Browsing Tag »Spain«
→ November 26, 2009
David Chipperfield Architects’ 2002 winning project Barcelona & L’Hospitalet de Llobregat City of Justice has been recently completed, it has been programmed into 9 buildings with the total GFA of 240,000 square metre, four of the buildings house courtroom, office spaces and are linked by a continuous four-storey high concourse building.
The principal proposition of the [...]
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Tags: Concrete, David Chipperfield, Law courts, Spain
→ November 22, 2009
Madrid-based architectural firm Moneo Brock Studio has designed the Termas de Tiberio project to accommodate the thermal baths in Panticosa, Spain.
+ Project description courtesy of Moneo Brock Studio
Our project for a new building to house the thermal baths clearly attempts to reinterpret the thermal tradition at Panticosa. The Balneario had developed in the [...]
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Tags: Concrete, Moneo Brock Studio, Spa, Spain, Swimming pool
→ November 17, 2009
Gar_Anat Pilgrim’s hotel in Granada, is an interior design project in restoring the old building designed by Spanish architect Francisco J. del Corral del Campo.
+ Project description courtesy of Francisco J. del Corral del Campo
Dear Traveller,
Welcome to Gar_Anat, Pilgrim’s hotel, gate to the world of your imagination.
ABOUT the INTERVENTION
It takes place on a restored building [...]
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Tags: Europen architecture, Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff, Refurbishment, Spain
→ November 15, 2009
Spanish architect Jordi Badia, founder of BAAS architects has designed the Can Framis Museum located in the 22@ District, Barcelona. The project consists in restoring the two current factory buildings which are connected by a new linear block. A new courtyard therefore is formed to define an entry plaza to the project.
With “Can Framis” we [...]
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Tags: BAAS architects, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Museum, Spain
→ November 13, 2009
Spanish architect Francisco Mangado recently has completed the Avila Congress and Exhibitions Municipal Centre located in Ávila, Spain. The project was inspired by the nature of landscape, it was designed as a sculpture carved out of the terrain.
The project combines two different geometries: the most orthogonal and elongated space contains the auditoriums and main halls, [...]
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Tags: Exhibition, Folding architecture, Francisco Mangado, Landscape architecture, Spain, Stone
→ October 16, 2009
The spanish architecture firm A-cero has won the competition in Murcia, Spain. The centre is designed to be part of landscape, attempts to blur the boundary between the building and landscape.
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The architecture Studio A-cero that directs Joaquín Torres has gained the project contest for the creation of a building that [...]
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Tags: A-cero, Landscape architecture, Spain
→ October 3, 2009
Spanish architect Francisco J. del Corral del Campo recently has completed the semi-detached house – House Zafiro located in Huetor – Vega, Granada, Spain.
Next to the low-lands (Vega) of Granada, still a rural zone with spread constructions, we propose a volumetric disintegration as an answer to the compact volumes of the new housing placed on [...]
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Tags: Concrete, Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff, Spain, Swimming pool, Timber
→ September 27, 2009
Architect Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff have designed the Public Space for Events Forum de Negocios located in Granada, Spain.
Our landscape carpet tries to create a new reality to dialogue with the existing one instead of using other camouflage strategy.
Francisco J. del Corral del Campo
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Tags: Francisco J. del Corral & Federico Wulff, Landscape architecture, Spain
→ September 20, 2009
Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has designed the Andalucia’s Museum of Memory located in Granada. A very good attempt of creating the interesting spatial experience through an elliptic central court which is designed to connect 3 levels spaces via the featured circular ramp.
The new building, silent in its forms, is resounding in its elements to [...]
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Tags: Alberto Campo Baeza, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Europen architecture, Museum, Ramp, Spain
→ September 10, 2009
Spanish architecture studio AH Asociados in collaboration with Kengo Kuma & Associates have won the design competition of the Performing Arts Centre for Granada located in Spain.
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Granatum - A building that evokes the structure of a symbolic fruit for Granada. A geometry inspired on the nature. The honeycomb [...]
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Tags: AH Asociados, Europen architecture, Kengo Kuma, Performing Arts Center, Spain
→ September 7, 2009
Spain-based Rafael de La-Hoz Architects has designed the Rafael del Pino Auditorium Building next to Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana. The facade of the building stands out for its metallic arboreal structure that supports the structure of the building on both sides.
“It is about transforming a garden into an inhabited garden”
Rafael de La-Hoz Architects
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Tags: Glass, Rafael de La-Hoz Architects, Spain
→ September 5, 2009
Distrito C, Telefónica’s Headquarters is a largest European corporate project designed by Spanish practice Rafael de La-Hoz Architects.
Distrito C also represents the first private open European space. The campus is open 24 hours a day, all year long, for anyone to visit… Conceptually, an environmental canopy or roof is laid out between these cubes, to [...]
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Tags: Courtyard architecture, Europen architecture, Glass, Rafael de La-Hoz Architects, Skin, Spain
→ August 15, 2009
Museum of Archeology in Vitoria is a competition-winning project designed by Spanish architect Francisco Mangado.
We like to think of an archaeology museum as a compact jewel box concealing the treasure that history has entrusted to us piece by piece. But not any kind of history, or at least not the scientific history of [...]
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Tags: Francisco Mangado, Minimalism, Museum, Spain, Steel
→ August 14, 2009
Spanish architect Jon Tugores recently has designed a new contemporary church located in Barcelona, Spain. 2 distinct glass boxes designed to symbolize between the city and the sky.
+ Project description courtesy of Jon Tugores
Designing the project of a church without using traditional and rhetorical arguments that are easily understood by the public, was our first [...]
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Tags: Glass, Jon Tugores, Religous architecture, Spain