Initially conceived as a house on a podium, to which floors were added with the aim of accommodating a hotel, the building was turned into a geriatric residence, and then abandoned for thirteen years. The original idea of the project involved demolit
This residential development rises at the corner of Cuba street and Antoni Picornell square in Palma’s Es Molinar neighborhood. Starting from formal premises of orthogonality, the building presents a solid base of marés, Majorca stone, which contains
The second project of the Urban Cabinet series – which explores design strategies around the notion of ‘furniture-architecture’ or ‘furnitecture’ – involved renovating a 1950s open-block housing unit in central Madrid’s Retiro neighborhood. It unifie
Gonzalo del Val and Toni Gelabert, in collaboration with Clara Castañeda, revamped this flat in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, in a residential building raised between 1925 and 1927 for the Marquis of Amurrio by the architect Gustavo Fernández Balbu
This thorough revamp of a 50-square-meter flat was carried out with a material budget of only 10,000 euros. Six decisions were made at the outset. The first one was to work with termal gradients in the functional and programmatic layout of the dwelli
This refurbishment project turns an 1850 industrial building in Barcelona’s Eixample district into offices for Fundació Bofill, a non-profit entity created in 1969 to promote social change. A work of GCA Architects, founded in 1986 by Josep Juanpere
The complex is located on Carretera de Ribes, on the northeast of Barcelona, very close to the Nus de Trinitat, which connects Ronda de Dalt with Ronda de Litoral – one of the main and busiest road junctions in the city –, and next to Trinitat Vella
The project to refurbish and convert the Casa de la Cultura de Boadilla del Monte into a new library and municipal theater involved working on a building completed in the 1980s and which housed two uses, but combined in a slightly confused way. The
Urban Cabinets is a series of home refurbishment projects that explores design strategies around the concept of furniture-architecture. In each project, the custom-made furnishings shape domesticity. Urban Cabinet Series (1): Domesticities around th
The Barcelona practice of Marta Peris and José Manuel Toral was commissioned by the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) to build this residential complex in Ibiza. It is designed to get the best in terms of sunlight and sea views as well as to harness
The volumes are unified by a same material approach, with a contrast of color and texture between their two strata: the lower one of concrete bearing walls and the upper one with a white roof of laminated wood and the skylights.
This new-build school is located in a densely populated area in the Torrassa neighborhood of Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), occupying a very compact rectangular plot surrounded by homes set between party walls and very narrow streets. With a
The thorough revamp of a 400-square-meter duplex on the 10th and11th floors of Torres Blancas in Madrid is presented as a dialogue with the apartment building that Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza built. Drawing from texts on the project that the archi
In the comarca of Baix Llobregat, specifically in the Barcelona municipality of Sant Vicenç dels Horts, stands this house on a plot delimited by an openwork brick wall. On the pilastered base of the same material, which contains the clayey earth
The set design adapts to the constant changes taking place during the show. The lighting, the music, the contrast between colors, and the dynamism of the performers throughout the representation function as another element of the architecture...
The stone-like appearance of the vinyl that shapes the volumes of the installation strikes a contrast with the lightness of its making: the large curtains levitate on a layer of the same crushed material to manifest how it is infinitely recyclable.
This residential development of the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) rises on a rectangular plot with 54 dwellings above ground – distributed in three levels opening out to terraces or private gardens – and parking underground. Adapting to the very
Drawing inspiration from Mediterranean monasteries, this education center for the 3-8 age range is organized around an inner courtyard. Establishing a dialogue between nature and architecture, the first phase of the project presents exterior and inte
Through a project carried out by Francisco José Padilla and Juan Manuel Nicás on the initiative of Fundación Juegaterapia, the roof of Gregorio Marañón Hospital’s maternity and neonatal building – a 2003 work of the architect Rafael Moneo, in collabo
This 3,300-square-meter residential development contains fifteen units. The project started with an analysis of the modifications carried out over time in two buildings located in the heart of the old town of Palma de Mallorca, and registered in the
The building is located between the residential area of the marina of Ibiza and an area of floodable and cultivated land. The urban context is heterogeneous in character, with buildings for leisure and tourism combined with housing blocks and vacatio
The design of Reggio School is based on the idea that architectural environments can arouse in children a desire for exploration and inquiry. The building is thought of as a complex ecosystem that makes it possible for students to direct their own ed
To address the specific commission of building a single-family house on a plot with a nine-meter drop, the design includes a platform at an intermediate level, making it possible for residents to enjoy views of the sea from a place that heretofore la
Born out of the Cheap Housing Law of 1929, the Bon Pastor neighborhood went up with 784 one-level homes. Impelled by the Barcelona City Hall's IMHAB (Institut Municipal de l'Habitatge i Rehabilitació), the Bon Pastor Redevelopment Plan involves demol
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
Pupils asked for a building without walls that was like a garden and a spaceship. The dazzling result, housed within a living skin for insects and fungi, is one of the most inventive schools ever built. "It looks like a robot made of butter,” was one
¡¡ 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
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
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
Después de un proceso largo y complejo que ha durado diez años desde la celebración del concurso, el estudio barcelonés dirigido por Charmaine Lay y Carles Muro ha finalizado la construcción del nuevo mercado municipal cubierto de la localidad mallor
El edificio modernista terminado en 1885 por Lluís Doménech Montaner para la editorial Montaner en el Ensanche de Barcelona renació en 1990 como Fundación Tàpies, rehabilitado por Roser Amadó y Lluís Doménech Girbau. Recientemente ha iniciado su terc
Finalizada la Expo 2008 de Zaragoza, algunos pabellones buscan nuevos usos mientras otros, como la instalación que proporcionaba climatización centralizada a todo el conjunto, los mantienen. Se trata de la central de trigeneración —frío, calor y elec
