Lacol   Spain   Over and above the neighborhood’s street-level shops, the dwellings are organized around a courtyard and a staircase that has landings thanks to the existence of an alternative passageway along the outside. By means of a large ceiling fan, the heat t

Lacol   Spain   Soaring prices determined the choice of the usual concrete structure, the basic unidirectional scheme of which proved ideal for establishing an efficient arrangement of twelve living units and shared facilities and amenities provided on the ground fl

Lacol Laboqueria Taller d’Arquitectura   Spain   A large foyer gives access to the dwellings and a multipurpose hall that doubles as a dining room and, at the request of the residents, can be used separately to connect with the area’s fabric of community associations. Harnessed for acoustic filteri

Lacol   Spain   Raised in 1926, these listed old industrial sheds in Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood were used for building naval ships. After undergoing refurbishment, the one that takes up half the block harbors offices of various entities (including Lacol Arquitec

Lacol   Spain   The la Borda process was launched in 2012, within the context of a program to recover Can Batlló, where a group of neighbors set up a group to collectively address the issue of access to housing through a cooperative system. The architects’ cooperat

The association culture of Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood nourishes the practice of Lavol, a collective grounded on participatory and horizontal structures, in the awareness that only in a community spirit can current problems be addressed and market

Josep Maria Montaner   Zaida Muxí   The cooperative that calls itself Lacol came into being in 2009 as an initiative of young architects and students averse as much to the usual logic of hierarchical study programs as to professional exploitation. It was also a bit more than ten years

The deep-rooted association culture of Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood revealed to a group of young professionals setting up an office there what would become the foundation of their practice: the idea that architecture is less about projects per se t

The winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2022 have been announced in Brussels. Town House at Kingston Univertsity in London – by Dublin-based Grafton Architects, led by Yvonne Farrell and She

The European Commission and the Fundació van der Rohe have revealed the names of the finalists in the competition for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, five in the principal Architecture section an

Despite the undoubted generational affinities or architectural sensibilities that can often be detected among them, the collectives are a heterogeneous and diverse reality, open and continuously updated in their response to the conditions, also varia