The library is conceived as a gate of access to the Jardines de la Agricultura (Agriculture Gardens), which it joins and becomes part of. In order to adapt to the historic layout of the 18th century gardens and to respect the existing trees, the buil
The proposal wishes to blend with the chapel and the Clotet building to create a unitary ensemble, generating with its facade a representative space that shows the activity taking place in the museum and connects it with the plaza and the Meier build
The second phase of the Helga de Alvear Museum of Contemporary Art aims to create an efficient and versatile cultural hub with a clear and balanced image. A simple and recognizable volume, from a formal and structural point of view, that establishes
The new cloister functions as a topographical link with the garden, accentuating its greenery by creating a new forest of columns that extends and connects with the museum; outside, stairs, platforms, and ramps guide visitors towards the entrance...
The complex features of the site – with a fragment of the medieval Marinid city –, the compactness of Ceuta, and the deep slope called for a proposal with a unifying character. The architecture is born from the place, offering one reading in spite of
The historic building dates from 1884, but was extended gradually in the 1920s and 1970s until Rafael Moneo ‘wrapped up’ the block in 2006. Paredes Pedrosa have intervened several times since 1986, when they converted the Cibeles corner into an exhib
The 18th century farmhouse was the only building in a landscape of vineyards and olive groves, and it had to be adapted to accommodate a center devoted to wine culture. The farmhouse is thus extended with a new volume with a four-point star shape. Th
The project assesses the character that a housing scheme of this kind must have, and how it must relate to the urban landscape, to the park, and to the roads around it. The task is not just to comply with social housing requirements, but also to stud
The seafront location of the site by the Castle of Peñíscola determined both the design and the purpose of this cultural building. The premise was the desire to link all the interior spaces to the park and the sea, so the building displays a continuo
The Olympia Theater is a vertex on Lavapiés square. Leaning on party walls, the concrete volumes into which it is fragmented adapt to the site’s triangular geometry and retract from the square, enlarging it. The glazed facades are transparent towards
Located on the border of the Madrid region, Valdemaqueda is immersed amid pine groves on a hillside facing south. The road crosses the municipality of dispersed houses, and on the town square – formerly just a widened stretch of the road – stands Tow
The location is a plot that was originally occupied by three small dwellings embedded in the old wall of the castle of Oropesa, a town in the central Spanish province of Toledo, and serving as a nexus between the castle and the Church of Our Lady of
Winner in a competition held in the year 2008, the project for the new auditorium of Lugo, a representative building south of the historic center of the city and very close to the River Miño, is set forth as an urban facade, a mirador onto Magoi aven
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
In the project designed to protect the archaeological site of La Olmeda, ancient times coexist with modernity and architecture is set in contrast with the landscape. These concepts wish to make visitors aware of the unitary character that these fragm
Founded as cultural institution in 1933, the Archaeological Museum has changed site and name on several occasions in the course of the past century. Its final location in what used to be the Colegio Menor Santa María del Mar was followed by several e
El madrileño distrito de Arganzuela, de larga tradición industrial, se ha transformado profundamente en los últimos años. Las fábricas han sido sustituidas por manzanas residenciales y sólo algunas se han recuperado como contenedores con personalidad
