Iñigo Beguiristain Lecumberri & Cidoncha   Spain   The urban disorder that surrounds the house compels it to radically turn inward and organize itself in a classic sequence of spaces around a large quadrangular courtyard. Behind the opaque facade, auxiliary spaces are pushed to the four corners so th

Horma Estudio   Spain   A coastal house organizes an extensive program through a meticulous composition of spaces, geometries, and materials that together seek to adapt to the diverse needs of the occupants. The external contrast between the whitewash and the red-tiled clad

Hanghar   Spain   The ground floor of a rural house – in a building once used for sheltering cattle – is transformed with minimal actions into a leisurely space flowing in continuity with a recovered front garden. A sinuous concrete platform is elevated over the groun

Cierto Estudio   Spain   The renovation of a house built in the 1980s is reduced to isolated interventions that play with surfaces and textures to give the place personality without sapping its essence. Maintaining the original layout as it is, the revamp makes use of contra

BURR   Spain   In an old industrial shed between two rear courtyards, a house is organized around a band that contains utilitarian spaces while separating the private from the more public areas. Attached to the wall of white concrete blocks are different functions

Bonell+Dòriga   Spain   A modest flat in the Gràcia district was stripped of original partitions, and furniture pieces were custom-designed to give the space more breadth and new spatial interactions. Apart from the bedrooms, the spaces spill into one another in a continuum

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation Miguel Mesa del Castillo   Spain   The voracious appetite for real estate has stamped out traditional sceneries to make room for anonymous territories of the kind where many of our cities grow. The phenomenon is ubiquitous but all the more visible in ‘suburban’ zones, those terrains v

Atienza Maure   Spain   Destroyed in a fire that only spared its stone walls, a large house in the Castilian region has been refurbished through the insertion of a structure that replicates and completes the original. Between new arches of white concrete, skylights seek to

Javier Larraz Ignacio Olite MRM arquitectos   Spain   Based on strategies of functional organization and optimization of economic and energy resources, this project for Nordex, a manufacturer of technologies for obtaining energy from renewable sources, is located in the Sarriguren Innovation Park, in Na

Fernando Menis   Spain   Fernando Menis won the 2019 competition to restore a neo-Gothic building and fit it out for exhibitions in flexible spaces that can be easily adapted to use changes within the cultural typology. Named in honor of the botanist José Viera y Clavijo,

Alfonso Reina Ferragut Antonio Martín Procopio Carles G. Oliver Xim Moyá Miguel Nevado   Spain   The project proves the feasibility of using compression structures in housing projects to activate thermal inertia as much as possible and ensure passive cooling in summer, with a heavy enclosure with low carbon footprint. This mechanism is complemen

Francisco Mangado   Spain   The building is in the Nou Llevant-Fachada Marítima district by the Congress Center. The urban transformation of this area, according to the project by Joan Busquets, sought to address the lack of affordable housing in Palma. Paradoxically, its good

Meritxell Inaraja   Spain   Standing through a key moment in history, the building of the Unió de Cooperadors came to being in 1934 with the initiative of workers in factories and different industries, which joined the cooperative movement and decided to hire Josep Lluís Sert a

Jovino Martínez Sierra Arquitectos   Spain   The industrial complex built in Arrasate Mondragón by Unión Cerrajera, the locksmithing company founded in 1906, consisted initially of three blocks of ground floor plus two levels. The first two blocks went up in 1931, and after 68 years standing th

Juan Domingo Santos   Spain   The christian conquest of the Alhambra in 1492 led to the transformation of some of its buildings into private houses. In the case of the Baño de la Mezquita (Bath of the Mosque), the Islamic construction was radically converted into a courtyard hous

MGM Arquitectos José Morales Sara de Giles Rocío Casado   Spain   Located within the complex of the Colegio Bienaventurada Virgen María de las Irlandesas – designed in 1964 by the Sevillian brothers Fernando and Joaquín Barquín y Barón –, the project foresaw the construction of a kindergarten, as well as solving

Irisarri + Piñera   Spain   The brief of the competition called in January 2018 defined the masterplan for the sports city of the Real Club Celta de Vigo. The complex had to harbor both an undefined and open program – with the ambition of gathering all the elements that shape o

Rafael de La Hoz   Spain   Guided both by tradition and common sense, over the centuries the people of Los Pedroches Valley – a protected area between Extremadura, Andalucía, and Castille – have cherished the holm oaks that cover the valley’s meadows as if they were sacred tre

Plasencia Arquitectura   Spain   This refurbished building is located in the Mas Xirgu industrial complex, on the outskirts of Girona. The commission consisted in converting an industrial warehouse that was no longer in use into a funeral service building for the city. The original

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   The library is conceived as a gate of access to the Jardines de la Agricultura (Agriculture Gardens), which it joins and becomes part of. In order to adapt to the historic layout of the 18th century gardens and to respect the existing trees, the buil

Alcolea + Tárrago Roberto Ercilla Lecumberri & Cidoncha   Spain   In the university campus of Teatinos, west of the city of Málaga, stand two new volumes clad in white Macael marble of the Scalea® by Cosentino range, presenting basic geometries and an institutional character in dialogue with a landscaped environmen

ABLM arquitectos ATELIER62   Spain   ABLM arquitectos (Arturo Blanco, Laura Martínez) and ATELIER62 (Rodrigo Martínez, Arturo Menduiña H., Juan Pérez, Luis Ruiz) drew up a scheme that placed first in the competition to refurbish the 16th/17th-century Hospital de la Concepción in Burgos

Arquitectura-G   Spain   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

With large windows overlooking the Bay of Santander, the Botín Centre is the ideal place in which to hold Ellen Gallagher’s first exhibition in Spain: a dialogue with the Atlantic Ocean by means of compositions presenting multiple layers of materials

With an old loom she purchased from one of the many textile mills that were dying out in the Barcelona of the 1970s, the artist Teresa Lanceta learned to weave and immersed herself in a world of warps and woofs that since then has for her been a sort

With six sites in different countries of the European Union, the Joint Research Center is the organism that provides the European Commission with scientific support for the conception of its plans and policies. The Seville branch opened in 1994 as a

Just like Mr. Pump in Hergé’s cartoons, Norman Foster has a true passion for automobiles, a devotion which in his architecture has made him pursue beauty and high technology in equal shares. Making the world an accomplice in his vision, the British a

Foster in Bilbao

Norman Foster   The extensive exhibition curated by Norman Foster at Bilbao’s Guggenheim celebrates the influence wielded by the automobile on modern culture.

1926-2021 Genaro Alas Rodríguez died in Cáceres at 94 years of age due to complications caused by Covid. The Madrid architect, originally from Asturias, studied at the ETSAM between the 1940s and 1950s decades, and belonged to the generation of Anton

1950-2021 Roberto Valle passed away on 30 June at 70. He was born in Orense but lived in Castille, where he completed most of his buildings. Trained at the architecture schools of Valladolid and Madrid, he graduated in 1976 and that same year he set

1948-2021 It is hard to find a structure with a greater impact on the perception of modernity in the place where it goes up than the Casar de Cáceres bus station. Its author, Justo García Rubio, was born in 1948, studied in Madrid as disciple of Fran

1938-2021 Born in Valladolid in 1938, Prada Poole finished Architecture in Madrid in 1965, a year that is not special but that is representative of a time marked by vitalism, psychodelia, technocratic ambition, and the political struggles of the Fren

1934-2021 The painter Carmen Laffón de la Escosura passed away in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on 7 November, at the age of 87. A referent of figuration in Spain, Laffón was born in Sevilla to a cultured and well-to-do family – her parents had met at the Re

1934-2021 The Cáceres-born architect Dionisio Hernández Gil, one of the leading advocates of heritage protection in Spain, died on 21 December. Born in 1934 to a family of lawyers, Hernández Gil broke the tradition by enrolling at the Madrid School o

1954-2021 The image of Spanish architecture during the fertile period that ended with the crisis of 2008 will always be associated with the photographs of Lluís Casals. Born in Barcelona in 1954, Casals was able to put his demanding retina at the ser

1942-2021 Like the great artists of the historic avant-gardes, whom he so much admired, Alberto Corazón thrived in multiple disciplines – painting, photography, sculpture, graphic design –, making compatible the highest intellectual ambition with a c

1938-2021 The Catalan architect and poet Joan Margarit died in Sant Just Desvern on 14 February 2021 at 82 years of age. Born in the town of Lleida where his parents – an architect and a teacher – took shelter during the Civil War, Margarit soon felt

The Guardian   Ashifa Kassam   For nearly two decades Andrés Rubio pored over photos of Spain’s magnificent cathedrals, delicate Moorish architecture and quaint cobblestone streets. But as the editor of newspaper El País’ travel supplement, what often caught his eye was what was h

Iñaki Bergera   The Botín Centre’s current show on Thomas Demand presents his photos of realistic models that he himself  makes with paper and cardboard.

Eduardo Mangada   Como buen ciudadano, atento a la convocatoria del alcalde de Madrid, acudí a contemplar la renovada plaza de España. Con ojo atento exigible a un arquitecto, la recorrí en diagonal, desde la esquina de Bailén-Ferraz hasta la de Princesa-Gran Vía. Vi

Misunderstood genius with a halo of sainthood? Skilled frequenter of bishops and powers-that-be? A great many things have been said about the modernist architect, and many of them are myths. Myths which the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya has taken

With the demise of Oriol Bohigas at 95 years of age goes one of the most influential masters of the second half of the 20th century in Spain, but also an entire manner of understanding the profession, the power, and the sphere that connects them: the

The Economist   A Spanish tradition offers insight into how crowds behave. Every year thousands of people converge on the city of Pamplona, in north-eastern Spain, for the opportunity to run for their lives as six fighting bulls are released to charge through the to

The Guardian   Stephen Burgen   Locals in Barcelona accuse religious foundation in charge of Gaudí‘s masterpiece of highhandedness. A gigantic 12-pointed star was installed on Monday on one of the main towers of the basilica of the Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece that h

Born in Almería in 1930 and recently deceased, Siquier was one of the key figures of Spanish avant-garde photography, and his work with the AFAL group earned international attention. In 1956 he started a documentary project on La Chanca, a poor neigh

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