The Cantabrian Maritime Museum (MMC) in Santander was built between 1975 and 1978, following a design by Vicente Roig Forner and Ángel Hernández Morales. The interior is distributed in three floors around a central patio crowned with a vault of concr
The Hortensia Herrero Art Center is located in the old Valeriola Palace, a central and emblematic 17th century building that has served multiple uses over the years and undergone several interventions, falling finally into disuse over the past decade
With a built area of 232 square meters, this residence is formally inspired by the farmhouses located a few meters away: country houses with farmland, composed of a main two-sloped volume to which other constructions of different geometries are attac
At Fortuny 47 in Madrid one finds an 80-square meter eatery called Greta Salad Bar. The objective of the project was to convey an identity linked to healthy values, through a design that floods the spaces with the color green. Different greenish tone
Elena Jiménez and Abelardo Linares did a thorough overhaul of a single-family home built in the 1920s, located next to the Quinta del Fuente del Berro Park, in the Salamanca neighborhood. Once the sculptor Jorge Oteiza’s Madrid residence, it was much
On a hill with craggy slopes in Xixona, a municipality in Alicante province, stands the medieval Castillo de la Torre Grossa (Castle of the Great Tower), called so in reference to one of its main keeps. The start of restoration work in 2019 drew atte
Vienna’s walls came down to the rhythm of Strauss waltzes. Valencia’s, to the beat of taurine fiestas. And like the Ringstrasse, even without its grandeur, the paseo de ronda that replaced the ramparts of the Mediterranean city became a vibrant trade
Located in the Usto neighborhood of Bir El Djir, this project by the Valencian firm Lecoc Arquitectura —with Alicia Medrano and Fernando Pedrosa at the helm— shows a clear-cut and compact massing on an irregular site, maximizing its useful area. The
