DIIR   Spain   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

Israel Alba Estudio   Spain   The project addressed the operational needs and requirements of a large outdoor space for vehicles of street-cleaning services to park and circulate in. This determined the building’s position within the plot, at the western end of the industrial est

Padilla Nicás arquitectos   Spain   In Valdemorillo, a municipality in the Community of Madrid, surrounded by trees on a choice spot next to the Valmayor reservoir, stands this renovated house. The original building was not well oriented with respect to the sun. Encompassing a total of

Miguel Ángel Díaz Camacho (MADC & Partners)   Spain   The new public library in the Butarque neighborhood of Madrid’s Villaverde district satisfies an old demand of the community, being the first library to be built by the Madrid City Council in this area. The design revolves around the idea of creating

Ricardo Sánchez González Ángel Munárriz Blasco   Spain   This development promoted by Madrid’s Housing and Land Corporation (EMVS Madrid) is located in the Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles neighborhood of the district of Puente de Vallecas, on a 9,798-square-meter plot with a maximum buildable area of 15,920

arquid   Spain   Casa Umbral (Threshold House) stands out for its unique ceramic facade and its carefully designed openings and volumes that both ensure privacy and connect with the exterior. With a total area of 768 square meters it is organized in four volumes: one

Picado - De Blas Arquitectos   Spain   With an area of more than 220 hectares, Mercamadrid is one of the largest wholesale markets of fresh products in Europe. The project for Frutas Eloy is being developed in this food-supply environment, with a two-level building for cold storage where

Mónica Alberola   Spain   In 2019, a proposal drawn up by Mónica Alberola in collaboration with María Casariego, Enrique de Teresa, and Guiomar Martín won the competition to expand and renovate pavilions 7 and 8 of the School of Health in Madrid, within the Chamartín campus o

José María Sánchez García   Spain   José María Sánchez García was commissioned to build the new law school on Universidad CEU San Pablo’s Moncloa campus, in Madrid. Construction is already underway at Julián Romea 16, a few meters from the current location. The 8,500-square-meter new b

NULA.STUDIO   Spain   In order to make the most of the generous overhead space, what was previously an under-the-roof office has been rearranged as a series of virtually assembled functional volumes. In resonance with the beamed structure, a core of timber fixed to the lo

OOIIO   Spain   This 56-square-meter apartment was renovated on a low budget, so the exercise in personalizing the space involved getting the best out of solutions and materials available in the market, such as standard tiles put in place in creative new ways, altog

Padilla Nicás arquitectos   Spain   This 105-square-meter chapel is located at the heart of the new building on the Madrid campus of the IESE Business School. The project seeks to accentuate this central position through a curvilinear geometry, with concave formations conducive to conc

Junquera arquitectos   Spain   The great challenge in this project is to give the school a space of its own, separate from its surroundings, on a small plot surrounded by one-family homes. The solution chosen involved sinking the ground level, creating a space that would be adequa

Lucas y Hernández-Gil   Spain   Near the San Juan reservoir in the mountains of Madrid stands Casa Montesa, a work of the firm headed by Cristina Domínguez Lucas and Fernando Hernández-Gil. Beside this small bungalow, in the garden, the Madrid practice has raised a flexible, multip

Marmolbravo MADhel   Spain   Located in the Puente de Vallecas district, the SFJ6 residential complex commissioned by EMVS (Madrid’s municipal housing and land corporation) counts 102 social-housing units, four commerical spaces at ground level, and 109 garage slots. With a tota

ALE ESTUDIO   Spain   The Botijo house goes for rational, austere construction where the elements forming the structure and enclosures are presented in honest engagement with the surroundings. It stands on a street in Madrid’s Carabanchel neighborhood, where low houses ar

L35 Architects gmp Architekten Ribas & Ribas   Spain   The main objective of the renovation was to give Real Madrid’s stadium more flexible and dynamic, readjusting its massive form to the scale of the city around it. The asymmetrical envelope flows with curved surfaces to reflect the diffused light in a

Pedro Pitarch   Spain   (Text description provided by Pedro Pitarch architectures & urbanisms) Shine on you Crazy DiamondLA MAISON-EN-VALISE / HOME IN A SUITCASE / HOGAR EN UNA MALETA An Architectural Device for the Critique of Everyday Life NOTE: This article is written to

Ángela García de Paredes Rafael de La Hoz   Spain   A university residence run by the Dominican order presents a rigorous composition of brick volumes that nevertheless maintain a certain degree of formal autonomy. The bedrooms take up the vertical block, arranged in pairs along continuous balconies,

Estudio Lamela   Spain   A 1,700-square-meter office block at Calle Amador de los Ríos 5 in Madrid, built in 1966 and owned by Primework Properties, has been renovated. The ground level, the basement, and the fourth floor have been partly restructured, with facades replaced

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   The Seville-based firm Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos has won the competition to expand and renovate the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, located at Calle Requena 1, next to the Plaza de Oriente. Unifying the premises, the project integrates two adja

Ignacio Borrego   Spain   On a small existing pavilion on the roof of a building in Madrid rises this structure which acts as the base on which solar panels have been installed to generate electrical energy for an office to consume. It also provides an outdoor rest area for i

Arquitectura-G   Spain   Following her desire to live in a garden, the client found what she was looking for in the center of the Spanish capital, and set out to build her first home there. The garden was hidden to the street behind an apartment block, and had a small volume

For Juan Navarro Baldeweg, build and create are verbs that are conjugated identically, given that both express the same impulse. So it is that everything in his oeuvre has a place in a coherent vision, such as the elements of what he calls a “prior h

Tras protagonizar la participación española en la última bienal veneciana de arte, hasta el 14 de septiembre se podrá ver en la Biblioteca Nacional la ‘Pinacoteca migrante’ de la hispano-peruana Sandra Gamarra: una revisión del concepto hegemónico de

In the context of the PHotoESPAÑA festival, the foundation of the Spanish insurance company Mapfre brings the first major retrospective exhibition of the photographer José Guerrero to Madrid. Born in Granada in 1979 and trained as a technical archite

At an event held at the Royal Post Office, the regional government of Greater Madrid – the Community of Madrid – officially presented the project for the City of Justice, an ambitious judiciary complex that will start to go up this June in the Valdeb

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Between concept and consumption, color colonized Madrid’s spring offer of art. Controversially at odds with concept and condemned for its connection to consumerism, color was celebrated through three shows: the Fundación March hosted an ambitious exh

A decadent bourgeois for some, a transgressive libertine for others... no label can possibly encapsulate the overwhelming personality of Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre, or simply Néstor; a brilliant artist who – whether due to his defiance of al

The Caja Mágica in Madrid is to be expanded with the construction of a new tennis court with seats for 8,600 spectators, raising the total capacity of the sports complex to about 26,000. The French architect Dominique Perrault, in charge of the origi

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ever alert as we are to what is said about us abroad, any article printed in the foreign press causes a stir in Spain. In the same way, books by Hispanists spark special curiosity. So it is surprising that the elegant volume by J.B. Trend, The Civili

Alberto Ballesteros   The past is destroyed, not transformed. Despite efforts to manicure the changes it is undergoing, downtown Madrid is becoming generic, a neighborhood sans neighbors where the only memory worth keeping is that which attracts tourists: walking its stre

Until Hittorff discovered the bright colors of Greek temples, we imagined ancient times with the washed appearance of marble. Time erased the coats of paint that had covered buildings and statues, and the aesthetic values that embraced the elegant ne

“In the stirred night air / the moon sways her arms.” With these opening verses of Federico García Lorca’s Romancero gitano (often translated as Gypsy Ballads), Didi-Huberman has at the Reina Sofía Museum woven a deep, intimate reflection on the powe

The project of the Spanish real-estate investment company Ibervalles is to be carried out by Ortiz-León, a Madrid firm with branches in Lisbon, Shanghai, and Miami. This will mean demolishing the 13-story building at General Perón 27, which contains

Female creators have been relegated to the second row of history, and in its firm endeavor to give them center stage, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid presents the first retrospective on the German Gabriele Münter ever to be put together in Sp

Eduardo Prieto   The observance of the centenaries of illustrious people is but a late version of the tradition of paying homage to the powerful, or a cultivated version of the celebration of children’s birthdays, besides a symptom of contemporary superstitions, whic

Carlos Jiménez   Filmmakers might cast a city as a backdrop, or as an essential character in their cinematic narrative. I recall Stockholm as a distant, haunting witness in Ingmar Bergman’s early films, just as Tokyo lingers in the interiors of Yasujiro Ozu’s hypnoti

Esta exposición es la primera retrospectiva completa dedicada a Saul Steinberg (Râmnicu Sărat, Rumania, 1914 - Nueva York, 1999) en España. Steinberg es considerado como uno de los artistas más destacados del arte de posguerra, y su trabajo se resist

Football clubs renew their T-shirts in a seasonal mutation that leads to ever more sophisticated technology for textiles and patterns, supposedly for the greater comfort of players but in essence involving minimal changes with the sole purpose of mak

The new Bernabéu

Juan Francisco Fuentes   Although art critic Luis Gil Fillol was not a lover of the United States, in an article written in 1926 he attested to the 'indelible' impression that New York leaves on seeing it for the first time. That same year, to the painter José Moreno Villa i

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

¿Cuáles son los retos culturales, sociales, técnicos y medioambientales que deben afrontar los arquitectos hoy? ¿Qué rasgos caracterizan el pensamiento y la crítica contemporáneos? ¿Cómo son las herramientas para difundir la arquitectura en el ámbito

Luis Fernández-Galiano   MMM did lots of things, but will be remembered as the engineer who executed the big urban projects that Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón launched as president of the Community of Madrid from 1995 to 2003 and as mayor of the city from 2003 to 2011. Of strong Ar

The Norman Foster Institute is now accepting applications for its Programme on Sustainable Cities, taking place in Madrid from January to December 2025. The Programme on Sustainable Cities blends hands-on experience with academic insights from the No

Luke Stegemann   New Haven  2024  
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Antonio Muñoz Molina   Madrid  2022  
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