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Project • By A61+ • Cultural Centres
El Jardí de l'Alzina
Jardí de l'Alzina reinterprets a historic garden and its casetes in Barcelona's Vila de Gràcia as an open civic landscape where architecture, nature, and community are brought into balance. At the center of the proposal stands a 250-year-old holm oak whose preservation defines the project's spatial organization and design strategy. Rather than adapting the landscape to accommodate new construction, the intervention is shaped around the tree, allowing the site's ecological and historical layers to remain the primary framework for change.
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The project combines the careful rehabilitation of the existing buildings with a lightweight steel structure addition that extends the program while maintaining a res... More
Project • By Almeda Estudi • Apartments
Plaça del Vi
The project is named after its location, honouring a historic square in the old town of Girona. Plaça del Vi (Wine square in Catalan) is surrounded by noble buildings, traditionally (since the 15th century) dwelled by highborn families.
The project embraces a full refurbishing of a 135m2 space on the second floor. The building was erected using dimension stones and balconies with wrought iron rails. It has natural light from three facades. The stairs of the block follow the architectural uniqueness and the roots of the building, keeping the natural marble steps and the original elevator, with wood and wrought iron embellishments, visible cables and interiors reflecting the passage of time.
Originally, the apartment was di... More
Project • By MARIO COREA ARQUITECTURA • Libraries
Carles Rahola Public Library
The new library is located in the center of Girona. Bounded on the north by busy Avenue Emili Grahit, the site is embedded in a dense neighborhood of tall residential blocks. These urban conditions – plus the fact that this is the largest library in the network of public libraries in Catalunya – contributed to the development of a design strategy based on two main considerations.
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First of all, given its civic and cultural importance the decision was made to differentiate the library from the surrounding residential fabric both in terms of its form and the materials.
Secondly, while the design responds to the new programmatic challenges of today’s library as a place of social interaction for young and... More
Project • By Mateo Arquitectura • Transports
The Central Axis of the new Multimodal Hub in Nice
Development is currently starting of the central axis of the new multimodal hub, which will channel all the flows of traffic meeting here, creating a new centrality of this site.The traffic flows are the new tram system, buses, bicycles and pedestrians. Different movements with different needs.The following design issues are addressed here:1. Unification of the horizontal texture that forms all the paving. All the flows that cross the place are paved with natural or artificial stone. These textures are edged with sturdy blocks of light-coloured sandstone that contain the surfaces and create small differences in levels between them for safety reasons.The resulting paving is a continuous figure of stone, bound by the lines that form the... More