Atienza Maure   Spain   Not far from the chimney chutes that embody the industrial memory of Sant Adrià de Besós, the offices of a technology firm – and also the residence of its founder – have settled in what was once a printing company within a block set between party wal

Haz Arquitectura Bayona Valero Cantallops Vicente Ensenyat Tarrida   Spain   Barcelona takes another step forward in its commitment to providing affordable housing with the construction of this building at Illa Glóries, which is part of a larger development being carried out by IMHAB (Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barc

Anna & Eugeni Bach   Spain   On view through 14 September at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) in Barcelona is an exhibition on Francesc d’Assís Galí (1880–1965), a key figure in Catalan art of the first half of the 20th century. Trained alongside Pompeu Fabra, he play

Cierto Estudio Franc Llonch   Spain   A project of the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB), the Illa Glòries housing development of four blocks and 238 dwellings is located between Gran Via de las Corts Catalanas, Carrer dels Encants Vells, and Plaça de les Glòries. Th

BAAS Arquitectura Espinet / Ubach Arquitectes   Spain   The result of a 2017 competition, the project for the Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR) aimed to reorganize the campus of Barcelona’s university hospital through the topographic insertion of a new building into the urban fabric, in a way that

Vivas Arquitectos Pau Vidal   Spain   Building C of Illa Glòries is part of an ambitious project instigated by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB) that offers a total of 238 apartments in four buildings (A, B, C and D). Located in a strategic enclave within the Sup

MGM Morales De Giles Arquitectos Coll-Leclerc   Spain   The firms MGM Morales de Giles Arquitectos and Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos have together as a team won the competition to build the new Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), on its Belleterra campus. It is strategically al

Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   A project launched by Barcelona’s Municipal Institute of Housing and Renovation (IMHAB), a new eight story residential building redefines the urban landscape of Distrcit 22@. Integrated into the fabric of Cerdá’s expansion grid, the building covers t

Urbanitree   Spain   ‘Terraces for Life’ was the scheme that won the bid for 40 social housing units promoted by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge of Barcelona (IMHAB) at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this project in the Sant Martí district, in the Verneda

Vivas Arquitectos EXE Arquitectura   Spain   This residential building, commissioned by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitage de Barcelona (IMHAB), is integrated into the industrial environment of the Poblenou neighborhood, in the San Martín district. It combines traditional foundations with a s

TEST   Spain   This prefabricated house presents a balloon-frame structure of eight modules, each measuring approximately 3x3x3 meters, and are clad in panels of texturized wood. It rises on pillars reinforced with sprayed concrete, joined by mechanical fixing elem

Aramé Studio   Spain   The partitions of an apartment traversed by a narrow corridor were eliminated to reveal the concrete structure in all its glory and harness it as a new organizing element. The bedrooms and the bathrooms are grouped in a compact band to ensure a fluid

HYBRIDa aZCON D388 Arquitectura   Spain   With a built area of over 28,000 square meters, this apart-hotel in the Port Fòrum area of Barcelona presents a ground-level and first-floor plinth that on plan reaches the edges of the plot, and two volumes that form a V on plan and rise to the 18t

Lacol   Spain   On a plot located in the old quarter of the municipality stands a building in which a community of several generations endeavors to weave a tapestry of private and shared spaces. Over and above the neighborhood’s street-level shops, the dwellings are

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 Frederic Villagrasa   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 and Frederic Villagrasa were commissioned

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

After over a century, Casa Batlló has completed one of its most ambitious restoration works: the full recuperation of its rear facade and the private courtyard on the main floor, where the Batlló family resided. This intervention has brought back Ant

Alberto Ballesteros   The Barcelona of the past is the one we look to for its exemplary city-making. But, as Oriol Bohigas wrote, the city is not people: the brilliant operations were those focused on public space, on facilities, on infrastructures; meanwhile, Barcelonian

The winners of the three competitions that have been held for the renovation of the Fira de Barcelona – as part of the first phase of the overall revamp of the Montuïc trade-fair grounds – have been announced. The jury – chaired by Josep Lluís Mateo

As a photojournalist or as a portrait artist, Henri-Cartier Bresson (1908-2004) created timeless compositions that have influenced the style of subsequent generations. His snapshots of encounters and spontaneous situations, many of them considered ic

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

The Guardian   Stephen Burgen   Locals in Barcelona accuse religious foundation in charge of Gaudí‘s masterpiece of highhandedness. A gigantic 12-pointed star was installed on Monday on one of the main towers of the basilica of the Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece that h

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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