Antonio Raso Martín . César Egea Nieto . Carlos García Fernández De Villalta . photos: © Fernando Alda
The Alfar de Los Tejares is one of the best examples of a Roman pottery factory in our country, both because of its location – next to a permanent water channel and several mud quarries – and because of its size and conservation. Continue reading Raso . Egea . García
Sacks utilizes diverse, work-a-day materials like cotton, burlap, lace, wood and cardboard, some fleetingly imprinted with poetic texts typed on the cloth by the artist using a manual typewriter. The artist also composes with fragments of Indian textiles, indigo blue cottons from South Africa, antique kimonos from Japan and embroidered linen from Normandy. The twisted, torn and joyful pieces of fabric evoke unfurled banners, flowing rivers, semaphores – and in this new series, the skyline of American cities. Continue reading Peter Sacks
Arquitectura Produccions . Pau Vidal . Vivas Arquitectos . photos: © José Hevia
The project is located in a singular block of the Eixample district, formerly fragmented by the railway and currently opened to new public spaces. Two separate volumes define a large green central courtyard and circulation areas. The building facing the street consolidates the front of the block and the second one is conceived as an isolated building, even separating itself from the limits of the plot to respond to the existing irregular urban voids. Continue reading Arquitectura Produccions . Vidal . Vivas
Ayllón Paradela De Andrés . + AV
With their ‘Three Strategies’ scheme Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas, and Javier de Andrés de Vicente have won the ideas competition called by the Consell de Mallorca’s Sustainability and Environment Department, in collaboration with the Balearic Islands Institute of Architects, for the construction of a mountain shelter and agroforestry training school in the Finca de Raixa estate of the Majorcan municipality of Buñola. Continue reading Ayllón Paradela De Andrés
Not far from the Spalentor, a narrow path leads into a park-like courtyard shielded from the street. In its rear part, a carriage house was built around 1880 in addition to the villa located on the property. The service building was separated by a massive Quarrystone wall into a utility area with stables, carriage room and hayloft and a living area for the servants. After the villa was demolished for the construction of a peripheral building at the beginning of the 20th century, the carriage house was used for other purposed, for example as an atelier, but essentially remained in its original typology. Continue reading Buchner Bründler