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The European AHI Award 2025 Celebrates Six Public Heritage Interventions Across Europe

Antonia Piñeiro — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 05:30:00 +0000

The European AHI Award recognizes architectural heritage interventions across Europe, highlighting their role as a forward-looking model for 21st-century architecture with tangible social, environmental, and economic benefits. In its seventh edition, the award honored six projects, four first prizes and two special mentions, during a ceremony held in early June at the Paranimf Ceremonial Hall of the Escola Industrial in Barcelona. A total of 238 projects from architecture studios in 24 European countries were submitted. The selected winners are located in Antwerp, Kortrijk, Olot, Ancient Corinth, and Milan.

Perer Cabin / Arnau Vergés Tejero

Benjamin Zapico — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 03:00:00 +0000

An architectural object that identifies a landscape, a landmark for the people of the place, a box that protects the precious treasure of memory.

Rosvet Veterinary Clinic / VIDA Arquitectura

Andreas Luco — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Located in Olot, the new veterinary center is placed in an urban space with a singular geometry. The fact of being located in the corner of a crossroads and having three facades gives it great value and visibility as a commercial space while making it difficult to achieve an optimal interior layout. In order to respond to the functional needs of the clinic and to be able to provide all the spaces with the optimal dimensions for their proper functioning, the division between what is public and what is private is clearly defined.

The Chicken Coop / Arnau estudi d'arquitectura

Valeria Silva — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Chuck, chuck, chuck… called the landscape of our childhood. And we approached that wild chicken coop. It offered us a roe deer that observed us, a green woodpecker that was blending with the background, and several gardeners that gave us courgettes and onions. And then came the low fog of winter mornings, and the frost. The water flowed through the gutters, and we ate loquats from the tree, fresh and free of charge. And we could not leave. Because we wanted to be part of that landscape, without making noise, with our eyes open and a joyful spirit.

Knot House / Arnau estudi d'arquitectura

Agustina Coulleri — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 06:00:00 +0000

When a plot of land only has the tiresome task of resolving the duality of the alignments of an urban framework, the only thing missing is that a house has to be built on top of it! Yes, this was the order: "Hold my beer...".

Reactivation of Plaza del Carme / unparelld’arquitectes

Agustina Coulleri — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Shopping is an integral part of the street. Improving the vitality, comfort, and safety of the public space was done by fostering occupancy of closed shops and emphasizing relationships through the shop windows. That was the task developed on the street in the project, Good morning, Carme! (Olot, 2021). In a single year, 1000 m² of shops were opened and 120 m of façade were redesigned in a single square in the old town.

The Grandstand House / Arnau estudi d'arquitectura

Valeria Silva — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:00:00 +0000

On the slope of a volcano upholstered with low-cost houses, we have an opportunity to reform one of the two unique samples of this peculiar typology: an isolated cottage standing on horizontal rectangular terrain. The project, besides reforming and extending the house, has to solve the relationship of the original plot with the one above it, acquired later by the same owner. The upper part has a garage and better access than the lower one.

Can Sau. Emergency Scenography / unparelld’arquitectes

María Francisca González — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Can Sau house was located in the old city centre of Olot, where nowadays demolitions are not unusual. Given that half of the building was affected by street alignment, it was demolished, leaving an urban void characterized by a party wall and four stepped buttresses that faced the side façade of the church of the patron saint of Olot. For different reasons, the same consequences: abandoned lots, loss of urbanity, disfigurement of the street, destruction of the ordinary landscape.

“Habitare” Home Without a House / Bayona Studio

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0000

“HABITARE” OR A HOME WITHOUT A HOUSE “Habitare”, to inhabit, from the Latin for “to occupy a place”, to live in it. Architecture is capable of summoning a house simply by outlining spaces, shaping their limits with countless resources and nuances. The architecture, the result of how houses are formed, depends on these limits and their formal and material complexity. And yet, a house isn’t by default necessarily a home.

Agora / unparelld’arquitectes

Andreas Luco — Tue, 05 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Agora Facility building in El Morrot sports complex A square-shaped public square, defined by two porches and open to the football pitches. This will be the centre of the sports complex of El Morrot. This is also the answer to the contradictions between use and site: an industrial estate and a street with hardly any sidewalks. The square connects visually with the geographical landmarks, the outline of the mountains that enclose the county. At the same time, it becomes separated from the factories and the street, busy with many lorries.

Bench House / Arnau estudi d’arquitectura

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 02:00:00 +0000

We have been commissioned to build another white house in a residential area on the outskirts of a town. The client is a large family consisting of parents, a daughter, two sons and a picture-perfect rabbit.

Carpet House / Arnau Vergés Tejero

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Remodelling an old ground floor flat with the request, almost impossible to fulfil, to increase its surface, becomes a perfect excuse for us to propose both a horizontal and a vertical redistribution of the place.

Another House of the Neighbourhood / Arnau Estudi d’Arquitectura

Valentina Villa — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 05:00:00 +0000

They ask us to extend the house, to live intensely the garden and to dispose of the attainable landscape; Nothing that has not done almost all the neighbours from this cheap houses neighbourhood of the fifties. But in these popular refurbishments, self-construction and simplicity of resources have traditionally outweighed the order, the foresight, or the hand of an architect. We look at the project respecting the values of chance and its diversity of materials and solutions, but also being faithful to rationality; We read the place and propose two extensions and a reform.

Tossols Basil Athletics Stadium / RCR Arquitectes

Fernanda Castro — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 10:55:00 +0000

The athletics track presents the act of running in the middle of nature, in the spirit of the first Olympic Games in Greece.

Optic Shop Renovation / Arnau Vergés Tejero

Daniela Cardenas — Tue, 10 May 2016 11:00:00 +0000

“It’s when I sleep that I can see clearly”, the poet said. However, all of us want to see clearly also when we are awake. When we receive a commission to redesign an optic centre, we imagine a clear, bright, intelligent and rational space. We leave out any confusion or ambiguity, being conscious of the functions that are to be developed through the activity that we undertake.

The Shadows of Sant Esteve / Anna & Eugeni Bach

Florencia Mena — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:00:00 +0000

"Lluèrnia - Fire and light Festival" is an event that takes place in the town of Olot during one night every November. More than 50 light installations adorn the streets and squares during this special annual tradition of the region.

New Sports Buildings in Olot / BCQ arquitectura

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 03:00:00 +0000

In a lush grove of majestic poplars, we extend a carpet of wood to make sport. We want to play in a relaxed atmosphere, surrounded by vegetation.

A Door to the Landscape / Arnau estudi d'arquitectura

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 05:00:00 +0000

It is an undetermined space in an old hospital building; we have a commission to design a new tourist office for the town. We start by searching for the space. We do it bearing in mind the values of the town and its surroundings – landscape, history, culture, identity – that we want to transmit, but also the involvement in the town’s storyline: we understand that a public building is at the same time a public space.