This building containing five apartments and two commercial units stands at an irregularly shaped corner lot in Barcelona’s Poblenou neighborhood, discreetly complementing a block of the Eixample. Inducing natural lighting and ventilation, the cylind
In this intervention, for which they have won the 2020 FAD Award for City and Landscape, Iñigo Ocamica and Iñigo Tudanca reinterpret the Castile-León landscape with different types of aggregate concrete for Plaza de la Fuente.
The proximity of a highway, though slightly burrowed, conditions the project from the beginning. An acoustic cushion formed by an earth mound materializes the first part of the project, becoming a forest of pine trees that emulates others in the area
The program – which combines subsidized and free-market housing – practically requires filling the available volume. This limitation, along with the demands of efficiency and simplicity, represents a challenge for the development of a project with so
The DH Ecoenergías thermal power plant in Palencia by Fernando Rodríguez and Pablo Oriol (FRPO), and House 1736 in Barcelona by David Lorents, Josep Ricard, Xavier Ros, and Roger Tudó (Harquitectes), have on an equal standing been announced the winne
. 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 Reggio School in Madrid by Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation) and the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona by SUMA Arquitectura have on an equal footing won the 65th FAD Award for Architecture. The winners in the other categori
Llacuna Building The jury of 2022 FAD Awards – Francesc Rifé (chair), Xavier Delgado, Carme Fiol, Uriel Fogué, Patrícia Santos Pedrosa, and Jelena Prokopljević – gave the award in the Architecture category to the Llacuna residential building in Poble
Nave Fabra & Coats With Fabrizio Barozzi at the helm and joined by Agnès Blanch, Daria de Seta, Manel Marín, Pedro Matos Gameiro, and Rosa Rull, the jury of the 2021 FAD Awards bestowed the Architecture prize on the 46-unit social housing development
The 64th FAD Awards gathered a total of 542 entries: 434 competing in the FAD Awards for Architecture and Interior Design (212 Architecture, 133 Interior Design, 38 City and Landscape, 51 Ephemeral Interventions), 75 in the FAD Awards for Thought and
The winners of the 63rd FAD Awards have been announced. The Architecture prize goes to 46 social housing units in the Fabra & Coats factory in Barcelona, by Roldán + Berengué. The jury – Fabrizio Barozzi at the helm, joined by Agnès Blanch, Daria
Presided in its 2020 edition by Anna Ramos, the FAD Award for Architecture went to an apartment block in Sant Boi de Llobregat, by the Madrid firm Estudio Herreros in collaboration with the local Estudi d’arquitectura MIMA-A. The jury deemed it “a me
Instituto Playa Flamenca Presided in its edition of 2019 by Fuensanta Nieto, the FAD Award in the category of Architecture went to the IES Playa Flamenca in Orihuela (Alicante), by Alfredo Payá. The jury highlighted how the design addresses a large a
Having gone through 616 entries, the jury of the 61st FAD Awards, with Fuensanta Nieto chairing, named the winners. The FAD Award for Architecture went to the Playa Flamenca Secondary School in Orihuela (Alicante), by Alfredo Payá, praised for addres
Formentera Housing The FAD Award 2018 in the Architecture category selected the project Life Reusing Posidonia in Sant Ferran (Formentera), by Carles Oliver, Antonio Martín, Joaquín Moyá, Alfonso Reina, and Maria Antònia Garcías. The jury, presided b
Barcelona has officially opened the latest segment of line 9 of its metropolitan raiway system, to which the team formed by Jordi Garcés, Daria de Seta, and Anna Bonet has contributed three stations: Amadeu Torner, Parc Logístic, and Mercabarna. Each
The jury of the 60th FAD awards, chaired by the architect Anna Bach, has announced the results of its assessment of the 484 works presented. The winner in the Architecture section is the project Life Reusing Posidonia, submitted by Carles Oliver, Ant
Royal Collections Museum The FAD Award for Architecture in 2017 went to the Royal Collections Museum in Madrid, by Mansilla + Tuñón. According to the jury, chaired by Belén Moneo, it “masterfully delivers an architecture which is timeless and sedate,
Eight works The 2016 FAD Award winner in the architecture category went to Arquipélago, a contemporary art center located in São Miguel Island in the Azores, where the firm Menos é Mais Arquitectos has built a severe but harmonious complex out of an
The results of this year’s FAD Awards for Architecture and Interior Design stick to the tone of previous cycles: on the one hand, concentration on the creative scene of Catalonia; on the other, attention to the Portuguese world.
Casa Bastida / Hotel Ozadi Tavira The Bastida House in Begur (Girona) by Ramón Bosch and Elisabeth Capdeferro, and the Ozadi Tavira Hotel in Tavira (Portugal) by Pedro Campos Costa shared first prize in the FAD Architecture Awards. The jury presided
João Pedro Falcão In the spirit of returning to the disciplinary values of the profession, the FAD Award in the category of Architecture went in its 56th edition to the ‘Assisted pedestrian route from the center to Saint George’s Castle’ by João Pedr
In the spirit of “returning to the disciplinary values of the profession,” the FAD Architecture Award has gone to ‘Assisted pedestrian route from the center to Saint George’s Castle’, carried out by João Pedro Falcão de Campos to connect Lisbon’s hig
Seró Barrow / Sever do Vouga School Toni Gironès, for his Cultural Center in the Megalithic Dolmen of Seró in Artesa de Segre (Lleida), and the Portuguese Pedro Domingos, for the School in Sever do Vouga (Portugal), shared the FAD Award for Architect
The Catalan architect Toni Gironés, for his interpretation center at the megalithic dolmen of Seró in Artesa de Segre (Lérida), and the Portuguese Pedro Domingos, for the Primary and Secondary School in Sever do Bouga (Portugal), were declared the jo
Matadero Madrid On its 54th year, the FAD Award for Architecture and Interior Design distinguished collective work vis-à-vis the individualism of ‘star architects’. The jury chaired by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra gave the prize to the Matadero de Mad
Atrio Hotel in Cáceres and Two Houses in Lisbon “A suggestive reinterpretation of the traditional spatial structure of the city houses gives the project great perceptive richness and allows establishing a simple and wise relationship with the climat