Occupying the Maestres de Calatrava Palace in Almagro, the museum needed an updating that would make it function better without sacrificing its identity, while expanding its gallery space. The architectural project has reinterpreted the existing spac
This residential project uses industrialized construction techniques and dry assembly as strategies to optimize resources and reduce emissions, as well as minimize waste generation and integrate principles having to do with the life cycle of material
An abandoned complex comprising two houses and three warehouses – where rice was once sold and stored – has been converted into an art center for the Japanese city of Ota, in Gunma Prefecture. Exhibition galleries, studios, and workshops are inserted
A work of the Madrid firm led by Teodoro Núñez and Almudena Ribot, the design of this house in Madrid’s Aravaca neighborhood began with a desire to take advantage of the space occupied by an underused paddle tennis court underground, which became the
The concrete volume with a rectangular base is perforated by voids on the facade in checkboard fashion, and also three-dimensionally, inside, through a double-height in the main space. On the ground floor, the four large windows at the angles become
Each of the three living units forming a stack takes up a full floor of the building that rises on an 800-square-meter plot in Madrid’s Aravaca ward. The composition resulted from shifting and twisting each level with respect to the one below, genera
“Our Lady of Communications”: that is how Leon Trotsky, when he visited the Spanish capital, christened with irony the monumental building erected by Antonio Palacios and Joaquín Otamendi in the year 1919, and which the people of Madrid have ever sin
The firm of María Milans del Bosch, based in Madrid and New York, built this house-studio in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. Set on a slope at an altitude of 1,000 meters, amid larch, oak, and birch trees, it has minimal impact on the terra
The new Magazzino Italian Art building, a renovated and enlarged old storehouse for dairy products, proposes a parallel structure that filters natural light and organizes the circulation elements.
Impluvium is a large roof built with a laminated timber structure whose components were industrialized and assembled on site, replacing the old town market that was demolished after a fire. The roof, together with four concrete boxes that rise from t
The topographic difference, which reaches 14 meters, is solved with an armored ground wall that contains the land. The wall consists of four steps made of galvanized steel mesh and large boulders, set back 1.5 meters from each other... [+]
The Hermitage of the Holy Sepulcher in the Extremaduran town of Jarandilla de la Vera, built in the 17th century, was used as a prison in the 19th and as an elementary school in the 20th, after losing its roof. The intervention has involved consolida
Silent and exquisite, a silvery serpentine rooftop slithers down the gentle hillslopes of an estate in Connecticut to be home to a complex devoted to faith, education, and the arts.
With its facets opening to bring in light and search for views, the building makes the most of the advantages of the European courtyard block and the American skyscraper.
The combination of a glass- and bronze-clad shaft and a series of cantilevered cubic volumes breaks the symmetry of the complex and gives it a lighter appearance.
The scheme was determined from the outset by a double requirement: to maintain an existing building and to increase its area to adapt to the teaching and research needs of the university’s Cellular Biology and Genetics departments. Built at the begin
El alfabeto nativo coreano o hangeul, es el principal ‘signo’ del pabellón. El volumen principal, elevado 7,2 metros sobre el suelo, se genera mediante la unión de varios caracteres de ese alfabeto construidos como prismas de gran tamaño, conformando
El pabellón de Singapur se presenta bajo el título ‘Sinfonía urbana’, un tributo a la equilibrada mezcla de culturas existentes en la ciudad-estado asiática. La forma del pabellón evoca el mecanismo de una caja de música, presentándose como una conju
El nombre del pabellón danés en Shanghái, ‘Welfairytales’, hace un juego de palabras con welfare (bienestar) y fairytales (cuentos de hadas), en referencia respectivamente al lema de la Expo ‘Mejor ciudad, mejor vida’ y a los cuentos de Hans Christia
El nombre del pabellón, la interpretación alemana del lema general ‘Mejor ciudad, mejor vida’, es ‘Balancity’, una ciudad en equilibrio entre la renovación y la conservación, la innovación y la tradición, la planificación y la naturaleza, la sociedad
El lema general de la Expo 2010 ‘Mejor ciudad, mejor vida’ inspira la ‘Happy Street’ o ‘calle feliz’ del Pabellón de Países Bajos, una recreación literal de una calle holandesa en la que se mezclan edificios de diferentes tipos, como un bloque de viv
El Pabellón de Francia en la Exposición Universal Shanghái 2010 refleja una imagen positiva de las ciudades y su relación con las personas; propone un futuro en el que las construcciones humanas y las de la naturaleza estén entrelazadas. Con ese obje
Para realizar el proyecto del Pabellón de España en la Exposición Universal Shanghái 2010, la SEEI organizó en 2007 un concurso público de ideas al que se presentaron 18 de los estudios españoles de mayor proyección internacional. El jurado eligió el
Developed by Accenture Song with its Hybrid Spaces team (Nacho Martín, Ana Petra Moriyón), the Neo-Rotonda is a multimedia space comprising different immersive levels. It is located in Torre Andreu, a modernist tower in Barcelona known as La Rotonda,
The architect and photographer Montse Zamorano presents Deconstructing NYC, a project that shows one hundred buildings under construction that reveal the changing nature of the environment.
The exhibition at the Architekturmuseum in Munich on the work of Francis Kéré, ‘Radically Simple’ serves to remember his long relationship with Spain.
Two of the most important photographers in the dissemination of modern architecture were Ezra Stoller and Balthazar Korab. The parallelisms between their careers stem from their being contemporaries, from their prior training as architects, and from
Dando cuenta de la clave disciplinar de lo común, Rafael Moneo se pregunta si existe un lenguaje compartido por los arquitectos en el contexto actual de globalización.
De las casas a los edificios universitarios, lo común en la obra de Bevk Perovic es un concepto amplio que atiende tanto a las condiciones del lugar como a las relaciones sociales.
En su obra contenida y respetuosa con la memoria y el genio de los lugares, Roger Diener propone un concepto contemporáneo del decoro concebido como una dimensión de lo común.
En los países en desarrollo, la defensa de lo común no es una postura intelectual, sino un modo de vida. Tal es el mensaje de la obra de Heringer, construida con materiales tradicionales.
El joven arquitecto chileno expone la situación de su país tras el terremoto de febrero de 2010, narra la experiencia del ‘do tank’ Elemental, y se define como gestor de incertidumbres.
Burkinés de origen, Kéré se formó como arquitecto en Alemania y su primera obra fue una escuela para su aldea; su lema ‘ayuda para ayudarte’ resume la esencia de la solidaridad africana.
Tres intensos días de debates y conversaciones, un lugar de encuentro entre profesionales, estudiantes y agentes sociales, una plataforma para el acercamiento mutuo entre arquitectura y sociedad; el Congreso Internacional ‘Arquitectura: más por menos
