Nieto Sobejano   Germany   Since its construction in 1732, the Blockhaus, situated on the banks of the Elbe River as it flows through Dresden, is one of the key historical buildings in the city. In the competition decided in 2018, the project designed by Fuensanta Nieto and En

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   A work of the practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, which operates from offices in Madrid and Berlin, the new building for the San Pablo Center for University Studies (CEU San Pablo) rises amid the constructions of different periods that

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   Since the day in September 1908 that a journalist working for La Veu de Catalunya gave the region a name which described its dramatic geography and topography, the Costa Brava – a rugged land of fisherfolk – has honed its image as a paradise by the s

Nieto Sobejano   Germany   On the outskirts of Hamburg, in the Altona borough, this exhibition building dedicated to the art of writing offers a voyage through the history of pens manufatured by the firm Montblanc, founded in 1906. The outcome of a competition held in 2016, th

Nieto Sobejano   Germany   This mixed-use complex, which combines residential areas with spaces for art, culture, and work, respectfully blends the industrial brick architecture that was reconstructed during the postwar years with an extension in red concrete...

Nieto Sobejano   France   The Madrid architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, in collaboration with the Parisian firm Marin + Trottin Architectes, have finished first in the competition for the Cité du Théâtre in Paris, organized by the French Culture Ministry and thr

Nieto Sobejano   Germany   The Madrid firm of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has won the competition to enlarge a high-performance ice skating center in the Berlin borough of Lichtenberg. In compliance with functional and technical requirements, the new volume resembles

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   The Madrid practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano have won first place in the competition to build a museum in San Felíu de Guíxols (Girona) to house part of Carmen Thyssen's art collection, joining those already existing in Madrid, Málaga,

Nieto Sobejano   United Kingdom   The project is the result of a competition that was organized by the Bristol Royal Infirmary for the purpose of renovating the frontage of its main building, raised in the 1960s. The objective was not only to give the institution a new image, but al

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   The Madrid architectural office of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano will be renovating and expanding the house-museum of Joaquín Sorolla (Valencia, 1863 – Cercedilla, 1923), known as “the painter of light.” The intervention on the old residence o

Nieto Sobejano   Austria   Throughout history architecture has tended to be expressed through volumes in difficult relationship with their urban surroundings. The enlargement of the Joanneum Museum, on the contrary, arose with the express intention of acting within the limits

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   The project for the new Barceló Market is in fact the sum of different interventions: a new urban compound of pieces of different scale and program that will significantly transform this central and very dense area of the city of Madrid. The starting

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   The volume proposed, with a modular geometry, consists of a structure of prefabricated concrete beams. These U-section beams can accommodate large jardinières, collect water, or become circulation paths of the walkable roof...

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   Conceived as the fusion of a museum and a park and connected by a series of green spaces in the city, the new building is buried and with its green roof creates a prairie with a sinuous pedestrian path. This green surface is pierced by a group of cyl

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   The urban fabric and the natural space often transcend the blurred limits separating them, generating fields of influence, areas of interference between architecture and the landscape. This fact, that in large cities is perceived with even greater di

Nieto Sobejano   Austria   The ground surface, the horizontal platform upon which most of our movements in the city occur, is very rarely the generating argument or the spatial support of a project. Perhaps as a result of that yearn for an identity that every new intervention

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   Architecture is always feeding on images concealed in our memory, ideas that at some point become clear and unexpectedly mark the outset of a project. Perhaps for this reason the echoes of the Hispano-Muslim culture still present in Córdoba have unco

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   The profile of the new Congress Center, craggy and variable, ascending and descending, sets up a dialogue with the different spaces it contains. The colossal roof wraps the different volumes like a white and gleaming blanket, sheltering an extensive

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   This project is the most recent intervention Tcarried out in the old school of San Gregorio of Valladolid, a structure that is a good example of the Elizabethan Gothic of the late 15th century (1484-1496).  A building that also shows the steps of evo

Nieto Sobejano Wiel Arets   Spain   Close to Pradolongo Park, in the Usera neighborhood, south of Madrid and north of the M-40 perimeter highway ring, the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda (municipal housing agency) promoted five years ago the creation of a residential area of more than

Nieto Sobejano   Germany   La propuesta consiste en una cubierta plegada —de la que colgarán los espacios expositivos— que se alza y quiebra para permitir el paso de la luz. La solución se complementa con dos núcleos de circulación vertical: uno de ellos se aloja en una torre

Nieto Sobejano Wiel Arets   Spain   Siguiendo un plan de ordenación a cargo del estudio holandés del cual se beneficiará el entorno, los bloques se disponen en bandas según la orientación este-oeste, quedando vinculados entre sí a través de un espacio abierto que desde el oeste conform

Nieto Sobejano   Spain   Far from the dense fabric of the historic center – where the winding streets and hidden courtyards still fascinate both natives and foreigners – Seville is fragmented in a mosaic of neighborhoods with scarce facilities that, despite the improved infr

Enrique Sobejano   I. A light volume of metal panels supported by thin columns rises in the middle of a dense forest facing the sea, allowing large pine trees to pass through the structure and continue to grow, in an unusual inversion of the image of the cabin suspende

The Madrid partners Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, in collaboration with the Parisian firm Marin+Trottin, finished first in the bid to design the Cité du Théâtre in Paris, carrying the day over the other two finalists, Foster+Partners and Fabr

The dynamism that is associated with the use of horizontal bands in buildings, as well as with skating as a sport, is the gist of the scheme that has made Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano the winners of the competition to enlarge a high-performan

The franchise model has reached museums, and with energy, at least for the Carmen Thyssen Collection, whose homes in Madrid, Barcelona, and Málaga will soon be joined by a fourth one in Girona, thanks to a competition where the Madrid firm Nieto Sobe

Architecture is ideas and forms, but both crystallize through matter. While construction is prefigured in the immaterial geometries of the project, it takes shape in the physical world by means of materials and techniques. This entangled relationship

The firm of the Madrid architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano – one of Spain’s most international practices, with a branch in Berlin – recently opened the Arvo Pärt Center in Laulasmaa, 35 kilometers from Tallin. Named after the composer it

Enrique Sobejano   Considering that Jørn Utzon’s architecture is based on a phenomenological and empirical experience that gravitates essentially around perceptive aspects like light, movement, topography, and materials, it may seem illogical to talk about projects whi

Cuca Flores   Because of the cosmopolitan spirit of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, combined with an indefatigable, tenacious devotion to the profession, both in actual building and in teaching, they are perhaps the most ‘international’ and prolific members

Enrique Sobejano   Fuensanta Nieto   The projects we find more interesting, the most lucid works perhaps, are those that seem to emerge from the attempt to connect anomalies, associations of random, arbitrary facts, which are there before us and only need an idea to explain them. But be

Richard Ingersoll   Ivisited some of the works of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano on a three-day journey in mid-December that began in Córdoba, pushed through Mérida to Madrid, and from there to Valladolid and San Sebastián. The climate changed from balmy amid the

Enrique Sobejano   Fuensanta Nieto   La transformación de una antiguo castillo en museo de arte se centra en el respeto a la ruina para fundirse con el lugar y en una cubierta que revela su condición contemporánea.

Enrique Sobejano   Perhaps David Chipperfield had Goethe’s verse “It is in working within limits that the master reveals himself” (“In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister.”) in mind when, in one of his very few essays, he stated that “the limits of architectur

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Enrique Sobejano   Water gardens in what up to recently were outlying waste lands; cast iron crests carved over an abandoned power plant; birds of steel over airport runways; a huge floating plane adjacent to an old hospital; an enormous window framing the distant moun

Cuca Flores   Dentro de su colección de libros de arquitectura, la editorial Rueda dedica ahora un volumen a la obra de Fuensanta Nieto y Enrique Sobejano, como ya hiciera el pasado año con la de sus colegas Juan Carlos Sancho y Sol Madridejos (véase Arquitectura

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