The firm led by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga won the competition to build the Astoria Cultural Center in the historical core of Málaga. It will go up at Plaza de la Merced, on the site of the old Astoria y Victoria cinemas, integrating the arch
In the Teatinos-Universidad district of the city of Málaga stands the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, a work of LLPS Arquitectos (Eduardo Pérez Gómez and Miguel Ángel Sánchez). The complex – with a built area of 31,639 square meters – is br
The new logistical center of Mayoral, a children’s clothing brand, rises on its corporate campus, on the site of the old company Interhorce (Industrial Textiles del Guadalhorce) in the city of Málaga, beside the listed building by Ramón Vázquez Molez
This three-floor residence rises on a flat, square-shaped plot in the Limonar neighborhood of Málaga. A work of Marina Uno Arquitectos (Juan Manuel Sánchez La Chica and Adolfo de la Torre Prieto), it is organized by a system of parallel bands running
The team formed by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Luis Machica Arquitectos, and DJ Arquitectura has won the competition to design Málaga’s new Plaza de la Marina and connect Parque de Málaga to the seafront. This park and the palm-lined port promen
The government Building is located at the Teatinos campus, west of the city of Málaga. It hosts the presidency of the University among several other services, which were scattered through the city until now. The project also includes an additional 80
The archaeological enclave of Acinipo, within the municipality of Ronda in Málaga province, features one of the oldest theaters of Hispania, built in the 1st century BC. The objective of the project drawn up by Sergio Valadez was to facilitate readin
This is a project that appears on the seashore, near a preexistence of a protected smokestack from the beginning of the 20th century, that informs us of the industrial activity in that area, at that time the industrial outskirts of Málaga. Pairs of i
The project transforms the Teatinos Campus through the insertion of outdoor infrastructures for education, culture, social interaction, and leisure, applying bioclimatic strategies to improve comfort conditions in the public spaces... [+]
The refurbishment of the Intelhorce (Industrias Textiles del Guadalhorce) complex pursues transforming the place into a new logistic center for the company Mayoral Moda Infantil. The old building is recovered preserving its spectacular interior space
The lager beer brand Victoria, founded in Málaga in 1928, has new brewing facilities designed by the local firm Gana, headed by Antonio Galisteo and Álvaro Fernández Navarro. On the foundations of an old industrial shed located on Avenida Velázquez,
Inaugurated in 1921 by King Alfonso XII of Spain, El Caminito del Rey is a narrow footbridge that was built as a service path for workers, who had to move from the Conde de Guadalhorce dam up to the hydroelectric dam of El Chorro. Little by little it
The project designs the access and route to the museum, where a narrow, buried corridor leads to the dome-shaped reception area that, pierced by another dome in the opposite direction, offers views of Málaga’s Convento de la Trinidad...
The building’s location on low-consistency terrain that has been much used by humanity through the ages, presenting Roman and Moorish strata at shallow levels, determined the kind of foundation system to be used for this office, residential, and comm
THE SO-CALLED ‘Palmeral de las Sorpresas’ (palm grove of surprises) restores the relationship between Málaga and the sea. The port, which has gone through periods of growth and stagnation, has marked the history of the city since its foundation by Ph
Un recorrido de caminos en trinchera de acero cortén construye una operación de rehabilitación paisajística que pone en valor el patrimonio de la ladera histórica de la ciudad.
El mercado de abastos construido a finales del siglo XIX sobre un taller naval nazarí se libera de añadidos anteriores y muestra su estructura; los nuevos puestos, piezas horizontales en colores básicos, forman un plano horizontal en diálogo con el e
The extension of the Teatinos Campus is being done little by little, with the idea of gathering all the facilities of the University of Málaga in this area by the River Guadalhorce, outside the city. The first phase of the campus extension includes t
With a perimetral block and interior courtyard typology, the project includes 170 dwellings. The communal spaces of the complex will be covered with gold-colored tiles that will remind of the tone of olive oil…
Tras el soterramiento del AVE, los antiguos terrenos industriales se transforman en un modelo de ciudad compacta, donde cinco torres al borde de una nueva avenida liberan hasta ocho hectáreas de parque público. La más alta de aquéllas, con 185 metros
Facing málaga’s waterfront area, the new Provincial Government Headquarters wraps around the old Civic Center, whose previous name, Casa de la Misericordia, was borrowed by the adjacent beaches..
Martemar House emerges as a unique architectural object. The residence is marked by two horizons – the sea in front and the Serranía de Ronda in the background –, so the project is set out as a viewing platform that opens up in both directions. The s
El Guadalquivir discurre por las estribaciones del lado sur de Sierra Morena. A lo largo de su cauce se suceden las poblaciones ribereñas donde se situaban los antiguos vados de la corriente. Cantillana es uno de los más tradicionales. A 35 kilómetro
“How our group is dwindling, our first fighting and heroic group, how few of us are left.” As the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro reported in a letter written to his mother, this was a lament Picasso uttered at María Blanchard’s funeral in 1932. The tw
The expansion of its Teatinos Campus has enabled the University of Málaga to equip itself with cutting-edge facilities and greatly improve its offer of academic programs. One of the beneficiaries of this is the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therap
Thirty years after its creation, the Technology Park of Andalusia – now simply called Málaga TechPark to satisfy the whims of marketing – is a concentration of half a thousand companies, including many of the promising startup firms that have been tu
In the course of a journey that pulled them out of her home in Cascais, designed by Souto de Moura, and included a stop at Tate Britain in London, paintings by Paula Rego now arrive at the Picasso Museum of Málaga to present an overwhelming imaginati
The work of Kazimir Severinovich Malevich – a father of abstraction, alongside Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian – has fascinated artists and unsettled the public since 1915, when he presented his first Black Square. The fascination and unsettlemen
A total of 44 works selected from the collections of the Russian State Museum of St. Petersburg – 16 of them never shown before in Spain – have been included in the monographic exhibition on Kazimir Malevich in the Russian Museum of Málaga. The exhib
First the opening of the Picasso Museum, then the arrival of part of the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, turned the southern Spanish city of Málaga into an art hub on a regional scale. One can now rightly call it an art hub on a national scale
El estudio de Luis Machuca ha ganado del concurso para el Centro de Interpretación de la Prehistoria de Andalucía, en Málaga. El proyecto contempla tres ámbitos de actuación: el propio museo, la puesta en valor de la Cueva del Tesoro, y el diseño de
El Mercado de Atarazanas, construido en Málaga en 1876 por Joaquín de Roucoba en hierro y vidrio según el modelo de Les Halles, sobre un taller naval nazarí del que conserva la portada, ha vuelto a abrir sus puertas tras la rehabilitación dirigida po
Inaugurado el pasado 27 de octubre, el Museo Picasso de Málaga mostró al gran público todo su poderío con la exhibición de la colección permanente, compuesta por 204 obras, fruto de la donación y préstamo a diez años prorrogables, de Christine, viuda
Hay lugares a los que el destino y la vida nos unen irremediablemente, y una vez y otra estamos abocados a su perenne visita. Así me ha sucedido con la Costa del Sol, en la que, como en un paréntesis, se asientan las ciudades en las que habitaban la
El regionalismo en arquitectura adquiere en nuestros días un interés nuevo. Los condicionantes económicos, los sistemas constructivos tradicionales, la morfología urbana y las permanencias tipológicas, aspectos, todos ellos, desarrollados por la cult