The Puertochico Plaza enjoys a privileged position in the city of Santander (Cantabria, Spain). Slightly elevated, with direct connection to the seawalk while set in the urban center of the city. This allows a high urban activity in the area, thanks…
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Puertochico Plaza & Market by Garciagerman Arquitectos. Photograph © Imagen Subliminal
The new apartment erases the previous faults and to clarify the use of the available surface, and the architects proposes a long main space that serves as living but also as dining and kitchen area; it is a living gallery rather than a living room…
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Graça Apartment by Fala Atelier. Photograph © Fernando Guerra. FG+SG
With the use of a plain surface folded to adapt to the new programs introduced and the use of the red pigment, corporate color of Santander Bank, the architects Miguel Pérez Tallón and Rubén Sesmero Blanco transfom the atrium of the former…
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The german practice kadawittfeldarchitektur has completed its conversion of the historic former railway head office building in Cologne, Germany. The building is located along the banks of the river Rhine, this old structure is an iconic part of the…
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Tom Ye belongs to the fifth generation of owners of this building. His family had traditionally dedicated themselves to the important rice business in this building, now protected, which aims to reuse for a new business selling local products. ,…
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Renovation of an old rice warehouse by B + P Architects & dotze innovations studio. Photograph © Hey! Cheese
Fala Atelier, a young architects team based in Porto, has completed the rehabilitation of a small garage into a home for a young couple. The garage with many skylights but without windows. , full_html
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From garage into dwelling by Fala Atelier. Photograph © Fernando Guerra. FG+SG
The former barn's cruciform plan with brick walls and a high timber ceiling was originally designed by a pioneer of experimental farming methods to provide shelter for a range of farming activities under a single roof. Today is part of a heritage…
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New Church Hill Barn by David Nossiter Architects. Photograph © Steve Lancefield
Lacaton & Vassal were awarded Thursday for a project that thinks the city based on the combination of three objectives: to produce quality of life, to increase the situations of great comfort and to densify the territory. These intentions must…
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Transformation of 530 dwellings, block G, H, I,Burdeos, de Lacaton & Vassal con Frédéric Druot y Christophe Hutin
The library of Montbau district - Barcelona, Spain- has been renovated by the architecture practice Oliveras Boix Arquitectes. The building, originally built in the 1950s as a school ensemble, has housed since the 80s the function of library, thanks…
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This intervention is part of a network of synergy spaces, which want to open traditionally private ones to the city, among which are two more Francisco Pardo's works.

This one in…
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Havre 77 by Francis Pardo. Photograph © Diana Arnau