Spanish architecture

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Project • By Héctor Navarro Architects • Coasts

Comillas Waterfront Promenade

The intervention transforms an area previously occupied by a narrow sidewalk and a large parking lot into a new public space for Comillas. Rather than refurbishing an existing promenade, the project creates a new seafront, reclaiming an exceptional stretch of coastline for pedestrians and incorporating it into the town’s network of public spaces. Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán & Rocio R. Rivas) Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán & Rocio R. Rivas) Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán & Rocio R. Rivas) Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán & Rocio R. Rivas) Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán & Rocio R. Rivas) The project begins with a condition inherent... More

Project • By SAVIA STUDIO Architecture • Private Houses

Casa Raíz

In a small Castilian village, we designed a home for a couple of university professors who, after years living abroad and immersed in the intensity of the big city, chose to return. To trade the noise of cars for the sound of birds. To embrace a slower pace of life. To return to what matters, and put down roots close to their people and their land.The house is organized around the garden, conceived as an intimate and productive space that structures everyday life. A large window does more than frame the landscape — it dissolves the boundary between inside and outside, turning the garden into another room: quiet, ever-changing with the seasons and the light of the Castilian countryside. Photographer: María Doce Photograp... More

Project • By Montis Sastre Arquitectura • Care Homes

Alaior Day Care Centre

The architectural proposal for the new day care centre in Alaior, designed for 30 users, takes shape as a compact single-storey building organised around a central landscaped courtyard that acts as the spatial and environmental core of the project. This interior void is not understood as residual space, but rather as a true architectural element that structures circulation, supports orientation, and accompanies the building’s daily life through natural light, ventilation, and a constant relationship with the outdoors. The site is located at a point of transition between the urban fabric and the traditional agricultural landscape, establishing a direct relationship with CEIP Mestre Duran and with productive plots of land. The building... More

News • News • 12 Apr 2026

25 best architecture firms in Spain 2026

The architectural culture of Spain is rich in continuity and reinvention. Its built landscape carries Roman, Islamic, Gothic, Baroque, modernist, and regional traditions, but contemporary Spanish architecture is not defined by heritage alone. What makes the country especially compelling today is the range of studios translating that legacy into new forms of housing, cultural buildings, adaptive reuse, hospitality, landscape-led planning, and low-impact construction. The strongest Spanish firms are not simply producing beautiful buildings; they are demonstrating how architecture can remain materially precise, environmentally aware, and culturally specific while still engaging a global audience. This selection of the 25 best architecture fir... More

Project • By Héctor Navarro Architects • Housing

Casa Reversa

Located in Sierra de Ibio, within a landscape that retains its historical urban fabric and rural character, this residential house navigates the tension between strict local regulations and contemporary spatial needs. The design avoids the trap of literal reproduction, opting instead for a structural reinterpretation of the region’s architectural heritage. William Mulvihill Caption Geometry and environmental considerationsThe “Casa Reversa” is defined by a single L-shaped volume that folds to enclose a private garden. This configuration is not merely formal; it serves as a primary tool for passive climate control. By orienting the "solid" faces to the north and east, the structure acts as a thermal buffer agains... More

Project • By Equipo Olivares Arquitectos • Museums

Casa CARTA

The Casa de Carta, current site of theMuseum of History and Anthropology of Tenerife, has been declared Bien de Interés Cultural (Cultural interest Asset) because it is considered one of the exemplary buildings of the great historical rural estates of Tenerife, as well as a notable example of the stately homes built in the Canary Islands in the 18th century. Thus, the Project involved designing a fence in accordance with the protection level of the building, and creating universal accessibility to the Museum from a public road. Flavio Dorta Caption Caption Caption In general terms, the Project aims to respond to the stimulating references of the locallandscape, drawing inspiration from the agricultural use of the... More

Project • By pablocorrotopradillo. • Private Houses

Mediterranean House

Nestled in the Mediterranean town of Premià de Dalt, Spain, this family contemporary residence epitomizes architectural simplicity refinement.  delriobani delriobani A sculptural monolith, emerges from the natural backdrop of tall pines and coastal rugged terrain. The carved endemic figure is provided with a harmonious and dynamic rhythm by its voids, reclaiming the essence of Mediterranean architecture, but offering pioneering innovations in vernacular techniques and materials, making the project not just a place to live but a space to experience.  delriobani delriobani Articulated through segments which intertwine and connect creating a flexible living programme; with each space a new narrative unfol... More

News • News • 31 May 2024

FRPO designs green thermal power plant as architectural icon

Madrid-based architectural studio FRPO Rodríguez & Oriol has completed a green thermal power plant for the Spanish District Heating company DH Ecoenergías. Located in the Spanish city of Palencia, the small thermal power plant building is described by FRPO as “the visible part of a whole that remains hidden from view.” The studio approached the project from an architectural viewpoint, creating a building as an “icon” and a “reference” to green energy transition, its design a contrast to more mundane industrial architecture. Luis Asín The Palencia network is the first in a series of similar projects that aim to reduce carbon emissions across Spain’s urban conurbatio... More

News • Detail • 28 Mar 2024

Detail: sliding panels of natural pine protect a residential complex from the Mallorcan sun

Spanish architecture firm OHLAB has recently completed Paseo de Mallorca 15, a residential complex on a V-shaped corner site in its native Palma, Mallorca. The project is defined by a unique textured facade of sliding panels with a lattice of natural wooden slats. This adaptable brise soleil serves as a secondary outer layer, effectively filtering the intense Mediterranean sunlight to lessen solar heat gain on the building while preserving outward views from the apartments onto the cityscape. The design, according to the architects, draws inspiration from the pergolas and shutters peppered about the Mediterranean island. José Hevia Mallorca is one of the five inhabited Balearic islands located off Spain’s southeastern... More

News • News • 13 Mar 2024

Reggio School: Architecture finalist in Mies van der Rohe Awards 2024

In this Archello series, we look at each of the seven nominated projects (five architecture finalists and two emerging finalists) in the Mies van der Rohe Awards 2024.   Reggio School José Hevia International architectural practice Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation (OFFPOLINN) has designed a school based on the premise that “architectural environments can arouse in children a desire for exploration and inquiry.” The school’s materiality, form, and use of color work in unison to create an engaging architectural system.   José Hevia The Reggio School on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, derives its name from the Italian city of Reggio Emilia.... More

News • News • 20 Feb 2024

Student residence reflects former industrial heritage and character of Poblenou, Barcelona

Barcelona-based architecture and urbanism firm JPAM has completed a student residence in the 22@ district of Poblenou, Barcelona. A project for student accommodation provider VITA, delivered in collaboration with Barcelona-based AVA Studio, the building’s design reflects the former industrial heritage and character of Poblenou. Known in the late 19th century as the “Catalan Manchester”, owing to the area’s sheer number of factories, Poblenou is now a hub for innovation, technology, and the creative industries. José Hevia José Hevia José Hevia The 13,583-square-meter (146,206-square-feet) residence comprises a six-story horizontal block and a 13-story tower. The buildin... More

News • News • 25 Jan 2024

taller11 creates an energy efficient house of two halves

Catalan architectural studio taller11 has created a house of two halves in Vilafranca, a center for the wine growing industry around 50 kilometers west of Barcelona. A home for a couple and their two children, the house, curiously named CASA0006, has a party wall on its south-west side and a vacant plot on its north-east side. Budget constraints and a request by the client that the home should have two or three bedrooms and several multipurpose spaces, resulted in a clever design layout. Atzar López Vilanova taller11 A house of two halves, taller11 placed the bedrooms and living areas in a heated volume of massive mortar block masonry. On the other side of this, the studio created a winter garden/sunroom — a... More
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Project • By HGSE Arquitectos • Private Houses

House in the mountain

Design of a house in Santa María de la Alameda, Madrid Visually dominating the territory: the procedures of architecture to build the landscape. The positioning in height to visually dominate the territory is an ancestral trait of humanity; for this reason, when good orientation and spectacular views coincide in steep plots of land, it is appropriate to construct buildings that are elevated in their position and shaped as viewpoints for contemplation.  Both procedures, typical of architecture, take advantage of the surroundings to convert the territory into landscape, through the aesthetic appropriation of our gaze. Located in Santa María de la Alameda, a small village in the northwest of the Community of Madrid, the... More

News • News • 6 Dec 2023

OHLAB’s Paral-lel buildings embrace Mallorcan design traditions and sustainability

In Bonanova, a quiet residential neighborhood in south-west Palma de Mallorca, Spanish multidisciplinary architectural studio OHLAB (Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab) has designed "Paral-lel". A project that consists of two independent residential blocks, Paral-lel is immediately notable for its expressive use of folding wooden slat shutters. In addition, the project integrates a number of sustainability initiatives.  José Hevia José Hevia The design of Paral-lel’s two buildings takes full advantage of Mallorca’s urban planning regulations, with a ground floor plus three levels. The project has twelve dwellings in total, six in each building. “The duplex dwellings are divided into six u... More

News • News • 15 Nov 2023

Delavegacanolasso designs a modular house among pine trees in Madrid

In its design approach to Fresnos (translated as Ashes), Madrid-based architectural studio Delavegacanolasso set about creating “a simple and pleasant house” surrounded by nature. The project’s scope was determined by its rugged setting: a sloping site with an abundance of pine trees and holm oaks. The studio placed the house in a natural clearing between the pines — hidden from the road but open to the forest, the development altered as little of the terrain as possible. Paco Marín Delavegacanolasso Anchored on a sloping hillside, Delavegacanolasso designed a house that works as a large porch. The structure starts at the terrain’s natural height — from here, it is supported by a... More