Lacol   Spain   Over and above the neighborhood’s street-level shops, the dwellings are organized around a courtyard and a staircase that has landings thanks to the existence of an alternative passageway along the outside. By means of a large ceiling fan, the heat t

Lacol   Spain   Soaring prices determined the choice of the usual concrete structure, the basic unidirectional scheme of which proved ideal for establishing an efficient arrangement of twelve living units and shared facilities and amenities provided on the ground fl

Lacol Laboqueria Taller d’Arquitectura   Spain   A large foyer gives access to the dwellings and a multipurpose hall that doubles as a dining room and, at the request of the residents, can be used separately to connect with the area’s fabric of community associations. Harnessed for acoustic filteri

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   The embt office and the Fundació Miralles are located in a modernist building in the center of Barcelona, close to the Ramblas and Plaça Reial. The property is a characteristic example of late 19th-century architecture and reproduces a typology which

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   More than any other building type, the architect’s home is a faithful reflection of their language, desires, and concerns; in sum, of their style. The house the authors designed to become their family residence is a true laboratory of experimentation

Narch Arquitectes Maira Arquitectes dataAE   Spain   The residential building on Carrer Palamós is integrated into an urban fabric of La Trinitat Nova, a Barcelona neighborhood characterized by isolated blocks. Volume-wise, it presents a series of setbacks that break up the large scale of the developme

Metronom arquitectura   Spain   Built in 1929, the Mas de Miquel residential building was designed by Doménec Sugrañes, a disciple of Antoni Gaudí. A fully decorated nine-story atrium gives access to all the dwellings. Metronom architecture was commissioned to renovate it and trans

Anna & Eugeni Bach   Spain   Like a greenhouse, the new volume of wood and glass lets natural light in. Because of shadows cast by the building itself and by neighboring ones, insolation is never excessive. The facade of the extension is detached from the vertical line of the pr

Anna & Eugeni Bach   Spain   To span the unevenness between the different platforms that organize the district of Can Peguera, the project suggests a series of new accesses via ramps, stairs, and elevators which, in addition to solving the connections, add character to the publi

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   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   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

Harquitectes   Spain   So exacerbated by the romantic imagination of modernisme, the medieval character of Barcelona’s old quarter is less attributable to ogee arches and flamboyant traceries than to the relationship between the alleys within the confines of the old walls

Vivas Arquitectos   Spain   This shelter in Barcelona’s Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district can take in a hundred homeless women. A work of the firm VIVAS Arquitectos (César Vivas and Cristian Vivas), it has a day center and a night center seeking to assist and accompany its residents

Juan Trías de Bes - TdB Architects   Spain   The commission involved adapting an 18th-century mansion in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter for collective housing. The typological strata of the levels were preserved. The ground floor, which used to be stables, now presents commercial premises; the main

Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   An open block presents a low volume and a tower connected by a bioclimatic atrium thanks to which all the apartment units, meant to be rented out, face two directions. The artisanal bricks baked with biomass provide inertia to the inner void – which

Coll-Leclerc MiAS arquitectes   Spain   This residential complex of the Barcelona Municipal Institute for Housing and Refurbishment (IMHAB) is located in a zone of textile colonies established in the mid-19th century behind the hill of Montjuic. Here fabrics were dyed and dried on the mead

TEST Guillermo Santomà   Spain   From tapestry to wall. In essence, this was the Copernican turn Semper took with his principle of cladding, whereby structure gave up its protagonism in architecture in favor of Bekleidung: though humans learned to use durable materials, he held that

Carles Enrich   Spain   This tower recreates extreme building situations for the training of firemen – using double and triple spaces, spiral staircases, cat ladders, wells, doors, windows, etc. Cantilevered balconies are used for rappelling exercises and vertical rescue dr

Anna & Eugeni Bach Jaume Bach Bach arquitectes   Spain   The project involved renovating, refurbishing, and expanding the property at Passeig de Sant Joan 110 in Barcelona, in accordance with a new program of sixteen flats and two duplex units added on the roof. The original house was commissioned by Dolor

Mirag - Millet i Ramoneda   Spain   Pau Millet and Xavier Ramoneda of estudio Mirang were tasked to transform the former Germans Climent factory into a funerary home for Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood. The listed building was raised by the architect Modest Feu i Estrada in 1925. The re

AMOO   Spain   The renovation of a flat tries to get the most out of a limited space by organizing it around an irregular core, in effect alleviating the rigidity of the apartment’s scheme of loadbearing walls…

TAKK Architecture   Spain   After the fire that destroyed this old Castilian house only the stone walls remained. Its refurbishment has been carried out through the insertion of a concrete structure that completes and visually replicates the original construction...

Josep Maria Montaner   Zaida Muxí   The cooperative that calls itself Lacol came into being in 2009 as an initiative of young architects and students averse as much to the usual logic of hierarchical study programs as to professional exploitation. It was also a bit more than ten years

The deep-rooted association culture of Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood revealed to a group of young professionals setting up an office there what would become the foundation of their practice: the idea that architecture is less about projects per se t

The work of the Canadian artist Jeff Wall (Vancouver, 1946) has contributed to redefining photography as part of contemporary art. His practice of the tableau inherits from the history of painting its most fundamental feature: composition. The 36 wor

Developed by Accenture Song with its Hybrid Spaces team (Nacho Martín, Ana Petra Moriyón), the Neo-Rotonda is a multimedia space comprising different immersive levels. It is located in Torre Andreu, a modernist tower in Barcelona known as La Rotonda,

When she was almost a septuagenarian, Suzanne Valadon portrayed herself with her breasts exposed, a pearl necklace, and a defiant gaze. In this way – free of prejudices, flirty and provocative – she summed up her life and work. Accustomed to her pres

Alejandro Valdivieso   The anthropologist Marvin Harris stressed in his book Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times (1999) how much postmodernity had done to make science and reason – associated with the pressure and oppression of totalitarian regimes – give way to emotio

The winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2024 have been announced in Brussels. The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), by Gustav Düsing and Max

MareNostrum 5, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) supercomputer located in Spain was officially inaugurated in Barcelona by Pedro Sánchez, the President of the Government of Spain. MareNostrum 5 is a pre-exascale

Josep Maria Montaner   With his multifaceted work, which went far beyond the confines of construction, the eminent architect became one of the leading figures of the Renaixença.

Enrique Morillo   That images are faster than words is a hard-to-refute fact. But it is just as true that, since the classical ekphrasis, visual representations have appeared together with written comments, turning words into usual companions that stress or alter thei

As if to mark the absolute center that Cerdá had in mind for his Eixample, the tower built by Jean Nouvel on the Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes has become one of the icons of Barcelona. An observation deck at the top has now opened to the public in w

José María Ezquiaga   Recent Spanish urban planning is sullied by the fact that political debate, professional criticism, and academic analysis have given way to the judicialization of urban problems, dragging into the sphere of legality all matters that really ought to s

With an old loom she purchased from one of the many textile mills that were dying out in the Barcelona of the 1970s, the artist Teresa Lanceta learned to weave and immersed herself in a world of warps and woofs that since then has for her been a sort

Misunderstood genius with a halo of sainthood? Skilled frequenter of bishops and powers-that-be? A great many things have been said about the modernist architect, and many of them are myths. Myths which the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya has taken

With the demise of Oriol Bohigas at 95 years of age goes one of the most influential masters of the second half of the 20th century in Spain, but also an entire manner of understanding the profession, the power, and the sphere that connects them: the

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Few studios have fared better in reading the panorama of a profession in times of crisis, working with limited budgets, often far from the big cities and with programs that require a genuine dose of sustainability. Indeed, for Harquitectes – establis

As part of the proceedings of the UIA General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona has been announced the winner of the bid to host the World Congress of the International Union of Architects (UIA) and be UIA-UNESCO World Capital of Architecture in

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