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The Paraguayan firm TDA has won first place in the design competition for the administrative headquarters of the Banco Nacional de Fomento (BNF) in the historic center of Asunción, the capital of Paraguay. The 9,000-square-meter facility will consolidate into a single location the five offices where 300 employees currently work, including a customer service center.

As previously reported by the BNF, the existing building known as Villa Adelara, declared an architectural heritage site of the city, will be converted into a cultural center. According to the organizers, this aims to turn the new project into a "revitalizing element of the Historic Center of Asunción, in line with the principles established in the Master Plan for the Historic Center of Asunción (Plan CHA)."

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The firm Jaramillo van Sluys Arquitectura + Urbanismo has won the design competition for a new project in the historic center of Quito, Ecuador. Named Edificio Iquique, the residential development features three different unit types—ranging from 52 to 118 square meters—all of which include at least one private outdoor space. 

"We interpret housing as the primary space for socialization among the diverse family structures that inhabit it, each with different ways of living and coexisting," explain the designers of the winning proposal. "Therefore, transitional spaces between public and private realms are incorporated to foster encounter and interaction among residents and the surrounding neighborhood, emphasizing the creation of social networks," they add.

The team comprising Cesidio García del Río, Alberto Martín González, and Cesidio del Río Mayor has been awarded first place in the international urban design competition to remodel the Plaza de los Misterios in Madrid. The project is part of one of the 11 simultaneous competitions to remodel public squares in the outskirts of the Spanish capital, organized by the City Council's Department of Sustainable Urban Development, alongside the Official Association of Architects of Madrid (COAM).

According to the designers, the proposal "offers a solution to the noise and stress caused by the transit hub. An inclined green platform, positioned over the current flow of traffic, will screen the motor-dominated landscape and connect the square with the forgotten city: the treetops and their visual connection to the rich flora of the neighborhood."