Train Store in Ribes de Freser / Sau Taller d’Arquitectura
Architect: Sau Taller d’Arquitectura
Location: Ribes de Freser, Girona, Spain
Lead Architect: Lluís Jordà Sala
Text: Sau Taller d’Arquitectura
Project Area: 1300 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Albert Camps Pla
Multidisciplinary Design Studio / Josep Ferrando + Román Ortega
Architects: Josep Ferrando + Román Ortega
Location: Mallorca 172 baixos, Barcelona, Spain
Photographs: Adriá Goula
Santa Julia House / Josep Ferrando
Architects: Josep Ferrando
Location: Santa Julià, Barcelona, Spain
Structural Engineer: Begoña Cazorla
Construction Arch.: Alfonso Villarreal
Collaborators: Guillem Aloy, Ekain Olaizola, Ferran Laguna
Project Year: 2007
Project Area: 500 sqm
Photographs: Adrià Goula
Palmaret-Alboraya Train Station / Rstudio
Architects: Rstudio
Location: Valencia, Spain
Project Year: 2010
Engineering Management: Seg_Ineco
Landscape Architecture: Alfonso Peris
Photographs: David Frutos
AD Classics: Bac de Roda Bridge / Santiago Calatrava
The Bac de Roda Bridge by Santiago Calatrava marks his first foray into bridge design. Part of a larger development plan in preparation for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, the bridge functions as both a symbolic and physical connection to two previously disjointed districts; Sant Marti and Sant Andreu. More information after the break.
Biscay Statutory Library / IMB Arquitectos
Architects: IMB Arquitectos / Gloria Iriarte, Eduardo Múgica, Agustín de la Brena
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Project Year: 2007
Client: Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, Bizkaiko Foru Aldundia
Project Staff: Pedro Múgica, David Salvador, Mariano Ortega, Josu Iriarte, Gorka Apraiz, Iñigo Barberena, José Luis Olaeta, Felix Aguiriano, Diego Poza, Iban González
Project Consultants: Ingeniería INARGEST (Structure), Javier Mendieta (Air Conditioning)
Main Contractor: UTE Balzola Urazca
Photographs: Åke E:son Lindman
AD Classics: Torre Blancas / Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza
The Torre Blancas is an architectural icon of the Spanish Organicism movement. Designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza and completed in 1969, this exposed concrete tower rises 71 meters above the Madrid skyline. It also stands as one the most complicated and innovative reinforced concrete structures of the era, absent of the typical rectilinear qualities associated with cast-in-place concrete. More details after the break.
AD Classics: Puerta de Europa / Philip Johnson & John Burgee
The twin office towers known as Puerta de Europa I and II located in Madrid, Spain defy the typical conventions of skyscraper construction. Designed by American architects Philip Johnson & John Burgee and commissioned by the Kuwait Investment Office (KIO), these structural expressionistic towers straddle one of Madrid’s most important boulevards – the Paseo de la Castellana. More details after the break.
Pablo Serrano Museum / José Manuel Pérez Latorre
Wojtek Gurak, a friend of ArchDaily and photographer, recently shared with us his photographs of the Pablo Serrano Museum in Zaragoza, Spain. The expansion of the Museum, designed by José Manuel Pérez Latorre, was completed in March of this year. The expansion triples the size of the original museum that opened in 1994. Check out more photos after the break.
House at León / ALARCÓN + ASOCIADOS
Architects: Alarcón + Asociados / Alberto Alarcón
Location: León, Spain
Collaborators: Sara Rojo, Carlos Tomás, Clara García, Heloise
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 310 sqm
Photographs: Pablo Cruz, Alberto Alarcón
New Film Theatre of Catalonia / Mateo Arquitectura
Architects: Mateo Arquitetura / Josep Lluís Mateo
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Client: ICIC (Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals)
Structural Engineering: BOMA, Agustí Obiol
Installations Engineering: Grupo JG
Project Area: 7,515 sqm
Photographs: Adrià Goula
Hemeroscopium House / Ensamble Studio
Architects: Ensamble Studio
Location: Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain
Principal in Charge: Antón García- Abril
Collaborators: Elena Pérez, Débora Mesa, Jorge Consuegra, Marina Otero, Ricardo Sanz
Technical Architect: Javier Cuesta
Promotor: Hemeroscopium
Contractor: Materia Inorgánica
Project year: 2005-2008
Constructed Area: 400 sqm
Photographs: Ensamble Studio
Interpretation and Visitors Center / VAUMM Architects
VAUMM architects shared with us their proposal for the Interpretation and Visitors Center of the Technology Development Plant for Co2 Geological Storage. The Energy City Foundation plans to build an Interpretation Center to publicize the project of Geological Storage of CO2, a new project which is one of the main mechanisms in the fight against global climate change. It is intended that after visiting the Center, people have learned how Co2 affects the planet, the solutions that arise, the reasons for storing CO2 and overall operation of the Co2 Storage Plant at Hontomín, Burgos and also has experienced the feeling of having been inside the earth and having watched direct injection of CO2. More images and architects’ description after the break.
International LEAF Awards 2011: Diagonal 00 Telefonica Tower designated Best Commercial Building of the Year
Diagonal 00 Telefonica Tower in Barcelona, designed by the architect Enric Massip-Bosch_EMBA and developed by Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona, has been awarded the LEAF PRIZE 2011 for Best Commercial Building of the Year.
LEAF AWARDS are one of the most prestigious international yearly architecture prizes. The best practices around the world compete in the different categories of these coveted awards with their most significant projects.
Diagonal 00 Telefonica Tower has been chosen as the best commercial building of the year among a selected group of shortlisted international projects. Developed by Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona, the tower hosts since January this year the headquarters of Telefonica Group in Catalonia and its R+D Center, a world leader in multimedia and internet research, reflecting the multinational’s focus on innovation.
Diagonal 00 Telefonica Tower is a 86 million Euro investment by Consorci de la Zona Franca and is a clear example of Consorci’s and Telefonica’s decided goal towards architectonic and technological excellence. The building hosts in it’s 24 floors the corporate activity of the multinational in Catalonia and has a 350 seats lecture hall . It is also the first such corporate building to be opened to the public, since it has a permanent showroom on the ground floor open to the public in which the latest advances in technology are displayed.
House in Cadiz / Alfonso Alzugaray + Carlos Urzainqui
Architects: Alfonso Alzugaray + Carlos Urzainqui
Location: Cadiz, Spain
Collaborators: Leire Leoz y Jesús Ramírez
Project Year: 2008
Project Area: 640 sqm
Photographs: Iñaki Bergera
Barcelona Ecological Center / XV Studio
The Barcelona Ecological Center (BEC) is a proposal of XV Studio about the future of the Bullfight Plaza ‘Monumental’ in Barcelona, Spain. The concept is radical: Transforming the bullring into a center of research and leisure regarding to environmentally friendly activities, especially the ones that respect and take care of animals. In other words, to use all the elements that already exist now in the ring to be reused in the opposite way. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Multifunctional Center and Development of the Natural Environment / Bordallo y Carrasco Arquitectos
While these are two separate projects, they are connected through a common concept. From the understanding of the location as a big natural park surrounded by the city of Yecla, it derives an intervention strategy with a main gaol: To achieve the introduction of the activity with no impact, building a new symbiotic relationship where the man inhabits the forest without violence and the landscape obtains usability. After visiting the location we stated that the best option is an intervention without transforming the forest, keeping a responsible intervention strategy, respecting the forest and avoiding big earthworks which may break the continuity of the vegetation cover and natural cycles.
Barret 001 Hotel Proposal / Comac
Should the Bohemian hotel be a vertical tower of 100 meter high? Or 100 meters long? Given the nature of the site, located in the gothic area, Comac proposed a horizontal design in the Plaza del Angels in front of the MACBA. Barret 001 is based on two fundamental principles: Firstly, to offer quality of life, enjoying the richness of the site by creating a public space and a sky floor over the Gothic area. The second objective is to create a shadow on the Plaza del Angels known for its burning heat. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Guerrero house / Alberto Campo Baeza
Architects: Alberto Campo Baeza
Location: Cadiz, Spain
Collaborators: Ignacio Aguirre, Miguel Vela
Project Year: 2005
Project Area: 170 sqm, 400 sqm with Patios
Photographs: Roland Halbe
Casanueva Pharmacy / Clavel Arquitectos
Architects: Clavel Arquitectos
Location: Murcia, Spain
Project Year: 2010
Construction Company: VILARIA INTERIORISMO Y EDIFICACIÓN S.L.
Collaborators: Robin Harloff, Mauricio Méndez Bustos, David Hernández Conesa
Project Area: 180.18 sqm
Photographs: David Frutos Ruiz
Bilbao City Hall / IMB Arquitectos
Architect: IMB Arquitectos
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Project Team: Gloria Iriate, Eduardo Mugica, Agustin de la Brena
Collaborates: Berndt Nischt, Iker Gandarias, Almudena Fernandez, Leyre de Lecea, Anartz Ormaza, Maite Eizagirre
Work Inspection: Iban Gonzalez, Ana Ruiz, Jose Luis Castellanos
Structure Consultant: NB 35 SA
Structure: Tauxme SA
Installations: Ingenieria NIPSA SA
Contractor: UTE Exbasa Amenabar
Photographs: Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre
