Francisco Mangado   Italy   The Navarrese firm of Francisco Mangado has won the competition for a cultural center-cum library in Legnano, a township in Italy’s Lombardy region, 30 kilometers from Milan. With a gross floor area of 4,120 square meters, the complex rises on the ed

Francisco Mangado   Belgium   The clear scheme of the fairgrounds will allow solving the massive attendance of people at very specific periods of time as well as to quickly and efficiently manage the exhibition spaces, minimizing transportation and assembly times... [+]

Carlos Quintáns Francisco Mangado   Spain   Very clear guidelines are established for the buildings of the vacant plots and to cover the existing houses in the central block. The metallic structure, painted in the color of the primers in boats, is combined with concrete and glass... [+]

Francisco Mangado   Belgium   The proposal of the Navarrese practice of Francisco Mangado, drawn up in collaboration with the Belgian firm archipelago baev, has won first prize in the competition for the new Exhibition and Convention Center of Liège, a city on the Meuse River, in

Francisco Mangado   Italy   Francisco Mangado has drawn up a masterplan for redeveloping a large urban area of Bergamo, in Italy's Lombardy region, that extends along the railway axis and the train station. Encompassing 450,000 square meters, the Porta Sud project connects the

Francisco Mangado   Spain   With the idea of creating a new sector for visitors for the thousands of tourists that travel to this Balearic island every year, in 2005 a competition was called to design the new Congress Center and Hotel on Palma’s waterfront, parallel to the beac

Francisco Mangado   Spain   The new headquarters of Norvento, a group that specializes in renewable and efficient energy sources, aims to maximize power quality and respect for the environment.

Julio Clúa Martínez Francisco Mangado   Spain   Winner of the competition held in 2009 for the construction of 177 social housing units in Valdebebas – a new residential area in the northeast of Madrid –, the project is based on different principles. In relation to the public space, it tries to e

Francisco Mangado   Spain   Winner in the competition held in 2007, the proposal takes the overall evaluation of the urban fabric as point of departure, including the two historical buildings that harbored the museum up to now – Velarde Palace and Casa Oviedo-Portal –, and prop

Francisco Mangado   France   The proposal is developed in two autonomous phases that constitute a coherent complex, and is designed as a series of terraced roofs that permit creating a rich spatial sequence inside the building, adapting to the different heights of the ruins.&nbs

Francisco Mangado   France   The project respects the value of the ancient thermal baths on which it is built, setting the solid, petrous character of the existing in contrast with the lightness of the new; a glass piece that organizes the space between the hotel and the baths. 

Francisco Mangado   At a time when the term ‘industrialization,’ applied to architecture, is used over and over without regard for the times it is our lot to live, we have to try to take this specification into account. We can look at industrialization from different an

Adif has publicly named the teams selected to go on to phase two of the competition to transform the Madrid–Chamartín station: UNStudio with b720; RSHP with Luis Vidal; Souto de Moura with Francisco Mangado and José María Ezquiaga; Grimshaw with Carl

It seems natural to associate the term ‘sustainable’ with the image of greenery, although the connection is not at all inevitable. With regard to the links that buildings establish with the environment (evoking the idea of the planet as a vulnerable

Museo de Colecciones Reales / Palacio de Congresos de Palma Since 1993, the CSCAE (Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes) bestows the National Award for Architecture to singular works that entail an innovative contribution and are paradigmat

Every two years since 1993, the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes has given the National Award for Architecture, which has over the years changed in sensibilities but always recognizes exceptional works, buildings that somehow innovate a

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Water dilutes the certitudes of architecture. Its liquid state erodes physical foundations and disintegrates the discipline’s conceptual base. Marx warned that under capitalism ‘all that is solid melts into air,’ and Marshall Berman picked up the bat

Working in historical environments can be a poisoned gift. Since the year 2007, when he won the major competition for the extension of the Asturias Museum of Fine Arts in Oviedo, the Pamplona-based Francisco Mangado has had to deal with problems of e

It has been announced that Emilio Tuñón will be building the Wine Dome and Francisco Mangado, in collaboration with Juan Herreros, the Technology Dome, having won the latest competitions for Duero Domes, a phased project of the autonomous government

Francisco Mangado   El contexto actual de crisis ha puesto en evidencia las carencias de aquellos estudios españoles que, huyendo de la descomposición de nuestro mercado inmobiliario, han intentado competir en el exterior con las grandes corporaciones de sesgo anglosajó

El proyecto de Francisco Mangado para la sede de la compañía Norvento en Lugo se aleja del tipo convencional de edificio de oficinas, proponiendo un conjunto de pabellones inspirados en la tradición autóctona, que se articulan con lógica entre sí y d

La ciudad de Palma asiste al crecimiento pausado del edificio que el arquitecto Francisco Mangado ha proyectado para el nuevo Palacio de Congresos y Hotel de la capital mallorquina. Resultado de un concurso en el que participaron prestigiosos estudio

El proyecto de Francisco Mangado y Ramón Sanabria para la Universidad de Torribera, en Santa Coloma de Gramanet, quiere ser una lección sobre cuánto y, sobre todo, cómo hay que construir. Desde el punto de vista urbano, el nuevo edificio conserva el

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019   - 208 Pages 

Francisco Mangado   Madrid  2011  
Círculo de Bellas Artes   - 136 Pages 

Matosinhos  2010  
Mesclagama   - 267 Pages 

Juan Rodríguez   Centro Municipal de Exposiciones y Congresos de Ávila

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