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Montblanc Haus Exhibition Center / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Agustina Coulleri — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Montblanc Haus is an exhibition center dedicated to the art of writing located next to the current factory of the Montblanc company on the outskirts of Hamburg. The project was conceived as a 100 m long volume that evokes the shape of a writing instrument case and hides a complex sequence of spaces on three levels articulated around a single vestibule illuminated from above. The building, with a surface area of 3,600 m2, houses a permanent exhibition that invites visitors to discover and experience writing through the history of pens and precision instruments that are part of the Montblanc archive.

Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Agustina Coulleri — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 03:00:00 +0000

The CEU Moncloa Campus in Madrid includes various university buildings built at different times dedicated to teaching and research. The new building designed by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos for the Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences is located on a triangular plot in the Colonia Metropolitana de Madrid.

Barceló Market, Library and Sports Hall / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 08:00:01 +0000

The Barceló Market area in Madrid includes public spaces, temporary buildings, and installations belonging to a same complex. Its multiple denomination -market/sports center/library- speaks of collective engagement and reveals the social condition of the program: a compact market topped by a sports pavilion framing the city, in front of which a cantilevered library rises above a schoolyard.

Auditorium And Congress Center Expo 2008 / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 20 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

At first glance it seems hard to assign a key role to an architectural element that is isolated from a project, and one generally accepts that, if there is a protagonist, it must be related to its global conception, not to partial aspects. But a close reading of a work like the Congress Center of Aragón, aside from helping to understand it as a complex whose internal structure is perceived through the spatial connections and resonances among the pieces that form it, also allows acknowledging the meaning that one single principle can acquire through the mechanism of the series. The awareness of the need to quickly complete this building included in the precinct of the ephemeral Expo 2008, as well as the absence of significant previous references in a place that had to be randomly filled with buildings by different authors and with varied characteristics, determined a process that can be defined as combinatorial, not only from the conceptual or compositional point of view, but also in terms of material and construction. In the project for the Congress Center all the decisions affecting its spatial, volumetric, formal, structural, constructive, and material definition emerged successively from a desire to create combinations starting from elementary units: a skylight, a structural grid, a concrete panel, a ceramic piece, an enclosure module, and so on. The linear skylight, the true protagonist of the project, starts out as a plane folded in parallel bands, open alternatively toward the north and the south, repeated with variants whose dimension and height change depending on the spatial needs of the interior. These multiple transformations provide the mechanism that enables the unit’s adaptation to different circumstances, a system able to generate an order through the establishment of series.

Castillo De La Luz Museum / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Fernanda Castro — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The Castillo de la Luz is for the city of Las Palmas not only one of the most significant buildings of its architectural heritage, but a witness to the historical memory of the archipelago. Its location on the Isleta, the point of arrival of the Castilian fleets since the fifteenth century when the first fortification was founded, was the reason for its existence and its defensive role until the nineteenth century. The passage of time has not only significantly affected its use and conservation, but also its immediate environment: the ancient fortress on the coast that was surrounded by water at high tide, is today surrounded by the buildings of Puerto de la Luz and the advancement of the city to the Isleta.

Madinat Al Zahara Museum / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Fernanda Castro — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The remains of the old Hispano-Muslim city suggested a dialogue with those who a thousand years earlier had conceived and built it, but also with the patient work of archaeologists and with the surrounding agrarian landscape, to which the geometry of the ruins gave an unexpected abstract quality. The terrain of the archaeological site for the museum stirred, however, contrasting feelings.

Contemporary Arts Center Córdoba / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Nico Saieh — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Architecture nourishes itself constantly from images hidden in our memory, ideas which become sharp and clear and unexpectedly mark the beginning of a project. Perhaps this is why the echo of the hispano-islamic culture which is still latent in Cordoba has subconsciously signified more than a footnote in our proposal. In the face of the homogeneity which our global civilisation imposes in all aspects of life, the Centre of Contemporary Art aspires to interpret a different western culture, going beyond the cliché of this expression used so frequently.

San Telmo Museum / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Alison Furuto — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The successful architectural rehabilitation and expansion project for the historical San Telmo Museum by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos emphasizes its connection with society both artistically and historically.

Moritzburg Museum Extension / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Christopher Henry — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The ancient castle of Moritzburg in the city of Halle is a very valuable example of Gothic military architecture, typical of Germany at the end of the 15th century. Its turbulent history has inevitably been reflected in the many alternations it has undergone over the years. But despite these, the building still keeps the original structure of its main architectural features: the surrounding wall, three of the four round towers at the corners and the central courtyard.