Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas   Spain   The project involved enlarging a house built by the Americans in the vicinity of the US military base at Rota, on the coast of the southern Spanish province of Cádiz. The urban development it is located in responds to a typically Anglo-Saxon set of t

BIA architects   Spain   Refurbished following a design that respects its history and unique location, the old tide mill of El Caño in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) is home now to one of the finest restaurants on the Andalusian coast. 

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The solid volume of stone, rigorously perforated to shelter the residential program, is crowned by a simple podium of travertine that opens its lines towards the sea.

Julia González Pérez-Blanco Miguel Bretones del Pozo   Spain   Located up high on the Paseo de la Alameda, the building has a vantage position within the city center, from which it enjoys views of the whole promenade and of the fishing port of Tarifa. The plot has a slightly uneven shape with two clearly differe

Sol89   Spain   To build in the voids of the historic city means settling into them, finding space in the openings and porous areas that have taken shape over time. The early 19th-century architecture of the old slaughterhouse of Medina Sidonia is made up of a dense

Rafael de La Hoz   Spain   The project springs from the decision to build two towers instead of one, as the client requested, because with the height limit of 100 meters and a floor plan area of 1,000 square meters, when reducing the floor plan by half the slenderness ratio im

MGM Arquitectos   Spain   En el barrio del Pópulo de Cádiz, junto a la Catedral Nueva, existe una antigua casa-palacio en la que diversas familias vivían hacinadas en unas inadecuadas condiciones de habitabilidad. El objetivo del proyecto ha sido reubicar de forma digna a los

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The Cádiz countryside provides the setting for this abstract volume, a box measuring 33x18x8 meters and formed by four pristine white surfaces that look like canvasses clean and prepared for a work of art. However, perhaps what increases the tension

MGM Arquitectos   Spain   La biblioteca se concibe en estrecha relación con el parque longitudinal anejo. Su disposición en planta, que induce al visitante hacia la entrada y lo abraza, sirve también como cierre edificado del jardín, proporcionando un agradable espacio en som

Herzog & de Meuron   Spain   Today there is an empty lot in the traditional, homogeneous and perfect space of the city, and on this empty lot there is a little forest growing naturally, as if by chance. What should be done? The empty space is with its trees very attractive, but

Juan Luis Trillo de Leyva Antonio Martínez García   Spain   In the 17th century, the Augustinian order occupied a block outside the San Miguel quarter, that up to then had accommodated the hospital Nuestra Señora de Santa María. This change from a sanitary to a religious use was repeated at the beginning of t

Revitalizar los cascos históricos a partir de pequeñas intervenciones respetuosas con el entorno es una de las estrategias más exitosas que plantea el urbanismo contemporáneo. Esta sensibilidad inspira el proyecto de Diego Brieva y Carlos Violadé (Be

Cadiz  2008  
Junta de Andalucía   - 87 Pages