Javier Marquet, Javier Unzurrunzaga, and Luis María Zulaica invited the architect to join their team in working on the project for an apartment building within a closed block to go up on the plot of the Urumea jai alai court in San Sebastián. This me
The firm Vaillo+Irigaray Architects has won the competition to give the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) a new building in San Sebastián. The research center wants a unique, immediately recognizable image that will also serve to organize
With a design titled ‘Camino de olas’ (Wave Walk) the Danish firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) has won the international competition to build an innovation hub for the Basque Culinary Center (BCC) in the Gros neighborhood of San Sebastián. The other fou
In the Basque city of San Sebastián, on Aldapeta Galtzada, stands this new-build educational center run by Marianists, high on a promontory called Alto de Aiete that looks over rooftops and out north towards the Concha Bay. Directed by Antonio Lorén
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
Established in 2001, the Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco (Higher Music Center of the Basque Country) used to be housed in San Sebastián’s Miramar Palace. The new building, located in Plaza de Europa at the Ibaeta campus of the UPV-EHU (Unive
After the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the Church of Riberas de Loyola – promoted by the bishop of Donostia-San Sebastián in the new neighborhood under development along the meander of the Urumea River – was a new experience in the field of r
Every architectural project carries within the acknowledgment of the boundary as a concept that determines its spatial and formal configuration. Whether the materialization of that boundary should occur in a clear or blurred manner, with strength or
San sebastián has always been dominated by the extraordinary features of its geography, but in many ways owes its current physiognomy to the coast wall that led to the construction of the Zurriola quarter in 1919. An exceptional spot in this new are
To say that the beauty of San Sebastian is largely due to the environment, to the landscape, is already a commonplace. Few cities enjoy more favourable natural conditions. The Bay of Biscay lies on La Concha beach, and a small stretch of coast is hom
Pocas ciudades españolas tienen como San Sebastián la facultad de contemplarse desde sí mismas, y pocas ofrecen tan privilegiados puntos de observación: la ciudad desde la Concha, desde Ondarreta, desde el otro lado del río, desde Monte Igueldo... E
At the mercy of gales and waves, boats entering the Concha Bay have been guided by the lighthouse of Santa Clara Island since late in the 19th century, and although it figures prominently in the everyday scenery of the people of San Sebastián, it has
Outside Hernani, the museum founded by the Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida reopens to the public on 17 April, with its outdoor scuptures and the exhibition space inside the Zabalaga house.
Tras la Catedral de Los Ángeles, la Iglesia Iesu, en San Sebastián, constituye una nueva indagación de Rafael Moneo en la arquitectura religiosa. Situado en el umbral de un área residencial, el edificio descuella de la trama urbana por el volumen com
Cuatro años ha durado el proceso de rehabilitación y ampliación del Museo San Telmo, que se acaba de inaugurar en San Sebastián. La intervención, de los madrileños Fuensanta Nieto y Enrique Sobejano, recupera el edificio original, un convento dominic
Kursaal, San Sebastián In its seventh edition, the Mies van der Rohe Award went to the Kursaal of San Sebastian, thereby completing with a Europe-wide honor the recognition obtained by Rafael Moneo’s building in the Biennial of Spanish Architecture.
Kursaal, San Sebastián The translucent cubes of the Kursaal – described by their maker as two huge rocks stranded in the bay of San Sebastián – have earned Rafael Moneo the FAD prize for architecture in its 2000 edition, prominent finalists of which,
Rafael Moneo has finished the auditorium and convention center of San Sebastián, formed by two leaning glass cubes on the edge of the ocean.
Rafael Moneo has been described as an architect who is not interested in cultivating a personal style. Antón Capitel, said that Moneo takes the discipline as “the reflective use of diverse resources, in search not of an architecture of its time, but
(1923-1993) In collaboration with César Ortiz-Echagiie, his partner for ten years, San Sebastián-born Rafael Echaide built works that are highly representative of Spanish modernity of the fifties, such as the Seat building in Barcelona. In 1966 he mo
La casa de Promoción Pública ha constituido en la Comunidad Autónoma de Euskadi el principal elemento de atención sobre el que referir la pretendida renovación de ideas en cuanto a ordenación urbana y arquitectura. En este sentido conviene señalar qu
