Batlle i Roig   Spain   The Catalan practice of Enric Batlle and Joan Roig transformed an old industrial construction in Barcelona’s 22@ district into a corporate headquarters for Doctors Without Borders. A 2003 renovation had converted the building into offices, modifying

Batlle i Roig OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture NEXO arquitectura   Spain   A series of stairs, escalators, and ramps leads to ‘The Valley,’ where a tower with a cascade and a climbing wall at the rear becomes a landmark in the park, surrounded by a concrete ‘ring’ where different activities and events can be held...

Batlle i Roig   Spain   A work of Enric Batlle, Joan Roig, and Iván Sánchez, the track called the Camino de las Guixeres is part of a larger project for the Igualada Green Ring, the objective of which is to generate a series of footpaths and bicycle lanes around the city’s

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The heart of the new Parque de Vallmora near Masnou (Barcelona) is a large equipped promenade that also serves as a grand balcony or mirador over the city. One of the most unique facilities built in the park is an ‘insect hotel’: a place that provide

Batlle i Roig   Spain   Located at the foot of Collserola, right where the mountain range meets the Rubí stream, the cemetery is conceived from the beginning as a group of terraced gardens scattered over the wooded hillsides. In this way, the recessed niches are designed as

Batlle i Roig   Spain   With an area of more than 40 hectares, and connected to a place that has become a new central space of the city, the park was maintained after a long battle during which neighbors fought to protect a green area outside the city, and that was used as

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The project’s basic objective was to organize, urbanize, and add a public content to the spaces resulting from the construction of the Nus de la Trinitat interchange, making it easier to reach the park from the neighborhood through a plaza of access,

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The park is located where the railway station of Igualada used to be, at the end of Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer Avenue, on a site bound by three streets with a steep slope between them. The urban conditions determined the organization of the project. On t

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The project is the result of the development of a series of partial plans starting from a common idea: open spaces as synthesis of city form. This structural idea allows coherently addressing the variety of situations, approaches, developers, and bud

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The Sant Climent Riera crosses Viladecans from north to south to end at sea after crossing the Delta del Llobregat Park. With its 2.5 kilometers, it had become a physical frontier for urban growth. The project sought recovering the space as a natural

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The project aimed to address the impact of a road infrastructure built rushedly for the Olympic Games of 1992 – using a buried box instead of a tunnel boring machine –, to in this way restore the terrain’s continuity and create a park not only over t

El País   Ianko López   The name of five finalists in the competition to redevelop Madrid’s Azca business district have been made public: Diller Scofidio+Renfro with Porter+Bowman and b720; Heatherwick Studio with CLK; MVRDV with estudio GRAS; Rem Koolhaas-OMA with Battle i

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Rooted in their family histories, the Barcelona architects Enric Batlle and Joan Roig are gardeners and bricklayers, deft both at designing landscapes and at building architectures. Trained by Rafael Moneo and Elías Torres, they based their work on a

Joan Roig   Batlle i Roig was born at a desk in the studio of José Antonio Martínez Lapeña and Elías Torres, midway through the year 1981. Though we both had parallel university careers, we didn’t coincide until the last year, with Rafael Moneo as chair profess

Enric Batlle   Living on the Edge A flock of sheep grazes in a new public space of the Barcelona metropolis. We could think of it as a chance event, similar to those we sometimes observe in our peripheries, in those places where urban development has arrived but no

Richard Ingersoll   Despite its undeniable quality, I doubt that the work of the Catalan architects Enric Batlle and Joan Roig will ever be recognized for its original style or for its technological innovations, but I am certain the office will be remembered for its uni

Batlle i Roig / Rafael de La-Hoz Created in 1981, the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes gives its Gold Medal to people or institutions that have contributed significantly to the defense of the interests of architecture, or to architects

En la comarca catalana del Vallès Occidental y sobre unos terrenos deteriorados por un almacén de desechos que se encontraba al límite de su capacidad, los barceloneses Enric Batlle y Joan Roig han construido un nuevo Centro de Tratamiento de Residuo

There is no place as cultured as a natural space. The intact landscape is domesticated through the voluntary artifice, and the contrast between the inevitable geometry of the construction on one hand, and the hidden and random order of uncombed natur