A work of the Madrid practice led by Fernando Rodríguez and Pablo Oriol, FRPO, this thermal power plant supplies hot water to thousands of homes in the city of Palencia. It uses no fossil fuels, only locally-sourced forest biomass, as its main raw ma
Until it closed down in 2011, the Dogpatch power station was the last still-operating infrastructural building in what had been one of the busiest industrial areas on the US West Coast, a neighborhood now undergoing a gentrification process: in the E
The Amager Resource Center (ARC) is located in a port and industrial area of Copenhagen which has undergone several reconversion plans over the past years. The port area has turned into an extreme sport destination for thrill seekers. Different sport
The Alto Douro wine region, famous for its Porto wine production, was listed as Unesco World Heritage Site in 2001 in the cultural landscape category. The construction of a hydroelectric power station to capture energy from the Tua River, a tributary
The port of Amager Island, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, has over the years become a magnet for enthusiasts of extreme sports. The team directed by Bjarke Ingels (Copenhagen, 1974) is building in this industrial area what’s considered to be the cou
The thick walls of a World War II bunker now shelter public facilities and a plant for the production of energy by cogeneration that is to supply power to the surrounding district.
In the year 2008, the Madrid-based studio Mansilla + Tuñón won the international competition to build the first of the domes included in the Regional Plan for the Duero Valley: the main building of the Institutional Campus of Eco-City Soria, in Soto
Located by the Ebro River, this building’s objective is to give a friendly image of the nuclear power station in the town of Ascó, Tarragona. The interpretation center will welcome around 3.000 visitors per year, which will receive information about
The Institutional Building – also known as Energy Dome – of the Environment City in Soto del Garray, Soria, wishes to become a forceful and optimistic intervention able to qualify the series of natural and artificial spaces surrounding it, endowing i
Para integrar en el Campus la instalación industrial del edificio, éste se cierra con una fachada compleja formada por tres anillos superpuestos de celosías de tubos de policarbonato que tienen distintos grados de transparencia, espesores y diámetros
Las piezas, enterradas parcialmente para reducir la superficie en contacto con el exterior, se benefician del llamado ‘ingenio bioclimático’, un sistema constructivo que aprovecha la energía solar y eólica, transformándola, acumulándola y distribuyén
Mercabarna, el gran mercado mayorista de Barcelona, ha construido un vertedero y planta recicladora rebautizado como Punto Verde, para que cale más hondo el mensaje ecológico implícito en este tipo de dotaciones. Con una superficie de 6.675 metros cu
En Leidsche Rijn, población cercana a Utrecht, se ha construido la WOS 8 — Warmte Overdracht Station— , una pequeña estación térmica distribuidora que intenta solucionar las pérdidas energéticas de la cercana planta de la compañía generadora UNA. Su
The ICO museum highlights the monumentality of the work of Vaquero Palacios through projects he carried out for hydroelectric power plants.
Energy flows everywhere but is invisible, as generally are the buildings where it is produced. One exception is the power plant of Wedel, near the city of Hamburg, which is soon to undergo transformation in accordance with a project drawn up by the L
El emirato de Abu Dhabi está decidido a mantener el liderazgo internacional en la producción de energía; la gran placa fotovoltaica proyectada en la ciudad carbon neutral de Masdar City sustituirá al petróleo y a los combustibles fósiles.
