The Wild Beast / Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture

Architects: Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture
Locations: Valencia, California, USA
Client: California Institute of the Arts
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 3,500 sqf
Photographs: Tom Bonner
Seniors Residence and San José Chapel / Peñín Architects

Architects: Peñín Architects
Location: Valencia, Spain
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 12,362 sqm
Photographs: Diego Opazo
State Reference Center for Mental Care / Peñín Architects

Architects: Peñín Architects / Alberto Peñín Llobell, Pablo Peñín Llobell, Alberto Peñín Ibáñez
Location: Valencia, Spain
Client: IMSERSO, Government of Spain
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 12,362 sqm
Photographs: Diego Opazo
Parc Central Social Housing Building / OAB + Peñín Architects

Architects: OAB + Peñín Architects
Location: Valencia, Spain
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 24,022 sqm
Photographs: Diego Opazo
Habitat Make Us Blind / EspaiMGR

The Spanish duo of Bernat Ivars and Manuel Lopez of EspaiMGR has shared their latest work, Habitat Make Us Blind, a series examining the potential of reprogramming vacant lots in downtown Valencia. Further text describing the project and more images are available after the break.
Valencia Parque Central Proposal / West 8

Rotterdam-based office for urban design and landscape architecture West 8, in collaboration with Sener & Gestec, have designed this entry for the Valencia Central Park Competition. Their proposal achieved a place on the competition shortlist. The design presented here is a concept for Parque Central inspired by the Valencian tradition of solid narrative and poetry.
More images and description of the project after the break.
Munich Fractal Arena / Dear design

MUNICH, the fashion and sports footwear firm, opened its second boutique in Valencia. Designed by Dear design, the store focuses on exhibiting the brand’s shoes while immersing visitors into a stadium type space flooded with light, framed by a hanging metal structure.
Architects: Dear design
Location: Valencia, Spain
Photographs: Xavier Mañosa
House Built Into The City / Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Architects: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Location: Valencia, Spain
Collaborators: Dos Interiorismo (kitchen design), José Angel Ruiz Millo ı Architecture, Jose Vicente Miguel Lopez ı Architecture
Interior Design: Alfaro Hofmann
Project area: 295 sqm
Photographs: Diego Opazo
Les Carolines Playground and Dinning Room / Pablo Ribera Pons & Joseán Vilar Pons

Architects: Pablo Ribera Pons & Joseán Vilar Pons
Location: C/ Morera 5, urb Lloma de la Verge, Picassent (Valencia), Spain
Collaborators: Uno Uno arquitectos
Promotor: Escola les Carolines S.Coop.V.
Project Date: August 2006 – September 2008
Cost: 1,750,000€
Construction Area: 1,711 m2
Photography: Fernando Alda
























