spain

/  by Thomas DeVoss

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Hotel Alhambra Palace - Granada, Spain

Situated next to Granada’s splendid UNESCO-listed historic monument, Hotel Alhambra Palace pays homage to the city’s Moorish heritage. Beautiful arches, grand pillars, and colorful tiles decorate its majestic interiors, and the spacious rooms come with exquisite décor, ambiental music, and private terraces overlooking Granada and the snow-capped Sierra Nevada. Equally impressive, the hotel’s restaurant serves a fusion of traditional and modern Spanish cuisine in an warm, historic atmosphere.

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/  by Thomas DeVoss

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Refurbishment in la Cerdanya dom-arquitectura

This project takes place in a small village in La Cerdanya, on the north valley side, south oriented the village’s heart consist on 20 houses, surrounded by fields and pastures where farming and agriculture are the main activities. Breathtaking views of the Cadi mountains make of this setting a piece of nature paradise.

Most of the buildings in the village organized enclosing an outside space called the “era”. The village plan shows how the old constructions were built in order to create ensembles of living and working units arranged around exterior enclosed spaces.  Overall they form a grid-like pattern of barns and stables as well as houses.

One set of these buildings consisting on a haystack, a barn, a warehouse, a small dwelling and a “badiu” (traditional backyard), pertained to our client who wished this space to be re-designed and re-arranged to become his home and additional guest areas.

Images and text by dom-arquitectura

/  by Thomas DeVoss

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Walden 7 in Sant Just Desvern, Spain - Ricardo Bofill, Taller de Arquitectura

Walden 7 consists of a fourteen-storey cluster of 446 apartments, grouped around five courtyards, on top of which are two swimming pools. With few exceptions, each apartment face both outside of the block and into one of the courtyards, at many levels, there is a complex system of bridges and balconies for access producing a fantastic variety of vistas and enclosures.

The exterior facade has the appearance of a huge fortification completely painted in red, which is opened to the exterior through large overtures like urban windows of several stories high. The courtyards have a lively treatment because of the intense blue and yellow colored facade. The main courtyard, at the building’s entrance, is a recovery of the street and the plaza for the benefit of the inhabitants, which generates an interior world apart from the exterior chaos.

/  by Thomas DeVoss

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Tudela (Club Med) restauration (Cap de Creus Cape, Cadaqués, Catalunya, Spain)

Club Med has been ‘deconstructed’, its ecological dynamics revived and a network of paths and viewpoints as been ‘remade’ for its rediscovery, becoming Mediterranean coast biggest restoration project ever. The work distills and enhances the consubstantial values of the site, the diversity of geological formations, the harshness and nakedness of the rock outcrops, the specialization of native vegetation, the wind and the sea magnificence. Five actions are contemplated in the restoration project:

1. Removal of Invasive Exotic Flora

2. Selective deconstruction of 430 buildings,

3. Management & recycling of 100% of construction waste,

4. Ecosystem dynamics revival, remaking the site’s topography and drainage systems, to reestablish the original sediment flows and exchanges between land and sea.

5. Discovery & social valorization. Including 3 main interventions:
- Hierarchical path system
- Network of viewpoints to enhance best panoramas.
- Animal-rock identification. Traditionally fishermen’s and kids had identified rock formations with animal names for its orientation, Dalí did too. The project, proposing a game of perception constructs a sort of ‘lecterns’ outlining the ‘animal-rocks’ silhouette

/  by Thomas DeVoss

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Biniarroca Hotel - Menorca, Spain

Nestled within the unspoilt countryside of Menorca, just outside the village of Sant Lluís, Biniarroca Hotel is an oasis of charm, good taste, and tranquility. Guests will have the opportunity to choose from 18 comfy, individually designed rooms and suites appointed with traditional Menorcan décor. In addition to its wonderful Mediterranean gardens and Romanesque-style pools, this chic and intimate hotel prides itself with one of the island’s finest restaurants, a charming setting with an innovative French-inspired menu, and a serene flower-laden terrace where light Bistro fare can be enjoyed alfresco.

Website | TripAdvisor

/  by Thomas DeVoss

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Casa 1101  |  H Arquitectes
Location: Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
More Info & Photos: Afasia Archzine + Flickr  |  Photography: Adrià Goula

- The proposal searches the balance between placing the maximum number of rooms on the ground floor yet keeping the garden free from masonry work volumes. This idea is developed through a volumetric composition shaped in three boxes spread throughout the garden, almost aligned and located in the plot northern side creating a wide outer zone facing south. The first box, to the east, houses the children’s area with three single bedrooms upstairs and a playroom on the ground floor. The second one, in the centre, accommodates the main room: the kitchen, a nearly 30square metre and 4metre high room dominated by a large fireplace. The third box, to the west, contains the parents’ zone, with the bedroom at the garden level and a high ceiling studio on the first floor.

/  by Thomas DeVoss

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Public Library in Ceuta, Spain | Paredes Pedrosa

The new Library in Ceuta is conditioned by the steep topography of the plot and by the Arab Marinid archaeological excavation of the XIV century that determine all interior spaces of the Library. Also the lack of space and the compactness of Ceuta, an autonomous Spanish city located on the north coast of Africa on the border of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, condition the proposal.

The orthogonal geometry of this ancient settlement is turned from that of the actual urban grid. This fact establishes a triangular geometry for the structure over the archaeological site and the urban value of the Arab city is included in the geometry of new building.

Photography: Fernando Alda

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