In Barbatáin, a hamlet belonging to the Navarre municipality of Cedea de Galar, rises the headquarters of Archivos Tecnológicos de Navarra (Atecna), built by Daniel Galar, Josecho Vélaz, Javier Gil Ayesa, and Iñigo Beguiristain. Atecna’s rapid growth
The upshot of a competition organized by the Badajoz provincial government public works department, the complex designed by Madrid-based Estudio Arquitectura HAGO – Antonio Álvarez-Cienfuegos Rubio and Emilio Delgado Martos – rises in Los Monteros in
The new brewery for Brussels Beer Project (BBP) is located along the Brussels canal within the rapidly redeveloping industrial zone of Port Sud. The building houses the complete beer production process, but is also open to the public. It is conceived
Ever since the first cargo ship carrying intermodal containers docked in Bremen in 1966, their growth and development in international trade has been spectacular. Shipping containers are icons of our globalized society. Almost everything we buy trave
In Merwehaven, a harbor zone of Rotterdam, on the right bank of the Meuse River, rises this agricultural construction where dairy products are made and processed. The design by Goldsmith Company, a local practice, is based on nautical principles, tak
A work of the Seville firm Eovastudio, headed by Juan José Baena, Marta Gómez, and Joanna Jedris, this construction is located in an industrial park of Huelva, on the right bank of the mouth of the Tinto River, on a plain beside the marshes of the Ni
The tradicional borders between kitchen and dining area are here completely dissolved to create a single gastronomic space within the austere architecture of an old industrial shed in Barcelona.
The proposal divides the underused industrial warehouse into two halves – the vacant space, surrounded by the ‘ring,’ and the cattle market – via the ‘switch,’ a ‘bypass’ located between them that favors simultaneous use and spatial mutability... [+]
The 60,000 square foot diesel engine distributorship and repair facility of Cummins Engine Company is located on the North side of Loop 610. The building’s main elevation integrates three critical components of the program: office area, vestibule/par
The basic structure is inspired in traditional agricultural construction, rising in the form of 36 stacked blocks to house a workshop in its interior. The volume is built using the same amount of timber that regrows in Switzerland every 18 minutes...
At approximately 100 kilometers from the capital of Badajoz, in the northern part of the province, the city of Don Benito is, with Villanueva de la Serena, the economic center of the Vegas Altas region in Extremadura. The industrial complex of San Is
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
While the genial amoeba of Willis Faber & Dumas was extruded vertically from the ground print, Norman Foster experimented with horizontal extrusion in smaller buildings. This process, which, through a repetitive structure, rationalised constructi
The coordination of structure and services in containers of rigorous modularity and immaculate detailing had been the main constructional challenge of the Foster team during the sixties, and this interest in the flexible fast-track shed was extended
Fifteen years after completing Reliance Controls, Norman Foster returned to Swindon with another industrial commission, but this time executed in a bold expressionist language which offers a strong contrast with the confident restraint of the earlier
