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First International Photography Competition “Cities without Architecture” has already started receiving entries from all over the world! We are happy to announce that Fernando will be a member of the jury, together with the photographer Alexandra Kononchenko, architect Changfang Luo and Ben Murphy. Below we copy a brief description of the competition and the idea behind it.

According to the Un-Habitat (United Nations) Urban Observatory, it is estimated that fifty million people will move from rural areas to the cities in western Africa over the next ten years. In Mumbay, the population has recorded a four-fold increase. Half of the population live in slums, 700.000 spend the night on the streets, 100 million people in the world, mostly kids, have no permanent home.

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Con la voluntad de reconocer y difundir los valores especiales de las obras o trabajos del ámbito territorial del colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Málaga (realizados durante los años 2013, 2014 and 2015 y hasta la fecha de entrega de las propuestas) se convocan los Premios Málaga de Arquitectura 2016.

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Bajo el título “UNFINISHED”, el Pabellón de España en la Bienal de Venecia 2016 recoge una serie de proyectos que afrontan la problemática de las edificaciones inconclusas de nuestro país.

Espacio de arte contemporáneo en el antiguo convento de Madre de Dios (Sevilla), Sol89

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Col·legi profesional d’Interioristes of Catalunya and Veredictas Internacional, with support of Col·legi de Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC) and AJAC, the Technical University of Madrid,  the ETSAB of Barcelona and the main associations involved in trade fair sector call The National Awards of Temporary Architecture, EMPORIA. For four editions, EMPORIA has rewarded excellence temporary architecture projects in Spain.

In the last edition, the Francesc Rifé’s architecture studio has taken two awards in different categories. The stand at the EUROLUCE trade fair 2015 in Milan received the first prize in the category of Best exhibition stand design, while the stand at the ISH trade fair 2015 in Frankfurt has been awarded Best corporate application on a stand.

We would like to invite you to see all architecture studios have been awarded in the 2015 awards.

More information: Veredictas, excellence standards – EMPORIA Awards

Last October 16h, Piscina & Wellness Barcelona 2015 ended with the celebration of The Awards 2015, organized by the ITeC – “Instituto de Tecnología de la Construcción de Cataluña”. In this edition, awards to best projects have been to residential swimming pool, wellness center, public swimming pool, restoration of a swimming pool, innovative product and sustainable product.

With their project of Municipal indoor swimming pool in Constantina (Sevilla), Fernando Suarez Corchete, Lorenzo Muro Álvarez and Miguel Ángel Gómez Casero have won the first prize on the public swimming pool category. According to verdict of the jury “they resolve with solvency a project very influenced by the low budget, and they pose an austere building that positively improves the environment. The architectural design emphasizes solar protection and privacy, supplemented by the proper use of materials”.

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Visit the video of Botanical Garden in Nerja of Isabel Amores and Modesto García

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Public Library in Ceuta, designed by a prestigious architecture office Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos, was awarded an international prize Obras CEMEX in Industrial/Institutional category.

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Everything begins with the International Competition Europan -9, in the city of Selb, 2008. Architects under 40 years of age from all over the Europe present their proposals for improving the urban structure of sites selected for this edition of the competition. A project presented by two Spanish architecture studios Gutiérrez-delafuente Arquitectos and TallerDE2 Arquitectos is awarded a prize which turns into a collaboration with the city of Selb. Four years pass and the first of the four projects comissioned by the city hall is finished successfully.

Now the Childminders Centre in being Selb is awarded with the Biennial International Prize ‘First Works-2013’ by the German magazine Bauwelt.

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Last Wednesday, November 15th, the Culinary School in a former slaughterhouse in Medina Sidonia, by Estudio SOL89, was granted first prize in the Category of Architecture of the Ceramics Architecture and Interior Design Prize. This year´s edition was the 11th one and it standed out for the high standard of the submited projects the same as for the prestigious jury composition. The competition was chaired by the recognized architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg and composed by the architects  Luis Martínez Santa-María; Francisco Aires Mateus from Portugal; Joseph Grima, director of Domus magazine; designer Matali Crasset; architecture critic from El País newspaper, Zabalbeascoa Anatxu; and Ramón Monfort, from the Castellón College of Architects.

The competition for the Tile of Spain Awards of Architecture and Interior Design is organized and promoted by ASCER, the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association. The prizes aim to improve awareness and understanding of ceramic tiles made in Spain amongst architects and interior designers and promote their use by these professionals. Besides Architecture, there are awards for the following categories: Interior Design, Honourable Mention for Architecture and Thesis Project.

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Following an exciting jury event drawing on the expertise of a panel of international design & research experts a well as key AM Qattan Foundation personnel held at Palestine’s Birzeit University on Thu 18 Oct, Donaire Arquitectos of Seville, Spain, has been selected to design the Foundation’s new Cultural Centre and Palestine Office.

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Last December the results of the 11th session of Europan competition were oficially announced. In the Spanish edition we have 5 winners, 7 runners-up and 7 honourable mentions. Among the European results there were 36 awarded Spanish teams: 9 winners, 15 runners-up and 12 honourable mentions. Among the awarded studios we are happy to see Donaire Arquitectos and with their proposal for urban-architectural stategies for the entrance point to the city of Graz in the neighbourhood of the Arnold Schwartzenegger Stadium.

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Press release Sobejano Nieto Architects:

Madinat al-Zahra Museum © Fernando Alda

Piranesi Award Prix de Rome 2011 “Planning Archaeology – Designing Archaeology” was granted last Thursday 1 September in Rome to Madinat al Zahra Museum Cordoba, work Architects Sobejano Nieto.

The Jury chaired by Luca Basso Peressut included Lucio Altarelli, Francesco Dal Co, Romulus Martemucci, Amedeo Schiattarella, Luigi Spinelli, Pier Angelo Torricelli y Federico Caliari. The project was selected from 17 Finalists for works carried out in Italy, French, Germany, Egypt, China and Spain.

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An Italian magazine/newspaper Uruk, from Palermo, with which we had established contact and cooperation, has published several articles of interest. We are particularly pleased with the presence of some works, projects and images that have been really important for us for many reasons. Whether because of the long collaboration with architects, the special relationship with some works or the load of personal content in some images, it has been very  gratifying to receive URUK in our studio, enjoy the reading and the Italian taste that is so close to us.

Among the articles published in this issue we highlight VS-UNIFORM UNIVERSAL JOINT, by Mark Scarpinato; GRANADA. Qal `at al-Hanro dedicated to Alvaro Siza and Juan Domingo Santos for the new access to Alhambra in Granada; CORDOBA. MADINAT AL ZAHARA dedicated to the museum built by the architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, recently recognized with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

This relationship has been established in a very special and satisfying way. I all started with the personal project “From the Monument to the City, From the City to the Ocean” that never stops surprising us.

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The awards ceremony of the XI Biennial of Spanish Architecture and Urbanism will be held in the Cantabrian town of Comillas in July with the opening of the exhibition of BEAU XI in September will be open in the room's Archery Nuevos Ministerios. Between 40 finalists are projects of Water Museum – renovation of an ancient water mill Juan Domingo Santos (Recognition Award in category Architecture), Chana School for Children in Elisa Valero (Prize for runner-) Temporary Market and Barceló Nieto and Sobejano (Prize for runner-).

The celebración of granting awards of XI Spanish Biennale of Architecture and Urban Design will take place in Comillas, Cantabria (Spain) during the month of June, together with the inauguration of the post competition exhibition, That Will Be available for visiting in La Nuevos Ministerios Archery. Among the 40 selected projects there were: Museum of water in Lanjaron by Juan Domingo Santos (Honorable Mention), Kindergarden in la Chana by Elisa Valero (Pre-finalist award) and Temporary Market Barceló by Nieto Sobejano (Pre-finalist award).

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