For a project titled ‘Resiliente’ the Madrid practice of Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas, and Javier de Andrés de Vicente won the open competition – organized by Spanish Public Works Ministry – to build an interpretation cente
Located in the center of Ceuta, block belonged to the Ministry of Defense, this urban and used to house military barracks. It takes its name from the Paseo de Revellín, a promenade that borders it on the north, and that makes reference to a fortress
The site’s complexity – with a fragment of the Andalusian medieval Ceuta –, the compressed character of the current city, and the marked topography encouraged to think of a unifying proposal that could make both aspects coexist. With this integrating
Buikt after an international competition organized by the former Ministry of Housing under the motto ‘Hacemos Ciudad’ (creating a city), the project for these dwellings has had to adjust to an unstructured environment with a very tight budget. The c
In September 2007, the Spanish Ministry of Culture called an international competition for the design and construction of a public library in the city of Ceuta. The project’s complexity resided in two perpendicular aspects: the floor plan had to keep
With strong Mediterranean winds which blow 200 days a year at an average speed of 80 km/h, Monte Hacho, the main orographic feature of the city of Ceuta – along the African shore of the Strait of Gibraltar – forms part of that ‘wild landscape’ that c
En pleno centro de Ceuta y lindante con el Paseo del Revellín (que toma su nombre de una de las fortificaciones de la ciudad), un nuevo complejo cultural, blanco y lacónico, diseñado por Álvaro Siza, brilla ya bajo el sol africano. Situado en una ext
En el Monte Hacho, el principal accidente orográfico de la ciudad de Ceuta, los sevillanos José Morales, Sara de Giles y Juan González Mariscal han levantado 127 viviendas de protección oficial, de las cuales 41 unidades son unifamiliares, y el resto
Juan Miguel Hernández León deposita una lámina de caliza casi blanca sobre la piedra de un ocre verdeado de las murallas, y esa fina lámina reviste la totalidad de las superficies horizontales: plantas y remates superiores de los muros. De esas lumin
