Porcelanosa Grupo   Altissima Stone, a firm specializing in natural stone and belonging to Porcelanosa Group, presents its new ‘Endless’ catalogue, of slabs of natural stone extracted from quarries in different parts of the world, available in a wide range of

Cosentino   The firm Cosentino has launched the Taj Mahal series, a Brazilian quartzite surface showing brownish veins on a soft, ivory-toned backdrop, and protected against stain through the innovative Sensa treatment.

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

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

Ludwig Godefroy   Mexico   In the historic center of Mérida, capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, stands this house which is a modern take on elements of vernacular architecture. The proportions of the plot – a rectangle 80 meters long and 8 wide –generate a longitudinal p

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

Jean-Christophe Quinton   France   In the heart of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, at 12 Rue Jean-Bart, this 8-unit apartment building includes a daycare facility. With its massing and layout, it completes the front of a typical Parisian city block. Vertical openings and the use of l

Raúl Almenara   Spain   In a small town in Ávila province, this dwelling built with local granite surrounds a hundred-year-old walnut tree. To leave its roots and top untouched, the facade curves. The building’s petrous materiality was already present in the property, in a

Miller & Maranta   Switzerland   When we speak of the Swiss Guard, what comes to mind are the Michelangelesque uniforms of the Vatican regiment, not so much the agonizing lion that Bertel Thorvaldsen designed to be sculpted in Lucerne to honor the Helvetian soldiers massacred defend

DnA_Design and Architecture   China   The fact that what we call ‘nature’ or looks like ‘nature’ is often a human-made construction is demonstrated by sceneries like this one in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, a carpet of hills that conceals more than 3,000 quarries exploited in the co

Taller | Mauricio Rocha   Mexico   The story of the Anahuacalli Museum begins in the early 1940s, when the painter Diego Rivera thought of erecting a depot for his collection of pre-Hispanic pieces that would be an artwork in and of itself, habitable and capable of generating a contin

Sancho-Madridejos   Spain   A Madrid business school has expanded its facilities with the construction of new teaching spaces that together have the effect of consolidating the entire campus around a pine grove. A stone vault built with 777 pieces parameterized and fitted toget

Arquitectura al descubierto   Spain   On the banks of the Tagus – in the municipality of Sacedón, which belongs to the comarca of La Alcarria – this house has a floor plan that splits to form two arms, forming a small village built around two courtyards. A work of the Madrid firm Arquite

Stephen Taylor Architects   United Kingdom   A new porticoed shed with room for fifty cows is the most visible feature of the extensive revamp of a historical farm, a project intended to curb a widespread exodus from the countryside. Drawing inspiration from the barchesse, the agricultural wing

Sergio Sebastián   Spain   The refurbishment of this chapel, a project of Sebastián Arquitectos, is included in the second phase of a series of interventions on the French Way as it passes through Aragón. Facing the Leyre mountains, amid elms and oaks, the building once treasu

Open Architecture   China   Two hours by car from the center of Beijing, this open-air concert hall is a work of the firm OPEN, led by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing. Set amid mountains, the concrete building is an inverted cone, textured like a rock where each striation cantilevers o

Kengo Kuma   France   The project called to build a contemporary gallery to protect the western portal of the Gothic cathedral of Angers, where precious polychromatic sculptures from the 12th and the 17th centuries have been recently discovered. To create a harmonious dia

Studio Zhu Pei   China   In an area located far from the city, a small museum is organized like a traditional Chinese house, surrounding a courtyard protected by the generous eaves of perimetral constructions. Resting on the stone walls that rise from a pool of water accordi

estudioHerreros   Spain   Standing on a small rocky hillock that offers panoramic views of the valley, the mountains, and the town of Artá, this second residence becomes a privileged observatory of sunrises, sunsets, and storms. The project consists of adapting the traditiona

Groupwork   United Kingdom   A work of the architect Amin Taha, this seven-story block contains apartments – including this own home on the top floor – and the offices of his practice, Groupwork. Defined by its limestone structure, the building makes references to a ruined 11th-

Germano de Castro Pinheiro   Portugal   Successive operations of dubious quality, carried out in the course of recent decades, had disfigured a 16th-century farmhouse, and in adapting it for use as a family residence the objective was to restore original elements of the construction, conso

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   On a hill north of Madrid, with the sierra as backdrop in the distance, a house for Ana. Once again, we try to build the loveliest house in the world. And to capture the 360º panorama of the landscape, we propose a belvedere at the top of the house

Mesura   Spain   “Una casa come me” was the instruction that Curzio Malaparte gave Adalberto Libera when he contracted him to build the villa in Capri that Brigitte Bardot would immortalize walking down its stepped roof, wrapped in a bathrobe, in the Godard film. Equ

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   In the comarca of Montes Torozos, amid wheat fields and by the river Bajoz, Castomonte in the province of Valladolid features a stretch of the Camino de Santiago pilgrim route that comes from Madrid, and has a census count of 309. Using its wind-powe

A sensitive interpretation of the genius loci: this is how one could describe the social housing developent that the studio Oliver, Reina, Martín, Moyà & Garcías has executed in Son Gotleu, one of the poorest, most vulnnerable among the neighborhoods

Stone is associated with the origins of architecture. As the world’s dolmens and pyramids show, it enabled the earliest human civilizations to make true their desire to endure, and so from the very beginning stone was thought of in relation to buildi

Ramón Araujo   The use of stone as a building material is being reconsidered completely. Many are the buildings that resort to it, for purposes other than cladding. Moreover, ongoing studies point to a future where stone plays a larger role. The Modern Movement pra

David Sanz   Construction with stone, thanks to its thermal properties and its being easy to reuse, is a solid alternative for building architecture of a sustainable nature, as long as it is used close to where it is extracted.

Barry Bergdoll   Like the dramatic landscapes of the Canary Islands, Fernando Menis’s buildings – many a long time in gestation from commission to final completion – seem to have been conceived in an eruption of creative energy and then honed over time by forces that

Pepa Cassinello   What’s worth more, a kilogram of stone or a kilogram of gold? With this question Adolf Loos began his famous text about building materials. The answer is simple. If the kilo of stone belongs to the Pantheon in Rome, Michelangelo’s Pietà, the Venus de

In the 13th edition of the International Award Architecture in Stone granted by Marmomacc (Veronafiere), the five following works have merited prizes: Druk White Lotus School by Arup Associates in Ladakh (India); the Stone House by Carl Fredrik Svens

Designed by the Boston studio Machado & Silvetti, the Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life is a complex in the New York University campus, harboring its numerous religious associations. Not being linked to a specific creed, the symbolic

La ampliación de una vieja y pesada estructura muraria con un porche nuevo y ligero emplazado donde una vez hubo un cobertizo para el ganado, ha sido la clave del proyecto de rehabilitación de una masía situada en la localidad gerundense de Santa Pau

Situado en el surafricano Parque Nacional de Mapungubwe, el Centro de Interpretación proyectado por el arquitecto de Johanesburgo Peter Rich está inspirado en la arquitectura vernácula, en el paisaje y en la riqueza arqueológica del lugar. El edifici

Más de veinte clases de ladrillos y tejas recuperados de demoliciones cercanas conforman los muros del Museo de la Historia en la ciudad china de Ningbo, situada al sur del país. Se trata de un modo tradicional de construcción que los arquitectos Wan

Antón García-Abril   Una vieja adivinanza dice: ¿qué pesa más, un kilo de plomo o un kilo de paja? Un listillo afirmaría que por supuesto pesan igual, mientras que un físico demostraría que un kilo de plomo pesa más en una báscula, debido al empuje contrario a la graveda

Vincenzo Pavan   Over the last twenty years we have become accustomed to radical changes in architecture that have forged the way to new interpretations of materials, often attributing them with a determinant role in the achievement of a design. This has resulted in

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Stone and modernity have gone through a rough marriage. In 1956, Alejandro de la Sota won the competition for the Civil Government Building of Tarragona, a city whose urban code, perhaps in tune to its Roman remains, required a stone finish on facade

Francesco Venezia   Quisiera que considerásemos la piedra como un material que, al igual que otros, logra la belleza en el desarrollo de su actividad constructiva, entre el concepto y las reglas del arte. Pensar en piedra. Formular un pensamiento con la claridad y la pr

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Stone represents construction at the limit: at the limit of time, because its tenacious inertia speaks at once of its remote origin and its desire to last, inasmuch as its firm resistance is a symbol of timeless solidity; at the limit of technique, b

Luis Fernández-Galiano   El nuevo Berlín será de piedra. Devastada durante la II Guerra Mundial y dividida por la guerra fría hasta la caída del muro en noviembre de 1989, la ciudad del Spree —recuperada la capitalidad alemana— repara su dañado tejido urbano con 250 grandes

Ignacio Paricio   Jaume Avellaneda    Los aplacados de piedra en fachada sufrieron hace tres décadas una radical transformación. En nuestro país se dieron dos condiciones que incidieron sobre los revestimientos pétreos tradicionales e impulsaron esa revolución. Por una parte, el agotamie

Rafael Moneo   Dobles y encontrados sentimientos, los que provienen de la necesidad de mantener una imborrable memoria y del deseo de alcanzar un balsámico olvido, parecen darse cita en la convocatoria para el Concurso cuando en ella se nos describe cuál ha de ser

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