Arquitectura Viva
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Ábalos + Sentkiewicz: Solar Tower in Sociópolis (Valencia)
06/05/2013

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz: Solar Tower in Sociópolis (Valencia)

The Solar Tower in Sociópolis (Valencia) distances itself from the featureless iconographies of present-day public housing developments by exploring, through a curvilinear geometry and a unique crown, the formal possibilities offered by the tower...
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Retes Arquitectos, Science Park in Espinardo (Murcia)
30/04/2013

Retes Arquitectos, Science Park in Espinardo (Murcia)

The objective of recovering buildings in disuse is a good starting point for public interventions, and the guideline for this specific project, which is minimal but still manages to produce a powerful and unitary image. Reusing as much of the existing as...

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Rafael Moneo: Lost in Translation
15/04/2013

Rafael Moneo: Lost in Translation

The New York Times

There’s something to be said for developing a signature style. In most areas of design it can be a great career move, but particularly in the field of architecture. Clients...

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Compostela’s City of Culture to be left unfinished
02/04/2013

Compostela’s City of Culture to be left unfinished

El País

After twelve years and at a cost of 287 million euros, the regional government of Galicia has decided to end work on its controversial City of Culture, settling for four of the originally...

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Roof games, Casa Lude by Grupo Aranea in Cehegín (Murcia)
02/04/2013

Roof games, Casa Lude by Grupo Aranea in Cehegín (Murcia)

Built on top of the house of the client’s mother and sister, which is immersed in a dense urban fabric, the Lude apartment looks over the rooftops of the Murcian town of Cehegín. Drawn up by the Alicante...

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Meritxell Inaraja, Dwellings in a Mint in Barcelona
01/04/2013

Meritxell Inaraja, Dwellings in a Mint in Barcelona

The Catalan word ‘seca’ (in Spanish ‘ceca’) comes from the Arab word sekka and means ‘place where coins are made’. In Barcelona, La Seca was the name given to the Real Casa de la Moneda (Royal Mint) of Aragón, where coins were...

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Kindergarten and Daycare Center, Carlos Quintáns in La Coruña
04/03/2013

Kindergarten and Daycare Center, Carlos Quintáns in La Coruña

A plot adjacent to the trace of an oil pipeline, close to La Coruña’s Eirís park, is the site of the preschool center built by Carlos Quintáns. With a sedate exterior image dominated by concrete and giving special...

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Landscape Viewing Point in Calcination Kilns, Luis Castillo & Mercedes Miras
28/02/2013

Landscape Viewing Point in Calcination Kilns, Luis Castillo & Mercedes Miras

The exploitation of the iron deposits of Lucainena de las Torres, in Almería province, began late in the 19th century, and a railway reaching the bay of Agua Amarga was built to support it. Eventually the appearance of iron-poor carbonate...

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Aq4 arquitectura: OKE Culture House in Ortuella (Vizcaya)
15/02/2013

Aq4 arquitectura: OKE Culture House in Ortuella (Vizcaya)

A work of the Barcelona studio Aq4, the Culture House of Ortuella in Vizcaya province was conceived with the idea of addressing its immediate environment. It is set perpendicularly to the main street...

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Eurovegas casino project to be sited at Madrid town of Alcorcón
10/02/2013

Eurovegas casino project to be sited at Madrid town of Alcorcón

El País

And the winner is… Alcorcón! The Madrid dormitory town on Friday was officially named as the site for US billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s controversial 750-hectare Eurovegas...

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Culture Thrives in a Former Madrid Slaughterhouse
05/02/2013

Culture Thrives in a Former Madrid Slaughterhouse

The New York Times

The center of life in Madrid has long focused on the grand boulevards of Salamanca, the winding historic streets around Plaza Mayor and the cool...

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Larraz, Beguiristain & Bergera: nursery school in Berriozar (Navarre)
05/02/2013

Larraz, Beguiristain & Bergera: nursery school in Berriozar (Navarre)

Louis I. Kahn wrote that the first school probably began when a man under a tree who did not know he was a teacher began to discuss what he had learned with others, who did not know they were students...

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Bach arquitectes: Banco Sabadell offices in Barcelona
28/01/2013

Bach arquitectes: Banco Sabadell offices in Barcelona

The Barcelona arquitects Jaume and Eugeni Bach have recently enlarged and renovated the Landscape complex, which they built in 2003 as headquarters for Banco Sabadell in the Catalonian...

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TallerDe2 and Gutiérrez-De la Fuente: colored bands in Selb (Germany)
18/01/2013

TallerDe2 and Gutiérrez-De la Fuente: colored bands in Selb (Germany)

A fruit of the teaming up of two young Madrid practices, TallerDe2 and Gutiérrez-De la Fuente, the Childminders Center in the Bavarian town of Selb is the first building to be completed among the four included...

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Urbanismo también para el campo madrileño
17/12/2012

Urbanismo también para el campo madrileño

El País

Sin prisa, pero sin pausa, prosiguen en la Comunidad de Madrid los movimientos urbanísticos con vistas a sacar...

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Martín Lejarraga, cruise terminal of Cartagena (Murcia)
16/12/2012

Martín Lejarraga, cruise terminal of Cartagena (Murcia)

Under a concrete roof fragmented like a puzzle and decorated with ceramic pieces, Martín Lejarraga has built a new venue for civic coexistence as part of an overall expansion of the Alfonso XII Pier at the Port of Cartagena. On an...

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Andrés Jaque en el Pabellón Mies van der Rohe de Barcelona
13/12/2012

Andrés Jaque en el Pabellón Mies van der Rohe de Barcelona

Hoy se inaugura en el Pabellón Mies van der Rohe de Barcelona la instalación de Andrés Jaque ‘Phantom. Mies as Rendered Society’, dentro de la iniciativa de la Fundación Mies que invita artistas y arquitectos a utilizar el mítico edificio...

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El emigrante fiscal
12/12/2012

El emigrante fiscal

Opinión / El País

Resulta incongruente que Santiago Calatrava, arquitecto famoso y embajador de la marca España, haya decidido convertirse en emigrante fiscal y trasladar...

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Energía verde ‘made in Spain’en Reino Unido
11/12/2012

Energía verde ‘made in Spain’en Reino Unido Pdf

El Mundo

Iberdrola impulsa la construcción del parque eólico marino más grande de Europa en aguas británicas  A 15 kilómetros escasos de Glasgow, a 300 metros sobre el...

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El Nacional de Artes Plásticas reconoce a Jaume Plensa
28/11/2012

El Nacional de Artes Plásticas reconoce a Jaume Plensa

El Pais

El artista es galardonado "como reconocimiento a una labor progresiva, de proyecto internacional", según el comunicado del jurado...

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El Caixafórum de Sevilla se traslada a la torre de César Pelli
15/11/2012

El Caixafórum de Sevilla se traslada a la torre de César Pelli

El País

La entidad financiera renuncia a la rehabilitación de las Atarazanas. El consejero de Cultura y Deporte, Luciano Alonso, ha informado...

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El TS niega la indemnización a la promotora de El Algarrobico
15/11/2012

El TS niega la indemnización a la promotora de El Algarrobico

El País

El Tribunal Supremo (TS) ha desestimado un incidente de nulidad presentado por la promotora del hotel de El Algarrobico y...

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Madrid Arena: mal diseño, exceso de aforo y ‘botellón’
12/11/2012

Madrid Arena: mal diseño, exceso de aforo y ‘botellón’

ABC

ABC reconstruye, según los datos del atestado policial, cómo se desencadenó la avalancha mortal y los puntos oscuros de la...

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El Madrid quiere darle otra vuelta al estadio
12/11/2012

El Madrid quiere darle otra vuelta al estadio

marca.com

EL club blanco ha pedido a los cuatro candidatos para remodelar el Bernabéu que afinen aún más sus proyectos...

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Desahucios y parches jurídicos
12/11/2012

Desahucios y parches jurídicos

El País

El aumento de las ejecuciones hipotecarias, con los consiguientes dramas familiares que produce, ha puesto de nuevo sobre la...

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Wave of Evictions Leads to Homeless Crisis in Spain
12/11/2012

Wave of Evictions Leads to Homeless Crisis in Spain

The New York Times

The first night after Francisco Rodríguez Flores, 71, and his wife, Ana López Corral, 67, were evicted from their small apartment here...

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El Supremo declara ilegales 22 PAU de Madrid
08/11/2012

El Supremo declara ilegales 22 PAU de Madrid

Inseguridad jurídica ‘Made in Spain’ (elEconomista.es); Varapalo judicial: el supremo declara ilegales 22 PAU (idealista.com); El Supremo tumba 13.500 viviendas (El País).

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La nueva Rusia ‘Made in Spain‘
08/11/2012

La nueva Rusia ‘Made in Spain‘ Pdf

El País

El maltrecho sector de la construcción española encuentra en Rusia un enorme mercado, incluso para construir ciudades...

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Nubarrones sobre el gran plan solar
06/11/2012

Nubarrones sobre el gran plan solar

El País

La decisión de Siemens de dejar el negocio termosolar arroja dudas sobre el gran proyecto impulsado desde Alemania: sembrar el desierto...

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 El Hermitage abrirá una filial en Barcelona
06/11/2012

El Hermitage abrirá una filial en Barcelona

La Vanguardia

El museo del Hermitage de San Petersburgo, una de las principales pinacotecas del mundo, abrirá una filial en Barcelona...

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