Flores & Prats   Sweden   Beyond the construction of the first residential buildings on the site, the commission involves establishing, together with a multidisciplinary team, the criteria to build a new community as part of the expansion plans for Råängen, an agricultural ar

Flores & Prats   United Kingdom   The new auditorium is placed underground, conceived as a large foyer where the building’s horizontal connections converge. The character of the intervention is marked by the preservation of the three historical facades and the existing vaults...

Flores & Prats   Spain   Cal Maiol School draws on the character and the past of Can Batlló, associated with industrial activity. The new complex includes the existing transformer station and establishes a relationship with it in terms of type, construction, structure, and p

Flores & Prats   Italy   The installation for the 2018 Biennale worked with the idea of liquid light to reproduce, on a 1:1 scale, a skylight from Sala Beckett in Barcelona (an old co-op building converted into a theater), and to recreate the air of the original space with l

Flores & Prats   Spain   The Arnau refurbishment project aims to turn the old theater into a contemporary venue fit out with new technical innovations, but also to recover its emblematic cafés and decorated halls evocative of past times and of a way of understanding culture.

Flores & Prats   Spain   With reuse urbanism as starting point, the proposal deepens in the sparse memories and traces of a neighborhood that the new developments were erasing, to establish in this way coherent strategies to help recover the ‘good life of the place’...

Flores & Prats   Spain   The project to refurbish and extend the industrial complex respects the old buildings, a series of warehouses for metallurgy and textile uses; but also the environment, with special attention to the street’s character, its trees, and how much light o

Flores & Prats   Belgium   The project furthers on the research lines of the Sala Beckett project to refurbish the city’s Ancien Théâtre des Variétés and recover its role as a civic place of encounter closely linked to the history of the place, but that looks to the future. Th

Flores & Prats   Spain   The building had gone through many different stages –construction as a workers’ cooperative in 1924, renovation in 1954, abandonment in the 1980s and 1990s, okupa center – and each of them had left a mark. The intervention to create a new dramaturgy

Flores & Prats   Spain   In the historic center of Palma, Casal Balaguer is a large noble house from the 14th century, refurbished in the 16th and extended in the 18th. At the end of the past century, the City Council decided to convert it into a cultural center, making the

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Madrid Barajas Airport, Spain (2005). Richard Rogers achieved a rare thing in Madrid: creating an airport that doesn’t make you desperate to escape. From its gently undulating bamboo ceiling, to its forest of rainbow-coloured branching columns, to th

Every two years since 1993, the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes has given the National Award for Architecture, which has over the years changed in sensibilities but always recognizes exceptional works, buildings that somehow innovate a