Madrid, Spain
Aiming to blend into the place like just another tree, this project is located in a forest of the city of Luxembourg, listed as a Natura 2000 site; that is, a conservation areas for the protection of biodiversity in the European Union. With the colla
- Two Madrid practices – the studio of Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, and Nicolás Maruri on the one hand, and AMM-Adelino Magalhaes on the other – have in collaboration with João Nunes and Carlos Ribas of the Lisbon-based landscape architecture firm PRO
A scheme drawn up by Atxu Amann Alcocer, Andrés Cánovas Alcaraz, and Nicolás Maruri González de Mendoza with Rodrigo Delso Gutiérrez has placed first in the competition to build a classroom block in the Madrid-Vicálvaro campus of Rey Juan Carlos Univ
At José Antonio Fernández Ordóñez 8, in the Madrid residential neighborhood of Valdebebas, stand three towers with curved corners. They contain 67 apartments plus retail units and a garage. The outcome of a competition held in March 2017, it is a wor
Expo 2020 Dubai, themed 'Connecting Minds, Creating the Future' and counting over 200 participants, kicked off with a ceremony almost a year after it was supposed to, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, and welcomes the public from 1 October to 31 March
Located in Molinete Archaeological Park, in the historic center of Cartagena, the museum occupies the ground level and basement of the health center. The project was drafted – with the building of the Roman Curia already excavated –, with the intenti
A 2013 competition involving three residential buildings for the Société Nationale des Habitations à Bon Marché, in Luxembourg’s Kirchberg quarter, was won by the Madrid practice of Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, and Nicolás Maruri – in collaboration wi
Passive bioclimatic systems temper 60% of the spaces. Air is drawn through the perimeter by means of moist esparto panels that generate adiabatic cooling, and is extracted through the cones thanks to the chimney effect... [+]
Located in Coslada, a quickly developing municipality close to Madrid, the building’s design is based on the variety of uses it combines: offices, residential, retail, public spaces at street level, public spaces on the upper floors and underground p
A few years ago the then Ministry of Housing launched the competition ‘Hacemos Ciudad’ (creating a city) for the construction of 5,688 social housing units in differen regions of Spain. This is one of the shortlisted projects that has finally been ca
LOCATED ON the southern slope of Molinete hill, in the municipality of Cartagena, the project’s purpose is to protect a group ofarchaeological remains and to wrap up the urban border at the foot of the hill. Molinete, one of the five hills that chara
Aiming to restructure, both functionally and formally, the access to the city through El Palmar Avenue, the City Council of Murcia and the city’s Institute of Architects called a competition for the design of an urban space around the three-kilometer
The project makes the San Esteban site part of the public space. This is achieved thanks to a metallic walkable roof that performs as a large meeting square, and the rises over the ruins...
Although the earthquake, of 5.1 magnitude on the Richter scale, was felt in the whole region of Murcia – and even in the provinces of Granada, Almería, Albacete, Málaga, Alicante, Ciudad Real and Jaén – the devastating action concentrated along a str
The new museum constitutes the first phase of a project to improve the accesses to the Castle of Monteagudo – an impressive military fortress built by the Almohads in the 12th century in this small municipality of Murcia –, and its refurbishment in
Un antiguo embarcadero de minerales al que conducía una línea ferroviaria organiza esta intervención paisajística que enfatiza el valor del enclave y lo protege de la presión inmobiliaria.
The project won a competition called by the Town?Hall in 2003 for the construction of 82 social housing units of one, two, three and four bedrooms in the urban expansion areas of the neighborhood of Carabanchel. The building is a perimeter block with
El nuevo edificio cierra el perímetro de la plaza mediante una cortina de madera que protege de la luz y mantiene la relación con la iglesia barroca de Santa Eulalia. Los dos salas del museo, una roja y la otra azul, se disponen en torno a un vacío c
The foothills of Monte de la Concepción – one of the five mountains protecting the city of Cartagena – were opened in 1878 to allow Gisbert street to run through, and so connect the interior valley with the Mediterranean. During the excavation works
These houses are part of a low-density residential strip along Madrid’s northwestern edge. In an area already defined by row constructions, the parcel is organized in bands that join two parallel streets. Besides the usual housing program, the brief
Expo 2020 officially opened in Dubai on 1 October. Like so many other premium celebrations, it is being held a year later than it was supposed to be, delayed by Covid-19. Themed ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future,’ the first major international e
The project for a memory box like the Molinete Archaeology Museum in the center of Cartagena, recently completed by the Madrid-based practice of Atxu Amman, Andrés Cánovas, and Nicolás Maruri, had to be tackled with a difficult, two-pronged objective
A rigorous volume breaks up into three parts in order to implant itself on the site with delicacy. This is the residential project that came about through a 2013 competition won by Amann, Cánovas, and Maruri of Temperaturas Extremas – in collaboratio
The team formed by Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, and Nicolás Maruri (Temperaturas Extremas Arquitectos) is the winner of the competition for the privilege of building Spain’s pavilion at the Universal Exhibition of 2020, to be held in Dubai. The winnin
Junto al Museo en Monteagudo (véase AV Monografías 147-148) y el embarcadero de El Hornillo (véase Arquitectura Viva 136), la intervención en el Parque Arqueológico del Molinete en Cartagena es la tercera de las obras concluidas recientemente en Mur
Monteagudo, pedanía de Murcia conocida por su imponente castillo, cuenta ya con un pequeño museo diseñado por el estudio madrileño dirigido por Andrés Cánovas, Atxu Amann y Nicolás Maruri. Enclavado al pie de la fortaleza, el edificio se dispone orgá
El Palacio de la Diputación Provincial de Zamora será rehabilitado por el estudio dirigido por Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas y Nicolás Maruri para alojar un centro cultural y dependencias institucionales. La propuesta actúa mínimamente en el cuerpo hist
En la avenida de la Peseta, eje del nuevo ensanche del barrio madrileño de Carabanchel se alza un bloque semejante a un apilamiento de contenedores metálicos de colores brillantes. Se trata de las 82 viviendas de protección pública construidas por el