Taller Básico de Arquitectura MRM arquitectos   Spain   In Mutilva, a town belonging to the municipality of Valle de Aranguren, Navarre, this social housing development takes an L shape opening out to views of the landscape while shielding itself from north winds. Rising on a concrete base, the building u

Matos Castillo Estudio Álvarez-Sala Rueda & Pizarro Tabuenca & Leache   Spain   The objective of the project is to turn the old Salesian convent into offices for the Union of Municipalities of the Comarca of Pamplona, in the heart of the Navarrese capital. Interventions on the abandoned heritage building is minimized. Demolition

ERRE arquitectura   Spain   The Hortensia Herrero Art Center is located in the old Valeriola Palace, a central and emblematic 17th century building that has served multiple uses over the years and undergone several interventions, falling finally into disuse over the past decade

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   In a resort located on the shore of the Yellow Sea, a modest venue for exhibitions is designed to become a place where residents can socialize and interact with one another. With its solid envelope composed of faceted modules of concrete, interrupted

Virseda-Vila Arquitectos Miguel Ángel Cámara Miguel Fernández Rueda   Spain   Located in downtown Logroño, this public secondary school was thoroughly revaped to create sports facilities, exhibition halls, an auditorium, and a multipurpose classroom that all citizens would have access to. The original building was characterize

MADhel Marmolbravo   Spain   Miguel Herraiz and Daniel Bergman – MADhel – and Marina del Mármol and Mauro Bravo – Marmolbravo – built these publicly subsidized rental dwellings for EMVS, Madrid’s Municipal Housing and Land Company, in the eco-neighborhood of the city’s Puente de

IDOM   France   In Tarbes, a commune in the Occitanie region of France’s Hautes-Pyrénées department, the firm IDOM – directed by Inés López Taberna, Iñaki Garai and Gohar Manrique San Pedro – transformed a building used in the early 20th century for the military ind

Marmolbravo MADhel   Spain   A work of Marina del Mármol and Mauro Bravo – principals of the architecture firm Marmolbravo – in collaboration with Miguel Herraiz and Daniel Bergman, this stepped apartment building stands at Peña Falconera 2, in Madrid’s Puente de Vallecas distri

Lecumberri & Cidoncha   Spain   Going against the current of souls who in the past decades have abandoned the villages of Navarre’s Lizoáin Valley to try their luck in big cities – a tendency that has become all the more pronounced all over Spain – a young couple contemplated the c

Garmendia & Cordero TCGA arquitectos    Spain   In Sarriguren, a municipality 4 km south of Pamplona, this educational complex encompasses a built area of 25,000 square meters. A bold volume on the north side of the site blocks the usual cold wind blowing in from the mountains close to the basin,

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   The Shanghai firm headed by Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu were tasked to renovate an old brick building containing two levels of offices, to combine this use with a cultural center including a library, an exhibition hall, and a multipurpose space for 10

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   This twenty-room hotel rises in an environment dotted with small lakes and a handful of preexisting structures that have been transformed to adapt to new uses...

vaumm   Spain   The Basque firm vaumm has renovated the pavilion that Luis Tolosa built in 1943 at San Sebastián’s port. It was a storage for the wooden boxes used by the fishing fleet. Because of the cantilevered roof deck – where fishing nets were repaired, cleane

Espinet / Ubach Arquitectes   Spain   The Catalan practice of Miquel Espinet and Antoni Ubach has completed this 26-unit apartment building on a leftover plot that borders with the old Can Batlló textile factory, in the Sants neighborhood. The courtyard is the main feature, serving as a

Pereda Pérez Arquitectos   Spain   In a newly created urban core located on the outskirts of the city of Pamplona stands this house designed by the Navarrese practice of Carlos Pereda and Óscar Pérez. Rectangular and elongated in plan, the simple construction is fragmented to present

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   The new stadium of the Atlético de Madrid extends the old Athletics Stadium of the Community of Madrid - nicknamed ‘La Peineta’ -, completed in 1994 by the same architects and with capacity for 19.000 spectators, a building whose distinctive image be

MX_SI Architectural Studio   Spain   The need to reduce costs to a maximum during the building’s construction process led to the decision of choosing a lightweight facade, formed by aluminum trays with a variable section, which allowed a fast and dynamic assembly... [+]

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   South Korea   A light and seemingly infinite brass structure that defragments vertically colonizes the whole building. The project references the lantern concept and its symbolism – light in the dark showing the way – to connect with Asian traditions...

Spain   The project establishes a natural and continuous relationship between the building and the historic center through different scales of intervention. In the first place, the nearby urban space of Plaza de la Romanilla blends into the building’s foyer.

Arquitecturia   Spain   Located by the River Segre, Balaguer is the capital of La Noguera – the largest county in the province of Lleida, and one of the most heterogeneous due to its different types of landscape –, and also of one of the seven judicial districts of Lleida.

Pesquera Ulargui Arquitectos   Spain   The new Palace of Justice goes up as a building open to citizens, functional, transparent, and accessible. If furthermore brings together all the law courts services of La Rioja, up to now scattered in different buildings, while at the same time cont

PMMT Arquitectes   Spain   An uninterrupted enclosure of vitrified brick pieces, assembled on a stainless steel mesh, functions at the same time as facade, pergola, latticework, and roof of a three-story single-family house laid out around a central courtyard... [+]

Robert Terradas Esteve Terradas Marc Arnal Terradas Arquitectos   The La Salle University Campus takes up an unevenly shaped plot in a low-density urban district located northwest of Barcelona, in the Bonanova neighborhood. The elevated ground level of this peripheral area offers extraordinary views over the city,

Jaime Magén Francisco Javier Magén Magén Arquitectos   The new Town Hall of Escatrón, a municipality on the lower banks of the Ebro River, goes up on a site consisting of two adjacent plots: one where the former Town Hall building used to stand, and the other where the dwelling adjacent to the old buildi

For the Spanish Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, celebrated in this edition under the motto ‘The Laboratory of the Future,’ the architects Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña curated ‘Foodscapes’, a multidisciplinary project t

By eating, we digest territories. At the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, due to open on 19 May, visitors to the Spanish Pavilion will have the opportunity to embark on a journey into architectures that feed us, fr

The partial liberalization of the market for architectural projects in China has in past years led to a hatching of young practices bent on exploring paths other than those of official corporativism or the ‘weird architecture’ of international stardo

Working in historical environments can be a poisoned gift. Since the year 2007, when he won the major competition for the extension of the Asturias Museum of Fine Arts in Oviedo, the Pamplona-based Francisco Mangado has had to deal with problems of e

El estudio barcelonés Mestura acaba de terminar un edificio residencial en Castelldefels que servirá para cubrir la demanda de vivienda del Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia (PMT), un campus universitario de reciente creación situado en el área metro

Tras lo sucedido en Fukushima, este edificio tiene el difícil reto de explicar al público en general las virtudes de la energía atómica. Se trata de un centro de visitantes (véase AV Monografías 153-154) situado en el complejo de la central de Ascó y

Surgida de sucesivas oleadas migratorias, Badalona es hoy la tercera ciudad de Cataluña, pero sigue presentando problemas estructurales, combatidos en los últimos años con intervenciones de acupuntura urbana. La construcción en el populoso barrio de

En el transcurso de un acto que ha reunido al ministro de Fomento, a la presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid y al alcalde de la capital, se ha inaugurado la primera fase de la ampliación de la estación de Atocha, un proyecto desarrollado por el estud

La localidad catalana de Olot, y más concretamente, su Club de Patinaje Artístico —pentacampeón mundial en la modalidad Grupo Show— cuenta con nuevas instalaciones; una pista cubierta de patinaje sobre ruedas y un pabellón polideportivo, firmados por

La localidad de Tortosa cuenta con un nuevo centro cívico firmado por el estudio Arquitecturia —Josep Camps y Olga Felip—. La intervención ha comprendido la rehabilitación del antiguo mercado de Freires, construido en los años sesenta, y su ampliació

En el barrio de Poble Nou conviven los modernos edificios que dibujan el distrito tecnológico del 22@ con antiguos recintos fabriles, como el que ocupa el nuevo Museo Can Framis diseñado por el estudio BAAS Jordi Badia, que alberga la colección de ar

El Pabellón de España en la Expo 2008 de Zaragoza, obra de Francisco Mangado, ha recibido el Premio Construmat 2009 de Edificación. El galardón, que se concede cada dos años coincidiendo con la celebración del Salón Internacional de la Construcción e

Del uso termal de las aguas de Panticosa, en el Pirineo aragonés, hay noticias desde la época romana. Con la moda de ‘tomar las aguas’ se levantó a mediados del siglo XIX un balneario rodeado de hoteles y villas de recreo que, con el fin de la belle