The architectural project for the exhibition ‘The Shore, the Tide, the Current: An Oceanic Caribbean’ is part of the 43rd edition of the annual contemporary art fair held in Madrid known as ARCO. This year it runs from 6 to 10 March, as usual at the
The spatial design project for the 43rd edition of ARCO, Madrid’s major contemporary art fair, is presented as a huge work of ‘domestic urbanism’ – a veritable pop-up city on view for five days in pavilions 7 and 9 at the IFEMA premises. On a formal
Split programA young couple has pooled two separate professions in a single street-level establishment in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, revamping the space to make it both a hair salon and a tattoo studio. Eager to avoid the usual associations with
Performing Pavilion is a revision of the home-workshop, proposing it as a new paradigm for the link between the work of art, the place where it is created, and contemporary lifestyles. Resulting from the enlargement of an existing unit, this space wh
As per Passivhaus standards for maximizing energy efficiency, in consumption terms this residence qualifies for the NZEB (Nearly Zero Energy Building) certificate, impacting very little on the environment. It has a fully industrialized timber structu
In Connecticut, the New York firm Scalar Architecture – led by the Madrid architect Julio Salcedo – built this 200-square-meter modular residence for a large family on the hills of Mill Brook Valley, in the lower Berkshires mountains. Taking into acc
All at a minimumA small flat by the Manzanares River has been renovated to accommodate young members of a family that has occupied it since the building’s construction in the 1920s. It was partitioned into several rooms like a larger apartment, and t
On the outskirts of Madrid stands this one-family resdience, in a 7,000-square-meter property occupied by a forest of pine and holm oak trees. With the idea of preserving these trees, the scheme unfolds on a single level, taking up the maximum area a
Pedro Pitarch's firm designed the communal and lounge zones of the 42nd edition of ARCO, the contemporary art fair held at Madrid's IFEMA trade fair and exhibitions grounds, held this year from 22 to 26 February. For Pitarch, ARCOmadrid is envisioned
As part of the first TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, this temporary pavilion made of sackcloth rises inside a scaffolding on the Plaza del Humilladero in Granada. P+S estudio de arquitectura (Francisco Javier Parada and Laura R. Salvador) built an
Office for Political Innovation is the name of the international architectural practice founded by Andrés Jaque – recently appointed Dean of Columbia GSAPP – in 2003. The studio, based in Madrid and New York, works at the intersection of design, rese
An undertaking of the foundation that sees to the care of Castilla y León region's natural heritage, the new Peñas Llanas viewing point replaces one which was already much deteriorated. Perched on a high rock overlooking a valley, within the recreati
The Carabanchel district is the location of this project of the Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS), an agency under Madrid’s City Hall. Close to huge urban voids like the Cuatro Vientos airport, which counteract the city’s heat island effect i
Brando studies the relationship between visual perception and the phenomenology of color, and the objective is to develop a new commercial model where consumption is understood as an atmospheric experience. Located in Madrid’s historical center, at H
This retrofit project breathes new life into a historic industrial building in Madrid, creating a sustainable exemplar of building reuse and revitalizing the surrounding area. With over 10,000 square meters of new office space, the project unifies a
For the this year’s ARCO contemporary art fair at Madrid’s IFEMA premises, Pedro Pitarch designed ARCO 40+1, a section conceived as an imaginary museum, to mark the event’s 40th anniversary. Inverting the spatial logic of art fairs, it is presented a
In the scheme to convert a former car-engine repair facility into a place to live and work in, the actual forms of the existing structure were used to define the different spaces required...
A facility for research on new technologies is the first of a series of complexes intended to consolidate a business development hub on the outskirts of the city of Segovia. A concave form at the corner, generated by a biconic dome, alters a longitud
As an amenity within a housing development located in one of the driest regions of Europe, a small pavilion seeks to provide the residents with a shaded communal space. At the end of the development’s main street, a sweeping concrete fold forms a cov
On the banks of the Tagus – in the municipality of Sacedón, which belongs to the comarca of La Alcarria – this house has a floor plan that splits to form two arms, forming a small village built around two courtyards. A work of the Madrid firm Arquite
The renovation of a modest apartment that dates back to 1850 pursues maximum flexibility in order to fit in a wide-ranging program, in the process trying to make the most of its good orientations.
This ex novo residential buildings opens to two streets. The facade on Calle Alcalá presents an orderly solution with aluminum joineries, where the windows have high-performance raisable sliding panes that conceal the frames on the outside. On Calle
In 2012, the project for the Madrid Convention Center, set to become part of the Cuatro Torres Business Area, was put on hold. After three years of construction work, the stalled project left a huge urban void where earthwork, foundation laying, and
Located in a development called Somo-Boo, in the Cantabrian capital, this house adopts the classic L arrangement to obtain a protected outdoor space. Rooms interweave under a horizontal lid that acts as a tray for the main volume with its pitched roo
The winners of this year’s Tile of Spain Awards for Architecture and Interior Design, organized by the Spanish Association of Wall and Floor Tile Manufacturers (ASCER) with the purpose of highlighting works that make good use of Spanish ceramic tiles
The critic Peter Buchanan passed away on 23 August in London at 81 years of age. He was born in Malawi and graduated as an architect from the University of Cape Town, city where he started in the profession. In the 1970s he moved to London to work at
‘Iris’ is a site-specific design commissioned by the city of Madrid for Plaza Canalejas, a perfectly round urban square with a diameter of 50 m in the city centre of Madrid. At 9 m above the ground, the mesh of concentric red and blue light ro
A work of Brut Deluxe / Ben Busche + Miguel de Guzmán, Ring is a light installation created for Lichtfest Leipzig 21 and has been set up in the heart of the German city, at Burgplatz. The Leipzig Festival of Lights commemorates the demonstrations tha
“How will we live together?” This is the title of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens with 61 participating countries. The motto reflects a turn toward social, even political concerns that has been taking place in the biennial since ov
In his sarcastic evocation of Spain, Mario Praz described it as an anti-romantic “pentagonal peninsula,” in a geometrical metaphor that could be completed in this way: “Pentagonal peninsula whose center and sides are full, but which is otherwise bare
Facing the arcaded gallery at Nuevos Ministerios on Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, the firms totem arquitectos and BETA.Ø have together come up with an efficient alternative to the conventional office building. The faceted volume has been expressl
For the headquarters of the sports equipment and accessories manufacturer Amaya Sport in Noain (Navarre), the architect Josean Ruiz Esquiroz – who works from offices in Madrid and Gorraiz – reused ten shipping containers as structural pieces while st
Eating is a natural thing to do but it is also a cultural activity, and this would to a large extent explain the exquisite attention and care that the leading chefs are in the practice of putting into the construction and design of their kitchens a
Between a motorway and a Mediterranean forest located outside Madrid, Jacobo García-Germán has completed what is Europe’s largest cactus garden. The most unique thing about the project is that instead of pursuing the usual, predictable image of a dom
No one really knows whether to call him an emerging or an already established architect, and the ambiguity continues to work in his favor. What’s sure is that Bjarke Ingels, born in 1974 in Copenhagen, is by now a true star in the international scene
Born in 1952, Dietmar Eberle is the principal of Baumschlager Eberle, founded in 1985. For legal and commercial convenience the practice retains this name, even though Carlo Baumschlager moved on in 2010. As well as running what is now a group of ten
Louisa Hutton (Norwich, 1957) takes the city as a concept and as a starting point. It was almost thirty years ago that the firm Sauerbruch Hutton was set up in London, to later move its main office to Berlin. She studied at the Architectural Associat
The partners Jean-Philippe Vassal and Anne Lacaton like to call themselves strategists of the essential. This means that their architectural work aims to address the basic needs of users. And it does so with lightness, delicacy, and friendliness. Als
The impact of the economic crisis that broke out in 2008 was especially hard on construction, a sector which had contributed to Spain’s prosperity and its citizens’ well-being through improvements in housing and cities; but a sector, too, that became
While his name in English evokes an air-conditioned villa (cool house), in Dutch it suggests one of the major anthropogenic causes of climate change: coal. This came to mind because twenty years ago, in the extremely climatized setting of Houston, Te
Designed by Miguel de Guzmán and the studio Veidimanna Protum, the single-family house is located in El Espinar, a small town in the mountains north of Madrid. The plot has a privileged location, on the boundary of the town next to the Natural Park o
