The brief was to build a house on a hilltop outside the city of Toledo. The hill faces southwest and offers views of the distant horizon, reaching the Gredos Mountains to the northeast. The 60x40-meter site has a 10-meter drop. At the highest point w
The location is a plot that was originally occupied by three small dwellings embedded in the old wall of the castle of Oropesa, a town in the central Spanish province of Toledo, and serving as a nexus between the castle and the Church of Our Lady of
The reconversion of the blind party walls at the center of the square into a canvas for the new ceramic mosaics creates a new symbolic public space for the town of Talavera.
The El Greco Convention Center of Toledo is accessed through a small square located next to Calle de las Armas, and which leads to Plaza de Zocodover. This square offers broad, impressive views over Tavera Hospital and the Tagus River. The building
Historically, ancestral homes are the properties that have fostered the coexistence and represented the families that owned them. Regardless of their location, their grandeur, their time or their site, all of them have borne the signs – names, herald
The winning project of the competition called for the construction of the International Center of Visigothic Culture takes as formal and constructive reference its own architecture – able to inspire modern projects like the residential settlements of
Se diseña una pieza que integre un buen funcionamiento bioclimático con un proceso constructivo industrializado, en el que se dejen vistos los materiales y sistemas utilizados. El edificio se divide en dos partes: un atrio climatizado con techo trasl
An anonymous site of an industrial complex in Toledo, adjacent to the highway of Ocaña and to the railway tracks, accommodates the archive of Castilla-La Mancha. The context, a peripheral area still in process of development, did not offer too many c
High building density, winding layouts and the reduced dimensions of the street pattern recommend to avoid traffic in the historic centers of cities, where passers-by and vehicles are headed towards a difficult coexistence. Besides these traditional
Curated by Elena Ochoa, the exhibition presents twelve contemporary photographers’ particular takes on the city that inspired the painter.
La propuesta ‘El cuadrado y la cruz’ del estudio dirigido por Luis Moreno Mansilla y Emilio Tuñón ha resultado ganadora del concurso internacional para la construcción del Museo de la Vega Baja de Toledo, lugar donde se han descubierto recientemente
Viendo los titulares con los que a algunos ‘periodistas de arquitectura’ les gusta exhortar en los últimos tiempos, puede haber quien piense que la arquitectura contemporánea y la moderna se han llevado bien con la controversia, incluso la han buscad
Presentado bajo el lema ‘Take me to the River’, el proyecto de Burgos y Garrido —responsables del proyecto de recuperación del Manzanares en Madrid, ligado al soterramiento de la M-30— ha resultado ganador en el concurso para la integración del río T
