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
The great challenge in this project is to give the school a space of its own, separate from its surroundings, on a small plot surrounded by one-family homes. The solution chosen involved sinking the ground level, creating a space that would be adequa
In 2012, the project for the Madrid Convention Center, set to become part of the Cuatro Torres Business Area, was put on hold. After three years of construction work, the stalled project left a huge urban void where earthwork, foundation laying, and
The proposed scheme articulates the natural landscape and stresses its value. An architecture of white walls along a north-south axis offers shade in summer on the northern side and winter sun on the southern side...
The steel structure rests on a stone podium with floors measuring 60x60m on an orthogonal 12x12m module until reaching a height of more than 350 m. Every 12 stories, a double mezzanine is resolved by large Vierendeel trusses...
Caleido starts out from three premises: to propose a new centrality north of Paseo de la Castellana, to connect the Cuatro Torres Business Area with its environment, and to give the city a large green space – over 33,000 m² – around the complex. The
Spain’s leading bank has renovated its headquarters to showcase its rich collection of artworks, and with this it creates a new cultural hub for the city to which it is intimately bound. A gateway between city and sea, the arch that connects the twin
The metallic structure that is also a vertical forest flanks a floodable central plaza – the Green Hall – surrounded by other programs. The circulations and accesses lead to this plaza, fit out with porous pavements and new urban furniture, lighting
Three longitudinal bands, each containing different programs, organize the new volume and free up space to create a new square whose backdrop is a transparent facade that lets the city observe the circulations and main functions of the building...
The second phase of the Helga de Alvear Museum of Contemporary Art aims to create an efficient and versatile cultural hub with a clear and balanced image. A simple and recognizable volume, from a formal and structural point of view, that establishes
Lagasca 99 is a residential building located on an isolated plot in the Salamanca district of Madrid. As in many other projects, the facades are set out as a consistent reflection of the interior spaces of the building, at least of its floor plan, bu
The Madrid practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano have won first place in the competition to build a museum in San Felíu de Guíxols (Girona) to house part of Carmen Thyssen's art collection, joining those already existing in Madrid, Málaga,
Ensamble fabrica is the new prototyping facility and fabrication laboratory of Ensamble Studio in Madrid. Besides serving its purpose as a work place, it is a proof of concept that tests the hybrid steel-concrete construction technology the firm has
Embedded in the forested landscape surrounding the San Juan Reservoir, outside Madrid, Zigzag House is designed with the aim of living in the air, so it floats over the ground, touching the earth delicately and cascading down a slope that ends by the
Ca’n Terra is the house of the earth. The fruit that nature gives as a found space, which requires tillage and cultivation to imbue the received offering with domesticity. If the history of civilization has greatly evolved transforming ideas into bui
After refurbishing the old Casa Grande – a building from the early 20th century that contained the houses of two brothers – and converting it into the Helga de Alvear Foundation Center for the Audiovisual Arts, the team of Emilio Tuñón is close to co
In 2016 the architecture studio elii won the competition to transform a building of the Save the Children Foundation – located in the San Diego quarter of Vallecas, in Madrid – into a childcare center. The proposal is based on the addition of a new
The house is a simple prismatic volume with a square floor plan of 16-meter sides, and each of the four facades is perforated by three windows. The stretches of wall have been constructed with local quartzite stone, and the windows are framed with Ex
Imagined from the beginning as a private museum with multiformat content, SOLO is a space in permanent change. The design of the place is developed in parallel with the construction of the art collection that it houses. It is a space that is intimate
Desert City is a multifunctional complex devoted to xerophyte plants and the production of a whole culture of interests around this species. It is a sustainable and ecological center, where different activities going from exhibition, breeding, and sa
Two years after starting the project for the Banco Popular building on Calle Abelias – phase I – (see AV 165-166), the same studio was commissioned to develop a proposal that would adapt to a different economic situation, for the second phase, on Cal
The new construction, containing a sports pavilion and a classroom building, is located in the campus of the Francisco de Vitoria University, in the city of Pozuelo de Alarcón, some 20 kilometers west of Madrid. The facility includes sports courts an
The Botín Centre, a space for art, culture and education, projecting into the Bay of Santander, restores the ties between the historical part of the city and the sea. The freeway separating the park from the sea has now been rung underground through
