· Candidates should create a workspace focused on a startup. · Students from Architecture Schools of Spain and Portugal may apply to the contest. · The candidates will opt for more than 6,000 euros in prizes and the jury will be made up of notable architects. The multinational Steelcase, specialized in the design of workspaces, has launched the ninth edition […]
The Can Ricart Municipal Sports Complex is a building located in the heart of the south Raval, in Barcelona, an area with important performances in recent years. The equipment is important for the revitalization of the neighborhood in its traditionally more degraded sector, and it has to contribute to the integration of all social sectors inhabitants of the area through […]
The CALL FOR WORKS FOR THE XI IBEROAMERICAN BIENNIAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING IS NOW OPENO (XI BIAU). The biennial will be held in Asunción (Paraguay) in October 2019 and will show the way of living in Latin America from everyday life. Last Monday, December 17th, Casa América was presented, coinciding with the celebration of the II Ibero-American Congress […]
Intervention is a reactive architecture faced to the hostility of urban conditions in the site and to the scheduled mechanicism proper of a lifestyle inherited from the 20th Century modernity. An impersonal crossway with high traffic volume is balanced through a biophilic interior for collective meeting. Being today demands the pass towards metamodernity. The presence of a human being that […]
The plot on which the day center is built, very close and slightly elevated on the course of the river Avia, has a strong natural slope transformed by a system of stepped terraces called socalcos formed by walls of granite masonry, a traditional system very usual in this region of vineyards that allows to have arable land in plots in […]
La nueva Petite Brioche se ubica en el comienzo de la Calle de la Paz, frente a la Plaza Alfonso el Magnánimo, Valencia, en un bajo comercial en esquina, con unas magníficas vistas hacia el parque y el parterre y próximo al centro histórico de la ciudad. El local cuenta con una morfología irregular y una serie de condiciones previas […]
Light and volume work in unison and can be seen through the composition of the pathways of an architectonic work. Le Corbusier, with its uber-known catchphrase, “architecture is the wise game (…) of volumes under the light,” supported the story of an obsession: that of the study of light, its movement, to the point of taking form like a part […]
An exhibition that will present all the works built by Spanish architecture studios and also from the rest of Europe in Spanish territory and which have been nominated for the Prize for Contemporary Architecture of the European Union – Mies van der Rohe Prize. All these works have been highlighted by independent experts and have been analyzed and debated by […]
The past becomes topical dress. The proposal of reform of this house takes us to the second widening of Valencia. Its excellent location is essential for the project, enjoying lighting and views due to its location on the top floor of the building and have two facades. The importance of the project lies in getting a house with spatial amplitude, […]
Large wooden doors closed the patios of the monegrine houses, jealously defending, together with the high plastered walls, the domestic life from the dust and aridity of the desert of Aragon. Big doors that allowed the entry of the wagons and the horses with which the cereals were cultivated, and which, once exceeded, contained all the functions, from the living, […]
Viaplana and Pinón Three architectures is a program focused on the figure of architects of the past and present that have marked trends with their works. This third chapter focuses on the figure of two Catalans: Viaplana and Piñón, professors of Projects of the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona and genuine representatives of a new architecture. Tres arquitecturas es un programa […]
FRONTEiRAS is one of the projects developed by AiPAC (Associaçao Ibérica para a Inovação, Património, Arquitectura e Cultura). Currently, it is framed as a solid catalyst for cross-border activities between Spain and Portugal and gives rise to a tool capable of uncovering and investigating the linkages on both sides of the border. A strategic action that tries to make the political […]
Neither being nor object can be understood in an isolated way. We define ourselves and gain meaning through interactions and frictions, reactions and relationships. Architecture, an object which hosts life, positions itself halfway between entity and artefact, multiplying the means of friction that surround it. Territory and human being begin a dialogue with each other through landscape and architecture, hence […]
This housing in Sanxenxo, appears initially as the second residence to be used as place of meeting. Placed in a plot in earring, with orientation north – south and conference to the ocean. The project seeks to do a domestic piece, compacts on the outside and liberated in the interior. It is located in the highest part of the plot […]
Housing in ground floor in Oleiros’s municipality, which is implanted in the area considering the conditions of item of the plot, understanding the place and looking for the best orientation. The plot has an irregular plant and with a light slope towards his interior, with an access for the zone this one from the road principal one. The access from […]
Concéntrico 04, the International Architecture and Design Festival in Logroño (La Rioja / Spain), arose with the intention of prompting reflection on the city through proposals in architecture and design. The latest edition will be held from 27 April to 1 May 2018. These competitions propose the creation of a temporary architectural intervention at San Bartolomé Plaza and at Viña Lanciano – […]
Villa Slow is a rental holiday retreat in the Natural Park of Valles Pasiegos, in the North of Spain emerging from a stone-ruin within a more than two-hectare terrain of natural landscape. The new home typology is based on a traditional construction of the area called ‘cabaña pasiega’ (peasant cabin) but with a contemporary twist. The strategic location of the […]
After the vacation period we take again the interviews in the section It marks with beacons. In this occasion we move up to Bilbao to chat with Libe Fdez. Torróntegui, arquitecta with posgrado in “Rehabilitation and architectural restoration” for the Technical University of Catalonia (Barcelona, 2012) and founder of reharq*. Drink she is an enthusiast of the communication who works in […]
ARQUITASA es una Sociedad de Tasación HOMOLOGADA por el BANCO DE ESPAÑA, con 30 años de existencia e implantación en todo el territorio español y en varios países latinoamericanos. ARQUITASA está integrada en el grupo empresarial AGIFI, (GIA, en Latinoamérica) junto a las empresas GINPROSA, INZAMAC,FUCTURA e ION, desarrollando, además de sus trabajos de valoración, tasación y avalúos, una labor de CAPACITACIÓN de profesionales, asesoramiento a Administraciones Públicas y empresas privadas, elaboración […]
Documentary presented for La2 of TVE Function and Form – A look to the Design and the Innovation in Spain directed by Benet Román and produced by La Chula Productions and TVE where the spectator across his 59 minutes of duration will realize a tour for the last 50 years of the design in Spain of the hand of some […]
To take advantage of the idea of opening to the public of a jail, cellular space and to discipline, subverting the beginning of vigilance and custody in beginning of search, sample and appreciation of cultural and social values. Propossing an opened compartimentación, working each of the spaces in a flexible way with degrees of opening and of intervention related to […]
In this house of ground floor a system appears, in I make concrete the M.E.R.A. (Multisystem of elimination of Absurd Tours), which is not different things that to try that the corridors it are not. For it a scheme develops striping of squares and golden proportions that, old-fashioned, concatenate the spaces diagonally. These striping are identified in the exterior in […]
Placed on a triangular plot on the outskirts of a small town, the house is surrounded by lands of mixed uses. A small orchard of fruit trees borders it on the one side, a small dirt road on another and a street in front of the main facade. The building is presented as a heavy body built in stone, adapted […]
Along the history the big teachers of the architecture penetrated into the design of furniture, enclosed some of them there came companies destined for the design and the manufacture. Because of it today we move to Santiago de Compostela to know the work that they realize in domohomo. Study of architecture and design that it is born in 2011 in […]
This building is the result of winning a public competition called by EMVSA in el año 2013. The premises of the contest: 1. Create abuilding with presence. At first the competition proposed the options of making a hidden or buried building on the slope. Our choice was to create a visible building, proud of himself and that would contribute to improve the urban conditions of their environment. 2. Anexempt and reversible building, which relates with the existing quarry. With a prefabricated structure, considering that it is an administrative concession (75 […]
And now that approaches the season of good time and leisure we travel to Granada to know MasQueTours and to interview Blanca Espigares Rooney, the doctor arquitecta that has started this project. “MasQueTours transforms the concept of visit guided to turn her into an experience of local knowledge, realized in spiral, across different scales: from the territory and his geography up […]
Reformulation of a public area: parking in the street Xuíz Falcone. Double street – double space. The project takes as an object the reformulation of the area of the street Xuíz Falcone. In the origin of the project, and as element activator, there is the recovery of the original level of the street, disturbed by the aggressive landfill of the […]
The renovated house is located in a building in the historic Eixample district of Valencia, created in the early 20th century and bearing witness to one of the most outstanding periods in Valencian architecture. The city blocks in the area are configured with a large courtyard in the interior and a perimeter volume built with chamfered corners, giving the impression […]
It does little I dedicated an entry of this blog to Curro Inza, and scarcely I mentioned his masterpiece. I did it voluntarily to be able to dedicate an entry to alone her, which deserves it. Campofrío treats itself about the Sausages Factory Postigo, El Acueducto, Campofrío… It has had many names, as they have gone selling or there being […]
From the last March 29 until the next April 21 there is opened the term of presentation of candidacies of the works that will represent to Spain in the XXVI Works CEMEX Prize 2017. The award recognizes the best constructive practices and to his creators in the world across five categories: residential housing, economic housing, building, collective space, and infrastructure. […]