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The Built Path: Pilgrimage and Architectural Sequence on the Camino de Santiago

Olivia Poston — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000

Pilgrimage is one of the oldest and most persistent cultural practices, a spatial expression of humanity's search for meaning that has taken form across geographies and religions. While traditionally tied to formal belief systems, its definition has expanded in recent decades, reflecting new understandings of what is sacred and where meaning can be found. This shift reveals something fundamental: the act of moving through space remains central to how people construct meaningful experience. Yet most built environments constructed today are designed to be approached at speed from roads, transit corridors, airports, and optimized urban cores. The Camino de Santiago stands as a sustained counterargument to this condition. It is a piece of distributed architecture, refined over centuries, that remains a sophisticated example of design organized around the moving human body.

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.

Muimenta Social Center / Eduardo Dipre Mazza + Daniel Gomez Magide + Miguel Angel Diaz Gonzalez

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000

The Multi-Purpose Social Center is an initiative promoted by the Concello de Carballeda de Avia as part of an ambitious rural revitalization plan for the Model Village of Muimenta. The initiative aims to activate a rural core in the process of abandonment by recovering the adjacent lands with high productive capacity, as well as rehabilitating its built environment. Through this new governance model, the goal is to improve the quality of life for its inhabitants, encourage the retention of the younger population, and generate attractions for new residents, promoting economic activity in the land, the recovery of traditional crafts, the provision of affordable housing, and the improvement of technological services.

Train Station and Footbridge / Estudio Herreros

Valentina Díaz — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0000

In 2011, seventy years after the arrival of the railway in Santiago de Compostela, the out-of-town trench occupied by the tracks remained an almost insurmountable barrier between the historic center and the neighborhoods that had emerged south of the railway line, with Pontepedriña at the forefront. On the other hand, this boundary had the effect of preserving the natural area of Las Brañas del Sar—a piece of priceless ecological value—untouched all this time.

From Ecologies to Everyday Life: Reflecting on Architectural Exhibitions in 2025

Daniela Andino — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This past year marked a period of introspection for architecture. As 2025 unfolded, the discipline, confronted with evolving environmental and social realities, entered a broader turning point in how it understands its role and how users engage with it. Throughout the year, exhibitions shifted focus away from buildings as isolated objects toward a broader understanding of relationships between ecology, equity, everyday life, and collective imaginaries. Across institutions and cities, they operated less as showcases and more as discursive platforms: places where architecture was not only presented, but also imagined, questioned, and collectively redefined.

Conjunto Cornes Espacio Residencial / Carbajo Barrios Arquitectos

Agustina Coulleri — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000

The Program
The buildings house a residential complex made up of 125 apartments, garages, and storage rooms, which during the project and commissioning process have allowed the development of 22 different types of apartments, both on a single floor and in duplex format. The complex is exclusively dedicated to residential use. In addition to the apartments, there is a free space for public use and three covered community spaces: a children's playroom, a gym, and a dining room.

BS House / MARXE a+t

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000

The house, located in one of the historic districts of Santiago de Compostela, had suffered a series of renovations in recent decades that significantly diminished its heritage and spatial value. The initial goal of the developer was to enhance the architecture of the house and improve the living conditions and energy efficiency as much as possible, without altering the built volume of the house or increasing its surface area.

Grounded Interiors: Exploring Earth-Based Flooring Through 10 Contemporary Interiors

Valentina Díaz — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:30:00 +0000

Earth-based flooring materials comprise natural elements such as clay, sand, silt, lime, and organic fibres. They offer both structural performance and sensory engagement when used in both outdoor and interior spaces. Due to their thermal properties, durability, and sustainable qualities, these materials have evolved from vernacular construction techniques into high-value architectural elements that are always being reinvented and optimized. There are several types of earthen floorings, each offering unique benefits, and they are increasingly used in interior settings.

The Hidden Mechanics of Doors: How Hinges, Tracks, and Pivots Shape Spatial Experience

Jonathan Yeung — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The choice of door types plays a crucial role in defining the spatial experience and atmosphere of architecture. Beyond material or style, the way a door is detailed—its movement, weight, and method of operation—can drastically influence how a space is perceived and navigated. However, what truly enables the functionality of different door types is the often-overlooked element of door hardware. Even within the same door type, the selection of hinges, tracks, pivots, and handles can significantly affect how users interact with and interpret the space.

Revealing the Europe 40under40 Best Young Architects & Designers of 2023-2024

Maria-Cristina Florian — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 06:30:00 +0000

The winners of the "Europe 40under40®" program for 2023-2024 have been announced, celebrating promising talents in architecture and design. This recognition highlights projects from emerging professionals under the age of 40, including architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and industrial designers. The program, initiated by The European Centre, aims to showcase a new generation of designers who are poised to impact the future of living and working environments, cities, and rural areas.

Alto Residencial Coop / Carbajo Barrios Arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:00:00 +0000

SCHEDULE - The project foresees the construction of 34 dwellings in an open building promoted by a group of owners constituted as a cooperative, enabling their active participation in formal and programmatic decision-making. This way of associating reduces construction costs (by eliminating the promoter’s profit), democratises decision-making and generates a sense of belonging for future coexistence and interaction in the built space.

Hotel AMIUKA / ELÓ_d-arquitectura + AFV arquitectos

Valeria Silva — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:00:00 +0000

AMIUKA is a building intended for use as a hospitality facility, developed on 2 floors and whose primary foundations lie in: the use of natural and environmentally friendly materials and carbon footprint reducers, landscape integration, both at a chromatic level as a way of mimicking the environment, as well as with a functional and volumetric distributive approach of organic and fractal growth, energy awareness in all areas of building design under the Passivhaus standard.

Three Little Pigs House / EME157

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0000

The intervention updates a house built in the 90s on the outskirts of Madrid. Originally, it consisted of a cubical volume, made of red brick with a flat tiled hipped roof. In the SW corner, a double-height oblique porch interrupted the volume.

Brick Houses in Spain: Modern Masonry Design for Home Interiors and Exteriors

Fabian Dejtiar — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 07:30:00 +0000

The ample supply, durability, and affordability of brick makes it one of the most widely used and iconic materials in Spanish architecture, especially within the Mudejar tradition. Throughout history, they have added both beauty and function to the spaces that use them, offering protection from the elements while also permitting the entry of natural light and air flow.

How to Renovate Interior Spaces on a Budget

Dima Stouhi — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Perhaps one of the most common phrases you'll hear when talking about interior renovations is "whatever you initially planned on spending, double it, and double the time with it". Renovations, regardless of their scale, can be very time consuming and costly, especially when unexpected changes pop up last minute. However, we are often met with situations where the interior layout is no longer efficient or we feel that the interior design is a little outdated and its time for a change.

La Ferme Residence / Tenka Arkitektura

Valeria Silva — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 03:00:00 +0000

"The Fermi" is a single-family housing project designed for a family. It is a tight plot, resulting from a partial redistribution plan for the development of low-density housing. It has an easily noticeable topography with a 4-meter slope on the north-south axis. The client's premise that the house and garden be at the same level was the starting point and guided the decisions that underpin the project.

Bars and Restaurants: 50 Examples in Plan and Section

Fabian Dejtiar — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 07:30:00 +0000

The spatial distribution of a restaurant or bar is essential to its success. Faced with this design challenge, several architects have experimented and proposed configurations that both enhance the use of space in different culinary experiences.

Neutrale Store / Estudio DIIR

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 02:00:00 +0000

The desire to enhance the qualities of an already suggestive space makes this project an ambitious challenge. To achieve this, the intervention is reduced to three gestures whose conceptual load allows the space to be understood in a certain way.