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Vegamar Selección Wine Shop designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos on the main shopping street of town, is a space for wine tasting and sales. The project aims to transmit the quality of the exposed products, as well as to maximize the feeling of amplitude inside the shop.
The City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia design by Santiago Calatrava architect, inaugurated eight years ago, is falling apart and authorities have said they will sue the architect responsible. Chunks of the mosaic façade of the centerpiece opera house fell off in high winds and authorities were forced cancel Christmas performances and to close the building to the public until further notice.
Estadio Pasaron, Pontevedra, Spain
Design: ACXT / Idom, Architects
Facing Pontevedra, on the other side of the river Lerez, an untidy urban setting has developed with a mixture of houses and amenities. It is an environment that demands clear actions that will regenerate the urban surroundings. The structure of the stadium is formed by concrete frames that rest upon a great wall-beam that defines the building’s envelope.
Ushuaïa Beach Hotel Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain: Estudio Vila 13 wins the Architecture of the Year Prize for their conversion work at Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel – biggest European architecture award
Tierra del Agua is a new hotel in Caleao, a village in a rural wooded location in Asturias, northern Spain. The hotel is in Redes Natural Park.
It is requested to draft a project for a building destined for the Catholic worship, in the type of a chapel or an hermitage dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
Consell Kindergarten is the extension of the School Complex “Bartomeu Ordines” in Consell, Mallorca, Spain. This new Spanish nursery building is composed of: six classrooms (for children between 3 and 5 years old), one psychomotor classroom and a dining area including kitchen.
Teacher Training Center – Archbishop of Granada: the building is structured in four levels: two underground for parking, and three upper ground floor containing the program divided into six areas.
The house resembles a flower shape, with the living spaces grouped around a central circular courtyard in smaller and larger circles that also continue to enclose the rest of the site as defined garden spaces.
Teulada-Moraira is an unusual urban center. Although it is divided into two separate physical units, Teulada and Moraira, these belong to a single administrative entity.
‘Ciudad Doméstica’, a way to connect the home to the city. The visitor approaches an experience in which the representation of a home blends with the city plan of Logroño, through an installation inside a container.
The center design by Fernandez-Abascal y Muruzabal + Ortiz y Barrientos, located in the extension of Unquera, is aligned to a road in the base of the mountain which characterizes and darkens the plot.
Villa Bellavista in Llucmajor, Mallorca, Balearic Islands property design by CMV architects – both houses are placed in the highest part of the plot, with a small setback from one to the other and with one meter of vertical level difference between the two.
The project involves the construction of a detached house with two floors, garage and swimming pool. The living area is located on the ground floor.
New Housing in Gandia design by Guallart Architects: apartments for young people + apartments for senior citizens + social centre for the town council, , Costa del Azahar, on the east coast of Spain
The Pormetxeta Square, was the result of the “Europan VI” competition of 2001. The project was selected to take part in the Spanish Architecture Exhibition “On Site”.
Located in the South of Spain, close to the Mediterranean Sea, this small pavilion is surrounded by a remarkable landscape.