Like firewood and pasture, snow and ice have since time immemorial been economic resources of humankind, whether for the conservation of food and medicines or for the luxury of making sherbets and ice-creams. Pliny the Elder mentioned an active trade
This 518-square-meter industrial building is located in Las Torres de Cotillas, a municipality in the comarca Vega Media del Segura, and is home to Prefabricados de hormigón Montalbán y Rodríguez, combining two uses: offices and a showroom for the fi
Designed by CSO Arquitectura, headed by Antón Freile, this expansion of the elderly residence which the same Madrid firm built in 2005 in Camarzana de Tera (Zamora), at kilometer 127 of the road linking Benavente to Vigo, has been shortlisted in the
Shortlisted in the Interiors section of the 2020 FAD Awards, this project by the Murcia firm Clavel Arquitectos – headed by Manuel Clavel Rojo and Luis Clavel Sainz – involves a 2,800-square-meter five-star hotel at Avenida Adolfo Díaz Ambrona, in th
Located in Molinete Archaeological Park, in the historic center of Cartagena, the museum occupies the ground level and basement of the health center. The project was drafted – with the building of the Roman Curia already excavated –, with the intenti
The Cartagena-based practice of Martín Lejarraga has turned a couple of palatial 19th-century buildings at Calle Duquesa 21, in Granada, into a university dormitory. All the while respecting heritage and pursuing an image of continuity, the intervent
The construction of the Es Puig d’en Valls center started out with the design of a metallic structure to cover two existing outdoor sports grounds in this town near Santa Eulària des Riu, on the east side of the island of Ibiza. During this first con
Working from offices in Alicante, Elche, and Albacete, the firm COR Asociados Arquitectos – headed by Miguel Rodenas and Jesús Olivares – has turned one of the oldest buildings of the University of Alicante into a home for its natural collections. Wi
The earthquake that struck the city of Lorca in the year 2011 affected a very high percentage of the buildings in the city, many of which had to be demolished, especially those located in La Viña neighborhood. The San Mateo Residential Development, o
A strong snowfall in the 1950s destroyed a group of houses in the historic center of Cehegín, in Murcia, leaving a large empty space that interrupted the flow of the adjacent streets. When crossing this urban fracture – known as ‘El Coso’–, citizens
The Jardín de Aclimatación of La Orotava (Botanic Garden) was founded in 1788 by King Charles III of Spain, with the intention of gathering in the island of Tenerife the exotic plants collected in the Spanish colonies of America and Asia. The extensi
Promoted by the Instituto Valenciano de Vivienda (Valencian housing institute), the social housing building goes up in a newly developed area located between the most recent constructions in the municipality of San Vicente del Raspeig and the campus
Located on the southern border of Las Palmas, the new Departmental Building of Health Sciences Research stands in the university campus as a gateway to the complex. Bearing a significant volumetric presence in a context of urban voids, the new piece
Located in Coslada, a quickly developing municipality close to Madrid, the building’s design is based on the variety of uses it combines: offices, residential, retail, public spaces at street level, public spaces on the upper floors and underground p
In the southern part of Las Palmas, the bold volume of this university building stands out in a context defined by urban voids. The program is organized in two parts: one for departments, teaching, and administration, and the other for research. The
Open to the landscape and organized around a courtyard, these three dwellings for three sisters share a compact volume and a language based on the use of local wood.
Industrialized and portable, this house conceived as a small self-sufficient machine has the capacity to colonize different kinds of places, from natural enclaves to city centers.
The masonry walls and the bold white volume of a traditional house are at the origins of a project based on the gradual transition from interior to exterior and vice versa.
A few years ago the then Ministry of Housing launched the competition ‘Hacemos Ciudad’ (creating a city) for the construction of 5,688 social housing units in differen regions of Spain. This is one of the shortlisted projects that has finally been ca
The objective of recovering buildings in disuse is a good starting point for public interventions, and the guideline for this specific project, which is minimal but still manages to produce a powerful and unitary image. Reusing as much of the existin
The confederation of Employers of Albacete (FEDA) is an association that represents the business network in the region, with approximately 15,000 members. In 2006 plans were drawn to bring together its different facilities, scattered throughout the c
Cartagena’s designation as a military base led to a major spurt of urban transformation in the 18th century. Economic growth and the development of industry connected to the port brought a huge flow of people into a city in expansion, doubling the po
Casa Mediterráneo is a public consortium, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the AECI (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation), with the collaboration of the Valencian government and the city councils of Alicante and Benidorm. The
LOCATED ON the southern slope of Molinete hill, in the municipality of Cartagena, the project’s purpose is to protect a group ofarchaeological remains and to wrap up the urban border at the foot of the hill. Molinete, one of the five hills that chara
The project for a memory box like the Molinete Archaeology Museum in the center of Cartagena, recently completed by the Madrid-based practice of Atxu Amman, Andrés Cánovas, and Nicolás Maruri, had to be tackled with a difficult, two-pronged objective
Después de haber ganado el Premio Ascer por su auditorio en Algueña (ver Arquitectura Viva 140) los alicantinos COR & Asociados acaban de terminar la sede de la Confederación de Empresarios de Albacete (FEDA), en la que han continuado con sus investi
Junto al Museo en Monteagudo (véase AV Monografías 147-148) y el embarcadero de El Hornillo (véase Arquitectura Viva 136), la intervención en el Parque Arqueológico del Molinete en Cartagena es la tercera de las obras concluidas recientemente en Mur
Se ha inaugurado recientemente la plaza Pormetxeta, situada en el municipio vizcaíno de Barakaldo y proyectada por el equipo formado por Javier Peña —de Xpiral—, y Javier Fresneda con Javier Sanjuán —de MTM—. El nuevo espacio público proporciona un p
Los madrileños Juan Elvira y Clara Murado son los autores de una vivienda ubicada en una dehesa de Badajoz, cuya forma responde a dos requerimientos del cliente: disfrutar del sol de poniente y disponer de una casa inexpugnable cuando no se use, pero
Un tapiz verde de césped artificial cubre el nuevo Centro de Educación Infantil y Primaria de Roldán, una pedanía del municipio de Torre Pacheco situada cerca de Cartagena. Resultado de un concurso celebrado en 2008 y ganado por el murciano Estudio H
Monteagudo, pedanía de Murcia conocida por su imponente castillo, cuenta ya con un pequeño museo diseñado por el estudio madrileño dirigido por Andrés Cánovas, Atxu Amann y Nicolás Maruri. Enclavado al pie de la fortaleza, el edificio se dispone orgá
En el campus de la Universidad Miguel Hernández en Elche, el estudio Moho Arquitectura —formado por Carlos Abadía, Ignacio Bautista, Pablo García Mora y Ernesto Sierra—ha construido una ‘isla informática’. Se trata de un pabellón que ofrece conexión
