Sebastián Arquitectos Pemán y Franco Arquitectos Zaragoza   Spain   The Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sijena, founded in 1188, has undergone a thorough transformation, one which has restored all the dignity of its historic spaces. The latest intervention, completed recently, has fitted out the old dormitory hall

Estruch Martorell arquitectes Estudi E. Torres Pujol Ripoll Tizón Estudio de Arquitectura   Spain   This residential building for the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) stands on a trapezoidal plot between party walls. The main elevation, facing views, is given a large porch that acts not only as an entranceway, but also a space for community inter

Flexoarquitectura   Spain   The Majorcan city of Inca boasts a new public space in the heart of its old town, thanks to a project carried out by Flexo arquitectura – a Catalonia-based practice led by Tomeu Ramis and Aixa del Rey – that was part of a municipal strategy to improv

COR Architecture + Design   Spain   The Santiago Apóstol Preschool in Albatera – in the comarca of Vega Baja, Alicante province – has been enlarged and renovated in accordance with a scheme drawn up by the local firm COR Architecture + Design. The original building, a single-level bloc

MGM Morales De Giles Arquitectos Coll-Leclerc   Spain   The firms MGM Morales de Giles Arquitectos and Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos have together as a team won the competition to build the new Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), on its Belleterra campus. It is strategically al

Estudio Acta   Spain   For decades the bank of the river Guadalete as it passes through the municipality of El Puerto de Santa María, in the province of Cádiz, was a chaotic degrading space. But an ambitious urban and landscaping project sought to reverse the situation and

Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   A project launched by Barcelona’s Municipal Institute of Housing and Renovation (IMHAB), a new eight story residential building redefines the urban landscape of Distrcit 22@. Integrated into the fabric of Cerdá’s expansion grid, the building covers t

Miguel Ángel Díaz Camacho    Spain   The new public library in the Butarque neighborhood of Madrid’s Villaverde district satisfies an old demand of the community, being the first library to be built by the Madrid City Council in this area. The design revolves around the idea of creating

MCEA | Manuel Costoya Estudio de Arquitectura   Spain   Located in Santiago and Zaraíche, a district of the municipality of Murcia, this housing development of 138 units for rent consists of a single building rising twelve floors plus an attic, on the two central plots of a linear property of four. This a

COR Architecture + Design   Spain   The refurbishment and expansion of Building Q at the Murcia Science Park, within the university’s Espinardo Complex, aims to combine energy efficiency, functionality, and comfort through a design focused on the well-being of its users. It includes ad

vaumm   Spain   The refurbishment of Zarautz Palace, which was in a ruinous state, constitutes another stage of its history. While preserving the heritage value of its walls, the project turns it into a new cultural facility for Getaria. The design worked out by Vau

Oval Estudio Luis Arredondo   Spain   This residential project, directed by the architect Luis Arrendondo of Oval Estudio, involved revamping a house between party walls within the historical core of Montuïri (Majorca). The plot was distinctive, presenting 5 meters of frontage to the nor

Santamaria Arquitectes   Spain   The Church of Sant Esteve, located at the eastern end of the Barcelona municipality of Marganell, sharing its grounds with a cemetery, retains much of its Romanesque structure despite all the looting, fires, and revamps it has undergone over the cent

Díaz y Díaz   Spain   An ideas competition was held to build a virtual production center in what was a weapons factory in A Coruña. It is now the Cidade das TIC, a facility for developing information and communication technologies. The winning design – by the firm Díaz y

Urbanitree   Spain   ‘Terraces for Life’ was the scheme that won the bid for 40 social housing units promoted by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge of Barcelona (IMHAB) at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this project in the Sant Martí district, in the Verneda

Nomo Studio   Spain   The Barcelona firm Nomo Studio, founded by Alicia Casals and Karl Johan Nyqvist, designed this one-family home on the coast of Menorca. In a single floor the house gently extends across a sloping site full of pine trees and native plants, engaging in

FORarquitectura   Spain   This facility is in the comarca of Axarquia, an area deeply marked by farming tradition. The project was based on a detailed analysis of the industrial and agricultural heritage of Málaga in the 18th and 19th centuries. Studies were made of the geome

Ricardo Sánchez González Ángel Munárriz Blasco   Spain   This development promoted by Madrid’s Housing and Land Corporation (EMVS Madrid) is located in the Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles neighborhood of the district of Puente de Vallecas, on a 9,798-square-meter plot with a maximum buildable area of 15,920

Ramón Esteve   Spain   The project to transform the San Juan Bautista Asylum in Valencia into the European University’s new campus in the city combined heritage preservation with a modern functional design. The former hospice, raised in neoclassical style in 1873, stands o

h3o architects   Spain   Barcelona-based h3o architects – headed by Adrià Orriols, Joan Gener, and Miquel Ruiz – has transformed an abandoned parking lot in Castell d’Aro, in Girona province, into a public plaza. Covering 1,700 square meters, the intervention sought to revit

Lacol   Spain   This 344-square-meter house in the historical center of Villareal is the result of joining two plots on which previous constructions were very deteriorated, so much that refurbishing them was ruled out. The house includes an independent office and a

Garcés - de Seta - Bonet | arquitectes Marvel   Spain   Catalunya Media City is emerging as a hub for production, research, and training in the audiovisual, digital, and video-game sectors. This ambitious initiative is articulated in two principal operations: renovation of the historic Sant Adrià del Besó

deAbajoGarcía (DABG)   Spain   This residential project uses industrialized construction techniques and dry assembly as strategies to optimize resources and reduce emissions, as well as minimize waste generation and integrate principles having to do with the life cycle of material

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

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

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

When a judge’s daughter, a painter in the making, saw Jackson Pollock in action at one of his ‘drippings’ in a New York gallery, she knew that her approach to the canvas would never be the same again. With that experience she gave up the easel, knelt

“Young Caipira dressed by Poiret.” These words of her second husband, the modernist poet Oswald de Andrade, sums up the contradictions that surround Tarsila do Amaral: a woman of the world, born into a wealthy family of landowners and brought up with

The winners of the three competitions that have been held for the renovation of the Fira de Barcelona – as part of the first phase of the overall revamp of the Montuïc trade-fair grounds – have been announced. The jury – chaired by Josep Lluís Mateo

Enrique Morillo   With the debates on the importance of preserving heritage over and done with, disputes on what was worthy of that pedigree status began. Grand monuments easily made the cut as historical treasures, and then with more effort industrial, modern, and la

Alberto Ballesteros   The past is destroyed, not transformed. Despite efforts to manicure the changes it is undergoing, downtown Madrid is becoming generic, a neighborhood sans neighbors where the only memory worth keeping is that which attracts tourists: walking its stre

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) has announced the projects to be presented in the central hall of the Spanish Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, which will run from 10 May to 23 November 2025. On the jury were Iñaqui

Alberto Veiga   It is hard to sum up in a brief text our experience of building outside Spain over the years. Each work, each client, and each country is a distinct experience, and each case is unique, so it is not easy to draw up conclusions or synthesize clearly t

Óscar Miguel Ares   It was in the 1970s that Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari formulated their theorem on the “image of thought,” based on the botanical term ‘rhizome.’ Any teaching can be connected to another. All are communicative vessels. In a way, architecture toda

Marta Peris   Successive crises in the course of this first quarter of the 21st century have awakened us to the need to make contemporary housing resilient. We try to adapt to the diversity of lifestyles and models of cohabitation by rearranging the conventional d

The magazine AV Monographs has for over three decades been putting together an annual almanac with a rigorous selection of twenty-four building works completed by Spanish practices during the given period. To leaf through any single one of these regu

With the intention of portraying an entire generation, Los años nuevos tells the story of a couple over the course of ten New Year’s Eves, and in it are reflected many of the concerns that assault people in their thirties: employment insecurity, work

Kenneth Frampton   Dear Luis Fernández-Galiano, By way of wishing you a happy New Year, I simply wanted to express how much I appreciate your faithful contribution to architectural culture world-wide and particularly to Spain, so much so that one has the feeling that y

‘Línea P’ or P line – officially Pyrenees Defense Organisation – was a network of defensive fortifications planned and built under the Francoist regime, when the Civil War ended, with the objective of blocking the mountain range to fight off foreign

As a photojournalist or as a portrait artist, Henri-Cartier Bresson (1908-2004) created timeless compositions that have influenced the style of subsequent generations. His snapshots of encounters and spontaneous situations, many of them considered ic

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

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