In 1961, on the eastern tip of Iberia Peninsula, Cap de Creus cape, one the windiest and most northern exposed corner of our geography, Club Med constructed a privative holiday village with 430 buildings to receive around 900 visitors 3 months a year. The urbanization project it is considered as one of the most notorious [...]
Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura designed the Musical School in Bilbao, Spain. The new Conservatory of Bilbao is located on an exempt city block in the neighbourhood of Deusto, where it coexists with an important Metro station whose glass shell stands out ostensibly. Because of the possibility of an intervention on all of the surrounding space, the [...]
The Sancho el Sabio Foundation, dating from 1964, is the main documentation and investigation centre of Basque culture and history. Designed by Spaish firm Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura, the proposal involves the recovery of a former cemetery and based on that, the development of the remaining building. Because the programme contemplates important storage spaces, it was [...]
Spanish firm Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura has recently completed Krea Art Centre in Spain. The solution proposed for the Art Centre is basically articulated around a dialogue between the old convent and the new building. A building-corridor winds next to the old building and goes over it to end up inside the cloister. It is conceived [...]
Shared by Hugon Kowalski of UGO architecture & design, HGO proposed this Barcelona Rock hostel for Barcelona 2011 Bohemian Hostel for Backpackers international competition. For this competition consisted of designing a 100 tall tower -hostel that includes relaxation areas, stores, cafe and at the same time creates a new landmark in the city of Barcelona. [...]
OOIIO Architecture recently has dsigned a villa project “Casa 2xS“. The “Casa 2xS” is a house placed on the urban limit of Mora, an olive-producing town in the centre of Spain. This particular condition of the site, the border between the urban and the nearby countryside landscape, defines the starting point for the project. In the [...]
Díaz y Díaz Arquitectos has designed a family house in Perbes-Miño. The dwelling is located in the highest zone of the plot, to take maximum advantage of the excellent views and to set back, as far as possible, respect to the street. The entrance porch is in the left side of the front of the [...]
Inside: The World Festival of Interiors, is the sister event to the Barcelona’s World Architecture Festival launched in 2008. WAF Awards Interiors and Fit Out category evolves into new interiors festival and awards programme WAF delegates gain free entry to sister event INSIDE: World Festival of Interiors CCIB, Barcelona 2-3 November 2011 The World Architecture [...]
In Spain, Jesús Torres Architect designed the Las Negras Waterfront in Cabo de Gata Natural Park, Almería. We are particularly interested in the architecture of supports, or elements open to uses with the capacity to include wishes, activities and creativity of public interest and which, at the same time, are related to the control of [...]
In Barcelona, SPAIN, although municipal regulations make building on Montjuic – the mountain between the city and the sea – almost impossible, the Barcelona municipality is nonetheless keen to incorporate this green area into the city’s leisure network. The only way to do so is by re-using and revitalizing existing structures in order to give [...]
Faculty of Business studies of Mondragon University is the recent completed project by Spanish architectural firm Hoz Fontan Arquitectos. The university required a space in which to impart regulated and continuous education, lodge the administration’s office, a library and the assembly room. The building meets all these requirements divided in four volumes. The first three [...]
The exhibition Francisco Mangado Architect will be on view in the Juana Mordó Hall of Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Circle) from February 22 to April 10, 2011. Through models of building projects and digital representations of interior fixtures and urban furniture pieces, the show presents a large part of the Navarrese’s output [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
