Las viviendas se sitúan en una zona de expansión de la ciudad de Vitoria hacia el oeste, en el polígono de Zabalgana. En la parcela se desarrolla un bloque orientado al este y al oeste en sus frentes más largos en el que se da cabida a 65 viviendas r
Las piezas, enterradas parcialmente para reducir la superficie en contacto con el exterior, se benefician del llamado ‘ingenio bioclimático’, un sistema constructivo que aprovecha la energía solar y eólica, transformándola, acumulándola y distribuyén
Tras remontar el río Deva y atravesar los impresionantes cortados de la Hermida, al salir del desfiladero y abrirse el Valle de Liébana, la carretera atraviesa la finca Sotama, antigua propiedad de la Diputación. Existen en las proximidades varios ej
In Pamplona, the residential growth has evolved in an orderly way, without encroaching upon the city center and leaving the task of organizing the urban fabric to the open spaces (landscaped parks, walled precincts, squares, gardens, river promenades
The 1985 town plan proposed in this part of the city to continue the layout of the extension foreseen by the Castro Plan, but it also proposed for the plot – a triangle whose area is one eighth of the traditional block – to be aligned with the diagon
In one of the highest areas of Pamplona’s plateau, Sancho el Sabio ordered the construction in the 12th century of the Palace of the Kings of Navarra, which stands out against the profile of a city whose border is defined by the wall and defens
Alrededor del concéntrico y bien conservado casco histórico de Vitoria —una de las ciudades con más alto nivel de vida del país— han surgido urbanizaciones de lujo que aprovechan la ventaja del emplazamiento en pleno campo a muy corta distancia de la
Aktur Lakua– a macrosector on the periphery of Vitoria which was conceived at the end of the seventies – is the yet undefined area chosen to build 168 social houses. Its streets are barely supplied with the basic urban installations and the facilitie
Buñuel is a small town located on the southeast of Tudela, where Navarra meets the province of Zaragoza. It is one of the many examples of towns whose historic center has gradually grown with scattered single houses that are beginning to blur t
Located in the proximities of the Guggenheim Museum and the Euskalduna Palace – thoughon the background with respect to the estuary –the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao takes up one end of Casilda Iturritza park, the main green space of the northwest o
In the Altamira cave, close to Santillana del Mar, the Stone Age paintings were discovered in 1879 and since then the number of visitors has increased to the extent of putting their conservation in danger. Closed since 1977, these representations of
En la urbanización donde se levanta esta casa, con magníficas vistas sobre el valle de Egües, predomina la ‘arquitectura de catálogo’: promociones residenciales que remiten a un modelo ‘tradicional’ con pequeñas variantes. Pero en este caso los clien
The road hotel inexorably falls under the emergency sort of architecture that all national highways provide on the way, halfway between local color and the Venturian experiment, but the new motel in Irún’s Integrated Transport Center resists this ste
The idea that governs the museum is based on an interrelated sequence of different spaces presided by a central double-height one. This proportion and natural illumination of this space recalls the tunnel-workshop that the artist used in Aránzazu whe
Engineering and architecture are complementary disciplines in this project, that renews the transportation system of the city and converts it into an optimistic symbol of rebirth. The connection between Bilbao and its metropolitan area is expressed c
To make room for the Guggenheim Museum and Euskalduna Palace, the entire zone of obsolete industry called Abandoibarra was cleared. With the removal of old surface tracks in the area, a new railway scheme had to be drawn up for the city of Bilbao. Am
The construction of the Guggenheim Museum and the Euskalduna Palace – the latter as a venue for conventions, concerts and operas – on a brownfield site along Bilbao’s estuary has consolidated this part of the city, which already featured the Fine Art
The intervention rehabilitates the old palace of Montehermoso for use as a cultural center, recuperates an adjacent old water tank, connects this subterraneously to the rest of the premises, and renovates an adjoining garden. The building dates back
In a green mountain setting, the irregular silhouette of the building reflects the different environments created to the measurement of a child, where the low doorways define a domain precluding adults. Commissioned by the school
En la llanada alavesa, los edificios aislados que componen los antiguos núcleos rurales recuerdan grandes almacenes y albergan los más diversos usos: vivienda, granero y establo, entre otros. Se trata, en general, de construcciones de volumetría senc
The main bulk of this dwelling sits on a long and narrow platform situated on the high part of a smoothly sloping terrain, from which one looking northward can contemplate the extraordinary panorama of the valley and mountains beyond. Whereas one end
Roberto Ercilla was an energetic defender of good architecture in a world where the profession is undervalued. His works –oozing elegance, refinement, and precision – have done much to build the orderly and highly livable city that is modern Vitoria,
For Eduardo Arroyo life is a voyage, and the studio he set up in 1989 under the name of NO.MAD has followed him everywhere: from its origins in Amsterdam to Rotterdam, where he worked with Rem Koolhaas, and from Paris where he collaborated with Jean
The new airport of Hong Kong, a project recently completed by the British Norman Foster, is the largest construction of our times.
The century is slow to die. Stabbed in Berlin and gored in Sarajevo, this dismal animal bows his head amid vomits of blood and atrocious fits. The butchery slime of the Great War did away with its predecessor in the bullring, a maroon and reticent 19
