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Comprehensive Renovation in Sagasta II / Ábaton

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:30:24 +0000

Preserving the original charm - In this renovation project, we intervened in an iconic 1920's building, maintaining the spirit of its original architecture. With 319 m² and ceilings of 3.3 meters high, the objective was to respect the distinctive elements of the period, highlighting them and adapting the distribution to a current lifestyle. The spaces were rethought to gain in spaciousness and functionality, prioritizing the connection of compatible environments in open areas.

AF Project / Ábaton

Cristina Popescu — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:30:24 +0000

This project is a benchmark in our urban residential architecture and the ÁBATON way of life. A project that adapts to its surroundings and encourages the connection of its inhabitants. The architecture is generated as part of the previous composition of the plot, with a valuable oak tree grove that marked the layout of the architectural volumes to integrate them as a whole.

CH Project / Ábaton

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:30:24 +0000

The layout of this new building in Madrid is transformed into a story of light and connection. In order to enhance the public spaces, the living room and kitchen take center stage, while a semi‑hidden access leads to the more private areas. The kitchen becomes a place of connection, the point where the family gathers and from which the rest of the rooms flow.

Casa Tres Patios / ROOM2030

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:17:00 +0000

At the boundary between the urban and the natural, Casa Tres Patios is presented as a single-family home that combines industrial precision, contemporary design, and sensitivity to its surroundings. Manufactured in just 12 weeks and installed in a single day, this home redefines timelines and ways of living.

Bernabéu Apartment / StudioMadera

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:08:00 +0000

Located in the Chamartín district of Madrid, this 38 m² apartment occupies the space of a former office, lacking spatial qualities and with very limited natural light. The intervention transforms this condition into a calm domestic interior, where architecture, materiality and light shape a serene atmosphere within a compact footprint. As a ground-floor unit, the apartment received little daylight. The existing window, divided into multiple horizontal and vertical sections, restricted both light and visual openness. It was replaced with a single, full-height pivoting wooden window, designed without divisions to maximize natural light and establish material continuity with the interior.

Arces House / Ábaton

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:05:00 +0000

This new construction villa in Aravaca is born with the intention of responding to an image of rational architecture, typical of the modern movement, which stands out as a sustainable example within the urban context in which it is developed. A house that is conceived from the sustainable bases of our study, seeking the highest efficiency for housing using innovative construction solutions, such as CLT wood construction, a distribution that allows cross ventilation through interior courtyards and low-impact air conditioning systems. Being pioneers in wood construction in Spain and having established ourselves as the studio with more designs and executions of wood-framed housing nationwide, in this project we combine sustainability with careful attention to detail to achieve a more responsible architecture, more timeless and higher spatial quality.

San Lucas Apartment / Arquid

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:46:00 +0000

Located in the emblematic Justicia neighborhood in Madrid, the 300-square-meter apartment overlooks the Plaza de las Salesas. The project seeks to adapt the traditional domestic space to a contemporary way of living, emphasizing the value of the existing materials while establishing a precise dialogue between architecture, functionality, and natural light.

MG Houses / delavegacanolasso

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Set within a dense urban fabric —characterized by minimal plots, semi-detached houses, and streets lacking vegetation— the project positions itself from a perspective of introspection. Faced with a fragmented and, at times, hostile immediate environment in its scale and proximity, the houses are conceived as self-contained sanctuaries. They feature a rich, lush, and fresh interior world that shifts the focus from the outside to a contained, serene, and carefully crafted domestic experience.

Macedonia House / bardo

Valentina Díaz — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000

This renovation project in Madrid was born from a simple idea: to surprise. The client was clear about only one thing: they wanted the apartment to have a fragmented layout, with independent spaces that would provide privacy to the different areas of the home.

"The Frustration Became a Design Brief": Why an Architect Left 20 Years of Practice to Map the World

Rene Submissions — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:30:00 +0000

Karl van Es spent twenty years as a practicing architect before walking away to solve a problem every architect faces: the resources to travel like a professional simply do not exist. Mainstream guidebooks and travel apps rarely highlight the buildings that truly matter to the architectural community. Åvontuura was born from that frustration — an independent publisher of illustrated architecture guides created by an architect, for architects. Its latest release, Madrid, maps 70 of the city's most significant buildings, representing a mission to bridge the gap between architectural interest and travel logistics.

ParkTEA: An ArchDaily Student Project Awards Winner Reimagining the City for Cognitive Diversity

Daniela Andino — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:30:00 +0000

Public space is often designed around a narrow idea of how people move, interact, and respond to their surroundings. ParkTEA starts from a different position. The city can also make room for those who experience space through different sensory and social conditions.

Plaza Mahou / External Reference Architects

Valentina Díaz — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

External Reference, led by Carmelo Zappulla, unveils its collaboration with Mahou San Miguel creating 'Plaza Mahou', the first and only brewery- branded space in Spain to produce beer inside a sports stadium. Located right in the emblematic Santiago Bernabéu stadium with exclusive direct views of the Real Madrid pitch, this space of over 1,000 m2, including the restaurant and terrace, is expected to receive around 400,000 visits per year.

Juan Francisco Casas Studio / Positive Livings

Valentina Díaz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

"Taking the chairs out to the street" How many Dmes have our grandmothers reminded us that back in the village, every evening they would take their chairs out to the street and gather with the neighbors "to catch the evening breeze"

The House of the Green Pond / aceboXalonso studio

Valentina Díaz — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000

In 1971, the then-owners of a row-end single-family home located in one of the historical neighborhoods of Madrid incorporated into it one of the iconic objects of the imagery of developmental Spain: the blue pool. For their private use, they decided to build a pool, sacrificing nearly all of the twenty-eight square meters that made up the backyard of their home, which until then had been a place for children's revelry and a respite from domestic tasks. It is possible that the decision was made simply in response to changing circumstances: with the children grown and the housekeeper working outside the home, the yard fell into disuse; or perhaps, it was the pool, as a fantasy imported from postcards of sun and tourism, that managed to carve out a place as a desire among other domestic needs.

House in Penumbra / Teleno Studio

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Casa en Penumbra is the renovation of a 56 m² apartment located in a 19th-century building in the center of Madrid, conceived as a domestic environment shaped by soft, filtered light where shadow becomes a defining architectural element.

Pop Star Architecture: BIG Designs Multi-Use Stadium for Shakira’s World Tour in Madrid, Spain

Antonia Piñeiro — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:30:00 +0000

Kanye West turning a Tadao Ando Malibu beach house into a ruin, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi purchasing and re-selling the 1955 Richard Neutra-designed Brown-Sidney House, and fashion designer Marc Jacobs renovating a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house near New York City are just a few examples of pop stars' affair with historically significant architecture. Celebrities, like soccer players, form an elite group characterized by a high concentration of wealth and significant social status. They are not only buyers of high-end architecture as authored property and cultural capital, but also agents of its preservation and promotion. This year, we are seeing new examples of this agency at work from a more abstract yet also more popular perspective: from the stage design for Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance to a newly designed stadium for Shakira by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, architecture is used as a vehicle for promoting Latin American identity.

Torre Picasso Offices / Destudio

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The office on the 42nd floor of Torre Picasso (Madrid) was born from a competition in which the client had a peculiar program for only 4 permanent workers in an area of 330 m2, to which occasionally are added more employees coming from different company locations to hold meetings in the rooms of this office.

Guest Lounge 350.000 Ha / Manuel Bouzas + salazarsequeromedina

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0000

The 45th edition of ARCO 2026 takes as its central theme “two spaces within the fair.” Our proposal responds to this duality: on the one hand, a constructed space—the Guest Lounge—and on the other, an evoked space—the forests of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula that burned uncontrollably this past August.