Located on a rocky slope in the western outskirts of Madrid, this 2,691-square-foot concrete, glass, and steel house turns its back to the surroundings and interacts instead with the distant Pardo forest and Madrid’s skyline.
A 58,857-square-foot museum of modern and contemporary Catalan art in Barcelona's 22@ district, a former industrial zone that the city has redeveloped into a service and tech corridor.
With a very modest budget and a narrow, elongated site in a tiny village in Spain, the clients asked for a small house that could be used as a painting studio as well as an occasional weekend home for their children.
Swiss architect Gus Wüstemann defines his design approach as “program-free architecture,” in which “everything that contaminates the space with a program disappears.”
An 800-square-foot basement space for a sneaker and fashion footwear company, housing a press office and a showroom that doubles as a VIP meeting room.
A 26,910-square-foot brand showcase for the Spanish bathroom-fixture company, with offices and a garden at the basement level, a museum of the brand on the ground floor, a showroom on the first floor, and an event space on the second floor.
When asked to sharpen the corporate image of the Spanish furniture manufacturer Ofita for visiting designers, architects, and specifiers, the Milan-based design and architecture firm King & Miranda transformed the company’s Madrid offices and showroom—located on two adjacent floors—into an integrated sales tool using a spare vocabulary of textural elements, colors, and lighting strategies.
The National Museum of Roman Art in Mérida, Spain (1984), was one of the first projects that brought Rafael Moneo to the attention of the American architectural scene.
Project Specs Museum of the Roman Theater of Cartagena Cartagena, Spain José Rafael Moneo << Return to article the People Architect José Rafael Moneo Project architect: Juan Manuel Nicás Collaborators: Carla Bovio Angel Huertas Suanzes Engineer(s) Structural engineer: NB 35 Jesús Jiménez Cañas Mechanical Engineer: Úrculo Ingenieros Model makers: Estudio Rafael Moneo the Products