In opposition to the paradigm of the light, the portable, and the obsolescent, the lessons of mass and inertia offer an alternative aesthetic: that of the heavy, the fixed, and the lasting.
Descollando del perfil bajo de su entorno, el escultórico volumen de hormigón armado tan sólo se matiza mediante huecos de escala aparentemente ciclópea y profundos para protegerse de la radiación solar.
Gracias a su única hoja monolítica de hormigón armado especial, los muros de este edificio pueden regular de manera pasiva las condiciones higrotérmicas del interior.
Los muros masivos y los huecos controlados mantienen estable la temperatura interior de este edificio sin necesidad de calefacción, refrigeración o ventilación mecánicas.
Located in a half-agricultural and half-industrial landscape, this building for the company Ricola annually processes nearly 1.5 million kilograms of fresh herbs as ingredients for its cough drops and breath mints. The herbs have to be dried, mixed,
Dry-assembled and as much as forty centimeters thick, the walls of local stone of these social housing units are in possession of a great thermal inertia.
Ivorypress presents the first solo exhibition in Spain of the architect and artist who designed the mythical Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
A major exhibition at the ICO Museum in Madrid presents Juan Navarro Baldeweg’s architecture in the light of his recurring artistic themes.
Glass was the material of the 20th century and will probably also be that of the 21st. The success of glass is said to lie in its transparency and consequent immateriality, but I would say it is gloss, the shine, that captivates us. A glass building
Located in the middle of Hamburg’s HafenCity, the Elbphilharmonie marks a location that was known to the public but not really accessible, and that will now become a center of social, cultural and daily life both for locals and visitors. The site is
This office tower presenting a vertical prism of twenty floors and a plinth of five, connected to each other by an ensemble of four overbridges, is one of the architectural landmarks of the new business district of Zurich, an up to now predominantly
Since 2006, the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation has strived to preserve and promote the legacy of The Pathé Company, started producing films 120 years ago. With an area of 2,220 square meters, the foundation is located on the former Théàtre des Gobel
Totally artisanal, the 6,000 solid blocks of strained glass that form the facade were perforated with a blowtorch and inserted through auxiliary pieces of steel in 74 tensors hung from an upper beam.
From afar the Markthal built by MVRDV in Rotterdam might suggest a kind of arch of triumph, a monument of the magnitude of the Baths of Caracalla. But this is just a mirage. As the visitor approaches the central eye of the building, the impression it
Norman Foster is the first recipient of the BIA Award of Bilbao Bizkaia Architecture, a platform recently created by the Basque Country and Navarre Institute of Architects. The prize acknowledges the role that the Metro of Bilbao has played in regene
It is very likely that Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano are currently the most international partners of Spanish architecture. From offices set up in Madrid and Berlin, their practice operates like a perfectly well-oiled machine, one capable. mor
The commission for the Museum of the University of Navarre in Pamplona, which Rafael Moneo has recently finished, was an indirect one. When a decade ago the art collector María Josefa Huarte Beaumont – daughter of the construction magnate and politic
The Irish partners Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey have received the RIBA Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious of architectural prizes. Given yearly since 1848 by the Royal Institute of British Architects, in representation of the British monar
At the age of 76, Antonio Díaz del Bo died in Madrid, the city he came to in 1988 to live a good part of his career. Born in Buenos Aires, Tony Díaz graduated in 1964 and moved first to Italy and then to London, where he took up urban planning. His b
The architect José Ignacio Linazasoro joins the list of winners, including Rafael Moneo and David Chipperfield, of the Piranesi Prix de Rome, an award sponsored by the Accademia Arianea, the Ordine degli Architetti de Roma, and the Casa dell’Architet
After more than three decades of professional practice, João Álvaro Rocha passed away in the city of Porto at the age of 55. A key figure of Portuguese architecture, Rocha is known, above all, for his three stations of the Porto metro, although the b
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