Paradigma estudio   Spain   In Valverde de Leganés, a municipality in the province of Badajoz, in Spain’s Extremadura region, Paradigma estudio – María Navarro Cifuentes & Manuel Jesús Píriz Gil – has completed this health center in an area which is undergoing an urbanizati

SV60 / Cordón & Liñán Arquitectos   Spain   In Seville, in an environment characterized by its heterogeneity – very diverse in architecture, uses, and sizes – this residential complex seeks to effect a morphological continuity between the new construction and the adjoining buildings and public

Sebastián Arquitectos   Spain   Fundación Ibercaja presented the project for the renovation of the Goya Museum of Zaragoza, following a scheme drawn up by the local practice of Sergio Sebastián Franco, winner of the anonymous ideas competition held for the purpose. The institution’

HYBRIDa aZCON D388 Arquitectura   Spain   With a built area of over 28,000 square meters, this apart-hotel in the Port Fòrum area of Barcelona presents a ground-level and first-floor plinth that on plan reaches the edges of the plot, and two volumes that form a V on plan and rise to the 18t

Mollinedo Arquitectura   Spain   The intervention on this terrain in the province of Jaén resulted from contemplating and reflecting on how olives fall to the ground – some half-buried, others dispersed or leaning on one another. With a built area of 5,966 square meters, the hexagon

Magén Arquitectos   Spain   With a built area of 274.87 square meters, the project involved a full refurbishment of premises located on a curved chamfered corner, between two streets in the center of Zaragoza, for a new Arquia Banca branch. They take up part of the ground floor

MAIO   Spain   A falta de una fórmula mágica para hacer frente a la crisis habitacional, la construcción de viviendas de alquiler social se ha convertido en una de las claves de la intervención pública y ha producido algunos de los edificios más notables de los últ

labaula cooperativa   Spain   Until the time Eusebi Guëll moved his textile factory there and established a workers’ colony with the help of Gaudí, Santa Coloma de Cervelló was just a farming village on the banks of the Llobregat, and its modest past is still evidenced by the old

Lacol   Spain   Over and above the neighborhood’s street-level shops, the dwellings are organized around a courtyard and a staircase that has landings thanks to the existence of an alternative passageway along the outside. By means of a large ceiling fan, the heat t

Lacol   Spain   Soaring prices determined the choice of the usual concrete structure, the basic unidirectional scheme of which proved ideal for establishing an efficient arrangement of twelve living units and shared facilities and amenities provided on the ground fl

Lacol Laboqueria Taller d’Arquitectura   Spain   A large foyer gives access to the dwellings and a multipurpose hall that doubles as a dining room and, at the request of the residents, can be used separately to connect with the area’s fabric of community associations. Harnessed for acoustic filteri

Tomás Montis Lluc Darder Aldeguer (DRDR Arquitectura)   Spain   More than a hundred years old, this two-apartment building set between party walls in the old quarter of Artá has been renovated and enlarged in the wake of a painstaking detailed study focused on reusing existing elements. The project came to fruiti

Lucas y Hernández-Gil   Spain   Near the San Juan reservoir in the mountains of Madrid stands Casa Montesa, a work of the firm headed by Cristina Domínguez Lucas and Fernando Hernández-Gil. Beside this small bungalow, in the garden, the Madrid practice has raised a flexible, multip

Marmolbravo MADhel   Spain   Located in the Puente de Vallecas district, the SFJ6 residential complex commissioned by EMVS (Madrid’s municipal housing and land corporation) counts 102 social-housing units, four commerical spaces at ground level, and 109 garage slots. With a tota

ALE ESTUDIO   Spain   The Botijo house goes for rational, austere construction where the elements forming the structure and enclosures are presented in honest engagement with the surroundings. It stands on a street in Madrid’s Carabanchel neighborhood, where low houses ar

Alejandro Muñoz Miranda   Spain   The apartments are grouped in two slender bays, separated transversally and disaligned longitudinally to form accessways to the units. These corridors are hollowed out in crossing double heights, giving an impression of weightlessness. They are clad

Arturo Franco   Spain   On the slope of Mount Pindo stands A casa das silvas, the oldest house in the Galician town of Panchés, the roof of which collapsed close to forty years ago. With the passage of time, a piece of mountain pierced through the walls, making it a home fo

BEAR   Spain   Located on the left bank of the Zubitegi stream, in the south zone of the Basque municipality of Mallabia, this sports park is the result of transforming an area damaged by the operations of an old water-treatment plant. The outdoor facilities optimi

Estudio Acta   Spain   The previous square had major accessibility deficiencies and an excessive division of the spaces due to steep slopes, not to mention that the plaza turned its back on the Cathedral-University of Huelva, which is listed as an Asset of Cultural Interes

Taller Básico de Arquitectura MRM arquitectos   Spain   In Mutilva, a town belonging to the municipality of Valle de Aranguren, Navarre, this social housing development takes an L shape opening out to views of the landscape while shielding itself from north winds. Rising on a concrete base, the building u

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   The embt office and the Fundació Miralles are located in a modernist building in the center of Barcelona, close to the Ramblas and Plaça Reial. The property is a characteristic example of late 19th-century architecture and reproduces a typology which

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   More than any other building type, the architect’s home is a faithful reflection of their language, desires, and concerns; in sum, of their style. The house the authors designed to become their family residence is a true laboratory of experimentation

Foster + Partners   Spain   Norman Foster was commissioned to renovate and enlarge the Bodegas Faustino winery in Oyón, in the comarca of Rioja Alavesa. Years after his collaboration with Bodega Portia in Gumiel de Izán (Burgos), which opened in 2010, this project for the Martí

The project of the Spanish real-estate investment company Ibervalles is to be carried out by Ortiz-León, a Madrid firm with branches in Lisbon, Shanghai, and Miami. This will mean demolishing the 13-story building at General Perón 27, which contains

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If the images of cars dragged by the flood waters along a street in the municipality of Sedaví are the best picture of the violence of nature in its catastrophic reply to the artificial environment, that of volunteers crowded together along a footbri

During the afternoon of 29 October, torrential downpours brought on by a ‘DANA’ –isolated depression at high levels, what it used to be known as ‘cold drop’ – triggered catastrophic flash floods in different parts of Spain, with an especially severe

Just days before the presidential elections in the United States, the most contentious of recent decades and also the most existential for the world at large, the major organs of the international media hardly had space on their front pages for other

Valencia, which suffered from catastrophic inundations in 1957 and 1982, has cores of its population in zones susceptible to flooding. These aerial photographs show its state before and after the DANA of 2024, with the deviated bed of the Turia River

After sojourns in Alcoi and Avilés, it is the turn of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art to host the complete exhibition that commemorates the centenary of the birth of Juana Francés, the only female member of El Paso, a collective of Spanish abst

Female creators have been relegated to the second row of history, and in its firm endeavor to give them center stage, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid presents the first retrospective on the German Gabriele Münter ever to be put together in Sp

Eduardo Prieto   The observance of the centenaries of illustrious people is but a late version of the tradition of paying homage to the powerful, or a cultivated version of the celebration of children’s birthdays, besides a symptom of contemporary superstitions, whic

Carlos Jiménez   Filmmakers might cast a city as a backdrop, or as an essential character in their cinematic narrative. I recall Stockholm as a distant, haunting witness in Ingmar Bergman’s early films, just as Tokyo lingers in the interiors of Yasujiro Ozu’s hypnoti

Josep Maria Montaner   Zaida Muxí   The cooperative that calls itself Lacol came into being in 2009 as an initiative of young architects and students averse as much to the usual logic of hierarchical study programs as to professional exploitation. It was also a bit more than ten years

The deep-rooted association culture of Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood revealed to a group of young professionals setting up an office there what would become the foundation of their practice: the idea that architecture is less about projects per se t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The DANA of Valencia has violently struck the territory and the consciences. On one hand, it reminds us of our failure in the moderation of climate change, which is making meteorological catastrophes more frequent and intense; on the other, it faces

In the wake of the enormous success of a similar anthology held in its New York base, the Guggenheim Museum brings to Bilbao the oeuvre of Hilma af Klint, the Swedish artist and mystic who, inspired by her devotion to theosophy, can perhaps be consid

Football clubs renew their T-shirts in a seasonal mutation that leads to ever more sophisticated technology for textiles and patterns, supposedly for the greater comfort of players but in essence involving minimal changes with the sole purpose of mak

The stadium. Stages and figures

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Distanced from any kind of essentialism, both the Greek scholar David Hernández de la Fuente and the journalist Pedro García Cuartango explore Spain’s mythical roots from the lenses of history and the territory. Although both pay homage to the pionee

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature-length film, The Room Next Door premiered at the 81st Venice Film Festival, where it received a 17-minute ovation. Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, it tells the story of tw

The work of the Canadian artist Jeff Wall (Vancouver, 1946) has contributed to redefining photography as part of contemporary art. His practice of the tableau inherits from the history of painting its most fundamental feature: composition. The 36 wor

The word ‘tourism’ is a reminder that there is nothing new about traveling to certain places. Yet it is hard to find many parallelisms between the voyages of those aristocratic scholars and amateurs who passionately surerendered themselves to a long,

Developed by Accenture Song with its Hybrid Spaces team (Nacho Martín, Ana Petra Moriyón), the Neo-Rotonda is a multimedia space comprising different immersive levels. It is located in Torre Andreu, a modernist tower in Barcelona known as La Rotonda,

The Frate Sole Foundation has awarded the Canarian architect Fernando Menis with the 2004 International Prize for Sacred Architecture for the Church of the Holy Redeemer of Las Chumberas in La Laguna (Tenerife), which was chosen from among 128 design

The architecture firm Carvalho Araújo has won the international competition to build headquarters for EDA Drinks & Wine Campus in Vitoria and Laguardia. EDA Drinks & Wine Campus is a project spearheaded and developed by the Basque Culinary Ce

Jorge Bustos   Spain has won the Euro 2024 and England hasn’t, and we are thrilled. Mariano Rajoy, stoic philosopher, was right: in football and in life, it does no good to be a killjoy. His precursor, Seneca, spoke of the absurdity of protracted pessimism, whateve

Pedro García Cuartango   Un viaje por los grandes secretos arqueológicos y monumentales de nuestro país

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