Borja Ferrater Carlos Ferrater   Spain   The tradicional borders between kitchen and dining area are here completely dissolved to create a single gastronomic space within the austere architecture of an old industrial shed in Barcelona. 

OAB Peñín Arquitectos   Spain   This complex of twelve residences occupies a corner plot in Barcelona’s Poble Nou neighborhood. Two main streets intersect here and there is a flow of tourists coming from the Barceloneta Beach, so firm OAB (Carlos Ferrater and Xavier Martí) with Peñ

Carlos Ferrater OAB   Spain   The project foresaw the construction of a residential complex containing 108 social housing units in L’ Hospitalet de Llobregat, a municipality of Barcelona. The apartments go up on a conveniently located site both for its closeness to the city cente

Carlos Ferrater Juan Trías de Bes   Spain   Una antigua sede bancaria en el Ensanche barcelonés se reconvierte en un hotel exclusivo: una rampa de acceso ceremonial comunica la calle con lo que fue patio de operaciones.

Carlos Ferrater   Spain   The house follows basic geometric rules, so simple that they concentrate the whole strength of the project. Like the Ricarda House of Antonio Bonet – basic source of inspiration for this house – the AA house is based on the addition of a series of sq

Carlos Ferrater   Spain   El tramo de la Diagonal que atraviesa el Distrito 22@ —área de reinvención de la ciudad ligada a las nuevas tecnologías— está marcado por una secuencia que, teniendo por fondo la conocida silueta de la torre Agbar, comienza en la nueva sede del grupo

Carlos Ferrater Eduardo Jiménez Yolanda Brasa   Spain   The project for the extension of the Science Park of Granada, a commission assigned after a call for ideas held in the year 2003, conceives the intervention from the outset as an opportunity to address urban distribution issues that go beyond the pre

OAB   Spain   Located on the new Diagonal Avenue, across from the park designed by Jean Nouvel in the north stretch of the urban block, the building, which includes retail and parking areas and 68 apartments, addresses a double condition: it acts as facade of an o

Carlos Ferrater   Spain   Located in the agricultural terrains thatspread along the road joining Torroella with Palafrugell, in the Ampurdán region of Gerona, the new hotel completes the facilities of the Empordà Golf Club. The flatness of the land is only interrupted by the

Carlos Ferrater   Spain   In the small town of Casas de Alcanar, south of the delta of the Ebro River, in a rich agricultural land where the farm fields stretch out until they meet the sea, a plot of quite unique dimensions (it measures 250 meters in length and 18 meters in w

Carlos Ferrater OAB   Spain   En un solar irregular se dispone una torre trapezoidal de ocho alturas y un bloque longitudinal separado del anterior por un patio ‘atrio’ que atraviesa la parcela. La articulación entre ambos cuerpos se resuelve con un núcleo de comunicación vertica

Carlos Ferrater  Awarded in prior editions to Santiago Calatrava, Oriol Bohigas, Matilde Ucelay or Miguel Fisac, the National Architecture Award granted by the Ministry of Housing in recognition of life achievement has been presented to the Cata

En una ceremonia celebrada en el Ministerio de la Vivienda, entidad que los concede, los arquitectos Carlos Ferrater (Barcelona, 1944) y Fernando Ramón Moliner (Murcia, 1929) han recibido respectivamente el Premio Nacional de Arquitectura y el de Viv

Congress Center of Catalonia A jury composed mostly of representatives of professional and institutional organisms – in particular Spain’s Council of Architectural Institutes and a couple of ministries – granted the Prize for Spanish Architecture to

The expansion of sports practice multiplies and standardizes its sites. Despite the limitations imposed by programs that frequently have to adapt themselves to other functions and to meager budgets, constructive and even typological innovations arise

Public buildings offer a cross-section of social priorities: the Law Courts building of Badalona is a part of the renovation of judicial administration infrastructure; the Fishery School on the island of Arosa shows the attention that has been paid t

While public housing, in the sense of cooperatives, languishes between mediocrity and financial scandals, and private collective housing persists in its own commercial saturation, residential architecture survives in the form of individual homes. The

The scenarios of social representation spill over their traditional venues - the square or the theater - to go beyond political and cultural spheres and into the unexpected territory of economics. Spaces of mass congregation docilely assume their dra

Architecture has frequently been utilized as a support and as a stimulus for the regeneration of the delicate fabric of local life: of cultural life, through small centers like those in two villages of greater Madrid; of political and institutional l

At the direct service of health are the numerous hospital and clinical facilities that have gone up in the past years; and at the indirect service of health and physical welfare are the similarly proliferating sport complexes. Whether an exclusive fi

Work spaces nowadays are moving from anonymity to visibility. And though this may be expected in administrative buildings with a significant public profile, as in the cases of La Mancha and Cartagena, it is more surprising in constructions directly r

Different urban factors condition the image of buildings associated with transport, although in the bus station in Córdoba it is basically defined by tradition and in the interchange in Bilbao by technology; while the absence of historical references

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Carlos Ferrater Borja Ferrater   Barcelona  2006  
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