Arquitectura-G   Spain   The commission consisted in transforming a traditional Catalan country house in the Empordà region. The ensemble was made up of a main building to which, over the years, auxiliary constructions had been added, creating a fragmented and dark interior

Arquitectura-G   Portugal   This building is located by the main vehicle access of the Quinta de Recreio estate, and replaces an auxiliary building that collapsed and was irrecoverable. Due to current regulations, the new construction recovers the footprint, the volume, and the

Arquitectura-G   France   Two aspects unrelated to the project, prior to it, deeply marked the character of the house. So much so that the project, in a way, is understood as a complement that is added. On one hand, the privileged location on a promontory with views of the Ca

Arquitectura-G   Spain   The changing landscape of the Ebro Delta is shaped by the rice production cycles, from being a plain of land to a mirror of water during the flooding season of the fields, to then transform into an intense green prairie with the growth of rice plants

Arquitectura-G   Spain   El encargo consistió en una intervención sobre una situación urbana poco habitual: una vivienda pareada en el interior de una manzana del Ensanche de Barcelona. Como punto de partida, se buscó enfatizar las peculiaridades del volumen, caracterizado p

Arquitectura-G   Portugal   Originally, this building – currently under construction – contained the winery and residence of the workers and household staff of Quinta de Recreio. The existing volume contained different divided segments connected by several stairs. Despite the c

Arquitectura-G   France   The store is located on Rue Saint-Honoré, on the lower floors of a corner building, with the typical artisan house-workshop structure with a first floor of reasonable height and a loft with a height of 2,05 meters, where the family lived. Both floors

Arquitectura-G   Japan   The first floor of a glass-enclosed building, on a main street in the commercial area of Nagoya, harbors the retail store of the Swedish fashion brand Acne Studios. The commission from the new creative direction of the company asked, on one hand, to

Arquitectura-G   Spain   Due to peculiar urban circumstances, this dwelling does not have a facade as it is confined within the block, bordering on other buildings along its entire perimeter, with the exception of the reduced entrance courtyard. There are no possible views t

Arquitectura-G   Spain   Following her desire to live in a garden, the client found what she was looking for in the center of the Spanish capital, and set out to build her first home there. The garden was hidden to the street behind an apartment block, and had a small volume

Arquitectura-G   Spain   The client – Nacho, a good friend of the architects – wanted to transform his photography studio, which had a backyard, into a home. It was a simple commission which had to address the essential needs of a dwelling: a place for sleeping, a place for

Arquitectura-G   Netherlands   Leaving aside the by now mythical incident of employees in the area running into Tilted Arc, claiming the installation was an eyesore that blocked their way to work, and succeeding in getting it removed, it is unanimously considered a powerful experi

Arquitectura-G   Portugal   Within the Quinta da Ponte in the Portuguese town of Sintra, a few kilometers from Lisbon, is this two-story construction that is part of a row of buildings arranged along the perimeter wall of the property. The ground floor contained a shop, and the

Arquitectura-G   Spain   This building containing five apartments and two commercial units stands at an irregularly shaped corner lot in Barcelona’s Poblenou neighborhood, discreetly complementing a block of the Eixample. Inducing natural lighting and ventilation, the cylind

Arquitectura-G   Spain   Shortlisted for the 2022 FAD Award in the Architecture section, the house was designed as an L-shaped porch opening onto a courtyard cum garden. With a total area of 202 square meters, the three-level building is surrounded by party walls, and its wh

Arquitectura-G   Spain   The Barcelona firm Arquitectura-G – headed by Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, and Igor Urdampilleta – designed this 1,000-square-meter block containing four flats and two duplexes. Carrer Praga bends toward the interior of the plot

Arquitectura-G   Spain   Behind a renovated old facade on Verdi street in Barcelona, where white is the dominant color, the floors of the house descend toward the rear garden, where the building shows its true size. The fragmentation of the different levels forms interior ba

Arquitectura-G   Sweden   A former banking office in the Swedish capital – an anonymous institutional building located in the city center – became world-famous in 1973 thanks to an armed heist and hostage crisis that triggered in the victims a psychological reaction later cal

Arquitectura-G   Spain   Located in Barcelona, the Acid House is the outcome of converting a factory into a corporate innovation center. Conceived with an economy of means in mind, the project maintains the original layout in two differentiated zones: the main shed has been

Arquitectura-G   Spain   Halfway between Barcelona and Sant Cugat, La Floresta is a low-density residential neighborhood in the Collserola mountain range. Located on a plot with a deep slope, the house replaces a small dwelling that was self-built by the client’s parents in

Arquitectura-G   Spain   To maintain the sense of a continuous space without sacrificing funcionality, the partitions and furniture-couches never touch the ceiling and walls; a painstaking palette of materials and tones defines the complex.

Arquitectura-G   Spain   The flow of stairs and stacked rooms shows on the outside as a series of elongated openings that have the effect of reinforcing the vertical character of the preexisting domestic tower. 

Arquitectura-G   Spain   The revamp of a small agricultural construction in Santa Margarida de Montbui (Barcelona) involved, firstly, an intervention on the lot, creating where there was no preamble between the hut and the fields an artificial transition. This translates int

Since they set up their studio in 2006 – a time marked by the impact of the financial crisis – Arquitectura-G has completed a considerable number of projects while continuing their research and dissemination work in the field. Almost two decades late

Aitor Fuentes   Jordi Ayala-Bril   Igor Urdampilleta   Jonathan Arnabat   We would like to see this monographic issue as a summary of our trajectory as a practice up to the present time, and this text as an introduction to what is to come. Our journey began some seventeen years ago, when we finished our studies with the ec

Roger Tudó   Josep Ricart   David Lorente   Xavier Ros   Heirs of the Barcelona tradition, the work of Arquitectura-G stands out for its formal synthesis, material precision, and compositional clarity. 1. Two Apartments and a Chair The Apartment in El Born (2010), the first work we discovered of Arquitectu

Luis Fernández-Galiano   I do not quite understand the varied and vibrant work of Arquitectura-G, but that matters little, because we have loves in common. To start, Bernard Rudofsky, an Austrian New Yorker who taught us how to see the architecture without architects of vern

Arquitectura-G has designed a line of eyewear for the Barcelona firm Kaleos. The initial idea behind this collaboration was to create timeless items in an elemental aesthetic that captured the simple essence of what eyeglasses are: reinterpretations

Llacuna Building The jury of 2022 FAD Awards – Francesc Rifé (chair), Xavier Delgado, Carme Fiol, Uriel Fogué, Patrícia Santos Pedrosa, and Jelena Prokopljević – gave the award in the Architecture category to the Llacuna residential building in Poble

The winners of the 63rd FAD Awards have been announced. The Architecture prize goes to 46 social housing units in the Fabra & Coats factory in Barcelona, by Roldán + Berengué. The jury – Fabrizio Barozzi at the helm, joined by Agnès Blanch, Daria

Besides the Pritzker, the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – or simply the Mies van der Rohe Award – is the only trophy that gets hype in the more generalized communications media. Thus the great expectation surrounding the announcement of the

Moisés Puente   Colonia  2022  
Verlag Walther König   - 160 Pages