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
Located on the grounds of the old railway station, the development comprises 125 dwellings with 22 different typologies, both single-story units and duplex apartments. The urban plan foresaw the construction of three linear blocks and two open priva
“Majorca is paradise, if you can stand it!” This warning pronounced by Gertrude Stein, directed at Robert Graves when he told her about his plans of leaving cold England, echoes in a house that harnesses traditional wisdom to create an agreeable redo
The Mallorca firm isla architects (Marta Colón de Carvajal & Juan Palencia de Sarriá) won the bid to build the Basel Pavilion in the inaugural edition of Architekturwoche Basel, held from 9 to 15 May. It is located in the old Dreispitz industrial are
A former industrial warehouse within a block courtyard is now the home and atelier of a photographer, and to guarantee maximum comfort it underwent a painstaking refurbishment...
The dwelling refrains from adopting a pre-set layout, instead organizing itself in four isotropic rooms, which are spatially and visually connected by large centered openings...
As part of Concéntrico festival, the project stacks ceramic blocks to transform a long, narrow corridor in the old Tobacco Factory complex into a built-up space that takes visitors on a promenade through different spatial experiences...
Subtle interventions enhance a necessary cleaning job in the project of reconstructing a deteriorated port facility and then fitting it out as home to an institution’s collection of artworks.
A farmhouse located on the outskirts of Bilbao has undergone a thorough transformation job to accommodate independent dwellings for two generations of one same family. While the ground story follows an open scheme with large, floor-to-ceiling windows
Located on the outskirts of Palma de Mallorca, the building pursues two fundamental objectives: on the one hand to go unnoticed, and on the other to tie up with the island’s vernacular architectures. The first addresses the topography of the site, wh
On a hill that offers panoramic views of the surrounding landscape, the new agricultural school building presents a volume of compact geometries and a hipped roof...
. 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
