The CIT (Centro Integral de Transporte) is an initiative of Metro de Madrid to build a transport center in the old sheds of Plaza de Castilla in Madrid. The competition was called in 2016, and the team formed by the architects Lourdes Carretero, Manu
Lagasca 99 is a residential building located on an isolated plot in the Salamanca district of Madrid. As in many other projects, the facades are set out as a consistent reflection of the interior spaces of the building, at least of its floor plan, bu
This work of the Seville practice of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra is located on the Andalusian capital’s La Cartuja Island, on the right bank of the Guadalquivir River. With a built area of about 40,000 square meters, the terrain shaped the Triana Gat
The refurbishment of the Intelhorce (Industrias Textiles del Guadalhorce) complex pursues transforming the place into a new logistic center for the company Mayoral Moda Infantil. The old building is recovered preserving its spectacular interior space
The first phase of the project to transform the large urban vacuum of 6,000 m² into a new public space consists in building a structure of corrugated steel rods that restore the geometry of the original cavea through its guidelines and generatrices..
The dwellings are located in Realejo, an old Jewish ‘arrabal’ (a group of houses outside the city center) and one of the most emblematic quarters of Granada. This area, at the foot of the Alhambra, has a steep topography, and some of its urban blocks
The lager beer brand Victoria, founded in Málaga in 1928, has new brewing facilities designed by the local firm Gana, headed by Antonio Galisteo and Álvaro Fernández Navarro. On the foundations of an old industrial shed located on Avenida Velázquez,
Seeing the need to modernize the city courts, the regional government of Andalusia called a competition for the construction of the new City of Justice of Córdoba. On a plot of 12,000 square meters, in a new urban area, the project would give the nei
On Granada's Costa Tropical, south of Sierra Nevada and very close to the sea, a slender tower heralds the presence of a new church, a simple concrete piece, close and accessible, rising amid the trees of an open garden. Faced with the challenge of b
Metal shutters and profiles, boards taken from formworks, and other recycled materials give shape to an intervention that puts new meaning into the idea of ‘heritage’.
This skyscraper soaring 250 meters above street level rises as a contradiction to the anonymity, uniformity, and repetition that reigns among the residential towers which have been going up in recent years, proposing instead a return to the individua
The historic building dates from 1884, but was extended gradually in the 1920s and 1970s until Rafael Moneo ‘wrapped up’ the block in 2006. Paredes Pedrosa have intervened several times since 1986, when they converted the Cibeles corner into an exhib
It is a sure sign of the times we are living that the most recent editions of the world’s most important biennials of architecture and art have been characterized by an indisguisable political agenda, or at the least by a marked sensitivity to social
Since its creation in 2007, the Swiss Architectural Award of the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio has made a niche for itself among the profession’s top prizes by biennially highlighting architects on the rise who have at least three major proj
Red and White
En Albolote, un pueblo de la Vega de Granada, se levantan los volúmenes blancos y abstractos de la nueva escuela infantil de la localidad (ver AV Monografías 147-148), un edificio diseñado por el granadino Alejandro Muñoz Miranda. El programa se dist
Cuatro años ha durado el proceso de rehabilitación y ampliación del Museo San Telmo, que se acaba de inaugurar en San Sebastián. La intervención, de los madrileños Fuensanta Nieto y Enrique Sobejano, recupera el edificio original, un convento dominic
Tras un largo proceso, después de que las obras se hayan desarrollado a lo largo de seis años en los que el presupuesto original ha sufrido desviaciones constantes —pasando de los 51 millones de euros originalmente presupuestados a un coste final est
Situado en el acceso al Parque Natural de Sierra Nevada, en Granada, junto al río Lanjarón, el Museo del Agua de Juan Domingo Santos adapta como museo las naves del antiguo matadero e incorpora láminas de agua conectadas y abastecidas por la acequia
Arquillos, población fundada en 1775 como núcleo del proceso de colonización de Sierra Morena encargada por Carlos III, ha estrenado un centro de interpretación de su historia sobre los terrenos de las antiguas casas de los maestros, que ha recibido
Un revestimiento de planchas de acero cortén perforadas con láser distingue el primer hotel de cinco estrellas de la ciudad califal, firmado por el equipo de Alfonso Casares en colaboración con el estudio Isasi y Pieltain, sobre el solar del antiguo
La arquitecta Elisa Valero ha construido un nuevo espacio para albergar la colección de arte del empresario, mecenas y presidente del Patronato del Museo del Prado, Plácido Arango. En la sierra de Madrid, en una finca cercana a El Escorial, una const
