O Arquitectura   Spain   In the 1950s, in the Navarrese town of Lododa, a new neighborhood went up consisting of simple one-level dwellings with backyards. Casa O reformulates this typology with a contemporary language. Its facade preserves the existing composition. The ridg

FRPO   Spain   The operations center of a manufacturer of medical products tries to combine efficient industrial formulas with a corporate image grounded on volumetric and material refinement. Laboratories and loading docks are closed with a mini-wave corrugated sh

Pachón–Paredes   Spain   The renovation of this flat with a 110-square-meter built area, in a building raised in the early 1970s in Madrid’s Pacifico neighborhood, is part of a series of projects falling under two ongoing investigations. ‘Non-Binary Space’ explores the syner

Jacobo García-Germán   Spain   The project involved the thorough restoration of a house built between 1933 and 1936 and located in Madrid’s El Viso neighborhood, an example of Spanish rationalism. The main architect of El Viso was Rafael Bergamín, with the collaboration of Luis Bl

FRPO   Spain   A work of the Madrid practice led by Fernando Rodríguez and Pablo Oriol, FRPO, this thermal power plant supplies hot water to thousands of homes in the city of Palencia. It uses no fossil fuels, only locally-sourced forest biomass, as its main raw ma

Rojo Fernández-Shaw   Spain   The Julia Powell Hall is a sports and multipurpose space on the campus of Runnymede College in Alcobendas, a municipality of the Madrid metropolitan area. The starting point of the project was taking advantage of the existing foundation: the basement

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   This compact volume of 38 square meters contains a room whose single-slope roof incorporates a skylight. Next to a food garden, it is annexed to a 17th-century house which is listed as a piece of heritage, with a porch in between, saving the vegetati

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   Behind the listed facade of an industrial building raised early in the 20th century, the new spaces of a bank are terraced on top so as not to alter the current engagement with the street. The lower levels are organized in relation with a foyer that

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   A refined cottage for excursionists helps itself to the local building tradition of solid stonework walls and tiled roofs to blend into a beautiful natural spot in the province of Soria. Clad in panels of black bakelite, a space unfolding around a fi

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   Built over different periods starting in the 15th century, the Paredes-Saavedra House is a small-size urban fortress within the walled area of the city of Cáceres. The building is organized on three floors around a small asymmetrical interior atrium

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   The brick house is built on a plot qualified by a group of tall pine trees, located at its northeast corner, and by the silent proximity of Monte del Pardo, along its north face. The complex is organized around three independent volumes: the cubic v

NOMOS Architects   Spain   An automobile repair shop surrounded by a ramp becomes a home where a sequence of parallel walls makes hallways unnecessary and is conducive to the crossing of paths. Both energy saving and natural lighting determined the construction solutions appli

Pachón–Paredes   Spain   The revamp of a flat in a tower built in the 1950s eliminated the outmoded original partitioning, in favor of an undefined cruciform space that lends itself to multiple options. The main space is unobstructed, whereas each of the rooms with specific

Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas   Spain   At José Antonio Fernández Ordóñez 8, in the Madrid residential neighborhood of Valdebebas, stand three towers with curved corners. They contain 67 apartments plus retail units and a garage. The outcome of a competition held in March 2017, it is a wor

Pachón–Paredes   Spain   In the Nueva España neighborhood of Madrid’s Chamartín district stands what is called Casa No. 1- ochentayseiscentímetros, a work of the practice of Luis G. Pachón and Inés García de Paredes. Their renovation of this attached house built in 1978 addr

Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas   United Arab Emirates   Expo 2020 Dubai, themed 'Connecting Minds, Creating the Future' and counting over 200 participants, kicked off with a ceremony almost a year after it was supposed to, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, and welcomes the public from 1 October to 31 March

Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas   Spain   Located in Molinete Archaeological Park, in the historic center of Cartagena, the museum occupies the ground level and basement of the health center. The project was drafted – with the building of the Roman Curia already excavated –, with the intenti

Spain   Made out of obsolete material salvaged from the municipal warehouses of Madrid City Hall, F.U.A. is a prototype for sustainable and reusable public installations where social, energy, and environmental considerations converge, designed by David Cárde

Canals Moneo Arquitectos Rafael Moneo   Spain   With over three centuries of history, Bodegues Ribas is the oldest winery on the island of Mallorca. Since its foundation in 1711, its wines have been produced in Ca’n Ribas – an 18th-century manor house kept intact to date – and the lands around it,

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   Warm materials and the ideal of outdoor living provide the arguments for a refurbishment project where an existing building is transformed to house six tourist apartments by the sea. 

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   The house is a simple prismatic volume with a square floor plan of 16-meter sides, and each of the four facades is perforated by three windows. The stretches of wall have been constructed with local quartzite stone, and the windows are framed with Ex

Arquitectos Ayala   Spain   Two years after starting the project for the Banco Popular building on Calle Abelias – phase I – (see AV 165-166), the same studio was commissioned to develop a proposal that would adapt to a different economic situation, for the second phase, on Cal

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   The new stadium of the Atlético de Madrid extends the old Athletics Stadium of the Community of Madrid - nicknamed ‘La Peineta’ -, completed in 1994 by the same architects and with capacity for 19.000 spectators, a building whose distinctive image be

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   The historic building dates from 1884, but was extended gradually in the 1920s and 1970s until Rafael Moneo ‘wrapped up’ the block in 2006. Paredes Pedrosa have intervened several times since 1986, when they converted the Cibeles corner into an exhib

In the context of Festival Open House Madrid 2024, the MINIM gallery is showcasing photographs by Luis Asín until 26 October. Curated by Enrique Encabo and Inmaculada Maluenda, ‘Modern Madrid, Through the Eyes of Luis Asín’ offers a photographic inte

When the German gallerist Helga de Alvear decided fifteen years ago to install her collection of art in a modernist mansion in Cáceres, in Extremadura region, she approached the architects Luis Moreno Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón and commissioned them t

Jacobo García-Germán   The ICO museum highlights the monumentality of the work of Vaquero Palacios through projects he carried out for hydroelectric power plants. 

Paul Goldberger   Relatively few architects have solved the challenge of giving physical expression to the desire for a legacy. Of course any architect’s oeuvre is itself a physical expression of his or her legacy, and for most, the built work that they leave behind w

La artesanía sacra, uno de los sectores industriales de mayor arraigo en Sevilla, se traslada a un moderno parque empresarial. Surgido de una iniciativa del ayuntamiento para responder a las necesidades de un sector todavía brioso que demandaba un es

Paloma Acuña   No es precisamente la coherencia lo que califica el conjunto de los incontables museos españoles. Una historia y un origen como el que han tenido estas instituciones en nuestro país determina sus variopintos contenidos, titularidades, modelos de gest

Luis Asín Vicente Lleó   Madrid  2016  
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