Tag Fernando Alda

24-04-2020

Mallol Arquitectos’ Museo de la Libertad

Mallol Arcquitectos, Central America’s most important architectural studio, has completed a project of great symbolic value, Panama’s Museo de la Libertad y los Derechos Umanos. Funded by the Democracia y Libertad foundation, the museum contains a large interactive permanent exhibition on three floors, plus administrative offices. The building is the first in a complex that will contain three volumes when completed, located to the west of the city next to a park full of trees, which have all been preserved, and employs passive ventilation techniques made possible by the area’s temperate climate.

02-03-2020

El Muelle studio completes a landscaping project in Benalmádena on the Costa del Sol

The Spanish architecture studio El Muelle has completed a project tied to tradition, to the landscape and to memory in the town of Benalmádena on the Costa del Sol, Andalusia. Their work has added value to the landscape along the waterfront, which makes it more attractive to use.

11-02-2020

A travelling museum by Héctor Ayarza for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama City

The Museo De Arte Contemporaneo (MAC) is a private collection of contemporary art from Panama and Latin America located in Panama City. The project entitled "El Contenedor MAC" seeks to expand the scope of the museum. Basically, this is a travelling museum formed of two shipping containers, designed by the Panama-based architect Héctor Ayarza.

06-09-2019

Studio Wet: Borrero House in Alosno and critical pragmatism

In Borrero House in Alosno, in the south of Spain, Jose Gómez Mora and Daniel Montes of Studio Wet work on colour as the element of relationship with the context and rethink the order of the façades. The detail of the main façade is inflected according to the curved lines beloved by Mora and Montes.

09-01-2019

STEPS, dance academy in Panama City

The Panama-based architecture firm SKETCH, founded by Johann Wolfschoon has turned the top floor of an industrial shed in Panama City into a dance academy with studio rooms for dance and other dance-related disciplines as well as changing rooms.

03-12-2018

Mirasol House by JiA-Jose Isturaín Arquitectura, a renovation in Panama

In the stunningly beautiful backdrop of a mountainous zone, architecture firm JiA-Jose Isturaín Arquitectura Panama has refurbished the guesthouse on the Mirasol estate.

09-08-2018

Elisa Valero wins the sixth edition of the Swiss Architectural Award

Spanish architect Elisa Valero is the first woman to win the Swiss Architectural Award, on the occasion of the sixth edition of the biennial prize sponsored by the Swiss Architectural Foundation. In its previous editions, the prize was won by architects Junya Ishigami, José María Sánchez García, Studio Mumbai, Diébédo Francis Kéré and Solano Benítez.

30-04-2018

Casa H, Felipe Assadi Arquitectos

With House H, Chilean architect Felipe Assadi has openly declared his love for bare concrete.

14-03-2018

Mecanoo + AYESA: Cordova Courthouse

Inspired by the history of Cordova and the days of the Califate, Mecanoo’s Courthouse stands in the Arroyo del Moro, of which it has become a symbol. Dutch studio Mecanoo has built a big concrete complex broken up by green patios.