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

ERRE   Spain   The Hortensia Herrero Art Center is located in the old Valeriola Palace, a central and emblematic 17th century building that has served multiple uses over the years and undergone several interventions, falling finally into disuse over the past decade

ENDALT Arquitectes   Spain   With a built area of 232 square meters, this residence is formally inspired by the farmhouses located a few meters away: country houses with farmland, composed of a main two-sloped volume to which other constructions of different geometries are attac

Peñín Arquitectos   Spain   The Valencian practice of Alberto Peñín has built this public school for the kindergarten, primary, and secondary levels in Fuente Encarroz, a small town in the comarca of Safor, 6 kilometers from Gandía. The program is spread on plan on a large site

Enric Ruiz-Geli Cloud 9   Spain   Designed by Santiago Calatrava, L’Àgora reopens in Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences as the ninth CaixaForum in Spain, after an intervention carried out by the Catalan architect Enric Ruiz-Geli (Cloud 9). The ‘living cells’ that give the construct

Horma Estudio   Spain   A coastal house organizes an extensive program through a meticulous composition of spaces, geometries, and materials that together seek to adapt to the diverse needs of the occupants. The external contrast between the whitewash and the red-tiled clad

Javier A. Molinero Bernat Ivars    Spain   Close to Colegio Santiago Apóstol, a school in Valencia’s Cabanyal neighborhood, is a piece of land previously used as makeshift parking lot. The school did not have an outdoor space of its own in which to hold open-air activities. So the City Hall o

DIIR   Spain   Vienna’s walls came down to the rhythm of Strauss waltzes. Valencia’s, to the beat of taurine fiestas. And like the Ringstrasse, even without its grandeur, the paseo de ronda that replaced the ramparts of the Mediterranean city became a vibrant trade

estudioHerreros   Spain   Vinival is an urban sector that takes its name from the old winery, whose main building is still preserved. Occupying twelve hectares, it displays enough entity to become a model fragment of a city. It is connected both with Alboraya and the city of

Trazia Arquitectura   Spain   The Valencia-based firm Trazia, headed by Carlos Pardo and Lucía Hernández, has renovated Casa Ayora – on Calle Mayor in Almussafes, a municipality in the comarca Ribera Baja – for museum use. Set between party walls, the building was a Dominican c

Hugo Mompó Juan Grau   Spain   On the outskirts of the city of Valencia, in the municipality of Bétera, located east of the comarca Campo de Turia, stands this residence built by Hugo Mompó and Juan Grau. Applying local codes and a maximum economy of means, a distilled rectangular

Space Popular   Spain   Located in Nueva Santa Bárbara (Valencia), the Brick Vault House was carried out in collaboration with the local architects Alberto Burgos and Javier Cortina. It is the result of combining two fundamental strategies: a spatial grid and a construction

Emac Arquitectura   Spain   The firm Emac -- acronym for Mediterranean space for contemporary architecture and headed by Miguel Martínez Castillejo and Pau Batalla Soriano -- in ad hoc union with the architecture and engineering company Octógono Castellón has won the competitio

HOK ERRE   Spain   The Valencia-based firm ERRE – headed by José Martí, Amparo Roig, and M. Ángeles Ros – in collaboration with the American firm HOK has designed the Valencia Arena multipurpose pavilion, commissioned by Licampa 1617, the holding company of the Valenci

Ramón Esteve Eduardo de Miguel Annabelle Selldorf   Spain   Built in 1930 by the Valencian architect Cayetano Borso di Carminati, the old hydraulic pump factory of Carlos Gens, on Avenida de Burjassot, is one of the few standing examples of industrial architecture from the period. The complex was closed perma

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Spain   The building goes up on the site of the old market, with a trapezoidal plan, attached to a party wall and with three facades, the shortest one onto Plaza de Colón, the center of which is presided by the medieval Islamic tower, symbol and image of the

Carmen Martínez Gregori Gradolí & Sanz arquitectes   Spain   The project adds a new multipurpose space to Escola Gavina, in the Valencian  municipality of Picanya. The main building of this learning institution was designed in 1980 by the architect Manuel Portaceli – author also of the extension undertaken som

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   THE SIX large mulberry trees that rise in the Ausiàs March Park determined the design of this building of innovative program. The UPI (Universidad Popular Infantil, or children’s university), in Gandía, takes up a trapezoidal plot located on the sout

Carlos Sánchez Hernández Enrique Marín Arkítera   On the boundary between the Tagongers Campus and the urban center of Valencia, the Centre d’Idiomes is a hinge between these two fabrics reserving a large space in the west area of the plot, which functions as an outdoor lobby for the university comp

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz   Spain   The Solar Tower in Sociópolis, Valencia, is based on the same preliminary sketch as the Tour Porte de la Chapelle project, in an attempt to distance social housing developments from the anonymous iconographies by exploring the possibilities of a towe

Vicente Guallart   Spain   Hexagonal platforms made of Ipe wood, each one laid on a pivoting structure and a base of reinforced concrete, create small islands of varying dimensions in the most rocky areas of the south coast of Vinarós.

Francisco Mangado   Spain   Teulada-Moraira is an atypical urban center. Though it is divided into two separate  physical units, it is however a single administrative one. Located in Alicante, in a valley that descends from the mountain to the sea, the town gives up neither its

David Chipperfield Architects   Spain   The America’s Cup Building ‘Veles e Vents’ and accompanying park were the social focal point for the 2007 America’s Cup – the world’s premier offshore racing competition, staged in Europe for the first time in over 150 years.

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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The DANA of Valencia has violently struck the territory and the consciences. On one hand, it reminds us of our failure in the moderation of climate change, which is making meteorological catastrophes more frequent and intense; on the other, it faces

Ricardo Aroca   Ten people have perished in a conflagration which in a matter of minutes wrapped the facades of the fourteen-story building in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia. A combination of combustible facade materials, air chambers between the building’s sk

The building, completed in 2009, incorporated a facade system consisting of an insulation material and a cladding applied by means of a substructure attached to the outer side of the wall. An air chamber between those two layers improved acoustic ins

The urban canopy that protects the whole plaza is built with two triangular timber porticoes from which hangs a huge Alicantina-type rolling shutter in a dark green tone which pays tribute to this symbol of Mediterranean culture.

In spite of the exceptional reception the public has always given him, Santiago Calatrava’s L’Àgora is regarded with suspicion by critics. Not only because of the visual populism the construction flaunts, but also, and above all, because this skeleto

Caixaforum Valencia

In ‘The American Way of Life’ Josep Renau, through the images built with the usual iconography of the ads and magazines of the time, offers his critical vision of the American dream and of the deeply rooted capitalism and imperialism in the US.  With

The municipal government house of Foios, located in the region of Valencia, will be renovated by Madrid-based NULA.STUDIO, in collaboration with A Coruña firm Fernández Carballada Arquitectos. Organized around an inner courtyard that serves as an ext

Homes designed and built on the basis of consumer specifications – in accordance with the style, needs, and priorities of the to-be occupant – have in the past few years been a growing trend in the real estate market. Whether a small apartment or a l

Established by Andrés Perales and Pablo Bertolín, the Valencian firm Designable designs and raises customized residential buildings in city centers with the aim of creating communities of people united by sustainability values and with an eye to

The IVAM, in collaboration with Tate Liverpool, presents ‘Fernand Léger and Modern Life,’ displaying more than forty paintings and drawings, aside from films, graphic designs, books, fabrics and a large-scale photomural he made together with Charlott

Overshadowed greatly by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the work of Fernand Léger has been rather condemned to the background, but a major exhibition on view through 15 September at the Valencia Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) – in coproduction with

Miguel Falomir Faus   Joaquín Bérchez’s photographs take us on a symbolic journey through El Greco’s life and art, and his special relationship with architecture.

Calatrava’s architecture gets a lot of media hype even when it fails. At the same time that cranes surrounded the Palau de les Arts opera house in order to strip it of its Gaudiesque mosaic cladding, other cranes and scaffolds – no less spectacular –

Industrialized construction has many advantages: it enhances building quality, improves work conditions, reduces building time and, in theory, also costs. All this without giving up typological freedom and achieving a good energy efficiency. These as

Concerned about the role of the artist in society and about the need to renew Spanish art, Juan Genovés (Valencia, 1930) has always been strongly engaged in politics. In words of critic Martin Coomer: “Influenced by modern cinema and photography, and

La sala municipal L’ Almodí de Valencia acoge hasta el 27 de febrero de 2011 la muestra ‘Pablo Palazuelo. El plano expandido’. En esta exposición se muestra cómo los dibujos configuran siluetas que se transforman, por medio de simples pliegues, en fo

Hasta el 9 de mayo se puede visitar en el Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno ‘Malas Calles’, un itinerario artístico por los movimientos urbanos del siglo XX a través de un centenar de obras agrupadas en cuatro etapas bajo otros tantos epígrafes —‘

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