Portugal was born in Guimarães. At least that is what the – modern – inscription on one of its walls says, in allusion to the fact that the first independent Portuguese king, Afonso Henriques, established his court in this town, after defeating the a
On the northwestern edge of the Belfield campus of the University College Dublin, the Urban Institute joins an original collection of mainly 19th century Masonic School buildings – now called Richview – which are loosely organized around a lime tree
In Salmiya, a city in Kuwait’s Hawalli Governorate, stands this 13-floor residential building. It contains 12 duplex apartments and a penthouse on the roof terrace. Working from offices in Madrid and Safat (Kuwait), AGI Architects – Joaquín Pérez-Goi
The site is located in a historical park established in a deep green valley in Osakaʼs Minamikawachi district, well known in Japan as an area containing a cluster of kofun (mounded tombs). The stone arrangements of more than a hundred tombs remain in
In a small town in Ávila province, this dwelling built with local granite surrounds a hundred-year-old walnut tree. To leave its roots and top untouched, the facade curves. The building’s petrous materiality was already present in the property, in a
The project strategy focuses on emptying the interior part of the building and employing the free buildable area in a taller, superimposed volume that creates a balanced triangulation with the two tall emblematic towers on the other sides of the squa
The building engages in a dialogue with its surroundings through strategically positioned windows and the facade’s irregular rows of pieces of local granite and gneiss. The very profound facade is formed by a loadbearing double inner layer, with its
The house is a simple prismatic volume with a square floor plan of 16-meter sides, and each of the four facades is perforated by three windows. The stretches of wall have been constructed with local quartzite stone, and the windows are framed with Ex
The castle of Santa Cruz is a modest building which is part of a series of small forts, watchtowers, and fachos that were erected in the 17th and 18th centuries along the banks of the river Miño as border strongholds. Santa Cruz does not stand out in
The project respects the value of the ancient thermal baths on which it is built, setting the solid, petrous character of the existing in contrast with the lightness of the new; a glass piece that organizes the space between the hotel and the baths.
Inspired by Buddhist mandalas and built with native materials to minimize impact on the environment, the school addresses the area’s geographic and cultural complexity.
El complejo residencial en altura, de 42.000m2 situado en el distrito kuwaití de Jabriya, consta de apartamentos categorías media, alta y lujo según su tamaño, acabados e instalaciones comunes a su servicio. La plaza elevada actúa como área de reunió
The project is based on two essential ideas: the first one springs from the conception of the place and of the building’s process of topographic adaptation; the second entails a sense of efficiency, which in this case has to do as much with the speed
Located at one of the ends of the centralarea of the campus, west of the lecture hall, the construction of the Rector’s building is part of the third phase of the Special Plan for the new development of the As Lagunas-Marcosende University Campus in
After several enlargements since its construction in 1891, the Bank of Spain called a competition in 1978 for the design of the last piece to wrap up its monumental headquarters. At that time the winning project was denied the license from the City C
With a number as the only sign of identity, a trapezoidal plot in a residential area of the Madrid municipality of Pozuelo, west of the capital, is the site chosen to build this house of over 2,000 square meters in extension. The terrain descends alm
The Archbishop Alfonso de Fonseca ordered the construction in 1525 of a hall of residence to accommodate the noble Irishmen that went to Salamanca to study. The building, at scarcely four hundred meters from the main square, was extended in 1558 with
Aside from the atrocities of the Nazi regime, the city of Vienna witnessed in the 15th century a wave of anti-Semitism that ended with the Jewish quarter in 1420 and also with one of the greatest synagogues in Europe. After using the stones of its wa
Las casas se sitúan en un área residencial de reciente trazado en la localidad portuguesa de Vila Real. La morfología del terreno, las condiciones de acceso, la forma del solar y las vistas han sido determinantes en la articulación de los espacios. L
As so many other coastal towns, Vigo found it necessary to transform its harbor in orderto adapt to the new demands of sea traffic and, as a result of this process, a series of docks now fallen into disuse will make it possible to recover the connect
Situado en la punta oeste de la Île Sainte Anne, un enclave de 350 hectáreas entre los dos brazos del Loira a su paso por la ciudad, el nuevo Palacio de Justicia se enfrenta a las arquitecturas históricas del Quai de la Fosse, a las que quedará unido
Tras la reunificación alemana y la caída del muro de Berlín, el futuro de la Potsdamer Platz se confió a la iniciativa privada, buscando devolverle la actividad comercial que tuvo antes de la división en dos mitades de la ciudad. La ordenación de est
Topography and toponymy seem to marry in Finisterre to define a place predestined to be a scene of sorrow. On this cape of the ‘Costa de la Muerte’ (Coast of Death) – where the Romans thought the world to end – a plot of land exposed to the tempests
