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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition winner, Fluid form, Religious architecture, Spain, Waterfront architecture
Mexico and Spain-based architectural firm sanzpont [arquitectura] won the 2nd place of the competition for Cancun City Basilica, Santa Maria del Mar. + Design statement from Sanzpont arquitectura Design Concept Santa Maria del Mar is one of the oldest virgin avocations. She isn’t related to any apparition; instead she relates with the need that marines [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architecture Award, Auditorium, Concert Hall, Concrete, Francisco Mangado, Landscape architecture, Performing Arts Center, RIBA, Spain, Theater
Mangado y Asociados in Pamplona is pleased to announce that Francisco Mangado’s Municipal Auditorium of Teulada has won the RIBA EU Award, an honor bestowed by the Royal Institute of British Architects on buildings outside the United Kingdom but within the European Union. The Teulada Auditorium is one of nine projects selected for the award. [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Barcelona, Color, Spain
Frederic Perers have selected steel as the vertical surface element in the area of washing machines and dryers, which disappear under it. The orange tone, everywhere, reflects in the steel and serves as a warm counter element to the coldness of the metal. The remaining areas are treated with neutral elements: shiny white tiles -commonly [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Spain
The intervention develops the necessary adaptions to reuse an old abandoned building like a senior residence. We propose a better relation between the garden-courtyard space and the building by itself, and the improvement of the principal access. We facilitate the movements in the parcel with clarity for its users. The access to the hall is [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: Competition, COR-TEN, Spain, Stair
In December, the ‘Jardin Urbain’ Association together with the Town Council of Lausanne announced that Balmori Associates is on the shortlist to create one of twenty-five mobile gardens in Central Lausanne, Switzerland. Selected from a pool of over 400 applicants, Balmori enters the second phase of the competition with the task to re-use an existing [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Dutch Design Week, Floor lamp, Lighting concept, Spain
New Approach: the celebration of geometry as an aesthetic act. The New Approach project was born as a challenge to develop stimulating items with an essentially geometrical system that can be redefined with every new piece. I understand space as a shifting entity. Lines merge to create planes, planes join and become volume, volume changes [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: A-cero, Folding architecture, Spain, Swimming pool
Spanish architectural studio A-Cero recently has completed a detached house in Madrid, Spain. + All images courtesy A-cero
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Floor lamp, Spain
The Spanish designer Alberto Gorgojo presents the IBÉRICO lamp, inspired by one of the most iconic object of the culture of his country, the ham or “jamón serrano”. Manufactured by master craftsman Joaquin García Huertos, the lighting object is comprised of different leathers where the combination of thin goat skin and thick cow hide provides [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Display design, Spain
+Quespacio just finished a new store in the City of Science, Valencia, called Piccino. Piccino is a store that brings kids clothes from Italian brands to the city of Valencia, like Brems and Bimbus. Giving major importance to the clothes exposed in the store, the interior space is left mostly white. However 2 kids, inspired [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: ABIBOO, Spain
House C is raised as an introvert – extrovert element and at the same time rooted to its territory. It is open for visitors but at the same time keeps with wary spaces for privacy and reflection. It has duality in the forms and the global functioning of the building. The house is organized around [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: aceboXalonso, Concrete, Glass, Museum, Spain
This building is the result of a first prize in an open international competition in order to develop two different buildings on one plot. Mixing both programs into a single shape we obtained an strange concrete tree-like shape that contains in its interior the Dance School, and the surrounding space becomes a Museum. Later, this [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: ACXT, ESD design, Green architecture, Lattice screen, Spain, Workplace
The building has an activated load-bearing structure that takes part in the HVAC of the building, a system used in Spain for the first time. The inauguration of the new IDOM corporate office in Madrid took place last Friday 13th of April. Over 900 guests attended the event, including clients, collaborators, top institutional heads and [...]
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