Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   The former headquarters of Banco Mercantil takes up a whole urban block of Santander’s gridded expansion area. The building is a 1900 project by the architect Casimiro Pérez de la Riva (1851-1934). The building is horizontally divided into three part

Lecoc Arquitectura   Algeria   Located in the Usto neighborhood of Bir El Djir, this project by the Valencian firm Lecoc Arquitectura —with Alicia Medrano and Fernando Pedrosa at the helm— shows a clear-cut and compact massing on an irregular site, maximizing its useful area. The