Category Archives: Spain

HAULuP: Heritage and Architecture of Urban Landscape under Production

 Continuity in Architecture have just returned from the 2013 Heritage and Architecture of Urban Landscape under Productions Workshop. This international project, which was based at the Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV), was a collaboration between the schools of architecture in … Continue reading

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On the Industrial Ruins

    On the Industrial Ruins Over the last forty years the western world has witnessed massive social and economic restructuring. The old heavy industries, upon which our society was constructed, have collapsed. Countries such as the UK and Spain, … Continue reading

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Neil Stevenson’s camino sketchbook

Neil Stevenson was a tutor at Manchester School of Architecture during the ‘nineties (now at Sheffield Hallam). He combines experience of practice with a generous approach to teaching, a wide knowledge of artistic culture and an ability to stop, look … Continue reading

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Mobile World Congress versus Mies

Melanie Miller (of Schiffli fame) forwards the following pictures from Barcelona where the Mobile World Congress was in full swing on Montjuic. Choice quote from a participant (via Reuters): Richard Windsor, industry specialist at Nomura, estimated after day one that … Continue reading

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Expo Zaragoza 2008

Eamonn Canniffe has been invited to contribute photographs of Italian villas to the interactive exhibition which will feature in the Italian National Pavilion at the 2008 Zaragoza Expo. The theme of the Expo ‘Water and Sustainable Development’ will be represented … Continue reading

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Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation

The designer can create small valuable elements within a much larger composition that can affect the quality of a much larger space. Within the hot climate of Mallorca, Rafael Moneo has used the natural qualities of light and water to … Continue reading

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EMBT Housing, Barcelona

The slightly warped orthogonal form of the housing next to the Santa Caterina market contrasts strongly with the flowing roof canopy of the market building. The contextual deformations of the housing appear responsive and natural in the tight urban landscape. … Continue reading

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Student work 2007

Beatrice Fasciato, Mixed-use Development, Barcelona. Mixed Media. Ian Scullion, Detournement, Barcelona. Mixed Media Please click here to see more of the student’s work.

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By the ‘Colegio del Patriarca’, Valencia

An infill scheme in the Plaza del Colegio del Patriarca in Valencia uses an arcaded screen derived from the blind arches in the adjacent building to produce an understated urban form. I have no information about the date of the … Continue reading

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Last Chance

The Interventions exhibition at CUBE showing student work from the Atelier Barcelona/Manchester (a collaboration with the architecture school at UPC Barcelona) finishes on 16 September. Get down there to see what students get up to when they are abroad. The … Continue reading

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Interventions Exhibition

The ‘Interventions’ Exhibition at CUBE opened at the end of June and runs until the middle of September. The exhibition features work from the Atelier Barcelona/Manchester run by Sally Stone and Nick Dunn in collaboration with the Architecture School at … Continue reading

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Interventions

The INTERVENTIONS exhibition opens at CUBE on Wednesday evening at 6.30pm. Exhibition Location Interventions is an exhibition of the work of a group of students from the college of Continuity in Architecture at Manchester who worked with the students from … Continue reading

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