Fran Silvestre Arquitectos   Spain   Adapting to a very pronounced slope, this residence hovering over the ground is located in Zahara de los Atunes, a village belonging to the municipality of Barbate, in the southern Spanish province of Cádiz. The grayish base, which visually connects

OOOA Arquitectos   Spain   Part of the plan to modernize the Bay of Gibraltar Campus of the University of Cádiz (UCA) is this library with an abstract skin of perforated aluminum that dissipates solar overheating. Rather than functioning as a university service exclusively, it

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The project ‘Between Cathedrals’ sought to carry out an intervention worthy of the most significant location in the history of Cadiz, the oldest city of the West: the empty space between the Old and New Cathedrals, facing the sea. The objectives were

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The proposed scheme articulates the natural landscape and stresses its value. An architecture of white walls along a north-south axis offers shade in summer on the northern side and winter sun on the southern side... 

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   This building, with its striking white facade looking seaward, is conceived as a continuation of the long, extensive walls of the old ‘maritime’ cemetery of Cádiz. The project works on the full volume, which mends the urban fabric within the limits m

BIA architects   Spain   Refurbished following a design that respects its history and unique location, the old tide mill of El Caño in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) is home now to one of the finest restaurants on the Andalusian coast. 

Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas   Spain   The project involved enlarging a house built by the Americans in the vicinity of the US military base at Rota, on the coast of the southern Spanish province of Cádiz. The urban development it is located in responds to a typically Anglo-Saxon set of t

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   In a marvelous place, a piece of earthly paradise, we have built an infinte plane facing the infinite sea, the most radical house we have ever made. Facing the Atlantic Ocean, on the very water’s edge on a beach of Cádiz, not far from the ruins of Bo

Sol89   Spain   To build in the voids of the historic city means settling into them, finding space in the openings and porous areas that have taken shape over time. The early 19th-century architecture of the old slaughterhouse of Medina Sidonia is made up of a dense

Miguel Bretones del Pozo Julia González Pérez-Blanco   Spain   Located up high on the Paseo de la Alameda, the building has a vantage position within the city center, from which it enjoys views of the whole promenade and of the fishing port of Tarifa. The plot has a slightly uneven shape with two clearly differe

Matos Castillo   Spain   With a core of vertical communication in each building, the dwellings are perpendicular to the corridor. The flexible character of the spaces is achieved through a series of sliding doors and panels… 

Rafael de La Hoz   Spain   The project springs from the decision to build two towers instead of one, as the client requested, because with the height limit of 100 meters and a floor plan area of 1,000 square meters, when reducing the floor plan by half the slenderness ratio im

MGM Arquitectos   Spain   En el barrio del Pópulo de Cádiz, junto a la Catedral Nueva, existe una antigua casa-palacio en la que diversas familias vivían hacinadas en unas inadecuadas condiciones de habitabilidad. El objetivo del proyecto ha sido reubicar de forma digna a los

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The Cádiz countryside provides the setting for this abstract volume, a box measuring 33x18x8 meters and formed by four pristine white surfaces that look like canvasses clean and prepared for a work of art. However, perhaps what increases the tension

MGM Arquitectos   Spain   La biblioteca se concibe en estrecha relación con el parque longitudinal anejo. Su disposición en planta, que induce al visitante hacia la entrada y lo abraza, sirve también como cierre edificado del jardín, proporcionando un agradable espacio en som

Herzog & de Meuron   Spain   Today there is an empty lot in the traditional, homogeneous and perfect space of the city, and on this empty lot there is a little forest growing naturally, as if by chance. What should be done? The empty space is with its trees very attractive, but

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Spain   In the area of enlargement west of the urban center of Rota – on the road leading to the Puerto de Santa María –, this building of state-subsidized housing goes up adjusting its alignments to the edges of an orthogonal plot. But in front of this clo

Antonio Martínez García Juan Luis Trillo de Leyva   Spain   In the 17th century, the Augustinian order occupied a block outside the San Miguel quarter, that up to then had accommodated the hospital Nuestra Señora de Santa María. This change from a sanitary to a religious use was repeated at the beginning of t

Javier Terrados   Spain   In the coast of Cádiz, the urban center of Conil preserves a pattern of close-knit streets and small courtyards where the frontier between public and private realms fades. Some of these streets become galleries when the night falls: the neighbors clo

Tomás Carranza   Spain   Un análisis de la realidad construida —local en planta baja y fuera del centro histórico—permite identificar fácilmente los mecanismos para abordar el proyecto, el principal de los cuales es la conciliación de conflictos. Era preciso dotar de un sent

Jesús Orúe Pedro Ledo Germán López Mena   Spain   El colegio se emplaza en la manzana destinada a uso docente del Plan Parcial Sector D de Conil de la Frontera, en la zona de crecimiento al norte de la ciudad. El solar, de unos 8.000 metros cuadrados de superficie, tiene forma de triángulo rectángul

Miguel Fisac   Spain   Formed by pavilions designed in several phases, the Garvey winery complex was raised on a plot amongst vineyards in the north of the city, by the road that joins Madrid and Cádiz. A garden that was not completely finished links up the different piece

Pico & López   Spain   The settlement of Doña Blanca was one of the projects that the Instituto Nacional de Colonización (Land Settlement Institute) developed in the seventies with the objective of consolidating the agricultural exploitation of the marshlands of the river

Titled 'The Spanish language, mixing, and interculturalism,' the 9th Spanish Language International Congress in Cádiz took place from 27 to 30 March 2023. Organized every three years by the Cervantes Institute and the Royal Spanish Academy in collabo

Joaquín Ibáñez   Estamos en año de aniversario gaditano. En ese marco, esta publicación va a ayudar, sin duda, a una mejor comprensión de sus contenidos; fruto de una exposición que han coordinado sus propios autores, no sólo es pertinente sino que es ambiciosa. Sus

Revitalizar los cascos históricos a partir de pequeñas intervenciones respetuosas con el entorno es una de las estrategias más exitosas que plantea el urbanismo contemporáneo. Esta sensibilidad inspira el proyecto de Diego Brieva y Carlos Violadé (Be

Eduardo Mosquera   Víctor Pérez Escolano   M.ª Teresa Pérez Cano   El regionalismo en arquitectura adquiere en nuestros días un interés nuevo. Los condicionantes económicos, los sistemas constructivos tradicionales, la morfología urbana y las permanencias tipológicas, aspectos, todos ellos, desarrollados por la cult

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