1926 (Madrid, Spain) - 2017 (Madrid, España)
The remodeling of the tower, built by Albert Donker in 1974, turns it into the tallest green building in Europe, reaching 113 meters. The project focuses on the modular curtain wall, with solar control glass and vertical steel strips... [+]
Since it opened to air traffic in 1933, the airport of Madrid-Barajas has undergone numerous enlargements and modifications. Its current battery of passenger terminals is working to capacity; thus the decision to build a new one separated from the re
Arquitectura Viva and its director, Luis Fernández-Galiano, understand and regret the discomfort caused by the series Conversations. Filmed between 2013 and 2018, this documentary series of Fundación Arquia, now being streamed on Netflix, was left un
The beauty of the twin high-rises at Madrid’s Plaza de Colón, a 1968 iconic work of the architect Antonio Lamela, lies less in their appearance than in the extraordinary hanging structure that the civil engineer Javier Manterola calculated, and which
1926-2017 Antonio Lamela, one of the last masters of Spanish modernity, died in Madrid on 1 April. Graduated in 1954 from the ETSAM (Madrid School of Architecture), the son of a real-estate developer and builder focused his practical intelligence on
Pragmatic and efficient, this builder of large-scale works in Madrid united rational rigor and the visionary spirit that made him a pioneer of globalization.
Interviews with Antonio Lamela, Federico Correa, and Antonio Vázquez de Castro make up the third set of the Arquia/maestros audiovisual series.
One of the last remaining masters of Spanish modernity died on 1 April in Madrid. A 1954 graduate of the Madrid School of Architecture, Antonio Lamela devoted his practical intelligence to creating a practice of the kind then unknown in Spain, driven
Federico Correa (Barcelona, 1924), Antonio Lamela (Madrid, 1926), and Antonio Vázquez de Castro (Madrid, 1929) are the third trio of the arquia/maestros series of DVDs on important figures of Spanish architecture. For the two previous sets of audiovi
El catálogo, conmemorativo del centenario del nacimiento del arquitecto Félix Candela Outeriño (1910-1997) y publicado con motivo de la exposición ‘Félix Candela. La conquista de la esbeltez’ —celebrada en el Centro Cultural Conde Duque de Madrid ent