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Martín Lejarraga

Students Residence . Burjassot

Martín Lejarraga Oficina de Arquitectura . photos: © David Frutos

Located in Burjassot, Valencia, the new student residence rises on a pre-existing structure, transforming an unfinished office building into a dynamic space for coexistence and learning. With a compact, prismatic design, the project optimizes its integration into the plot, reorganizing the spaces according to a particular structural scheme that responds to the prior condition of having three already constructed basement levels. Continue reading Martín Lejarraga

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Tuckey Design Studio

Wool Hall . Somerset

Tuckey Design Studio . photos: © James Brittain

The Grade II listed Wool Hall is a true success story of adaptive reuse, with an eclectic history regarding both architectural alteration and use. Continue reading Tuckey Design Studio

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Un Parell d’Arquitectes

Plaça Major . Olot

Un Parell d’Arquitectes . photos: © José Hevia (exteriors) . © Roger Serrat-Calvó (interiors)

The Plaça Major of Olot is both the geographical and symbolic heart of the city. It is surrounded by four rows of buildings that were renovated between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. These are simple houses, which take on value as a whole, due to the repetition of patterns of composition, construction and decoration, sharing similar patterns of composition, construction, and decoration. Before the intervention, most buildings had structural and constructive pathologies, with one-third of the residences standing empty and requiring significant renovations to be habitable. In this way, the square serves as a reflection about the architecture and challenges facing the city’s old quarter. Continue reading Un Parell d’Arquitectes

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Ateljé Ö

Bunker 319 . Gotland

Bunker 319 is built on the remains of military activities on the Swedish island Gotland. It consists of four low houses developed around an actual cold war bunker and sits like a hidden nest sunken into the very ground of a 20 meter tall hill, overlooking the Baltic sea. Continue reading Ateljé Ö

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Cierto Estudio . Llonch

Block A. 51 Public Homes in Illa Glòries . Barcelona

Completion of Illa Glòries, a transformative project that redefines the principles of collective housing and its urban integration in the city. Our project originated from the international competition promoted by IMHAB to develop the urban planning of the complex and one of its four component parts. Continue reading Cierto Estudio . Llonch

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