Located in Palma’s old town quarter, Can Gabriel is a house built on traces of the past with no attempts to erase them. The projects starts with a bare 164-square-meter apartment of the 1960s, the only legacy of which is purely constructional: struct
The new high-speed railway station of Santiago de Compostela, the outcome of an international competition organized by ADIF, is to stand as a key piece of architecture and infrastructure defining the city’s urban connections. The winning project prop
The 500-square-meter SO House arose from a clear idea of interconnected spaces engaging with one another while remaining independent. The result is a single-family house that presents itself as flexible, capable of adapting and transforming without l
Located on the seafront on the cliffs of the Majorcan municipality of Calvià, the single-family house Ca na Birgit is an example of architecture sensitized to the environment and local climate. Encompassing a built area of 194 square meters, the proj
The old City Hall of Fonsagrada, erected in 1845 and in disuse since 2015, has been turned by the Galician practice Firm Arquitectura —Daniel Gómez Magide and Adrián López Rancaño— into a museum for works of the cartoonist Fraguas, known as Forges, t
Naninuena is a narrow elongated house that responds to the site’s topographic conditions. It adapts to the pronounced slope of the terrain with meticulously positioned supports anchored directly to the bedrock, preserving this fragment of the territo
On the slope of Mount Pindo stands A casa das silvas, the oldest house in the Galician town of Panchés, the roof of which collapsed close to forty years ago. With the passage of time, a piece of mountain pierced through the walls, making it a home fo
Located on the left bank of the Zubitegi stream, in the south zone of the Basque municipality of Mallabia, this sports park is the result of transforming an area damaged by the operations of an old water-treatment plant. The outdoor facilities optimi
Developed by a group of owners constituted as a cooperative, this project for 34 dwellings in Santiago de Compostela is situated in the area around the Ermite de Santa Marta, next to Rúa Monte de Conxo. This way of associating reduces construction co
As part of the third Festival des Cabanes, held at Villa Medici in Rome, the temporary pavilion Cabane 7L gives visitors the chance to enjoy views of the Renaissance gardens through the treetops. Raised entirely with firwood boasting sustainability c
Outside Bohinjska Bistrica, the largest settlement in the Bohinj Valley, stands this school promoted by the local community to orient education towards a closer connection with nature. The fruit of a collaboration between the Slovenian firm ARREA and
A large flat was partitioned to form two separate but perfectly symmetrical residential units in which undifferentiated spaces are connected by a series of equidistant openings.
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...
DIIR, the Madrid practice of David Meana, Ignacio Navarro, Iñigo Palazón, and Ricardo Fernández, has transformed an old building with dormitories for teachers into the library of Los Molinos, a municipality of the Madrid metropolitan area, specifical
Labelled in the 1970s by the Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, the term permaculture makes reference to a system of agricultural design principles based on the patterns and characteristics of the natural ecosystem, which seeks s
The starting point of the refurbishment project was to remove the elements added in previous interventions that distorted the original character of the house, in order to improve and update the existing spaces according to current demands. The new el
The Madrid firm HANGHAR (Eduardo Mediero, Stefania Rasile, Almudena Tenorio) designed this building surrounded by 14 hectares of vineyards, close to a winery of the town of Pioz, in Guadalajara province. It is a 120-square-meter farmhouse for the art
With a built area of 25,843 square meters, this urban reconfiguration in Porto do Son, a town in the province of A Coruña, expresses a direct engagement with the sea and fishing activity, reviving the old port’s identity.
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.
The proposal reflects the purpose of creating a space where folklore and contemporary life converge. The huge red canopy recreates a fair atmosphere and includes traditional elements that invite to imagine community stages...
The old building of the Mariñamasa School Home – a student residence in Ourense, built in 1970 by the architects Emma Ojea and Walter Lewin – was turned into a center for research and innovation in vocational training. After an analysis of the abando
The building is located by the Convent of Discalced Carmelites. According to historical maps, the plot was part of the convent’s kitchen gardens, and this condition marks the character of the proposal from the beginning. Towards the city it expresses
This project in Madrid’s Carabanchel district creates an 85-square-meter unfinished space that the inhabitants can renovate on a limited budget, saving on construction costs. The bareness allows future interventions where expensive finishes are unnec
The dwelling occupies the full area of the plot. The house – set in the longest direction of the plot – and the courtyard are complementary. This organization of the space frees up a courtyard-path between the new building and the neighboring wall. E
. It is neither frequent nor rare for the FAD Award to be shared by two works on an equal footing. But whereas past ex aequo winners were very different in nature, this time the two awardees address similar concerns with a proactive audacity pointing
The urban canopy that protects the whole plaza is built with two triangular timber porticoes from which hangs a huge Alicantina-type rolling shutter in a dark green tone which pays tribute to this symbol of Mediterranean culture.
Focusing on the body and the presence of collective memory, the work of the Barcelona-born artist Jaume Plensa will be viewable firsthand through an exhibition and an urban piece in Madrid. The Reina Sofía Museum will until 3 March 2019 present at th
Based in Palma de Mallorca, the young studio TEd’A arquitectes – headed by Jaume Mayol and Irene Pérez, recent recipient of the FAD Award for Interiors – has finished a school in the small Swiss locality of Orsonnens, fifty kilometers from Bern. The
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
