An ideas competition was held to build a virtual production center in what was a weapons factory in A Coruña. It is now the Cidade das TIC, a facility for developing information and communication technologies. The winning design – by the firm Díaz y
A work of the Galician architect Rodrigo Currás Torres (Moaña, 1980), this house is located in Guisande, a village under the jurisdiction of the municipality of Brión, in A Coruña province. It is organized by means of spatial cells juxtaposed with a
"A traction house within a compression house.” So goes the description of an old farmhouse in a small village within the municipality of Mazaricos, in A Coruña, at the foot of Mount Pindo, referred to as the ‘Celtic Olympus.’ The anthropomorphic s
The client asked for a unique hotel project in Albeida, on a beautiful location at the source of the Muros i Noia estuary, in the parish of San Cosme de Outeiro, which is part of Outes, a municipality of A Coruña province. The project adds nine woode
The renovation of this dwelling in Miraflores, a small locality in Muros (A Coruña), was first and foremost based on utmost respect for the place. This necessitated paying close attention to realities like the scale of the house’s surroundings, to pr
The project proposes a program of urban unification and activation in the two neighborhoods – As Xubias and A Pasaxe – through the insertion of a series of facilities: new housing, crops, greenhouses, a park, and a parking lot... [+]
The Rubido Romero Foundation is harbored in an old construction of rural Galicia that was given a surgical job; walls were reinforced, beams were placed, and the interior space was painted white.
Located on the plains of the upper part of the Mandeo River basin, in the Galician municipality of Curtis – some 40 kilometers from A Coruña –, the new Ethnographic Center has a double role: an educational one, with courses and workshops; and an info
The center contains the remains of a Celtic fort located nearby. The interlocking volumes generate sequential views to the valley and the sea, relating these remains with the surrounding landscape…
Built in three months and assembled in three days, this vacation house is located on a steep slope, in an area dominated by the presence of the ocean and a forest of eucalyptus trees. The terrain is surrounded by harvest fields, family farms and pitc
La escuela se sitúa en el área de equipamientos docentes y deportivos del barrio coruñés de Los Rosales, en una parcela con una acusada pendiente hacia el paseo marítimo. El edificio se dispone pegado al terreno para poner en valor las magníficas vis
The new building of the Fundación Caixa Galicia goes up in the last gap that was stillavailable within the constrained urban fabric of the historical center of La Coruña. The new piece fills up a void on a street lined with facades of glazed galerías
La nueva pieza reúne dos edificios en uno: por un lado el conservatorio que, muy determinado por la normativa y el programa, se aloja en un contenedor de hormigón y, por otro, el Museo de la Diputación que, con un programa más abierto, se sitúa alred
The urban space in which the new health center was to be built was still changing at the time its design was undertaken. While some of the adjoining plots had constructions that were to be demolished and others whose height would foreseeably increase
En un territorio suburbano de un gran atractivo, a medio camino entre Cerceda y Laracha, se ubica este pequeño centro de salud. Una hilera de abedules desvela la presencia de un arroyuelo que limita la parcela al oeste. En el borde del río se llevará
Con el loable objetivo de dotar de infraestructuras deportivas a los pequeños municipios de la provincia, la Diputación de La Coruña convocó un concurso de proyectos-tipo para diferentes instalaciones: piscinas al aire libre, piscinas cubiertas, poli
The houses of the village of Corrubedo contain the pounding of the waves of the Atlantic just a few meters from the water, using stone as their natural foundation. As an extension in height of the precipitous Galician coast, the houses, of different
As a direct result of the production needs, few building types are less affected by context as those linked to the industrial process. Displaying a whole catalog of prefabricated construction systems, sheds and factories are usually gathered in visua
To provide the small rural sites of the area with sports facilities, the Provincial Government of La Coruña launched the Sports 2000 program, by which swimming pools and gymnasiums have gone up in phases from a series of prototypes that each City Cou
Topography and toponymy seem to marry in Finisterre to define a place predestined to be a scene of sorrow. On this cape of the ‘Costa de la Muerte’ (Coast of Death) – where the Romans thought the world to end – a plot of land exposed to the tempests
In 1996, the local government of La Coruña organized a competition aimed at endowing its small municipalities with sports infrastructures. A first phase summoned participants to propose models for outdoor swimming pools adaptable to the specific requ
This cultural center, which underwent a slow and fractioned building process in several phases, is situated in a poorly consolidated town, as is typical in the dispersed rural habitats of Galicia, and was thought out as an element that would at the s
In northern Galicia the sky, be it dark or light, is never transparent. It is almost always grey, or something like grey. One is reminded of the Tibetan iconography of elements in which white is reserved for the subtlest of them all, the ether. The
Amidst the tide of challenges faced by the fashion industry under pandemic restrictions, OMA’s laboratory of ideas (AMO) took on the complex task of rethinking Bershka’s retail strategy. The first contact took place with the Bershka Flagship Milano,
1924-2019 Born on 23 June of 1924 in A Coruña, where he raised the majority of this buildings, Andrés Fernández-Albalat Lois died in the same city on 29 December 2019. An ETSAM graduate of 1956, his professional career started right at the beginning
Rafael Moneo: A Theoretical Reflection from within the Profession is the first major retrospective on the oeuvre of the Navarrese architect.
On show up to 30 March at the Barrié de la Maza Foundation in La Coruña, ‘Rafael Moneo. Una reflexión teórica desde la profesión’ centers on the importance of drawing as a work tool and as a means through which to capture how the mind of the Navarres
Situado frente a la ría de El Burgo, cerca de La Coruña, el edificio de la fábrica Cros —antigua manufactura de tostado de piritas para la producción de ácido sulfúrico construida en los años 1940— será rehabilitado para acoger un auditorio, una bibl
El equipo vigués liderado por Guadalupe Piñera y Jesús Irisarri ha ganado el concurso de ideas del centro de interpretación del Castro de Cociñadoiro, que albergará las piezas extraídas de la zona afectada por la construcción del puerto exterior de L
En la localidad coruñesa de Curtis, el estudio dirigido por Santiago Barge y Belén Bouza construirán el Centro Etnográfico, tras haber resultado ganadores del concurso convocado por la Diputación de La Coruña y al que se presentaron otros 21 particip
Tras su paso por el Design Museum de Londres, en febrero llega a la sede coruñesa de la Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza la exposición ‘David Chipperfield, Form Matters’, que reúne 75 proyectos del inglés, quien es además residente en verano de la c
Faculty in La Coruña and Station in Córdoba Two buildings – one in Galicia and the other in Andalusia – share the National Prize for Architecture, bestowed every two years by Spain’s Council of Architectural Institutes in conjunction with the M
(1922-1993) After a protracted illness, one of the most eminent figures of Spanish architecture in the second half of the century died on October 1. Ramón Vázquez Molezún was born in La Coruña and studied in Madrid, where he eventually settled and as
