A work of the Asturian firm sukunfuku Studio – Miguel Huelga and Iria de la Peña – this museum stands on the slope of Mount Castillo, surrounded by the winding road that leads to the caves it harbors. Inserted into a complex topography, the C-shaped
From its original location, the University of Limerick has expanded over the years and is now situated on both sides of the River Shannon, the longest and largest in Ireland. The University’s expansion provided the location for the new Medical School
The site for the new house for the President of the Limerick University in the west of Ireland was chosen to be on lands across the river Shannon. Using traditional techniques, the house sits alone in the landscape establishing a relationship with th
The Commissioners of Public Works developed this new building to house the Department of Finance. It is the first new Government Department Building completed in Dublin since 1939. The project incorporated a link into the adjacent Government Building
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
ABLM arquitectos (Arturo Blanco, Laura Martínez) and ATELIER62 (Rodrigo Martínez, Arturo Menduiña H., Juan Pérez, Luis Ruiz) drew up a scheme that placed first in the competition to refurbish the 16th/17th-century Hospital de la Concepción in Burgos
In the heart of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, at 12 Rue Jean-Bart, this 8-unit apartment building includes a daycare facility. With its massing and layout, it completes the front of a typical Parisian city block. Vertical openings and the use of l
A work of the architect Amin Taha, this seven-story block contains apartments – including this own home on the top floor – and the offices of his practice, Groupwork. Defined by its limestone structure, the building makes references to a ruined 11th-
The Kunsthaus is a 1910 building located at Heimplatz, in the center of Zürich. After years of planning and construction, its extension opened to the public in October 2021. Connected to the original building by an underground passageway, it is organ
Taking inspiration from the palaces in the city, the refurbishment project adds a four-story building and a volume of 2+2 floors, giving it a new image and composition, and replacing the ceramic of the facade with limestone and bronze frames.
Set up in 2008 by Miguel Crespo Picot, Javier Guzmán Benito, and Sixto Martín Martínez, the firm Zooco Estudio – working from offices in Madrid and Santander – built this one-family residence based on the rupture of a volume in accordance with a stri
At the edge of the city, on the shores of the Segre River and close to the AVE station, the La Llotja Theater and Congress Center has as its backdrop the Seu Vella, the historical cathedral of Lérida, located at a hilltop. The project, which won the
Francine Houben directs the architecture office Mecanoo since 1984. With noteworthy projects like the library of TU Delft (completed in 1997), after a competition held in 2005 the studio was commissioned to build the La Llotja de Lleida Congress Cent
The 650 square meter house in the town of Garrison, New York, is planned around the contrasting spatial experiences of landscape walls and horizontal decks and roofs. Two parallel walls extend in the direction of the access path and separate the two
Este recinto cultural se levanta en el lugar que ocupaban, entre otras construcciones, un cine y un teatro. Se trata de un emplazamiento excepcional por su accesibilidad, tanto para ciudadanos como para turistas, porque coincide con el inicio del cam
After several enlargements since its construction in 1891, the Bank of Spain called a competition in 1978 for the design of the last piece to wrap up its monumental headquarters. At that time the winning project was denied the license from the City C
This ten-story apartment building goes up in front of the Tiergarten park, in one of the most central areas of Berlin. This intervention finishes the northern edge of the urban complex of Beisheim (with a hotel, offices and housing), rounding off the
Yuhu is a small village approximately three thousand meters above sea level, on the foothills of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, belonging to the Naxi ethnic minority and located close to Lijiang, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The snow-capped mountain pea
The proximity to the airport and to the fairground area have made of the northeast stretch of the M-40 – Madrid’s second beltway –one of the most coveted sites for the construction of corporate headquarters from the capital. Attracted by the characte
From the coast of the most southern of the Rías Bajas, the city of Vigo renders tribute to the ocean with the Sea Museum. Over the Punta de Muiño – which marks the point where the harbor area ends and the beaches begin –, the museum mediates between
Without attempting to resemble the architecture of basic materials and explicitly domestic shapes common to the region, the Roser house goes up in Gerona as an abstract volume that asserts its formal autonomy with respect to the landscape and the con
Standing at a bend of the road that connects Camprodón with Olot, the town of La Canya is growing in residential developments that are not very different to those surrounding great cities. But due to its location in this rural region within the prov
The Montiliví campus, south of Gerona’s old quarter, imposes its rational grid on alandscape of gently rolling hills and extensive forests. The new school of law sciences is set up on one of the resulting parcels, with the intention of minimizing its
