Luis Fernández-Galiano   Fermín Vázquez and b720 have moved from Descartes to Stanislavski. Their foundational basis on the Cartesian methodic doubt, examining each commission from the objectivity of the information available, has gradually become the acting method of the Ru

Fermín Vázquez   Architects are seen as professionals with a unique confidence in their own criteria; and not only when it comes to interpreting the circumstances in which they operate but when anticipating those to come. Going over the projects of the studio feature

Richard Ingersoll   Most contemporary architects need to make a name for themselves before they can gain the sort of commissions that will demonstrate their ability. Fermín Vázquez from the outset was not very keen on spreading his name and instead chose a seemingly arb

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The radical transformation of this 1950’s office building is primarily aimed at improving its usage and thoroughly updating its features. The original anodyne building – set between party walls, with serious structural issues – is renovated by means

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   This slender office block for Indra, an information technology corporation, is located in Barcelona’s 22@ sector. It contains 13 above-grade floors and two basement levels. The first three levels form a plinth-like base, above which a ten-storey rhom

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   A plot located amid the recently opened Del Prat Golf Club and the park of Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac, in Barcelona, provides the site for this new hotel complex with 186 rooms and complementary services such as restaurants, meeting rooms, confer

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   Plaza del Torico, the core of Teruel’s old district, fulfills a dual role as a distribution space for pedestrian flows and a precinct for citizen leisure. The redevelopment operation is used to delicately superimpose a thin contemporary layer on the

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The construction of a large leisure facility like this casino entails the need to distribute – in a single building – the services and uses associated with the gambling areas, restaurant, kitchens, car park, conference hall, and facilities. The proje

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The underlying strategy of this operation is to merge the three programmes – a terminal building, a control tower, and two workshops – with a single formal gesture that manages to avoid appearing as a strange artefact landed on the fields and maintai

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   Barcelona’s Mercat Fira de Bellcaire, popularly known as Mercat dels Encants Vells, is one of the oldest markets in Europe (some references date its origin back to the 14th century). Though in the past it was organized informally outdoors on the stre

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   This excess of formal and volumetric resources of the houses in the area – a luxury housing estate north-west of Madrid – and the owner’s discretion propitiated the proposal of a simple geometry and a limited number of building materials. Only a draw

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Brazil   The envelope of ceramic pieces rendered in a variety of colors does much to give the building a personality of its own in the urban fabric, while distinguishing each apartment unit. The 25-floor tower is located in Itaim Bibi, a São Paulo neighborhoo

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The Ibermutuamur Integral Service Center is inserted as an efficient, compact, modulated, and consistent health facility. It is designed as a hinge element between the new road grid on the Prado de la Vega housing estate and the green area alongside

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Italy   A good part of the success of Spain’s agricultural production can be attributed to a combination of tradition and innovation: that is the argument proposed at the Spanish Pavilion, illustrated by way of siamese gable-roof sheds, with a markedly elong

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   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

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The Lycée Français has two centers in the city: the main campus in Pedralbes and another one for preschool in the Bonanova neighborhood. The renovation of the preschool building – which had undergone several alterations over the years, resulting in t

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   As part of a sensitive programme of urban regeneration, the project refurbishes and adapts the emblematic Telefónica building, in the center of Madrid. The intervention covers everything from the reconfiguration of interior spaces, circulation cores,

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The Germina Foundation is a non-profit institution dedicated to integration and complementary learning experiences for children at risk of social exclusion. Since its creation in the year 2004, the institution has grown and extended its activity, and

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   This small residential block on a gap site in the heart of Madrid’s old town conceals behind its modest outward appearance an ambitious approach to sustainable construction. The building integrates naturally into the urban fabric thanks to its size a

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The project to remodel the old headquarters of Páginas Amarillas (phone book company) in the Hortaleza district, in northern Madrid, proposed a deep and radical transformation of the existing building. The new one had to be an efficient, representati

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The project, situated on a plot in the Poblenou district of Barcelona formerly part of the extensive jute works popularly known as El Cànem, preserves the original facade on Doctor Trueta street, which is listed in the Architectural Heritage Protecti