On Monday, July 7th, the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, conducted an official visit to the site of ongoing renovation of Archaeological Museum of Seville being carried out by Vázquez Consuegra Studio. During the visit, he was accompanied by the Andalusian Regional Minister of Culture, Patricia del Pozo, and the architect himself, Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra. The architect showed the attendees the progress of the ongoing work and explained the future modifications to the project of transforming this magnificent building by Aníbal González into a world-class archaeological museum.
For more information about this piece of news: https://www.elcorreoweb.es/cultura/2025/07/08/rehabilitacion-arqueologico-plazo-ministerio-invertido-119459749.html
For more information about this project: https://www.vazquezconsuegra.com/rehabilitacion-del-museo-arqueologico-de-sevilla-2/
During the first days of this month of July, the International Summit of United Nations members was held in Seville. This gathering, which brought together presidents and diplomats from numerous countries, took place at the FIBES Congress Palace in Seville, designed by the Vázquez Consuegra Studio.
For more information about this project: https://www.vazquezconsuegra.com/palacio-de-congresos-de-sevilla/
The multi-brand store MKR, dedicated to the sale of haute couture clothing, is located in part of the ground floors of a bourgeois housing building constructed by architect José Gómez Millán in 1912 on Calle de la Campana at the corner of Plaza del Duque, probably the most strategic corner from a commercial point of view in the historic center of Seville.
The premises consist of three levels; a small basement and the ground and upper floors, which are not superimposed, so they only coincide at the staircase that connects them at one end of the floor.
The main objective of the project is to find a mechanism capable of connecting the three levels, ensuring functional, physical, and spatial continuity. A single element designed to unify the three floors, based on the unmovable presence of the two existing staircases, which, spaced apart, are attached to the building’s long party wall.
More information about this project: https://www.vazquezconsuegra.com/en/mkr-campana-shop-in-seville/
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra’s studio participates in the present edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale with the project of the Trieste Maritime Museum, exhibited in the Italian Pavilion at the Giardini in the temporary zone.
The reconversion project of Magazzino 26 in the Porto Vecchio of Trieste aims to incorporate a new top-level contemporary cultural space into the city’s current life through the comprehensive rehabilitation of an old abandoned building.
For more information about the project: https://www.vazquezconsuegra.com/museo-del-mar-en-trieste/
On April 24th, the new summer exhibition at the Casa de la Arquitectura in Madrid opened its doors. Under the theme: “Habitar España” (Living Spain) and curated by Mexican architect Fernanda Canales, the exhibition highlights seventy models of housing projects that have marked a milestone in Spain over the past fifty years. The studio of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra has been selected to be part of the exhibition with its social housing project in Barriada de la Paz, Cádiz, completed in 1986.
The project focuses on the configuration of public spaces, establishing a hierarchy between places and routes, squares, and pedestrian streets. The housing blocks, measuring 62 m and 116 m in length, are designed in an L-shape to form the corners of the buildings on both streets. The typology adopted is that of double-cruck houses, aiming to maximize the use of the floor plan by achieving the greatest possible width of the block. The larger block is conceived as a more complex organism, organized into two parallel sections connected by two glazed metal bridges, creating a pedestrian street between them that leads to one of the squares. The inner block—containing six floors of duplex apartments—accepts the subordinate role of the main building.
For more information about Casa de la Arquitectura : https://lacasadelaarquitectura.es/exposiciones/actuales
For more information about this project: https://www.vazquezconsuegra.com/edificio-de-viviendas-sociales-en-cadiz/
This week, the resolution of the National Competition for the refurbishment of the Plaza Mayor of Mallorca has been published. The project by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra together with Pez Arquitectos have been ranked third with a subtle urban proposal and a strong commitment to heritage.
For more information about this project:
https://www.vazquezconsuegra.com/en/remodeling-plaza-mayor-of-mallorca/
Architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will give a lecture in the Italian city of Melfi on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 7:00 PM. In connection with the MIA Museum project, currently under development in this city, there will be a review of the rehabilitation projects carried out by the Vázquez Consuegra Studio, and more details about this fascinating new museum for the city will be shared.
For more information about this project: https://www.vazquezconsuegra.com/en/museum-mia-museo-delle-innovazionni-e-delle-arti-melfi-italy/
Last November, Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra gave a lecture titled: ‘Il mio lavoro, da Aldo Rossi a oggi‘ at the headquarters of the magazine Casabella in Milan. He reviewed the three projects currently under construction by the studio: the Archaeological Museum and Atarazanas Cultural Center in Seville and the Museum of the Sea in Trieste.
If you would like to view the conference session, you can do so through the following link:
https://www.casabellaformazione.it/ciclo-di-incontri/guillermo-vazquez-consuegra-2/
The resolution of the International Project Competition for the Rehabilitation and Expansion of the Kursaal Theater in Locarno, Switzerland, has been published last week. The studio of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra has been ranked third with an harmonious proposal that respects the environment and the old theater.
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Recently, the acquisition by the Centre Pompidou in Paris of original documentation, plans, and models of six projects by the studio of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra has become effective: Olivares Garden (1976), House and Studio for painter Rolando in Mairena del Aljarafe (1982), Ramón y Cajal Social Housing Building in Seville (1986), Navigation Pavilion for Expo ’92 in Seville (1990), Urban Planning of the Maritime Front of Vigo (1993), and finally, the Atarazanas of Seville in its two versions, Caixaforum (2012) and Cultural Center (2015). The French government acquires a collection of more than 70 original plans on tracing paper or polyester, 80 photographs, 60 drawings and sketches, and 7 study models or other more definitive ones, which will share space alongside works by other great architects such as Carlo Aymonio, Vittorio Gregotti, Louis Kahn, Norman Foster, Fernández Alba, Oriol Bohigas, or Álvaro Siza.
As every year for more than three decades now, and coinciding this time with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the magazine AV, the 2025 Yearbook has gathered in a double issue a selection of 24 works created by Spanish architectural practices, including the first phase of the Restoration of the Atarazanas of Seville by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra.
For more information about the publication: https://arquitecturaviva.com/obras/centro-cultural-atarazanas-sevilla-1030
For more information about the project: https://www.vazquezconsuegra.com/en/centro-cultural-atarazanas/
At the beginning of 2025, the first phase of the future Atarazanas Cultural Center in Seville has been completed. Currently, the arrengement for the second phase, which consists of the conditioning of the first floor of the architectural intervention, is pending.
For more information about the project: https://www.vazquezconsuegra.com/centro-cultural-atarazanas/”
On Monday 11 November, Vázquez Consuegra will give a lecture at the headquarters of the renowned Italian magazine. The talk will focus on three of his works under construction, as well as his relationship with Aldo Rossi during an initial period.
Where: CASABELLAlaboratorio – Theatro Milano.
Monday 11 November at 18h.
Registration required at: www.casabellaformazione.it
Within the framework of the Setmana de l’arquitectura 2024 of the Official College of Architects of the Balearic Islands, the architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will give a conference in which he will talk about his latest interventions in heritage, through the role of public spaces in the city.
The event will take place on October 10 at 19:30h at the headquarters of the Eivissa and Formentera Demarcation of COAIB (Pere Tur, 3 – Can Llaneres, Eivissa).
The Business Creation Centre of the University of Alicante, whose first phase has been completed, has been published in the Italian magazine Casabella. The text, authored by the publishing house itself, brings together topics such as the architect’s first meetings with Aldo Rossi or the peculiarity of the context in which the projected building is located. ‘Se la città è lontana’ is the title of this publication, which is accompanied by images and drawings of the project.
As part of the ‘Seville in Process’ series of conferences organised by COAS as part of its programme of activities, the architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will give a talk on his most recent works. The meeting will take place on Thursday 26 September at 20:00.
This conference can be followed live in person in the auditorium of the association’s headquarters (Plaza del Cristo de Burgos, 35), until full capacity is reached.
Vázquez Consuegra architectural office has won first place in the competition for the construction of the town hall of Montegiorgio on the remains of the former Convent of San Francesco, as well as the architectural rehabilitation of one of the few surviving buildings of the convent complex, the Panfili Staircase.
The main objective of the winning proposal is to enhance the value of the two main surviving historic buildings that belonged to the convent complex of San Francisco, the old church and the Panfili Staircase (Pio Panfili, architect and painter of the 18th century). To achieve this, it is proposed to demolish the buildings constructed in the 1950s attached to the church and to create a new public space between the two existing buildings.
Issue 50 of the magazine EGA Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica publishes an extensive interview with Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra by Ricardo Hernández Soriano and Jorge Molinero Sánchez. It deals with topics such as the importance of drawing in the creative process, Vázquez Consuegra’s relationship with Rossi, Távora, Soto de Moura and Siza, or the evolution in the forms of representation throughout his trajectory, among others.
The magazine EGA Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica is a four-monthly publication edited by the Departments of Graphic Expression of Spanish universities, which focuses on graphic expression in architecture.
You can download the complete issue number 50 as well as the specific interview in the following link.
“San Telmo and Atarazanas. History of a resistance” is the title of the next conference of Vázquez Consuegra, in which he will reflect on the processes of working on the existing. Organised by the University of La Sapienza and the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome.
9 April at 17:30h at the Reale Accademia di Spagna, P. San Pietro in Montorio 3, Rome.
The Social Housing in Vallecas, a work completed in 2012 and winner of several awards, including The Chicago Athenaeum Museum International Architecture Prize, The Plan Award, the NAN Architecture Prize and the Ibero-American Architecture Biennial Prize 2014, has been published in the latest monograph on housing in Spain published by Arquitectura Viva.
Caixaforum Sevilla is listed as one of the museums highlighted for its “amazing architecture” by Arquitectura y Diseño magazine in its web version. Caixaforum Seville, completed in 2017, has received multiple awards, such as the DNA Paris Design Awards, ArchDaily’s 2018 Best Building of the Year Award, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum International Architecture Award, among others.
To read the full article: “The museums with the most amazing architecture in Spain: discover the 8 cultural gems from north to south”.
On 17 January, the main stakeholders in the refurbishment of the Archaeological Museum of Seville met. Members of the Vázquez Consuegra team, the construction company Ferrovial, the Ministry of Culture and the management of the museum itself visited the building in an event that symbolises the start of work on one of the most important museums in the country.
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra won the National Ideas Competition for the refurbishment of the Seville Archaeological Museum in 2009.
The project for the restructuring and regeneration of the Ex-Manifactura building in Gemona del Fruili (Udine, Italy) for its conversion into a Sports Business Creation Centre under the name “Sportland Life Factory” is being drawn up.
The building was built after the earthquake of 1976 according to the design of architect Emilio Mattioni, a member of the “Studio di Via Mazzini” architectural office in Udine and one of the leading exponents, together with Renzo Agosto and Gianugo Polesello, of the “Architecture Group” that made the Venice School internationally famous in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Vázquez Consuegra architectural studio, together with architect Sandro Pittini, Pool Engineering s.r.l., T14 Associati and geologist Davide Serravalli, will carry out the conversion of Mattioni’s building, after winning the tender promoted by the Gemona City Council in 2022.
Last October saw the inauguration of the first phase of the Business Creation Centre of the University of Alicante, a work carried out by Vázquez Consuegra.
The building revolves around the presence of office-laboratory modules for science and technology-based companies, versatile and flexible spaces equipped with as many facilities as required depending on their nature, with the possibility of being increased or replaced in the future.
It is a U-shaped building, with a main body at its head, which houses the common areas of the centre, such as the lobby, the cafeteria/restaurant and the service areas corresponding to the company laboratories.
The Alicante Science Park has created a virtual tour of the entire building, in which you can explore each space, floor by floor, through the following link:
The V Biennale di Architettura di Pisa, held between 13 and 29 October, has awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award to architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra. An award dedicated to those who, during their profession and through their work, have been attentive to the search for the construction of urban meanings always inspired in people’s quality of life.
The jury has emphasised the architect’s ability to combine in his works major themes such as social balance and the understanding of the city as a place for meeting and relationship, all of it carried out with a high degree of aesthetic sensitivity.
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Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will give a Lectio Magistralis tomorrow 27 October in the context of the V Biennale di Architettura di Pisa. Under the slogan “Shared City”, this year’s biennale aims to disseminate works and lines of research that show the role of architecture in social rebalancing, offering the possibility of comparing past experiences and visions of the future.
Works that shape new models and will lead the way in designing the cities of the future.
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will give a lecture at the Venice School of Architecture on 2 October at 11.30 a.m. in the Aula Magna dei Tolentini, the University’s headquarters at Santa Croce 191, Venice.
Entitled “Una nuvo totalità”, the lecture will focus on the importance of context through various interventions in the built environment.
Audi Spain has used the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Cartagena as a backdrop to promote the latest launch of the Audi Q3 Black Line.
Vázquez Consuegra is facing the final stage in the construction of the MKR multi-brand shop in the centre of Seville. Located in an old building designed by the architect Gómez Millán in 1912, this is the second shop that the studio has designed for Markaride S.L. However, this new store will offer more exclusive brands, becoming a benchmark on the city’s haute couture circuit.
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will restore the former Convent of the Poor Clares in the Italian town of Melfi for its conversion into the Museo MIA, Museo delle Innovazionni e delle Arti.
The monastery of San Bartolomeo was built around the 16th century and entrusted to the Nuns of the Order of Santa Chiara until the Municipal Council of Melfi, in 1863, ordered the closure of the monastery and the transfer of the building to the military authorities.
From the convent of the Poor Clares, it became a prison until the end of the 1980s.
Now, the GVC studio will be in charge of its refurbishment to turn it into a new cultural space in the city.
The former convent, and future MIA Museum, is part of the “38 Cantieri della Cultura”, a detailed and exclusive selection made by the Italian Ministry of Culture as part of the strategic plan “Grandi Progetti Beni Culturali”, relating to restoration and intervention projects in monumental and cultural buildings. This selection includes such emblematic buildings as the Basilica of San Marco in Venice, the Colosseum, the Vittoriano, the MAXXI Museum and the Palazzo Poli e Calcografia in Rome, the Royal Palace in Naples, the Egyptian Museum in Turin and the Basilica of St. Andrew in Mantua, among others.
For more information, please click on the following link.
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra has been selected by the Laboratorio Permanente per la Cittá, LP, curators of the Biennale di Archittetura di Pisa, to take part in its 5th edition in the section “Public spaces and structures of social connection” with the project Magallanes Park in Seville.
The Biennale di Archittetura di Pisa is presented this year under the slogan: “The Shared City. Architecture for a new social balance” and will take place between 13th and 29th of October 2023.
More information:
https://www.biennaledipisa.com/
Vázquez Consuegra has won the competition for the integral refurbishment of the Castell Nou de Llinars del Vallès as a multidisciplinary office space.
It was a restricted two-phase competition with the intervention of a jury, with 8 finalists in the second phase. Vázquez Consuegra’s proposal “Castell XXI” achieved the highest score.
The proposed intervention in the Castell Nou de Llinars del Vallés not only resolves its historical recovery through the comprehensive refurbishment of the building, but also provides it with a new use, this time cultural and administrative. It is, therefore, the reactivation of the old with a contemporary reuse to incorporate it into the life cycle of the city
The international magazine dedicated to contemporary landscape, Topscape Paysage, has published in its latest issue the Magallanes Park in Seville.
More information at the following link.
New lecture by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra next Thursday 15th December at 4.30 p.m. in the Ajace hall of the Palazzo D’Aronco in Udine, Via Lionello 1, Italy. The conference is part of the initiatives for the twentieth anniversary of the Degree in Architectural Sciences at the University of Udine. The intervention, entitled: “Il progetto dei luoghi pubblici. La costruzione del paesaggio interno ed esterno alla cittá contemporanea”, will be presented by the course coordinator Alberto Sdegno, with interventions by Giovanni Fraziano and Sandro Pittini of the University of Udine.
More information at the following link.
The Swiss publisher Springer has published the book “Architectural Graphics. Volume 2-Graphics for Knowledge and Production” with a comprehensive article entitled: “On the Drawings and Travel Notebooks of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra”. In it, Antonio Estepa Rubio and Jesús Estepa Rubio analyse the graphic contribution of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra through various sketches from his travel notebooks.
More information at the following link.
The Swiss publisher Braun Publishing has recently published the book “Contemporary architecture. Masterpieces around the world”, which reviews the best architecture from around the world in the last decade. CaixaForum Seville is one of the projects chosen.
More information at the following link.
This Thursday 24th November Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra travels to Barcelona to give a lecture at the School of Architecture on the value of the public.
At 12:30h in the Assembly Hall of the ETSAB.
Next Tuesday 15 November at 10 am, Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will open the second session of the IV ITE+3R Congress in Salamanca within the framework of Icons of Rehabilitation.
These Congresses are aimed transversally at all agents involved in construction and in particular with Urban Rehabilitation and Regeneration: architects, engineers, builders, citizens, as well as architecture students in their final years.
More information:
http://www.congresoitemas3r.com/
Video summary of the conference at the following link.
The construction of the Museum of the Sea has begun and the city of Trieste has created an information platform on the project where you can find out all the details in depth. On the website, in addition to infographics and a virtual tour, you can see interviews with the architects and landscape architects involved in the project: Alfonso Femia, Andreas Kipar, Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra and Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas.
You can access the Porto Vivo website at the following link.
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will give the closing lecture of the seminar entitled: “Graphic teaching in architecture schools. New scenarios” which will take place on Friday 21st October at 12:30h at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada.
In his lecture “Some drawn projects”, the architect will show previously unpublished sketches and will analyse the integration of the practice of drawing as a tool for analysis and thought.
More information at the following link.
On the occasion of the OPENHOUSE festival in Seville and the participation of Vázquez Consuegra in its first edition, Metalocus magazine has published two extensive articles on the interventions in the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage in La Cartuja, as well as the Conversion of the San Telmo Palace as the headquarters of the Presidency of the Andalusian Regional Government.
“Building on the past to construct the present. San Telmo Palace by Vázquez Consuegra”
From Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd October the first edition of OPENHOUSE Seville festival will take place and Vázquez Consuegra architecture office is participating with several works. Among them, the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (Sunday), Pabellón de la Navegación (Saturday and Sunday) and the Palace of San Telmo (Friday). In addition, and as an exceptional event, the doors of the studio will be open on Friday morning with limited capacity.
More information at the following link.
Magallanes Park has been awarded the “Best Architecture Spain-Korea 25+25 2022″ in the category of Public Facilities, and will be part of an exhibition that can be visited both in Seoul and Madrid from the end of June. The exhibition brings together 50 projects of the best Spanish and Korean architecture that will be presented with graphic and audiovisual material in two venues:
From 24 June until 14 July the exhibition will be held in gallery 3 of the Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture and in January 2023 it can be visited at the headquarters of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid.
The event is organised by the Architecture Design Institute of Korea (ADIK) in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy in Korea, the Korean Embassy in Spain, the Korean Ministry of Culture, Transport and Tourism and the Instituto Cervantes.
The projects presented, selected through a two-phase elimination process, will be compiled in a monographic publication edited by the Korean magazine C3.
Video by Javier Orive for the exhibition
On Monday 13 June at 7 p.m. Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will give a lecture at the headquarters of the Territorial College of Architects of Alicante entitled “Interventions in heritage”.
It will be possible to attend in person and also by streaming.
More information at the following link.
Here you can see the full conference.
The Sustainable Mobility Congress, organised by the Institute of Mobility, is a 5-day online event on the future of mobility, which offers access to presentations by renowned professionals in the sector.
The architect Angelo Marletta, coordinator of the project, will present the Restructuring of the Cornavin Urban Complex on 26 April in Room 4, a project drawn up by the Vázquez Consuegra studio together with Frei Rezakhanlou Architectes and winner of the competition organised by the Construction and Planning Department of the City of Geneva.
To attend the congress, registration is required at the following link:
On 23 March Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will give a “Lectio Magistralis” to the students of the University of Chieti-Pescara, the opening lecture of the 2021-22 university year, delayed due to the pandemic.
It will be possible to follow the speech via streaming at the following link.
Event organised in collaboration with COAS.
The Chinese magazine Urbanism and Architecture, in its 274th issue, has published an interview with Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra in which he expresses his vision of architecture, his references and reviews some of his projects, such as the Ramón y Cajal dwellings, the Conference Centre in Seville, the Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Cartagena and the Restoration of the Palace of San Telmo.
Magazine in English and Chinese
ISSN: 1673-0232
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On 16 March at the headquarters of the FIDAS Foundation, Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will present the interventions in Genoa and Cornavin to Finnish architects, companies and authorities during the Andalusia-Finlandia Architecture Conference, organised from Seville by FIDAS and Extenda in collaboration with Business Finland and the Finnish Embassy in Spain.
Prior registration is required before 7 March at the following link.
More information about the conference and the programme.
In the following link you can see a summary of the conference.
Yesterday, 8 th of February, Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra explained to the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, the mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñoz, and other authorities and press, the future project of the Atarazanas Cultural Centre, which works have already begun and will last until 2024. (Photograph by Anna Elías)
Issue 292 of the Peruvian magazine Arkinka features several of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra’s latest projects, including the A11 house (on the cover), the MKR shop and the architecture studio’s headquarters on Dos de Mayo street in Seville, among others.
The architect Frederick Cooper, director of the magazine and author of the editorial, emphasises: “In all of them (the six projects presented) it is clear that the starting point is always a careful reflection on the genius loci of each chosen site, the intelligent and sensitive observation of the natural, urban and/or historical context (…)”.
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra presented the project for the new Museum of the Sea in the presence of Trieste City Hall officials on 9 th December.
“There is a desire to define an urban space that can be used by the public, recovering historical memory and the delicate construction of fabrics that link the new with the old, demonstrating a natural propensity to dialogue with heritage and to know how to mould one’s own architectural and constructive repertoire in favour of a discreet and original contemporaneity” T.P.
Link to the video of the presentation
Link to the article in Trieste Prima
Link to the article in Il Piccolo
On Thursday 9th December, Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will present the new Museum of the Sea at Magazzino 26 in Trieste, in the presence of the Mayor Roberto Diapazza, the Councillor for Public Works Elisa Lodi and the Councillor for Culture Giorgio Rossi among others. The event is open to the public by prior reservation.
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On Monday 29 th November, Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra presented the new project of the Archaeological Museum of Seville to the Minister of Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta, and the Regional Minister of Culture and Historical Heritage of the Andalusian Regional Government, Patricia del Pozo.
More information:
Link to the news item in El Pais
On Saturday 6th November, the documentary dedicated to the Magallanes Urban Park was broadcasted together with an interview with Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra as part of the programming of Espacio Protegido, the news programme of Canal Sur Television dedicated to the Andalusian environment.
The CUADERNOS DE VIVIENDA collection of the GIVCO – Collective Housing Research Group of the DPA ETSAM department of the Polytechnic University of Madrid – has recently published its 15th notebook, a monograph on the Ramón y Cajal Social Housing in Seville, under the direction of the architect and researcher Carmen Espegel.
The main objective of these notebooks is to create a complete database organised by decades that includes the most relevant Spanish collective housing buildings of the 20th century.
In its 14th edition, the Grands Prix du Design have awarded CaixaForum Seville their highest recognition in the category of Architecture, the Award of the Year.
For the jury, the CaixaForum represents “a marvellous fluid and seamless integration of the architecture into its surroundings. The delicacy of the building’s landscape expression marks the entrance to the spaces that are revealed by the light”.
Link to the publication in INT.design
In addition to the Gold Award, the Parque de Magallanes also received the Platinum Landscape Award, which recognises the best 50 international projects in its category.
In the 14th edition of the Canadian GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN Awards, the A11 House, the CaixaForum Cultural Centre and Magallanes Urban Park have been awarded the Gold Award in their respective categories.
Among more than 4700 entries, Magallanes Urban Park has been one of the longlisted entries in the first phase of the renowned architecture awards in the landscape architecture category.
Korean landscape magazine publishes an article on Magallanes Urban Park in its April issue.
“Public Architecture” is the title of the lecture that Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra will give on 26th May at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada. It is part of the cycle organised by the subject Miradas Cruzadas (Crossed Gazes) of the Habilitating University Master’s Degree.
La revista francesa AMC, perteneciente al grupo Le Moniteur, dedica un numero monográfico a obras que emplean el metal como principal material constructivo, entre ellas incluye al CaixaForum Sevilla.
Wave 2020 will be the first architectural workshop to focus on post-Covid scenarios, a subject that is bound to occupy architects and urban planners in the coming years.
Once again, this prestigious architectural design workshop will demonstrate how architecture can be a tool for both understanding and improving the world.
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La revista AN Shopfittingmagazine especializada en proyectos de construcción y decoración de tiendas de diseño internacionales, publica en su numero 156 un reportaje dedicado a la tienda MKR en Sevilla.
La conocida revista francesa Architectures Cree, dedica en su numero 393 un completo articulo a la Casa A11. Stéphanie Philippe autora del texto y la entrevista a Vázquez Consuegra que acompaña al articulo, reúne una selección de material gráfico del proyecto.
La exposición “Genevè en projets”, organizada por la SIA, Sociedad Suiza de Ingenieros y Arquitectos, reúne en el Pabellón Sicli de Ginebra una selección de proyectos vencedores en concursos que han tenido lugar en dicha ciudad.
El equipo formado por el arquitecto Vázquez Consuegra junto al estudio local Frei Rezakhanlou resultó ganador del Concurso Internacional de Urbanismo para la reestructuración del área central de la Estación principal de Ginebra, la Estación de ferrocarriles de Cornavin. El jurado presidido por el arquitecto portugués Gonzalo Byrne decidió por unanimidad otorgar el primer premio al proyecto presentado por este equipo que será, por tanto, el encargado de elaborar la nueva imagen del conjunto urbano de
Cornavin, una amplia zona de la ciudad suiza ubicada al borde de su centro histórico.
El concurso organizado por el departamento de Construcción y Planificación del Ayuntamiento de Ginebra y desarrollado en tres fases eliminatorias, se inserta de lleno en lo que se ha denominado urbanismo de recualificación frente al, quizá ya insostenible,
urbanismo de expansión.
La Casa A11 se encuentra entre los proyectos que optan a ser elegidos como Edificio del Año Archdaily (Archdaily Building of the Year Award 2020), Archdaily es una de las webs sobre arquitectura con mayor difusión mundial.
La Università degli Studi di Ferrara inaugura la colección Momenti di architettura contemporanea con una publicación monográfica dedicada al CaixaForum Sevilla.
Con textos de Alessandro Tessari y German Pro
Jueves 19 de Diciembre a partir de las 14:30 h
Palazzo Tassoni
Via Ghiara, 36
Miercoles 18 de Diciembre a partir de las 15:00 h
Cotonificio Auditorium
Università IUAV di Venezia
TC Cuadernos dedica una segunda monografía a la obra de Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra que viene a completar el trabajo iniciado en el TC 92/93 . En esta ocasión recoge en una cuidada publicación 14 proyectos de la última década de trabajo del estudio.
Con textos de Giovanna Crespi, Ricardo Carvalho y Carlos Meri, Ricardo Meri
La arquitectura en sus manos. Giovanna Crespi
Regla-Distorsión-Ajuste. Ricardo Carvalho
Somos la arquitectura que hacemos. Carlos Meri y Ricardo Meri
TC 143- Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra Arquitectura 2008- 2019
TC 92/93- Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra. Arquitectura 1998-2010
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CaixaForum Sevilla ha sido reconocido con el Premio al Mejor Edificio Cultural en los Premios Escala Expocihac celebrados en Ciudad de México.
11 de Octubre de 2019. 9:30 h
Sala de Conferencias UAM. Merida, Yucatán.
La tienda MKR abre sus puertas una vez concluida su reforma.
El diseño introduce nuevos elementos que generan una mayor fluidez espacial a partir de una reducción significativa de artefactos existentes, con la consiguiente mejora de la circulación y de la percepción visual del conjunto.
El nuevo espacio se articula a partir de la introducción de una escalera helicoidal justo en el lugar en que las plantas baja y sótano se superponen. Esta hélice, a modo de perno gigante, se constituye en el eje de giro que permite la articulación de las dos plantas, baja y sótano, que se deslizan noventa grados una sobre la otra.
La localización y trazado de la escalera va a determinar la configuración formal y la posición de los dos grandes expositores, definidos por curvas, de alturas y diámetros distintos, que se superponen ofreciendo su concavidad interior a los diversos artículos para su exposición al público.
MKR shop in Seville
Bienal de Arquitectura. Un top ten visual con las obras de sus principales exponentes_La Nación
Arquitectura Sevillana en la Bienal de Buenos Aires 2019_Clarin ARQ
Desde 1985, la Ciudad de Buenos Aires ha sido el anfitrión de una de las más destacadas celebraciones de la cultura arquitectónica internacional. La Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires es uno de los eventos más importantes de la región, pionera de las Bienales de Latinoamérica y reconocida dentro de la trilogía más relevante, junto con la de Venecia y Sao Paulo.
Dentro de este marco, Buenos Aires se convierte en un espacio de diálogos culturales entrecruzados, conferencias de renombrados arquitectos a nivel mundial y exposiciones que ubican a la arquitectura en un primer plano de conversación.
Vázquez Consuegra, que ya recibió en el año 2014 el Gran Premio Bienal a la Trayectoria, vuelve a acudir a este certamen en el que impartirá una conferencia sobre su obra y la relación de esta con el espacio público. A lo largo de sus 34 años, la Bienal ha contado con la presencia de los más destacados arquitectos del panorama internacional, entre ellos varios Premios Pritzker como Richard Meier, Hans Hollein, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Jean Nouvel, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Toyo Itō, Zaha Hadid o Alejandro Aravena.
Architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra has been announced as the winner of the International Competition to design the new Sea Museum in the city of Trieste, Italy.
The subject of the tender launched by the council was the requalification of the most relevant element among the port warehouse ensemble of ‘Porto Vecchio’, a magnificent building called ‘Magazzino 26’ listed as building of cultural interest. It was built in 1893, with four levels and a 244 linear meters long facade, it is a beautiful example of industrial architecture, built in white Istria limestone and cast iron columns.
As he already did some years ago, when he transformed the old Genoa Arsenal into the city Sea Museum on the occasion of the celebration of Genoa as European Capital of Culture in 2004, Vazquez Consuegra will work on this distinguished building in Trieste’s ‘Porto Vecchio’ to convert it to the new seat of the Sea Museum, currently located on Campo Marzio’s street in the same city.
The creation of a new museum pole inside ‘Porto Vecchio’, together with other cultural strategies already going on in the same area, offers a real chance for the requalification of this significant port location of the city of Trieste.
The temporary consortium between Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra Architects and the Italian engineering consulting: Politecnica, Consilium, Cooprogetti, Mads & Associati, Re.Te, F. Lambertucci, M. Endrizzi and SGM Consulting, will be in charge of the project and the site work management of the new Sea Museum.
Vázquez Consuegra concluye un nuevo proyecto de vivienda unifamiliar en el centro histórico de su ciudad
27 de Mayo de 2019. 15:00 h
Salone Mantegnesco, Mantova
Programa Mantovarchitettura 2019
Introducción Alessandro Tessari
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Bajo el lema “Arquitectura Contextual Innovadora en Europa”, el Premio 2A Europe Architecture Award reconoce la contribución sustancial de un individuo o grupo a la arquitectura actual, destacando aquellos proyectos llamados a tener una influencia duradera en la teoría y práctica de la arquitectura. Estos premios aúnan diversas culturas, identidades, temas, ideas y experiencias en arquitectura en una plataforma para compartir, explorar y discutir.
Como parte del ciclo sobre Puerto y Ciudad organizado por el Colegio de Arquitectos de las Islas Baleares, se presenta la conferencia “Donde la ciudad acaba” con la que Vázquez Consuegra realiza un recorrido que transita a través de seis de sus obras encuadradas en dicha temática.
La ordenación del Frente Marítimo de Vigo, el Waterfront de La Spezia en Italia, la ordenación del Llano Amarillo del Puerto de Algeciras, el Pabellón de la Navegación de Sevilla, el Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática en Cartagena o la terminal de Cruceros de Lisboa, representan, cada uno de ellos mediante una estrategia diferente, un ejemplo de este tipo de intervenciones sobre un territorio siempre mágico y privilegiado como es el encuentro de la ciudad con el mar.
Viernes 11 de Enero a partir de las 19:00 h
Demarcación del COAIB Menorca, Sala de conferencias.
Cós de gràcia 32, Mahón
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra is holding a lecture as part of the ‘Dialogues’ series.
The hosting institution is the Haute École du paysage, d’ingénierie et d’architecture.
Monday the 17th December from 12:15 PM
Hepia / Haute école du paysage, d’ingénierie et d’architecture, Aula Magna.
Rue de la Prairie 4 Genève
Caixaforum Sevilla was the best building on the non-residential category at the 12th edition of the Architecture and Construction NAN Prizes.
CaixaForum Sevilla is nominated for The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is granted every two years to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe.
Candidates for the Award are put forward by a broad group of independent experts from all over Europe, as well as from the architects’ associations that form part of the European Council of Architects and other European national architects’ associations.
Caixaforum Sevilla
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, impartirá la conferencia magistral titulada “Explorar los limites” durante el Seminario Internacional “Uniscape En-Route” que tendrá lugar en las Palmas de Gran Canaria entre el 21 y el 23 de noviembre y que contará con la participación de los prestigiosos arquitectos Manuel Gallego Jorreto y Carlos Ferrater Lambarri.
Viernes 23 de Noviembre a partir de las 13:15 h
Escuela de Arquitectura de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus de Tafira
Aula Magna.
Vázquez Consuegra participa con una conferencia en los encuentros Arquitectura y Sociedad La Gran Escala. Organizados por Schüco y la Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, junto a Vázquez Consuegra participan los arquitectos Francisco Mangado, Esteve Bonell y Antonio Ortiz. Dichos encuentros tendrán lugar los próximos 24 y 25 de Octubre en Palma de Mallorca y Málaga respectivamente.
Miércoles 24 de Octubre a partir de las 16:30 h
Hotel Meliá Palma Bay
Carrer de Felicià Fuster, 4
Jueves 25 de Octubre a partir de las 16:30 h
Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Málaga
Calle Palmeras del Limonar, 31
OC-Open City Internatinal Summer School es un workshop internacional de arquitectura y urbanismo organizado por el Politecnico di Milano en Piacenza.
The exhibition presents all the projects nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award realized by Spanish architecture studios as well as projects built by studios from the rest of Europe, in Spanish territory.
Exhibition Hall La Arquería, Nuevos Ministerios. Madrid.
San Telmo Palace in Sevilla
City Council of Tomares in Sevilla
El edificio diseñado por Vázquez Consuegra, recibe el Premio Internacional de Arquitectura Chicago Athenaeum, este premio forma parte de uno de los mas prestigiosos programas de promoción y divulgación de la arquitectura, el diseño y la construccion.
Organizado por el Chicago Athenaeum Museum junto a The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, ofrece una visión general de la dirección actual de la arquitectura y el diseño internacional y se concede a aquellos edificios de todo el mundo que destacan por su diseño nuevo y vanguardista.
Caixaforum Sevilla
El nuevo Parque Magallanes, con una superficie aproximada de 40.000 m², se encuentra en la margen derecha del Guadalquivir, situado entre el Pabellón de la Navegación y el Puente de Chapina, el borde del río constituye su límite hacia levante.
Se genera un espacio público ajardinado de calidad, a partir de las preexistencias del lugar: una explanada horizontal, usada anteriormente como aparcamiento y el terreno en pendiente hacia el río punteado por la presencia de algunos grupos de árboles existentes. Desde una posición ecológica y holística hemos aplicado una estrategia general de intervención en la que prevalece la idea de demoler/desmontar todos aquellos elementos preexistentes sin valor constructivo o arquitectónico a fin de dar preferencia a la presencia de la vegetación. Reducir la construcción a favor del verde.
La propuesta ordena la arboleda dispersa a partir de la construcción de elipses que agrupan los árboles en bosquetes. Entre estos nuevos bosquetes una red de caminos, adaptados a la topografía existente, permite el recorrido en todos los sentidos y un paseo, siguiendo la margen del río, recorre longitudinalmente la parcela permitiendo, al tiempo que facilita el acceso al nuevo Centro deportivo de remo y piragüismo, la conexión entre el Paseo de la O en Triana con los jardines que se localizan junto al Pabellón de la Navegación.
La actuación se completa con la construcción de un gran umbráculo, capaz de albergar diferentes usos, un nuevo y fascinante lugar de encuentro y estancia. Este elemento horizontal de 300 metros de longitud, se concibe como una gran pérgola metálica cubierta por un continuo vegetal de trepadoras que recorren todo el espacio.
Cover drawing by Vázquez Consuegra.
Parthenon Hill, Athens. 28/12/2007
The recognised Korean magazine C3 has recently published its last issue: an extensive reportage dedicated to cultural buildings among which is Caixaforum Sevilla.
Atarazanas Sevilla, Ayuntamiento de Tomares y El Palacio de San Telmo han sido incluidos en la publicación editada por Accademia University Press, Departamento de Arquitectura y Diseño del Politecnico de Torino.
Korean editorial landscape architecture Korea, dedicates the number one of its lak works collection to parks, campus and waterfronts. The book makes a selection of projects from around the world including Gardens of the Hospital in Valencia.
Gardens of the Hospital in Valencia
Los Premios FAD cerraron la convocatoria de esta 60 edición con un total de 484 obras presentadas, de las cuales 148 corresponden a la categoría de Arquitectura, 143 a la de Interiorismo, 29 a la de Ciudad y Paisaje, 74 a la de Intervenciones Efímeras, 56 a Pensamiento y Crítica y 36 a los Premios FAD Internacionales.
CaixaForum Sevilla se encuentra entre las 10 obras finalistas de la categoría de Arquitectura, los premios se entregarán el próximo 7 de junio durante la Barcelona Design Week.
El estudio de Vázquez Consuegra ha resultado ganador del Concurso Internacional de Urbanismo para la reestructuración del área central de la estación principal de Ginebra, la Estación de ferrocarriles de Cornavin.
El jurado presidido por el arquitecto portugués Gonzalo Byrne decidió por unanimidad otorgar el primer premio al proyecto presentado por el arquitecto Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, que junto al estudio local Frei Rezakhanlou Architectes, será por tanto, el encargado de elaborar la nueva imagen del conjunto urbano de Cornavin, una amplia zona de la ciudad suiza ubicada al borde de su centro histórico.
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra impartirá la conferencia “Contra el Pastiche” durante el ciclo Apiarium: VII Jornadas de Diseño de Interiores, organizadas por la Escuela de Arte de Sevilla y centradas en el ecodiseño.
Martes 13 de Febrero a partir de las 9:00 h
Escuela de Arte de Sevilla
Pabellón de Chile, Av. de Chile, s/n
Entre mas de 3.000 proyectos presentados, CaixaForum Sevilla ha resultado uno de los finalistas de los Building of the Year Awards 2018 convocados por ArchDaily.
A través del siguiente enlace podéis votar por nuestro proyecto:
Le Nouveau Siège du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et Européennes. Réhabilitation du Bâtiment Mansfeld
Le Bâtiment Mansfeld. Décors intérieurs et éléments architecturaux historiques
Rapport D’Activite 2016 & 2017
Edited by Fonds de rénovation de la Vieille Ville. Luxembourg
Ministère des Affaires Ètrangères et Europèennes de Luxembourg
Editado por conarquitectura ediciones, Madrid
Introducción de Ignacio de la Peña
Un Dolmen del Siglo XXI. Ignacio de la Peña
Fotografias de Duccio Malagamba
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La Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ha publicado esta selección de proyectos de vivienda colectiva, después de un primer libro dedicado a el periodo de 1929-1992, esta publicación quiere completar el periodo de 1992-2015, recorriendo de esta forma casi un siglo de vivienda colectiva en el conjunto de España a través de 76 obras seleccionadas.
Autores:
Andrés Cánovas, Carmen Espegel, José María de la Puerta, Carmen Martínez Arroyo y Rodrigo Pemjean.
Editado por TC cuadernos, General de Ediciones de Arquitectura. Valencia
Viernes 10 de Noviembre a partir de las 16h
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valladolid
Av. de Salamanca, s/n
Ademas de la portada, la revista dedica en su interior un amplio reportaje de 20 paginas al proyecto.
19 de Octubre de 2017. 16:30 h
Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo
C/ Palafox 1, Cuenca
17 de Octubre de 2017
Palacio Euskalduna de Bilbao. 9:00 h
Avda. Abandoibarra, 4
Ya esta disponible la edición en tapa blanda de la monografía sobre el nuevo CaixaForum Sevilla.
conarquitectura ediciones, Madrid
David Cohn, critico norteamericano reconocido como uno de los mayores expertos en arquitectura moderna en España, es el autor del articulo que acompaña a la publicación del edificio.
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A cura di Giovanna Crespi.
Introduction text by Alberto Altini “El cangrejo y la mariposa”
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20 May 2017. 10:30 h
Magazzino M15, Verona
Introduction by Filippo Bricolo
Publicación monográfica dedicada a los distintos centros CaixaForum y su representación a nivel conceptual.
Editado por Fundación Bancaria “la Caixa”. Barcelona
Con textos de Eva Díaz Pérez:
Paisaje de luz dentro de un edificio
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The prestigious architecture critic and journalist David Cohn is the author of article published in December issue of the magazine.
El pasado 24 de noviembre, en un acto celebrado en el salón de plenos del Senado, presidido por el Ministro de Fomento Íñigo de la Serna,
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra recibió junto a Víctor López Cotelo la Medalla de Oro de la Arquitectura Española, el más alto galardón de esta profesión en España.
laudatio de Víctor Pérez Escolano
Discurso de aceptación Medalla de Oro de la Arquitectura
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Introduction by Joâo Luís Carrilho da Graça.
Colección 1+1 “Obras + Concursos”. Editorial Uzina Books. Lisboa
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The Market and Civic Center in Torrent receives the prize for the best nonresidential building in the tenth edition the NAN Arquitectura y Construcción Prize
Jueves 23 a partir de las 19 h en la sede del Colegio de Arquitectos de Cordoba,
Avda. Gran Capitan nº 32