Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   The seafront location of the site by the Castle of Peñíscola determined both the design and the purpose of this cultural building. The premise was the desire to link all the interior spaces to the park and the sea, so the building displays a continuo

Fernando Menis José María Rodríguez Pastrana   Spain   gh On the coast of Adeje, south of Tenerife, in a touristic site currently under development and marked by the presence of the sea and the nearby mountains, stands the new Congress and Exhibition Center, baptized Magma The project emerges from the

Luis Pancorbo José de Villar Carlos Chacón Inés Martín Robles   Spain   While on the outside the building echoes the dry surroundings in its skin of ropes and the tone of the concrete, the polycarbonate inside creates a surrealist aquatic atmosphere.

Linazasoro & Sánchez Arquitectura   France   Compositional rigor, formal abstraction, and contemporary materials define a project that manages to strike up a dialogue with the types and codes of the past.

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The El Greco Convention Center of Toledo is accessed through a small square located next to Calle de las Armas, and which leads to Plaza de Zocodover. This square offers broad, impressive views over Tavera Hospital and the Tagus River. The building

Snøhetta   United Arab Emirates   El proyecto para la construcción de una puerta icónica de acceso a la capital de Ras al Khaimah adopta un perfil ondulante, como si hubiera sido modelado por el viento. El complejo de 300.000 metros cuadrados, alojará un palacio de congresos, un cent

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Spain   Cruzando el río Guadalquivir desde la ciudad histórica, surge una pieza de 360 metros de longitud, de la que emerge tan sólo un auditorio en voladizo. En el interior, un pasaje continuo comunica ambas partes del meandro en que se sitúa el edificio, m

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   The new Congress Center rounds off the cultural program of the Auditorium of Murcia, whose bold triangular form did not admit extensions. However, the mild climate as well as the character of the site, a green area on the city outskirts, let both bui

Juan Navarro Baldeweg   Spain   Volumetrically emphatic and silent, this convention center forms part of the base which maintains the monumental profile of the city. A solid body and an airy one give shape to the project. The first of them, a box inside another box, opens with grea

Richard Rogers   France   El neoclásico Palacio de Justicia de Burdeos se encuentra en el centro histórico de la ciudad, junto a la muralla y cerca de la catedral de Saint André. El Departamento de Justicia de la Región de Burdeos pedía que el proyecto de ampliación del mismo

Soriano y Asociados Arquitectos   Spain   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

Norman Foster   Spain   The new convention center of Valencia is situated at the northeast entrance to the city, close to the kilometer 2 point of the Ademuz road (the C-234), and will be the catalyzing hub of the zone’s urban development. The perimeter of the parcel is aff

Alvar Aalto   Finland   Converging in the history of the Finlandia Concert and Congress Hall are two frustrations of Alvar Aalto that were to remain as such until his death on May 11, 1976: the plan for Helsinki’s new center and the Essen opera house. They date back to 1959

The firm of Massimiliano Fuksas and Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas has been selected to construct the new International Congress Center in Jerusalem, which is envisioned to be the largest building of its kind in the entire Middle East. Characterized by urb

La ciudad de Palma asiste al crecimiento pausado del edificio que el arquitecto Francisco Mangado ha proyectado para el nuevo Palacio de Congresos y Hotel de la capital mallorquina. Resultado de un concurso en el que participaron prestigiosos estudio

Luis Fernández-Galiano   En el concurso celebrado en 2005 para construir en Lérida un Palacio de Congresos resultó ganador Mecanoo; la Llotja recientemente inaugurada muestra su deuda con la modernidad holandesa de los años sesenta. 

El estudio danés Henning Larsen junto al arquitecto canario Carlos Morales se han alzado con el primer premio del concurso para la construcción del Palacio de Congresos de Lanzarote en Arrecife, capital de la isla. Presentado como una roca de lava fr

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   The people of León claim to bask in the sun. Against the frozen image of the Castilian-Leonese winter, the inhabitants of the city founded by the 7th Roman Legion remind the visitor that it is among the Spanish capitals that boast the most hours of s

Concept-designed between 1993 and 1995, these landmark buildings share a preference for almond shapes and tapered volumes, and a simplistic belief in the ability of the curve to call attention and raise the symbolic profile of a structure. In the Val

Sebastian Redecke   The Reichstag in Berlin was built by Paul Wallot 104 years ago. It was no great architecture for the Parliament of the German Empire, and the building raised controversy it its day, as did its location on a curve of the river Spree, close to the olde

Luis Fernández-Galiano   With a new chamber and office building, the Senate extension designed by Salvador Gayarre radically transformed the convent which since 1814 had been the original headquarters of the Spanish Parliament. A democracy must keep up ap

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Madrid  2014  
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