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Urban healing: a maternity and children's hospital has an impassive urban presence concealing a rich interior life
To a geographic diversity that encompasses such disparate locales as Stockholm, San Sebastian and Los Angeles, Rafael Moneo can now add...
Architectural Review, The, 05/01/05 by Carla Bertolucci · More from publication -
Stone and light: within a hermetic stone clad casket is an interior realm of lightness and tranquillity
Alberto Campo Baeza's new offices for the local health authority in Almeria extend an existing courtyard block on a city centre site. Towering...
Architectural Review, The, 05/01/05 by Carla Bertolucci · More from publication -
Music box: this centre for young Spanish musicians is a hermetic stone cube with a luminous heart
Founded in 1495 as a 'Grammatic Academy', the University of Santiago de Compostela is one of the oldest in Europe, playing an important part in the...
Architectural Review, The, 06/01/04 by Carla Bertolucci · More from publication -
Flamenco flair: Herzog de Meuron reinterpret the southern Spanish tradition of flamenco in a new contribution to Jerez
Flamenco occupies a cherished place in Andalucian culture, and the city of Jerez de la Frontera is widely regarded as its birthplace and spiritual...
Architectural Review, The, 06/01/04 by Carla Bertolucci · More from publication -
Marine world: set within a Spanish national park, this natural history museum is a dramatic concrete grotto
Lying on the south-west Atlantic coast of Spain, the vast and richly diverse Donana National Park has been described as Europe's last wilderness....
Architectural Review, The, 02/01/04 by Carla Bertolucci · More from publication -
Cave of knowledge: reinterpreting Iberian archetypes, this new library in a Madrid suburb employs reinforced brick to great effect
Iberian architecture is, historically, distinguished by its employment of masonry to create heavy, thick-walled, largely imperforate volumes,...
Architectural Review, The, 01/01/04 by Carla Bertolucci · More from publication -
Frozen music: Leon's new concert hall is an imaginative distillation of Iberian vernacular that forms not only a dignified space for music, but also enriches the urban realm
Nestling at the foot of the Cantabrian Cordillera, Leon in northern Spain was an important stopping off point on the historic pilgrimage route to...
Architectural Review, The, 05/01/03 by Carla Bertolucci · More from publication -
Treasure chest: Castellon's museum is conceived as a hermetic, almost impervious aluminium chest that guards the city's fine collections. Inside, it allows its treasures to be eloquent - Brief Article
Madrid-based Luis Mansilla and his partner Emillo Tunon began their careers in the office of Rafael Moneo and their work is strongly inflected by...
Architectural Review, The, 06/01/02 by Carla Bertolucci · More from publication -
Spanish steps: Spectacularly cut into the hillside surrounding Toledo, this external stair elegantly and efficiently transports tourists up to the historic city centre
Poised precipitously on a hill overlooking a sharp bend in the River Tagus, the city of Toledo has remained miraculously unchanged since the end of...
Architectural Review, The, 02/01/02 by Carla Bertolucci · More from publication -
Riverbed revival: Set in the neglected carcass of a dried up riverbed, this new public park is full of subtle and inventive new landscape devices that respond to the site's history
Fontsanta Park is a conglomeration of imaginative public spaces grafted on to the dried-up riverbed of the former Fontsanta River. The riverbed...
Architectural Review, The, 02/01/02 by Carla Bertolucci · More from publication
