August 2022

THE LINE, THE FUTURE METROPOLI WITHOUT CARS NOR STREETS IN SAUDI ARABIA

By |2022-08-05T16:09:15+02:00August 4th, 2022|Blog, News, Saudi arabia|

The project is based on the idea of a city surrounded by mirrors, completely efficient and intelligent, without cars or streets in the middle of nowhere. This vast Middle Eastern country has launched one of its most ambitious plans: The Line, a huge linear metropolis 200 meters wide and 170 kilometers long, above sea [...]

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June 2022

THE MUSEUM CENTER IN JYVÄSKYLÄ, FINLAND, WILL BE NAMED AALTO2

By |2022-06-07T16:14:51+02:00June 7th, 2022|Blog, Finland, News|

JYVÄSKYLÄ'S NEW MUSEUM CENTER WILL BE CALLED AALTO2 The name Aalto2 has been chosen for the new museum center being built in the Ruusupuisto district of Jyväskylä, Finland. The name describes two adjacent buildings designed by architect Alvar Aalto: The Alvar Aalto Museum (1971-1973, left) and the Museum of Central Finland (1956-1961, 1991, right). [...]

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September 2019

ARCHITECTURE WEEK SEVILLA

By |2019-09-12T10:47:40+02:00September 12th, 2019|News, Seville|

(source: www.coasevilla.org) With occasion of World Architecture Day, which commemorates UNESCO every first Monday of October, the Official College of Architects of Seville (COAS) organizes the Architecture Week that this year, in its seventeenth edition, will take place from Monday 1 to Sunday, October 7. The Architecture Week celebrates a series of cultural activities aimed [...]

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June 2019

FUTURE MAGALLANES CENTER IN ARTILLERIA

By |2019-08-29T20:23:12+02:00June 28th, 2019|News, Seville|

AN EXCEPTIONAL PLACE THAT RETURNS TO LIFE The Artillery factory in Seville is one of the most impressive and most hidden buildings in the city. It is a magnificent industrial complex of the 18th century of 22,000 square meters, with a history (for example here the Lions of the door of the Congresses of [...]

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SEVILLA, SCENE OF GAME OF THRONES

By |2019-08-29T20:22:51+02:00June 22nd, 2019|News, Seville|

The undeniable worldwide impact of the HBO Game of Thrones series has indirectly generated an interest in those locations of the series. We can affirm that a tourist interest has been established to visit certain enclaves, and Seville has been precisely one of the cities with a greater presence at key moments of the [...]

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ARCHIVE OF INDIAS: AMONG THE THREE ESSENTIAL WORKS FOR MONEO

By |2019-06-13T10:56:23+02:00June 13th, 2019|News, Seville|

THE LIST OF HIS MOST ADMIRED WORKS For Rafael Moneo, in his book published at the end of 2018 by Acantilado entitled "The Life of Buildings", the three most important historical buildings from the perspective of contemporary practice, are in Andalusia. "Cordoba, Seville and Granada are three essential cities for those who want to [...]

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May 2019

INNOVATION IN SOCIAL HOUSING. EMVISESA COMPETITION

By |2019-05-27T10:58:43+02:00May 27th, 2019|News, Seville|

Last week we were informed about the Emvisesa Contest (Public Housing Company of Seville) for the next construction of more than 600 units in 6 different locations in the city. The award-winning proposals, of great quality in the opinion of the jury, affect innovation as a driver of change. These new promotions will position [...]

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April 2019

TRADITION AND MODERNITY

By |2019-04-24T09:39:31+02:00April 18th, 2019|News, Seville|

'COMPLEXITY AND CONTRADICTION' OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AS BACKGROUND OF THE HOLY WEEK (Photo: ABC) Seville is above all a city of contrasts, of mixture, of hybridization, where the tradition merges constantly with a contradiction and a disconcerting contemporaneity, sometimes interpreted as opposition, sometimes understood as a complement. This dialectic remains alive since late nineteenth [...]

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CONGRESS ON HERITAGE AND TOURISM

By |2019-04-11T16:03:02+02:00April 11th, 2019|News, Seville|

Architecture and Conservation in Cities and Monumental Complexes Source: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía The growing tourist flow in the main cities of patrimonial interest directly affects the exponential growth of visits to the patrimonial urban environments but above all to its main monuments. At an urban scale, this has an important impact on the [...]

COAS AWARDS

By |2019-04-09T10:17:03+02:00April 4th, 2019|News, Seville|

COAS ARCHITECTURE & SOCIETY AWARDS (source: www.coasevilla.org) The COAS announces the COAS ARQUITECTURA & SOCIEDAD 2019 AWARDS (III Architecture Awards of the Official College of Architects of Seville) whose objective is to show the architecture of Seville, assess the professional quality of our collective and promote architecture as a tool to improve life of [...]

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