OAM - Oficina d'Arquitectura a Mallorca   Spain   In Manacor, on an elongated plot with a slight slope, surrounded by pine and carob trees, stands this single-level house. The project adapts to the terrain by putting it on the high part of the site, substantially reducing earthworks and intervention

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   Titlted ‘Memory Box,’ Tuñön y Albornoz’s proposal has landed first prize in the competition to turn the building located at Calle Argumoso 41 in Madrid, close to the Reina Sofía Museum, into the Exhibition Center for Democratic Memory, a space devote

Bach arquitectes Anna & Eugeni Bach   Spain   The project has turned the old auditorium of the Reina Sofía Museum and Art Center (MNCARS) in Madrid into a space for audiovisual screenings. Access to the new film theater and the audience seating area were redesigned for the purpose, the acoustic

Mesura   Spain   Casa Battló in Barcelona is set to inaugurate a new exhibition space on its second floor on 31 January 2026. For the first time, this level – all of 230 m², closed for decades – will welcome the public, turned into a gallery of contemporary art engag

O Arquitectura   Spain   The neighborhood known as that of the ‘cheap houses’ was built in Lodosa in the 1950s. These were simple, single-level dwellings with a backyard that followed a functional and economical logic. The plot of this project is located at the corner of one

Alventosa Morell Arquitectes Joan J Fortuny Giró   Spain   The Ses Veles public development offering living units to be rented out at affordable prices – located in Puigpunyent, in the Majorcan comarca of Sierra de Tramontana – is a project of the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) that vouches for architect

ABLM arquitectos   Spain   The competition-winning design for the refurbishment of the Tabacalera building in Madrid’s Lavapiés neighborhood, drawn up by Arturo Blanco in collaboration with Paula Sánchez Nieves, transforms the old factory into a hub for contemporary artistic p

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The new library is the most distinctive part of the French Lycée expansion project, the outcome of an international competition held in 2018. The main objective was an orderly, unified complex, as well as economy of means in terms of form, materials

Valdivieso Arquitectos   Spain   In the Sierra de Gúdar, Alcalá de la Selva (Teruel), an architectural intervention has enlarged the social area of a country house, annexing a pavilion – intended as an auxiliary space – that deliberately contrasts with its surroundings. Its design a

Bernat Llauradó - tallerdarquitectura   Spain   In the municipality of Vilopriu – in Girona province, in the comarca of Baix Empordà – stands this 146-square-meter house designed on the basis of a succession of roofs recalling a butterfly because of their V-shaped roofs. The sloping planes varying

HOK ERRE   Spain   A multipurpose venue that has transformed the urban landscape of Valencia’s Quatre Carreres neighborhood. Intended to be much more than a new home for Valencia Basket Club, the arena was created with the aim of making it a leading hub for sporting, m

Carbajo Hermanos   Spain   The project involved thoroughly renovating a 660-square-meter space in the city of Santander, turning it into a multipurpose home for a private art collection. Intended as something more than an exhibition gallery, the new space also had to meet the

Arquimes   Spain   Just like its name, hot springs mark the history of Caldes de Montbui. Receiving water from an almost eighty-degree underground stream, the Barcelona town preserves remnants of Roman baths, a 16th-century fountain, and two still-operating lavoirs, of

Leopold Banchini Architects   Spain   An ornamental fountain – enclosed smack at the center of a rotary – has been turned into a small spa, in a statement on how wheeled traffic causes the sacrifice of public space. Beside the basin, which provides a cold bath, is a changing room and a s

BAAS Arquitectura   Spain   At the corner of a block located in the Catalonian city’s Eixample, a new construction adopts a stepped section to let its work spaces benefit from planted terraces. Automated canopies protect the facade looking toward the access square, while the ex

Harquitectes   Spain   After the inevitable demolition of the school on the plot, a housing block for senior citizens was built. The ceramic and concrete remains were used for the foundation and the marès stone was transformed into precast cyclopean blocks for the walls. T

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   Located in Palma’s old town quarter, Can Gabriel is a house built on traces of the past with no attempts to erase them. The projects starts with a bare 164-square-meter apartment of the 1960s, the only legacy of which is purely constructional: struct

estudioHerreros   Spain   The new high-speed railway station of Santiago de Compostela, the outcome of an international competition organized by ADIF, is to stand as a key piece of architecture and infrastructure defining the city’s urban connections. The winning project prop

Blasco Esparza Arquitectos   Spain   The aim of the project to build 24 subsidized housing units (VPOs) in the Horno de Coscolín of Tudela’s historical center was the urban regeneration and social revitalization of one of the most degraded zones of the old quarter. This area, a witness

Magén Arquitectos   Spain   The scheme ‘Ágora Verde’ – by Magén Arquitectos – has won the competition for the vocational-training building of a digital campus integrated into the new Aragonese Technology District (DAT), along the Río Ebro university premises in Zaragoza. The pr

AV62 Arquitectos Calderon-Folch Arquitectes   Spain   In Viladecans, a Barcelona municipality in the comarca of Bajo Llobregat, this residential complex containing 22 officially subsidized dwellings blends organically with the surroundings. The project is organized in two volumes – rising three and five

fadg estudio    Spain   The refurbishment of the old complex comprising the Tobacco Factory and Cinema Victoria – which closed in 1975 and 1979, respectively – has brought these two buildings of great historical value back to life for the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Aft

Ruizesquiroz Arquitectos   Spain   Just 40 meters from Calle Estafeta in Pamplona, known for the San Fermín bull runs, stands this block of four homes, a renovation project led by Josean Ruiz Esquíroz in collaboration with Enrique Morillo, Marta Muñoz, Roberto Romero, and Sandra Ojea.

Eduardo Mediero   This publication revisits ten years of architectural and urban experimentation in Logroño, whose festival Concéntrico has put La Rioja’s capital on the map of contemporary debate. Instead of just documenting the 150+ projects exhibited, the book is a

José María Ezquiaga   The protean personality of Salvador Rueda combines a scholar’s rigor, which impregnates both his theoretical mind and his professional practice, with a communicator’s power. Frequenters of his writings and works enjoy the spin of unexplored perspect

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The torrid temperatures of August came with flames and ashes: devastating wildfires that also inflamed impotent spirits and the intimate desolation of losing two friends essential to our history. These material flames and those emotional ashes are mi

The Gran Teatre del Liceu, in collaboration with the Port of Barcelona and the administrative bodies of the consortium, is working on a second venue: Liceu Mar, to go up at the Moll d’Espanya. The project aims to create an innovative, accessible, and

El Economista   Víctor de Elena   Adif has approved the Partial Interior Renovation Plan (PPRI) to transform Chamartín Station and its surroundings, as part of the Madrid New North project. This is a green light for the construction of four towers, two of which will be high-rise offi

The project ‘Gardens for an Acrobat’ has won the competition organized by the Madrid Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS Madrid) for the construction of 166 affordable rental apartments in the Mahou-Calderón area of the Arganzuela district. The

“Thus do we command that all things which were given to the churches, or will from here on be given to them by kings or others faithful to God, shall ever be safeguarded.” As we undertand it, preserving heritage is largely a modern discipline, but a

For the first time in Spain, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao dedicates a retrospective exhibition to the American artist Barbara Kruger, from her early collage compositions with cutouts of images and texts to her famous large vinyls. Phrases like “Who i

After over a century, Casa Batlló has completed one of its most ambitious restoration works: the full recuperation of its rear facade and the private courtyard on the main floor, where the Batlló family resided. This intervention has brought back Ant

For Juan Navarro Baldeweg, build and create are verbs that are conjugated identically, given that both express the same impulse. So it is that everything in his oeuvre has a place in a coherent vision, such as the elements of what he calls a “prior h

Tras protagonizar la participación española en la última bienal veneciana de arte, hasta el 14 de septiembre se podrá ver en la Biblioteca Nacional la ‘Pinacoteca migrante’ de la hispano-peruana Sandra Gamarra: una revisión del concepto hegemónico de

In the context of the PHotoESPAÑA festival, the foundation of the Spanish insurance company Mapfre brings the first major retrospective exhibition of the photographer José Guerrero to Madrid. Born in Granada in 1979 and trained as a technical archite

Eugeni Bach   Desde la implementación del Plan Cerdá, Barcelona ha sabido crecer a varias velocidades. Por una parte, con el desarrollo del planeamiento; por otra, con intervenciones puntuales, convertidas después en piezas esenciales de cada barrio; y en tercer l

At an event held at the Royal Post Office, the regional government of Greater Madrid – the Community of Madrid – officially presented the project for the City of Justice, an ambitious judiciary complex that will start to go up this June in the Valdeb

Enrique Morillo   In an era of incessant confrontation – when misinformation, conflict and and polarization reign – public opinion barely even agrees on the challenges to address. But recent times have seen the spread of a certain unanimity on housing. We are stunned

Alberto Ballesteros   The Barcelona of the past is the one we look to for its exemplary city-making. But, as Oriol Bohigas wrote, the city is not people: the brilliant operations were those focused on public space, on facilities, on infrastructures; meanwhile, Barcelonian

Iñaki Ábalos   Centered on the ups and downs of three great architects (Wright, Loos, Le Corbusier), Fernando Carrascal’s thesis-turned-book could at first prompt a certain aversion. But soon you enter a familiar world of attempts and failures, both professional an

Sergio Martín Blas   Architecture, like reading, is a matter of time. After more than forty years of work in the preservation and restoration of one of the most fascinating buildings in the history of architecture, Ruiz Cabrero publishes a compilation and revision of the

Luis Fernández-Galiano   With the big blackout of 28 April, Spaniards had a Monday in the sun, using the title of a film that described the drama of unemployment as resigned idleness. The interruption of activity, transport, and even telecommunications awakened us to the fra

A decadent bourgeois for some, a transgressive libertine for others... no label can possibly encapsulate the overwhelming personality of Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre, or simply Néstor; a brilliant artist who – whether due to his defiance of al

The Caja Mágica in Madrid is to be expanded with the construction of a new tennis court with seats for 8,600 spectators, raising the total capacity of the sports complex to about 26,000. The French architect Dominique Perrault, in charge of the origi

When in 1979 Paloma Chamorro interviewed Maruja Mallo, clearly the scandalous elderly woman was still the youngster who had ridden into church on a bicycle and walked across Madrid hatless. And as the Botín Centre’s retrospective on her work highligh

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ever alert as we are to what is said about us abroad, any article printed in the foreign press causes a stir in Spain. In the same way, books by Hispanists spark special curiosity. So it is surprising that the elegant volume by J.B. Trend, The Civili

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