It has been forty years since the birth of the magazine AV Monographs, and thirty since the release of its first Yearbook, a publication that has endeavored to gather, year after year, the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock at the same ti

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The magazine AV, which will soon turn forty, has published thirty Spain Yearbooks to date, and with this one it launches a new editorial phase.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The year of artificial intelligence and of the war in Gaza has also been the one that has let the voices of the Global South be heard more clearly. After a year of universal use of ChatGPT, AI rises on the horizon as an extraordinary technological ad

Alberto Campo Baeza, Miguel Quismondo   United States   The Robert Olnick Pavilion, designed by the architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo, is an extension of the museum Magazzino Italiam Art, in Cold Spring (New York). Arranged perpendicularly to the existing building, separated from it, the

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   The idea of combining the terms ‘archive’ and ‘avant-garde’ holds within itself a contradiction. The fusion of these two concepts may seem paradoxical at first glance, as an archive is created to safeguard the documentary legacy of the past, while th

Beaudouin Architectes, MGM Arquitectos   France   Ubicado entre la avenida principal del campus y la zona residencial universitaria, el proyecto busca ofrecer un edificio abierto y permeable, que invite a los estudiantes a un espacio de convivencia, investigación y trabajo de fácil uso y recorrido i

FRPO   Mexico   Right in the heart of the city, a building conceived as an infrastructure concentrating a number of different uses seeks to create a hub of activity on a local and a metropolitan level alike. Public programs are accommodated within a grid of screen s

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   On a vantage site of Madrid’s cityscape, by the Royal Palace and overlooking the Campo del Moro from the plaza of the Almudena, the museum is surrounded by heterogeneous and complex heritage. The project is based on two fundamental principles on an u

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   Behind the listed facade of an industrial building raised early in the 20th century, the new spaces of a bank are terraced on top so as not to alter the current engagement with the street. The lower levels are organized in relation with a foyer that

BAAS Arquitectura   Spain   Located at Carrer de Pallars 180, in Barcelona’s Poblenou neighborhood, the project sought to give the block a sense of continuity and engage with preexisting elements. A work of BAAS, a Catalan firm led by Jordi Badía, the office building presents a

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   Up in the Torozos Mountains, in the comarca of Tierra de Campos, the small municipality of Valverde de Campos in Valladolid province has a population of slightly over a hundred. The surpluses produced by wind farms were invested in this building with

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   The former headquarters of Banco Mercantil takes up a whole urban block of Santander’s gridded expansion area. The building is a 1900 project by the architect Casimiro Pérez de la Riva (1851-1934). The building is horizontally divided into three part

ERRE arquitectura   Spain   The Hortensia Herrero Art Center is located in the old Valeriola Palace, a central and emblematic 17th century building that has served multiple uses over the years and undergone several interventions, falling finally into disuse over the past decade

Pablo Millán   Spain   When Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Teresa of Jesus, reached Beas de Segura and founded one of her “dovecots of the Virgin” with which she would reform the Carmelite order, this town of Jaén already had a community of nuns: the Poor Clares whose

Ecoproyecta   Spain   Like firewood and pasture, snow and ice have since time immemorial been economic resources of humankind, whether for the conservation of food and medicines or for the luxury of making sherbets and ice-creams. Pliny the Elder mentioned an active trade

Creus e Carrasco, r v r arquitectos   Spain   With a built area of 25,843 square meters, this urban reconfiguration in Porto do Son, a town in the province of A Coruña, expresses a direct engagement with the sea and fishing activity, reviving the old port’s identity.

Sol89   Spain   Since pre-Roman times, the Gulf of Cádiz has been a center for Almadraba tuna fishing, in accordance with a technique that has barely changed since then. To oversee exploitation in the waters of the mouth of the river Piedras, from 1929 to 1963 there

Sukunfuku Studio   Spain   A work of the Asturian firm sukunfuku Studio – Miguel Huelga and Iria de la Peña – this museum stands on the slope of Mount Castillo, surrounded by the winding road that leads to the caves it harbors. Inserted into a complex topography, the C-shaped

Gramática Arquitectónica   Spain   Labelled in the 1970s by the Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, the term permaculture makes reference to a system of agricultural design principles based on the patterns and characteristics of the natural ecosystem, which seeks s

System Arquitectura   Spain   The new logistical center of Mayoral, a children’s clothing brand, rises on its corporate campus, on the site of the old company Interhorce (Industrial Textiles del Guadalhorce) in the city of Málaga, beside the listed building by Ramón Vázquez Molez

AV62 Arquitectos   Spain   On the outskirts of the town of Derio, near Bilbao, the Barcelona firm AV62 – led by Toño Foraster – was commissioned by APNABI (Association of families of people with autism spectrum disorders) to design this day center for young persons diagnosed w

Rojo Fernández-Shaw   Spain   The Julia Powell Hall is a sports and multipurpose space on the campus of Runnymede College in Alcobendas, a municipality of the Madrid metropolitan area. The starting point of the project was taking advantage of the existing foundation: the basement

Carlos Seoane   Spain   At a distance of 33 kilometers from A Coruña and 45 from Santiago, the parish of Bértoa is adjacent to the town of Carballo, the municipality to which it belongs, and is the main area towards which it expands. North of Bértoa is the large industrial

Harquitectes   Spain   In Gavá, a municipality in Barcelona province, in the comarca of Bajo Llobregat, this residential complex takes the form of three stepped volumes to adapt to the natural slopes of the terrain. With a built area of 16,509 square meters, the project se

Rodrigo Núñez Carrasco, Nazareth Gutiérrez Franco   Spain   Planned as a rereading of the traditional Basque-Navarre house, the project divides the program – four rental housing units for young people – into two volumes to improve its integration into the town fabric.

08014 arquitectura    Spain   Promoted by the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI), this public-housing block is located at Platja d'en Bossa, south of the city of Ibiza. Designed by estudi08014 – Adrià Guardiet and Sandra Torres – the apartment building pursues a certain degree o

Pau Vidal, Vivas Arquitectos   Spain   Located in the Marina del Prat Vermell neighborhood, this complex contains 32 apartments and spaces for collective use by the Llar Jove Marina Prat Vermel SCCL cooperative. Barcelona City Hall has ceded the site to it for 75 years minimum. The to-be-