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Loredo House NAVC01 / Zooco Estudio

Valentina Díaz — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Casa Loredo is the second single-family project within the series titled "New Vernacular Architecture of the Cantabrian Sea" (NAVC). Located in the Cantabrian town from which it takes its name, this home seeks to reinterpret the traditional techniques of the region, adapting them to contemporary needs.

Navigating Boundaries: The Architectural Legacy of Lighthouses

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 07:30:00 +0000

Lighthouses have stood along the margins of continents and islands for centuries as points of light in vast maritime territories. Rising in solitude from rocky cliffs, reefs, and headlands, these towers were tools for navigation and instruments of spatial clarity, shaping coastlines and marking the boundary between land and sea. Built to guide, warn, and locate, they constituted a global network of visibility long before the advent of digital mapping. Yet as maritime technologies evolved, many of these structures lost their original purpose. The typology, once essential, now stands at the edge of obsolescence. What remains is not merely an architectural relic, but a powerful spatial form — resilient, symbolic, and increasingly open to reinterpretation.

RV House / BIAN

Paula Pintos — Mon, 26 May 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Facing the Bay of Santander, this 120 m² home has been completely renovated to become a space open to the city's maritime landscape. The intervention starts from an original 1932 dwelling, which was highly compartmentalized, with long hallways, small rooms, and interior spaces lacking natural light.

Bucaramanga Centenario Park/ TABUÚ + Iván Acevedo Arquitectura

Valeria Silva — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000

The History of Colombia in the heart of the Eastern Andes. Centenario Park, located in the urban center of Bucaramanga (Santander, Colombia), was founded in 1910 as part of the celebration of the Centenary of the Independence of Colombia. This vital public space on the plateau is adjacent to protected buildings such as the Centro Cultural del Oriente and the recently restored Teatro Santander. It has accumulated a shameful gradual deterioration in the last three decades, being affected by the proliferation of street violence and crime, with the absence of activities for physical and mental health.

The Cantabrian Maritime Museum Restaurant / Zooco Estudio

Paula Pintos — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Located on Severiano Ballesteros Street in Santander, Spain, the restaurant was conceived as part of an architectural complex that also includes an Oceanographic Center designed by Vicente Roig Forner and Ángel Hernández Morales, built between 1975 and 1978.

Panistas Bakery / Zooco Estudio

Andreas Luco — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Panistas is the new bakery located in the center of Santander. The client shows us their enthusiasm to make a bakery different from the others, both in product and aesthetics. For this reason, in this project, the creative process does not revolve around the bread and its imaginary, but around its origin. With this idea, we create a beautiful, warm, and pleasant atmosphere, a new environment for the buyer. The bread and the products will complete the space giving the connotations of a bakery.

El camino restaurant / Zooco Estudio

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Our client proposes an Asian restaurant in which the protagonist is going to be raw fish, in its different versions. He also wants a relaxed, warm, and unique atmosphere. The place is located in the Sardinero área within the city of Santander with beautiful views of the "La Segunda" beach. One of the most emblematic areas of the city, where the sea and the beach are the main characters.

Enaire Foundation / GFA 2 / Fernández-Abascal & Muruzábal

Andreas Luco — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Adaptive reuse of the warehouses of Gamazo, the project provides new exhibition spaces for the Enaire Foundation in a prominent location on the former port of Santander. The main building was conceived in 1901 by Jesús Grinda y Forner but was substantially remodelled in the 1950s when the northern pavilion was added. Multiple alterations have occurred since then. In 2018, upon our arrival, the storehouse was substantially damaged. A restoration, and a cleansing exercise, set the basis of our intervention on the existing, eclectic, and heterogeneous warehouse. A careful renovation informed by the building’s history accommodates the new exhibition requirements. Simultaneously, the project aims for a certain abstraction. Turning the building white merges its diverse materials—a milky, long building next to Oiza’s strident Festival Hall.

House in Güemes / Zooco Estudio

Andreas Luco — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000

The project includes a refurbishment of an existing building and the creation of new construction to complete the program of this particular house. The existing building is annexed to a larger building and separated from it by a large covered passageway. Although it was used as a dwelling, it was originally a stable for livestock, and this is reflected in its simple, unpretentious architecture and a very basic construction system, based on load-bearing walls and a roof of wooden beams covered by tiles.

Daria Restaurant / Zooco Estudio

Valeria Silva — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:00:00 +0000

En uno de los barrios más antiguos de la ciudad se encuentra este local que ha albergado en su interior diversos restaurantes a lo largo del tiempo, pero cuyos muros fueron algún día parte de una antigua lonja de pescadores de la zona. Las diversas intervenciones habían superpuesto multitud de capas sobre los paramentos existentes.

La Hermosa de Alba Restaurant / Zooco Estudio

Valeria Silva — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000

The Project is situated in Tetuan Street in Santander. It is one of the main spots of the gastronomy activity in the whole city where the traditional seafood restaurant are abundant. "La Hermosa de Alba" proposes a different cuisine, based on the product of the land and applying different culinary techniques, in a casual, innovative and fresh environment.

RC34 House / Zooco Estudio

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 13:00:00 +0000

The Project is developed in an existing dwelling located in a residential area of el Sardinero, an exclusive neighbourhood with magnificent views of the Cantabric Sea.

Architecture City Guide: 10 Towns in Colombia That Every Architect Must Visit

Yamid Rivera — Thu, 03 May 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Calm and silence prevail in many of the municipalities of Colombia, where the ochre colors intermingle with the green of the landscape to preserve the colonial styles that characterize some of the architectural typologies of the place. Small urban centers that hide an incomparable beauty are the main attraction for many tourists who today travel to know these obscure places, where one can go to learn a little of their traditions and their culture, creating an almost perfect adventure, where heritage value becomes a characteristic in common.

Centro Botín / Renzo Piano Building Workshop + luis vidal + arquitectos

Fernanda Castro — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +0000

The Centro Botín, a space for art, culture and education, projecting into the Bay of Santander, will restore to the city the immense dockland site of the Albareda mole, used until now as a parking lot. This is a strategic area, overlooking the sea, near the old city centre and enhanced by the historic Jardines de Pereda. The centre was strongly supported by Emilio Botín (1934-2014), president of Banco Santander and financed by the Botín Foundation, one of the most important private foundations in Spain, established in 1964 with the aim of fostering the social, economic and cultural development of Cantabria.

Tetuán-Amaliach Square / Héctor Navarro + ARKHITEKTON

Valentina Villa — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:00:00 +0000

"Between valleys and craters" (the name of the proposal) has sought since its first sketches to create a public space able to generate a continuous ground plane capable of saving the large difference in level that the work area presented (6.20 meters in the worst part). Usable by 100% of its surface and, thus recovering a residual space in the city that had juxtaposed a series of independent operations (parking, electric installation, huge ramp to upper housing block...)

Scientific and Technological Park of Cantabria / Pablo Notari Oviedo + SUMAR + CONURMA

Daniela Cardenas — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 10:00:00 +0000

Winner Project of a competition organized by the public company PCTCAN, for two office buildings in the "Scientific and Technological Park of Cantabria".

San Martín de la Mar Square / Zigzag Arquitectura

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 02:00:00 +0000

Urban seam.

Centro Internacional Santander Emprendimiento / Angel Blanco + MOAH Arquitectos

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:00:00 +0000

The Santander International Entrepreneurship Center (CISEin spanish) has carried out the project of generating a new space aimed at activating and improving new oportunities in knowledge, which would feature among the great technological reference centers worldwide. With the support of Santander Bank through Santander Universities and the University of Cantabria, the center develops entrepreneurship programs on academics who wish to start and enable the start up and business ideas that they promote, within an innovative collaborative environment.