Langarita Navarro   Portugal   Olimpo Nômade, a city for the performing artists at an itinerant music festival, is made up of three elements: an inflatable doughnut is the lounge area; a camp of bubbles, the dressing rooms; and a mirrored cube, the space for the headliners...

Langarita Navarro   Spain   The coast of Cádiz becomes the lead character of the project: a house that, evoking the bow of a ship, emerges from a stone plinth to rise over the lush and rugged slope and to open all its spaces to the Atlantic.

Langarita Navarro   Spain   Minimal interventions like the creation of a loft and the placement of furniture define the spaces of the dwelling without eliminating features that gave the place character, such as the large window and the wooden floors. 

Langarita Navarro   Peru   A network of mobile catwalks and hanging systems contributes to making the space adaptable to each event, helped here by a range of lighting, audiovisual, and signage solutions. 

Langarita Navarro   Spain   The firm of María Langarita and Víctor Navarra renovated Daruan Group’s office in Madrid’s Aravaca ward, adapting it to new needs: a stronger corporate identity and more work stations. With budget and time limits, without interrupting the company’s d

Langarita Navarro   Spain   The new Madrid offices of Altafonte, a distributor of music content, were designed by the local firms Langarita-Navarro and Estudio Gonzalo del Val. An obsolete space was revamped to address the needs of a company steep in the process of expansion wo

Langarita Navarro   Spain   The proposal is developed in two synchronized stages: the urban pavement is reduced to a bare minimum to let the original landscape emerge and, at the same time, the removed slabs are reused in buildings that can be adapted to different functions...

Langarita Navarro   Peru   The proposal makes the most of the faraway views, the mild climate and the existing topography: the result is a roof that generates a striking exterior image and turns the interior into a light and luminous space thanks to the diffusion of light. A n

Langarita Navarro   Spain   Not without irony, diverse intentions come together in the conversion of an old sawmill of Serrería Belga into the Medialab-Prado. One coexistence arises from institutional schizophrenia. While the ‘Paseo del Arte’ promenade became Madrid City Hall’s

Langarita Navarro   Spain   Following the current strategy of recovering industrial architecture to harbor cultural buildings, the Área de las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid (arts department of the Madrid City Council), called a competition in 2005 to renovate the old Serrerí

Langarita Navarro   Spain   La Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) es un evento musical de carácter nómada que, desde hace catorce años, se celebra en una ciudad del mundo, acogiendo a los sesenta participantes seleccionados y a otros músicos y productores para intercambiar experienc

15 Works Awarded The 12th edition of the BEAU (Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism) chose to commend a group category of fifteen works, divided into five categories. The first one – reconversion projects – included the Cineteca in Matadero

The Cineteca at Matadero Madrid was the venue, on 14 November, of the awards ceremony of the 12th Spanish Architecture and Urban Planning Biennial, held under the auspices of Spain’s Public Works Ministry around the theme ‘Inflexión/Turning Point’. 

Matadero Madrid On its 54th year, the FAD Award for Architecture and Interior Design distinguished collective work vis-à-vis the individualism of ‘star architects’. The jury chaired by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra gave the prize to the Matadero de Mad

Una pareja de recién casados a punto de jubilarse desea construirse una casa en un pequeño pueblo de la provincia de Zaragoza y pide a los arquitectos dos cosas disímiles: por un lado, que la nueva vivienda siga cumpliendo las funciones de su antiguo