Arenas Basabe Palacios   Austria   The Madrid firm Arenas Basabe Palacios, in association with the engineers of Buschina & Partner, was commissioned to build 11 blocks for a total of 82 apartments in Wildgarten, a new neighborhood in Vienna’s Meidling district. The succession of build

DVCH / De Villar Chacón Arquitectos   Mexico   The firm of the Madrid architects José de Villar and Carlos Chacón won the competition to design a park included in the plan for Valle del Puebla in Mexicali, capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California. Spaces of different scales interconne

Andrés Velasco Muro   United Arab Emirates   Developed on multiple scales, the project proposes a network of mobile artifacts that follow the principles of bioarchitecture. The O.V.I. is a double tensegrity sphere that, as a balloon, changes its shape and flight height releasing hot air. The D.

Lucía Usera del Valle   Spain   Detecting 30% of the inhabitable spaces that were not being used (courtyards, roofs, terraces), and establishing a spatial relationship between them is the starting point to propose evacuation routes and the interior program. A continuous technologic

Esmeralda López García   Spain   Based on the exchange of activities, knowledge and abilities, using time as currency, the program develops the whole process around an urban garden – going from harvest to commercialization –, and encourages social relations among participants. The g

Ángela Juarranz   Greece   Located on an uninhabited island to the south of Athens, the project begins with the superposition of atmospheric, light, climate, geographic, topographic and programmatic variables, based on a theoretical and historic knowledge of the program.  The

Álvaro Carrillo Eguilaz   Spain   During a first phase and based on civic participation and the interaction with users, the project seeks to make urban processes transparent and to relocate decision-making to their natural environments. The project proposes a renovation based on nego

Irene Brea Martínez   Netherlands   Facing the artificial Ijssel lake and on reclaimed land, the four front pieces make up the dwellings, while the rear piece, which wraps around them, conforms the social center in a private-public gradient, from water to earth.  The same building, whi

Indalecio Batlles   Spain   The project proposes activating the industrial heritage of the gold mines of Rodalquilar with a unitary action that serves as a link between the existing elements: a path, a walkway or a shadow that relates the processing plants with one another.  In

The Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM) has split the 2018 COAM First Prize among three works: the Sala Equis renovation by Plantea Estudio, Espacio Solo by Estudio Herreros and Jens Richter, and the book Oíza by Javier Vellés. On the other hand,