The Casabella magazine, in its 804th edition, has published an extensive report on the statement made by the architects Mercedes Heritage Varela and Luis Castillo Villegas in the Tower “The Castle” Huércal-Overa. It is a thirteenth-century watchtower Nazari, which was built in the final moments of this kingdom. Located atop a hill overlooking the surrounding valleys, this ancient fortress of which have retained only the central elements, was part of a defensive belt of the border. Continue reading…

Public Library in Ceuta: Construction site © Fernando Alda

Construction site photography is of great importance to our studio and we constantly try to overcome, by applying strong economic incentives, the reasons for not turning it into a widespread practice. The knowledge that it gives us both about the project, its space and basic ideas, puts us in an optimal position for the completion of final report. That record allows us to completely cover our concept of documentary architectural photography, providing valuable information for the various participants of the architectural process (administrations, invertors, architects, construction companies, specialists …), something that cannot always be done from the finish.

We are currently conducting follow-up documentation and photographic work in the new public library in Ceuta. The project by Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos won the architectural competition in 2007 and has been published by some media.

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A culinary school in a former slaughterhouse in Medina Sidonia © Fernando Alda

Recently we published on our website's architecture photography last finished work architects Maria Gonzalez y Juanjo Lopez de la Cruz. We do not believe that this project should go unnoticed. This is an interesting intervention that responds to the request to install a hospitality school in the old building of the abattoir, Cadiz in the town of Medina Sidonia. The project developed from an initial position of engagement with the place and the existing building (analysis, development and respect for the town and its old slaughterhouse), further the search for architectural, more personal, a certain formal abstraction. It reaches its expansion in areas not built and annexes, being especially notable and free decks. As we show some images of all, this solution is not at all the result of a rhetorical exercise. The aim is rather fit and “shelter” the building in its urban reality. The right look, established some distance, forms reveals that, color and materials are anything but capricious and, perhaps- were present between the lines in a text that this project has been able to read in poetic form. Continue reading…

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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Interactive Museum of History of Fernando Lugo © Alda

We have incorporated on our website the report of the new Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo, designed by architects Nieto and Enrique Sobejano Fuensanta. Several magazines have already expressed interest in publishing it and AV announced it on its website. Meanwhile, we anticipate these pictures and the text, kindly delivered by its authors.

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A team of three architectural offices from Seville (Runners-up, Lugader and Beanie) has published this guide to contemporary architecture of the city, as an inniciative to spread internationally news on our local architecture. Following the presentation, an exhibition which “offers a tour of the most outstanding examples of architecture in the city of the year 2000 to 2010″  will take place at University of Seville (July 15th till September 15th).

“After a long period of assimilation of the architectural and infrastructure demonstrations held to mark the EXPO’92, and for which Seville´s urban morphology and its function as a metropolis were substantially transformed,  the first decade of XXI century starts as a period of transcendent projects and urban changes, related to movility and public spaces”.

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Three new reports on architecture have been added to our website. Our lastest works refer to the documentation of the following projects: Rehabilitation of housing in Pagés del Corro by Ubaldo Garcia Torrente, Training and Application Centre for Renewable Energies and Environment in Lucena by José Antonio Dorado and Inmaculada C Aldba. Ceacero Martinez and New headquarters of Pieralisi in Mengíbar, Jaén by Antonio Gutierrez and Eduardo Aragües Bentué Rioja, that belong to Servicios Integrales de Ingeniería IDOM.

Magazine Arquitectura Viva Select a picture has become our home for. Story belongs to the San Telmo Museum, San Sebastian, built by the architects Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, has recently been opened. It is very gratifying for us now see the results of a study that has lasted long, and we have followed the work in its construction and have extensively documented the process. There have been many photographs-may- not be seen, contained in them but that would not exist otherwise. The virtuality of the works in progress generates unique time and space, on that one day we must reflect.

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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Renovation of an old water mill, Lanjarón, Grenada

Text: Juan Domingo Santos, architect

Photography: Fernando Alda

The town of Lanjaron is located on the southern slope of Sierra Nevada. Known for its craftsmanship, the production of quality honey and its healing waters, it is one of the most renowned resorts in Spain.

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We Have Recently started colaboration with the Korean architecture stores CONCEPT.  This bilingual English-Korean monthly magazine dedicates its pages to world architectures and is distributed all over the world. First efects of our cooperation can be seen on the cover of the 146 issue, and the following article about Metropol Parasol in Seville by Jürgen Mayer.

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This month for the second time our report makes the cover of Bauwelt, a celebrated German magazine on architecture and construction. The selected work is the Extension San Telmo Museum in San Sebastian by the architects Nieto and Sobejano.

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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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The Center for Contemporary Creation in Cordoba will open its doors 2013, since the works are already well advanced and is expected to be completed by the end of 2011. The center is located in the Miraflores Park, near the mosque and the river Guadalquivir in Córdoba, proposed as a candidate city European Capital of Culture 2016. The architectural proposal Nieto Sobejano, winners Aga Khan Award for Architecture distinguishes conservation projects and urban regeneration in areas of cultural significance, was the winner of an international competition which also included architects Dominique Perrault, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelblau and Cruz / Ortiz.

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Always, the main square of the city of Seville was the Plaza Nueva, in front of City Hall, and of course there are all kinds of celebrations organized, events, concentraciones o manifestaciones. But the protests of recent days, first, have been convened in the Plaza de la Encarnación. Does this mean that Mushrooms are becoming the new agora Sevilla? treatment or simply- a new chapter of ournovelería.

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Europaconsorci on its home page highlights the work of Fernando Alda, the Architectural. Fernando has worked closely with the Italian magazine for several years and today the site has 38 architecture of their reports.

Europaconcorsi highlights the work of Fernando Alda, architecture photographer, on its homepage. Fernando has been cooperating with the italian magazine for several years now and the website offers 38 of his reports on architecture.

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The latest edition of OFFICES presents a report of Cultural Center and the new town hall in Archidona the Ramón Fernández Alonso.

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The latest edition of OFFICINAS presents a report on the Gdent Dental Clinic in Vitoria by Francis Rifé.

“Basic colors and fine materials are blended in perfect symbiosis in the dental clinic in Vitoria Gdent. The interior designer, Francesc Rife, has created an environment in which the mirrors, the sobriety of marble on the glass and resins´ neutral white and gray, define a well-organized maze of spaces that combines the comfort of patients with ergonomics for professionals. ”

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Soon the works on the Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo (MIHL) will come to their end and we will get the opportunity to enjoy a garden-museum, the new work of architects Nieto Fuensanta and Enrique Sobejano. The project is a result of an international competition organized by the city of Lugo in 2007, won by a unique project which according to the city Mayor, will attract public to Lugo. Continue reading…

Bauwelt, a well-established German magazine on architecture and construction, dedicates its issue On. 18/2011 almost exclusively to Metropol Parasol. Three in-depth articles together with extensive graphic material (drawings, models, plans and photos) present the object analysing both its assets and contradictory urban, architectural and construction solutions.

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