The project is based on the need to respond both to the lack of use and internal functioning of the original building that became obsolete due to the unplanned arrival of new technologies, and to problems of security and sustainability. The task has
Standing on a small rocky hillock that offers panoramic views of the valley, the mountains, and the town of Artá, this second residence becomes a privileged observatory of sunrises, sunsets, and storms. The project consists of adapting the traditiona
Named ‘Salida,’ the pavilion for the VIP room of the latest ARCO fair of contemporary art, held in the IFEMA Madrid grounds, arises in the midst of the current health crisis. A fruit of collaboration between Javier Jiménez Iniesta (Studio Animal), To
The Barcelona firm Estudio CO-A, founded by Clara Ocaña, has renovated this 1930s dwelling of long corridors, typical in the elongated morphology of the standard floor plan of apartments in the Eixample, where the buildings is located. The client req
Encompassing 4,375 square meters, the project of the firm led by Ramon Bosch and Bet Capdeferro presents 35 apartments in the city of Girona, each containing six 12-square-meter rooms that sliding panels can join or separate, in accordance with progr
At Alí Bei 100-102 stands a building containing 49 apartments for senior citizens and 10 temporary accommodations for people in danger of social exclusion. Promoted by the Barcelona City Hall’s Institut de l’Habitage i Rehabilitació (IMHAB), it occup
Working from offices in Barcelona and Madrid, Studio Animal – with Javier Jiménez Iniesta at the helm – has designed this project for the Spanish shoe brand Munich. It is named ‘Tent,’ playing with the Spanish word tienda and its two meanings: store
A former banking office in the Swedish capital – an anonymous institutional building located in the city center – became world-famous in 1973 thanks to an armed heist and hostage crisis that triggered in the victims a psychological reaction later cal
Given the huge volume of the functional program – three sports tracks – in regards to the reduced dimension of the plot and the high urban density in the area, an important part of the sports complex is partially buried. By working on the section of
Confronted with the problem of the progressive depopulation of Spain’s countryside, the renovation and enlargement of an early-20th-century casa de roter – a traditional peasant house that incorporates farming activities – showcases the opportunities
The town of Vilajuïga is in a privileged location, between Serra de Verdera and Cap de Creus natural park, and is well connected to the rest of the region. With a population slightly over 1,000 inhabitants, Vilajuïga has a long food and wine traditio
In a rural part of the island of Mallorca, in the municipality of Lloret de Vistalegre, stands this residence built by the firm OHLAB, which Paloma and Jaime Oliver run from offices in Palma de Mallorca and Madrid. Elongated, stretching perpendicular
What does it mean to gather together a decade or so of work signed “estudioHerreros” into a monograph? What is it to compact such a diversity of programs, scales, sites, and cultures into a relatively slim volume? The flexible but resilient plastic-c
¡¡ Collective housing is the essence of urban culture in our country and many others. However, the trauma of the Covid-19 pandemic has made us realize that in the 200-year history of those buildings we call ‘collective,’ managed by homeowner associat
A sensitive interpretation of the genius loci: this is how one could describe the social housing developent that the studio Oliver, Reina, Martín, Moyà & Garcías has executed in Son Gotleu, one of the poorest, most vulnnerable among the neighborhoods
As the Munch Museum in Olso nears completion, Madrid-based Estudio Herreros – in collaboration with the Norwegian firm MIM-A – has finished a residential block in Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona). Offering a mixture of free-market and price-regulate
Construir sobre lo construido es un problema moderno. Antes de que existiera la perspectiva histórica, los restos del pasado —incluso los más prestigiosos de la Antigüedad clásica— eran tratados como materia muerta que, una vez descompuesta merced al
The jury of the 60th FAD awards, chaired by the architect Anna Bach, has announced the results of its assessment of the 484 works presented. The winner in the Architecture section is the project Life Reusing Posidonia, submitted by Carles Oliver, Ant
The citizen of the 21st century demands to live in an ever more ecological and sustainable environment, where transportation is provided with vehicles that pollute less, where the air that one breathes is cleaner, where large parks and gardens abound
Ever since human beings began to handle metals around 6,000 B.C., the development of metallurgy has been associated with humanity’s revolutions – not only the technological, but also the economic, social, and cultural ones.
La ampliación de una vieja y pesada estructura muraria con un porche nuevo y ligero emplazado donde una vez hubo un cobertizo para el ganado, ha sido la clave del proyecto de rehabilitación de una masía situada en la localidad gerundense de Santa Pau
En el barrio de Pardinyes, situado en una zona de Lérida con un pasado rural cercano, el estudio barcelonés de Jaime Coll y Judith Leclerc ha levantado un edificio de 44 viviendas sociales en régimen de alquiler (ver AV Monografías 147-148). Debido a
El proyecto de rehabilitación de una vivienda en el centro histórico de Gerona —diseñado por Ramón Bosch y Elisabet Capdeferro— ha merecido la Mención Especial Arquitecto Emergente en la última edición de los premios Mies van der Rohe. Concebido por
