Burgos & Garrido   Spain   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

Burgos & Garrido TYPSA   Spain   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

Volterra Ecosystems LOLA Landscape Architects Burgos & Garrido   Spain   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.’...

Burgos & Garrido   Spain   ‘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

Burgos & Garrido   Spain   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

Burgos & Garrido   Spain   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

Burgos & Garrido   Spain   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

Carlos Asensio Francisco Burgos José María de Lapuerta   Spain   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

Francisco Burgos Ginés Garrido Alberto Pieltain   Spain   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

Ginés Garrido   Francisco Burgos   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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

Ton Salvadó   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

Antonio Fernández Alba   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

Francisco Burgos   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

Francisco Burgos   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

Francisco Burgos Ginés Garrido Fernando Porras-Isla   Madrid Río : geography, infrastructure, and public space

Francisco Burgos   Las escuelas madrileñas, 1868-1970