concrete paths and cor-ten steel walls, concave and convex, that cover the north hillside. Th
In the district of Nou Barris, in the north of Barcelona, the City Council is promoting a series of measures – public parks, equipments, social housing – aimed at correcting its lack of collective facilities, something common to all the residential a
Construir de una de manera respetuosa con la naturaleza, con un funcionamiento versátil y un coste inferior a los 450 euros por metro cuadrado, ha sido el reto que el estudio liderado por Carlos Ferrater ha afrontado en su proyecto para una colonia e
Un lustro ha transcurrido desde la aparición de las dos últimas monografías sobre Carlos Ferrater —Sincronizar la Geometría, y Carlos Ferrater (OAB), de Actar y Padura respectivamente—. Ambas fueron publicadas de forma casi simultánea en 2006, poco d
Situado junto a la carretera que une Castellón y Benicasim, la nueva sede del grupo Azahar —que compagina los servicios de jardinería, reciclaje y consultoría con el patrocinio del arte y la cooperación— debía ser reflejo del compromiso medioambienta
Inspirado en la naturaleza y en el entorno, y con formas sinuosas y vivos colores que remiten a la obra de Gaudí o de Burle Marx, el nuevo Paseo Marítimo de la Playa de Poniente, en Benidorm, del estudio barcelonés de Carlos Ferrater, es un lugar de
