gon architects   Spain   The project ‘Stone and Earth’ – drawn up by Gon Architects, the Madrid practice of Gonzalo Pardo Díaz – has won the competition coordinated by the León Institute of Culture for the purpose of building a research center and visitor reception facility

Bojaus   Spain   Each of the three living units forming a stack takes up a full floor of the building that rises on an 800-square-meter plot in Madrid’s Aravaca ward. The composition resulted from shifting and twisting each level with respect to the one below, genera

BN Asociados Arquitectos    Spain   Led by Silvia Babsky Nadel and Ramón Valls Navascués, Madrid-based BN Asociados Arquitectos won the competition to build the Central Library and Municipal Archive of Leganés, a city within the Madrid metropolitan area. Construction was at an advanced

Lecumberri & Cidoncha   Spain   The Pamplona practice of Jokin Lecumberri and Antonio Cidoncha has built this house in Lérruz, in Navarre’s Lizoain Valley. Seeking to blend into the place through a sensitivity for local construction traditions, the volume containing the shared spac

Harquitectes   Spain   A block wall shelters a small house that rises, freestanding, in the middle of a corner lot, in such a way that the interior opens out to a patio all around the building. Surrounding a core of bedrooms, a veranda contains the rest of the rooms, where

Harquitectes   Spain   The residence presents two central spaces, which receive overhead light in order to curb the excessive shade cast by the trees, and are conceived in bioclimatic terms so that they serve as extensions of the garden. The monolayer solution of the ceram

MCEA | Manuel Costoya Estudio de Arquitectura   Spain   This 518-square-meter industrial building is located in Las Torres de Cotillas, a municipality in the comarca Vega Media del Segura, and is home to Prefabricados de hormigón Montalbán y Rodríguez, combining two uses: offices and a showroom for the fi

Carquero arquitectura   Spain   The Cádiz firm Carquero arquitectura – led by Carlos Quevedo Rojas and Carlos Peinado Maduelo – consolidated and restored the space around the Sant Francesc y Pardala towers of the castle located in the capital of the comarca Los Puertos de Morella.

Onda Arquitectura Checa Arquitectura    Spain   With a total length of 283 meters, the footbridge designed by Onda Arquitectura and Checa Arquitectura presents three 63-meter stretches between supports, and the effect is an unexpected impression of lightness. The wavy form, initially a response t

GarciaGermanArquitectos   Spain   Located in a development called Somo-Boo, in the Cantabrian capital, this house adopts the classic L arrangement to obtain a protected outdoor space. Rooms interweave under a horizontal lid that acts as a tray for the main volume with its pitched roo

Estudio CO–A   Spain   The Barcelona firm Estudio CO-A, founded by Clara Ocaña, has renovated this 1930s dwelling of long corridors, typical in the elongated morphology of the standard floor plan of apartments in the Eixample, where the buildings is located. The client req

Few studios have fared better in reading the panorama of a profession in times of crisis, working with limited budgets, often far from the big cities and with programs that require a genuine dose of sustainability. Indeed, for Harquitectes – establis

On 30 June, the architect Roberto Valle passed away at the age of 70. He was born in Orense, studied in Madrid and Valladolid, and made the latter his home, setting up a practice there after his 1976 graduation and serving the provincial government f

Kenneth Frampton   Undeterred by the vagaries of fashion, Alberto Campo Baeza has kept his faith for over half a century with the Platonic purity of his unique architectural vision, amplified of late by shifting his work to the time-honored paradigms of the temenos and

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The work of Alberto Campo Baeza pursues purity. Striving to be soul without body, he expresses ideas through geometry and light, stripping the building of its material nature so that it levitates weightlessly, free from its earthly prison. Oblivious

El País   Miguel Ezquiaga Fernández   Many sites in Spain have been recognized by UNESCO for their outstanding universal value, but up until now, not one of them was located in the Spanish capital. Madrid’s famous Retiro Park and Paseo del Prado boulevard have been added to UNESCO’s Worl

The ubiquitous Swiss gallery Hauser & Wirth sets 17 July as the day to open a new outpost in a former naval hospital on Isla del Rey in the Menorcan city of Mahon, its second landing in Spain after reopening Chillida Leku. The Paris-based Argentinian

El País   It is to go up on what is currently a parking lot in front of the flagship store at Nuevos Ministerios. A property of the department store chain since 2014, this is one of the most coveted sites on Paseo de la Castellana. The building will have a tot

Arnau Rovira shares his photographs of the municipal cemetery of Igualada (Barcelona), a work of Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós, completed in the 1990s. The rites of passage between life and death are acted out on a stage where architecture blends wi

Drawing inspiration from the industrial environment of Sorigué’s gravel pit in Lleida, the location of the firm’s PLANTA project, the installation In the Beginning was… is an installation created expressly for the place by the Japanese artist Chiharu

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

Eduardo Prieto   Touched by the wand of historians, Jean Prouvé went from workshop activity to becoming one of the greatest designers of the 20th century. He had everything it took for the goddess of critical fortune to grant him his gifts, albeit post-mortem: a chil

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