The coachmen of Maribor were much relieved when in 1913 the Austrians inaugurated what is known as the Old Bridge over the Drava, which replaced the timber structure that had been a serious bottleneck…
A scheme titled ‘The Ages of Water,’ drawn up by the firm of Francisco Burgos and Ginés Garrido, has placed first in the Burgos River competition to improve the environs of the Arlanzón River as it passes through Burgos. The idea is to preserve natur
The Madrid practice of Francisco Burgos and Ginés Garrido has placed first in the competition to build a residence for seniors in Los Llanos de Aridane, a municipality on the Canarian island of La Palma. The scheme combines interior spaces of differe
With a project titled ‘El jardín en movimiento’ (‘The Garden in Motion’), the practice of Francisco Burgos and Ginés Garrido (BGA) – in collaboration with Typsa Ingenieros Consultores y Arquitectos, GEA 21 and Laura Jeschke – has placed first in the
The sustainable agenda of the city and the conditions of the site translate into a colorful mosaic of different forests planned, planted, and maintained aided by new technologies, and which function as programmatic ‘bubbles.’...
‘A Line Over the Miño,’ a project carried out by Burgos & Garrido in collaboration with Bernabeu Ingenieros, turned out the winner in the proceedings negotiated to select from the best three entries to the ideas competution for a pedestrian and c
The project was developed within the social housing program for the young promotedby the Community of Madrid. This type of rental housing establishes a strict range of 35 to 55 square meters of floor area per dwelling. Working within this range mean
The project stems from the idea that the best neighborhood needn’t be made up of unique pieces, but rather that specific elements such as systematicity, homogeneity and expressive moderation are essential in residential buildings. In this way, the bl
El mejor barrio no está formado por edificios singulares; en éste se ha optado por cierta homogeneidad en las fachadas (hormigón por fuera, paneles ligeros por dentro) y por romper la manzana cerrada con un giro que da vida al patio, enriqueciéndolo
The speculative pressure on Madrid now hovers as well over peripheral localities like Coslada, which have begun to exchange the small rural house for apartment blocks. The residents association building, up to now accommodated in a single floor level
In the Ciudad Lineal area, the owners of a corner lot occupied by a large house of the 1920s decided to raise a new building on the property. After determining the part of the unbuilt land that was to continue to serve the old house, designs were mad
Burying the most urban stretch of Madrid’s A5 motorway – 3.5 kilometers from the exit of the Avenida de Portugal tunnel to the intersection with Avenida de Los Poblados – is an old demand of locals. Even back in 2007, at the time of the undergroundin
One way to deal with the crisis has been through a change of scale. This, not necessarily through a shift to the world of the small. In fact it has sometimes been in the world of the large, even very large, that an alternative field has been found. A
Madrid Río, the Spanish capital’s main urban project, is still a character in search of an author. Francisco Burgos, Ginés Garrido, and Fernando Porras-Isla have edited a fine book, which – full disclosure – I accepted the invitation to preface; but
Con Mélnikov en París, 1925, Ginés Garrido cierra, de momento, un ciclo exquisito sobre la arquitectura de Konstantín Mélnikov que se inició en 2001 con una exposición celebrada en la sala La Arquería de Nuevos Ministerios de Madrid, de la que fue co
Francisco Burgos, arquitecto de elegante instinto constructor, acaba de publicar una reflexión en torno al espacio escolar construido en la región de Madrid entre 1868 y 1970. El lector recorre un siglo por fotos de archivo y documentos históricos en
Antonio Flórez nació en Vigo en 1877, apenas unos meses después de que fueran aprobados los estatutos de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza. La muerte le sobrevino en Madrid en 1941, también al poco tiempo de que Franco decretara el cierre y la incaut
La arquitectura de la escuela ha evolucionado a lo largo de la historia en la medida que lo han hecho los contenidos didácticos y el marco de relaciones entre alumno y profesor. Los avances técnicos y las corrientes culturales han incidido en la form