MVRDV GRAS Reynés Arquitectos   Spain   The project transforms the area around Plaza Gomila, in Palma de Mallorca’s El Terreno neighborhood, The first phase has been completed, consisting of sixty dwellings varying in size and typology, plus commercial spaces. The Fluxà family, owners of t

Juan Trías de Bes - TdB Architects   Spain   The commission involved adapting an 18th-century mansion in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter for collective housing. The typological strata of the levels were preserved. The ground floor, which used to be stables, now presents commercial premises; the main

Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   Connected by an open gallery, two volumes are composed in terraced formation to adapt to the plot’s slope, leaving opposite corners free for patios protected by low walls that give access into the complex. The loadbearing walls that structure the uni

Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   The artisanal bricks baked with biomass provide inertia to the inner void – which acts as a collector or a solar chimney, depending on the season – and are bonded to form lattices airing the dwellings. The ten-meter bay results in a flexible floor pl

Coll-Leclerc MiAS arquitectes   Spain   This residential complex of the Barcelona Municipal Institute for Housing and Refurbishment (IMHAB) is located in a zone of textile colonies established in the mid-19th century behind the hill of Montjuic. Here fabrics were dyed and dried on the mead

fala   Portugal   A maximum buildable volume was found to be a distorted box, in a project mostly about its interior form. Rising two levels, five houses pretend to be one: a plural wedding cake...

Barceló Balanzó Arquitectes   Spain   The complex is located on Carretera de Ribes, on the northeast of Barcelona, very close to the Nus de Trinitat, which connects Ronda de Dalt with Ronda de Litoral – one of the main and busiest road junctions in the city –, and next to Trinitat Vella

Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   The Barcelona practice of Marta Peris and José Manuel Toral was commissioned by the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) to build this residential complex in Ibiza. It is designed to get the best in terms of sunlight and sea views as well as to harness

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   Ireland   The Matt Talbot, the first of the four buildings included in this municipal commission, is formed by apartments that flow out to private outdoor spaces, and where all the rooms are connected to a shared garden to foster a sense of community...

O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects   United Kingdom   The Prow was part of the masterplan, developed with A+M Architects, for the residential plot to the north of the Stratford Waterfront site. The tower sits in a unique position, mediating between the tall buildings in the area and the Olympic Park. Ev

Ángel Borrego   Spain   La Carbonería, or Casa Tarragó, is an 1860s apartment building that was taken up by the Okupa Movement from 2004 to 2008, when it was painted on to produce two works of urban art. The 2014 eviction of the squatters was big news and the building becam

Wood Marsh   Australia   Located in Prahran, 5 kilometers from Melbourne’s central commercial district, this residential building contains 15 units on 6 floors, all oriented to get the best views of the Orrong Romanis Reserve. In this work of the Australian firm of Roger Woo

dataAE Narch Arquitectes Maira Arquitectes   Spain   This social housing block is organized around an atrium-like central void, optimizing energy efficiency while creating opportunities for encounters among neighbors in the same way that the large landings of the stairs do. Undertaken for the Institut

Boltshauser Architekten   Switzerland   Though a similar site strategy is adopted for the whole complex, each family of buildings is distinctive: the houses grouped around the central courtyards are wood buildings, while the ones on the east are developed with a load-bearing masonry of ado

Boltshauser Architekten   Switzerland   The metal facade reflects the modulation of the floor plans. The photovoltaic system with color coated solar modules integrated in the cladding provides high energy efficiency, protects the interior space from excessive heat, and takes advantage of s

Hsü Rudolphy   Chile   This residential building made of shipping containers, meant for young users, is a 1,400-square-meter, 4-floor construction raised with 6 prefabricated blocks of stairs and 70 recycled containers, which dynamically alternate to form little balconies.

Joan J Fortuny Giró Alventosa Morell Arquitectes   Spain   This residential development of the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) rises on a rectangular plot with 54 dwellings above ground – distributed in three levels opening out to terraces or private gardens – and parking underground. Adapting to the very

AMM - Adelino Magalhaes Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas   Luxembourg   - Two Madrid practices – the studio of Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, and Nicolás Maruri on the one hand, and AMM-Adelino Magalhaes on the other – have in collaboration with João Nunes and Carlos Ribas of the Lisbon-based landscape architecture firm PRO

Cristián Izquierdo   Chile   The vertical laminated timber elements that form the structural module of the ensemble are exposed to the exterior. In this way, the five dwellings open up to the street as one volume, concealed behind a rhythmic and continuous facade. On the transve

MARS Architectes   France   The block, separated from the street by an eleven-story building, faces the restrictions of the site and addresses the environmental commitments of cities today with a wooden structure that reconciles technological innovation and aesthetics. Behind t

Arenas Basabe Palacios Soyka/Silber/Soyka Architekten   Austria   With a useful surface of 5,100 square meters, this project is located in Siemensäcker, an 8-hectare new residential neighborhood in the north part of Viena. Selma am Park offers 65 apartments in three blocks varying in dimensions. The design uses the

OHLAB   Spain   This 3,300-square-meter residential development contains fifteen units. The project started with an analysis of the modifications carried out over time in two buildings located in the heart of the old town of Palma de Mallorca, and registered in the

Rafael Moneo   Spain   Javier Marquet, Javier Unzurrunzaga, and Luis María Zulaica invited the architect to join their team in working on the project for an apartment building within a closed block to go up on the plot of the Urumea jai alai court in San Sebastián. This me

Perhaps because they came from trees, human beings have always had a yearning for heights. First there were the pyramids, the ziggurats, and the towers of Babel, stairs up which to climb to the heavens in pursuit of the gods. Then came the spires of

On view through 15 January 2023 at the Museo ICO in Madrid is ‘Domestic Dawns: Collective Housing Issues in 21st-Century Europe’, an invitation to reflect on the main concepts on which the new livability of residential buildings is based. Curated by

Nave Fabra & Coats With Fabrizio Barozzi at the helm and joined by Agnès Blanch, Daria de Seta, Manel Marín, Pedro Matos Gameiro, and Rosa Rull, the jury of the 2021 FAD Awards bestowed the Architecture prize on the 46-unit social housing development

estudioHerreros   ¡¡ Collective housing is the essence of urban culture in our country and many others. However, the trauma of the Covid-19 pandemic has made us realize that in the 200-year history of those buildings we call ‘collective,’ managed by homeowner associat

The residential building that the Madrid-based trio Arenas Basabe Palacios has raised in the Spanish capital’s Salamanca neighborhood has two different faces: towards the street it presents a classical tripartite composition soberly regulated by pref

A sensitive interpretation of the genius loci: this is how one could describe the social housing developent that the studio Oliver, Reina, Martín, Moyà & Garcías has executed in Son Gotleu, one of the poorest, most vulnnerable among the neighborhoods

In the 1920s, leaders of the modern avant-garde gathered at the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM) coined a word to refer to all the basic needs of a house: Existenzminimum, or ‘minimal existence.’ The term did not take root at on

530 Dwellings in Bordeaux Refurbishing the collective housing constructions built during the boom of the 1950s and 1960s is one of the main problems in European cities. A problem that, faced with common sense and talent, can lead to projects that are

Four couples who are friends agreed to be the developers and users of a block containing five dwellings and a sequence of spaces for communal use and interaction. This was the story behind the building that Thomas Lussi and Lola Domènech have raised

A rigorous volume breaks up into three parts in order to implant itself on the site with delicacy. This is the residential project that came about through a 2013 competition won by Amann, Cánovas, and Maruri of Temperaturas Extremas – in collaboratio

As the Munch Museum in Olso nears completion, Madrid-based Estudio Herreros – in collaboration with the Norwegian firm MIM-A – has finished a residential block in Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona). Offering a mixture of free-market and price-regulate

It is difficult to name a country where the modern program of social reform and hygienization through housing has been as strong as in France. In the 1920s, Le Corbusier declared architecture to be a crucial instrument in addressing societal ills Arc

deFlat Kleiburg Residential Complex The renovation of the deFlat Kleiburg residential complex in Amsterdam, by the Dutch firms NL Architects and XVW architectuur, has won the biennial Mies van der Rohe Award. The other four finalists were: the Ely Co

The endeavor to improve the typology and energy properties of obsolete buildings, whilst preserving their formal virutes, defines an altogether new way of regarding heritage. 

Preserving the character of natural landscapes constitutes one of the challenges being addressed by builders of the 21st century, including the members of the Chinese firm MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, Qun Dang, and Yosuke Hayano and working mai

Franz Graf   Giulia Marino   The Cité du Lignon renovation fulfills the new energetic and economic demands while also addressing the heritage requirements. 

El estudio barcelonés Mestura acaba de terminar un edificio residencial en Castelldefels que servirá para cubrir la demanda de vivienda del Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia (PMT), un campus universitario de reciente creación situado en el área metro

Construir en los nuevos ensanches no es lo mismo que trabajar en tramas consolidadas: estas exigen el respeto al hecho urbano; aquellos piden códigos más libres que trascienden los convencionales de la arquitectura, apelando a los de otras disciplina

Sobre el chaflán de una antigua manzana industrial, Álvaro Soto y Javier Maroto han construido para la EMVS de Madrid un edificio de viviendas de realojo que resuelve la difícil geometría del solar mediante dos movimientos. Por el primero, los cuatro

La residencia de estudiantes MySpace, construida en la ciudad noruega de Trondheim según el proyecto de Enrique Krahe, Juan Elvira y Clara Murado, está concebida como una suerte de catalizador que miniaturiza los modos de sociabilidad contemporáneos.

Denominada ‘la Zona Cero del sida’, el distrito de Rakai, en Uganda, fue el lugar donde se diagnosticó el primer caso de la enfermedad en 1982. Proyectado por Koji Tsutsui, el orfanato allí emplazado es fruto del compromiso de una ONG para ayudar a a

Dos torres residenciales —una de 260 metros de altura y 54 plantas, y otra que se eleva hasta los 300 metros con 60 niveles—, unidas en su parte central por un volumen que evoca una nube caótica y pixelada: así es el proyecto de los holandeses MVRDV

El estudio, afincado en Londres, de la iraní Farshid Moussavi (FMA) ha sido seleccionado para construir un conjunto de viviendas en los Jardines de l’Arche, en el contexto de un proyecto de renovación urbana cuyo fin es enlazar la ciudad de Nanterre

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