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.

Carme Pinós   Spain   In the heart of Burgos's Ribera del Duero region, specifically in the municipality of La Horra, this is integrated into the landscape where Corimbo and Corimbo I wines are produced, paying homage to the traditional architecture of the area. The proj

DIIR   Spain   The 500-square-meter SO House arose from a clear idea of interconnected spaces engaging with one another while remaining independent. The result is a single-family house that presents itself as flexible, capable of adapting and transforming without l

Batlleiroig   Spain   The AWA project, drawn up by Batlleiroig, MPC Arquitectos, Lain, and IC3 Ingenieros, has won the bid to redevelop the Guiniguada promenade in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The scheme revolves around water, making it its cultural and conceptual axis whi

Atienza Maure   Spain   Not far from the chimney chutes that embody the industrial memory of Sant Adrià de Besós, the offices of a technology firm – and also the residence of its founder – have settled in what was once a printing company within a block set between party wal

José Antonio Aguado Benito Javier Vellés Montoya   Spain   In the heart of Tomelloso’s La Esperanza neighborhood, a multidisciplinary team has successfully executed a project to stabilize a cave system at risk of collapsing under the busy Príncipe Alfonso avenue. The intervention – led by the architects José

SV60 / Cordón & Liñán Arquitectos   Spain   This residential complex is conceived as a permeable system, traversed by multiple openings that connect both facades of the building and link up with the inner courtyards. Such porosity not only takes advantage of the climate conditions of the place

Israel Alba Estudio   Spain   The project addressed the operational needs and requirements of a large outdoor space for vehicles of street-cleaning services to park and circulate in. This determined the building’s position within the plot, at the western end of the industrial est

MIAS Architects   Spain   This residential block is located in the heart of Raval, a neighborhood within Barcelona’s old town. Its cultural diversity is among its main assets. In this context, the refurbishment project launched by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barc

Haz Arquitectura Bayona Valero Cantallops Vicente Ensenyat Tarrida   Spain   Barcelona takes another step forward in its commitment to providing affordable housing with the construction of this building at Illa Glóries, which is part of a larger development being carried out by IMHAB (Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barc

Gabriel Verd Buró 4 Arquitectos   Spain   The new Harbormaster’s Building in Ayamonte, located at the marina, stands out on account of its bold materiality and angular geometry, evoking old coastal defensive constructions. It is an architecture of strong presence, rooted in the landscape by

Anna & Eugeni Bach   Spain   On view through 14 September at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) in Barcelona is an exhibition on Francesc d’Assís Galí (1880–1965), a key figure in Catalan art of the first half of the 20th century. Trained alongside Pompeu Fabra, he play

Cierto Estudio Franc Llonch   Spain   A project of the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB), the Illa Glòries housing development of four blocks and 238 dwellings is located between Gran Via de las Corts Catalanas, Carrer dels Encants Vells, and Plaça de les Glòries. Th

Gabriel Gallegos Borges   Spain   This cultural facility in the urban center of Carbajosa de la Sagrada, a municipality in Salamanca province, is located at Plaza de la Constitución, very close to the Church of the Assumption. It is a new building that uses the best features of its s

Padilla Nicás arquitectos   Spain   In Valdemorillo, a municipality in the Community of Madrid, surrounded by trees on a choice spot next to the Valmayor reservoir, stands this renovated house. The original building was not well oriented with respect to the sun. Encompassing a total of

BAAS Arquitectura Espinet / Ubach Arquitectes   Spain   The result of a 2017 competition, the project for the Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR) aimed to reorganize the campus of Barcelona’s university hospital through the topographic insertion of a new building into the urban fabric, in a way that

Vivas Arquitectos Pau Vidal   Spain   Building C of Illa Glòries is part of an ambitious project instigated by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB) that offers a total of 238 apartments in four buildings (A, B, C and D). Located in a strategic enclave within the Sup

Marinauno Arquitectos    Spain   The Cathedral of Málaga has been afflicted with a structural pathology: rainwater persistently leaking in and progressively deteriorating the Renaissance and Baroque vaults. These damages are the result of the building’s unfinished state and of histo

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

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

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

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