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

COR Asociados Arquitectos   Spain   Working from offices in Alicante, Elche, and Albacete, the firm COR Asociados Arquitectos – headed by Miguel Rodenas and Jesús Olivares – has turned one of the oldest buildings of the University of Alicante into a home for its natural collections. Wi

Grupo Aranea   Spain   Several snaking concrete footbridges crisscross to form the ‘Braided Valley,’ a network of paths that flow over the Vinalopó River and integrate it into urban life.

Eduardo de Miguel    Spain   The intervention on the Serra Grossa, which places artificial mirador rocks along the waterfront course, recycles inert material left over from the construction of the railway tunnel.

Alfredo Payá Benedito / Noname 29   Spain   The masonry walls and the bold white volume of a traditional house are at the origins of a project based on the gradual transition from interior to exterior and vice versa.

Manuel Ocaña   Spain   Casa Mediterráneo is a public consortium, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the AECI (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation), with the collaboration of the Valencian government and the city councils of Alicante and Benidorm. The

COR Asociados Arquitectos   Spain   In Algueña, a small town in the province and an economy based on agriculture and the marble industry, a new public building will gather all the town’s activities related to music and culture. Music bands have a long tradition in the region of Valenci

Eduardo de Miguel José María Urzelai   Spain   Situada al pie de un enclave paisajístico y cultural de gran valor, el proyecto se concibe como una intervención de mínimos que respeta el singular carácter del lugar.

Alfredo Payá Benedito / Noname 29   Spain   This pavilion-house is built on two adjacent plots in a residential area of San Vicente del Raspeig, north of Alicante. The plots were previously occupied by an old house of scarce value, a pool, and a vegetable garden that had been grown for over tw

Sancho-Madridejos   Spain   Planteado como una ambiciosa ampliación del vecino Museo de la Asegurada, alojado en un antiguo pósito del siglo XVII, el nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante (MACA), sede del legado Eugenio Sempere y el de Juana Francés, se sitúa en el casc

Grupo Aranea   Spain   Located in Rafal, a municipality of 4,000 inhabitants south of the province of Alicante, some 50 kilometers from the capital, the high school goes up in a plot of less than 7,000 square meters, almost half of the standard established by the community

Carlos Bañon Fernando Valderrama Subarquitectura Andrés Silanes   Spain   Two narrow bottomless boxes 36 meters long and 3 wide, perforated all around and on the top with 800 holes that serve to let light pass through and held above the ground by a few slender posts, are posed over the platform and the rails to create a co

Javier García-Solera   Spain   Located in La Cala de?Benidorm, near the city’s center, the building is the final materialization of a project presented to a competition for the construction of two residential towers, one to be occupied by young tenants and another one for senior c

Francisco Mangado   Spain   Teulada-Moraira is an atypical urban center. Though it is divided into two separate  physical units, it is however a single administrative one. Located in Alicante, in a valley that descends from the mountain to the sea, the town gives up neither its

Javier García-Solera   Spain   Bordering on the city center of San Vicente del Raspeig is a triangular plot with a gentle drop, presided by a pine forest that closes up its north front like a stage curtain. The urban plan for this block proposed its division into two halves, each

Antonio Marquerie José María Torres Nadal    Spain   Con el deseo de que el edificio se integre en su entorno y acoja otras actividades aparte de las musicales, se opta por descomponer el programa en pequeños equipamientos que se sitúan en torno a un volumen central. Se construye un paisaje de transpar

Toyo Ito   Spain   El parque ha sido concebido para mimetizarse con la curvatura suave de las dunas. Tres estructuras metálicas en espiral y con forma de concha marina albergan el restaurante, el centro de información y una zona de baños al aire libre. El resultado son

FOA | Foreign Office Architects   Spain   En colaboración con Antonio Marquerie, el estudio propone un cuerpo en voladizo que, además de dotar de singularidad a la pieza, establece continuidad con la plaza, incluida en la intervención. La fachada de piedra arenisca evoca las canteras locales

Soto & Maroto   Spain   Associated to  an outdoor culture and blessed with a good weather, the Mediterranean tradition regards its public plazas as the ideal place for the development of commercial activity. Protected by light canopies which are easily set up and taken apar

Miguel Fisac   Spain   While he was designing an urban plan for San Juan, in Alicante, Fisac received the commission to build a small administration building. To underscore its presence amidst a cluster of apartments towers, the architect displayed a formal freedom which w

AMP Arquitectos José Luis Camarasa   Spain   The end of L’Aigüera park, where an old river-bed meets the city of the fifties, was taken up until recently by an unfinished square. The Town Council decided to build its new headquarters on this site, maintaining the two-story public parking on the

Javier Peña   Spain   La casa se sitúa sobre una gran parcela que forma parte del palmeral de Elche, un paisaje único, protegido por su valor ambiental, que combina huertas, palmeras y edificios. Dado el suave clima de la zona, los espacios y recorridos exteriores dominan

Javier García-Solera   Spain   Raised in the sixties on the dry terrains of an old airfield, the San Vicente de Raspeig campus has been subject to a gradual congestion that made it impossible to increase its extension. In view of the shortage of land, the plot initially foreseen t

1924-2019 On 11 August, at 95 years of age, Juan Antonio García Solera passed away in Alicante, the city where he was born. He was one of the last living masters of the second modern generation: that of the professionals who started working in the Sp

En una gran parcela que, debido a su difícil topografía, quedó excluida del crecimiento urbanístico de Torrevieja, el equipo barcelonés de Carme Pinós ha llevado a cabo un proyecto de regeneración paisajística y medioambiental. Compuesto de diferente

En el antiguo aparcamiento del Hospital Universitario de Elche, el estudio alicantino de Enrique Tallés ha construido la nueva unidad integral ambulatoria, conectada con el hospital a través de una pasarela. El edificio, un volumen prismático sencill

Instituto de Secundaria en Rafal, Alicante In the 52nd edition of the FAD Awards, four winning works were chosen among the 541 presented to the different categories. The High School in Rafal, Alicante, by Grupo Aranea – directed by Francisco Leyva –

En el casco histórico de Alicante, entre la iglesia monumental de Santa María y la Casa-museo de la Asegurada, sobrio ejemplo del barroco valenciano, Sol Madridejos y Juan Carlos Sancho han construido el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la ciudad, un v

Un exterior rotundo, duro y compacto, en vivo contraste con la variedad de los espacios interiores —con las aulas dispuestas en forma de peine hacia el interior y el espacio libre fragmentado conformando numerosos patios— es la imagen que ofrece el i

En el campus de la Universidad Miguel Hernández en Elche, el estudio Moho Arquitectura —formado por Carlos Abadía, Ignacio Bautista, Pablo García Mora y Ernesto Sierra—ha construido una ‘isla informática’. Se trata de un pabellón que ofrece conexión

Marta García Carbonero   Viviendas en Gerona y Alcoy The modest architecture of social housing is 1999’s resounding winner of the Fomento de las Artes Decorativas Awards. An apartment block by Arcadi Pla in Gerona and a residential development by Manuel de Solà-Morales in th

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