With a built area of 1,720 square meters, the new emergency base for the Government of Aragon’s Health Transport, Civil Protection, and Forest Management Helicopters is located in the aeronautic industrial park of Villanueva de Gállego, 20 kilometers
At the boundary between the residential and industrial areas of Vilablareix, a municipality in the eastern Catalonian comarca of Girónés, stands this educational center. A compact volume aligned with the street Marie Curie optimizes the orientation o
In 1889 Antoni Gaudí was commissioned to build a school pavilion in Barcelona for the Teresian Religious Community of Ganduxer. Over the years …
Fifteen years and 280 French companies have taken part in the reconstruction, reshaping, and renovation of La Samaritaine in Paris. The history of this department store dates back to 1870, when Ernest Cognacq opened at the junction of Pont-Neuf and M
The versatility of exposed ceramic brick – used on walls, pavings, and enclosures – permits its use in all the different volumes of the ensemble and establishes a dialogue between the historic building and the new extension with the garden...
This project encompasses 5,484 square meters on the seafront of Las Palmas – capital of Gran Canaria island – in the area of the naval base and the Santa Catalina dock. Carried out by the local practice of Pedro Romera García and Ángela Ruiz Martínez
Given the huge volume of the functional program – three sports tracks – in regards to the reduced dimension of the plot and the high urban density in the area, an important part of the sports complex is partially buried. By working on the section of
Stacking was one of the primitive activities of men, according to Semper’s classification. This project for 25 sustainable dwellings uses stacking as a means to build concrete tubes with an almost squared section (3,65 x 3,20 meters) that, as bases o
The new high school is located on a plot at the edge of the housing area of the Aimerigues sector, on the threshold of future city growth and an area of parks bound by Icaria street. The implementation is defined by the location of the volumes within
The center for the elderly is located on an island of municipal facilities, next to a nursery and a civic center at the foot of Palaudàries highway. It has a single floor of 490 square meters, including a main hall with access from the road and a lar
In the year 2011, Tarragona was chosen as the host city for the 18th edition of the Mediterranean Games. Located in the new olympic ring west of the city, the Palau d’Esports Catalunya – with capacity for 5.000 spectators – was one of the main venues
The Lycée Français has two centers in the city: the main campus in Pedralbes and another one for preschool in the Bonanova neighborhood. The renovation of the preschool building – which had undergone several alterations over the years, resulting in t
The Sant Antoni Market, completed in 1882 according to the project by the architect Antoni Rovira i Trias and the engineer Josep Maria Cornet i Mas, is one of the most emblematic public buildings in Barcelona’s Ensanche. Since its construction, the s
Endemic to the tropical jungles of Borneo and Sumatra, orangutans are animals with high cognitive abilities and the strength and skill to manipulate, activate, operate, and deconstruct mechanisms. Unlike gorillas and chimpanzees, orangutans do not li
In a sports complex in Taradell, a small town in the province of Barcelona, the site of this indoor swimming pool and the precipitous terrain determine its configuration, articulated in four parts: the outdoor tracks, the wall, the services building,
Designed as a versatile low-cost module for long-term refugee camps, very easily transported and assembled, the prototype combines a tensioned textile membrane with a simple compressed structure of wood bars... [+]
Built by Antoni Gaudí, who took charge of the construction works in 1889, when only the foundations had been built, the school and headquarters of the Orden de las Teresianas was declared a Historical-Artistic Monument of National Interest in 1969. B
Designed as a business incubator, the Incube Building efficiently addresses the economic, social and climate demands of its environment. Located in the trade fair complex of the island, the new building had to wrap up the volume of the urban block an
An efficient U-shaped floor plan distributes the program of a school whose structure and enclosure were executed with components of prefabricated concrete.
