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Tag: Bauwelt

Two-Timing Tower

[Originally published in Bauwelt 15.2025] The new training tower recently completed at Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron fire station, designed by local … More

Barcelona, Bauwelt, brick, Carles Enrich, concrete, tower, training facility

A Conversation with Bajet Giramé

[Originally published in Bauwelt 24.2024] This year’s Manifesta is being held for the first time throughout a large metropolitan area. … More

architects, Bajet Giramé, Barcelona, Bauwelt, Manifesta

Everyday Camouflage in Suburbia

[Originally published in Bauwelt 9.2024] The suburban single-family house has long been promoted as the ideal residential building type; as … More

Bauwelt, camouflage, house, Madrid, OF Architects & Ignacio G. Galán, suburbia

Greetings from Barcelona

[Last December, Bauwelt Magazine asked their contributors to send them a postcard from their hometown along with a new year’s greeting addressing … More

Barcelona, Bauwelt, macba, public space, Raval

La comida es un medio para hablar de espacios e infraestructuras

[Originalmente publicado en Bauwelt 11.2023] Bajo el título FOODSCAPES, el pabellón español presenta un examen del contexto agroarquitectónico y analiza … More

Bauwelt, foodscapes, Spain, Venice Biennale

Sharing School

[Originally published in Bauwelt 5.2023. Photos by Aitor Estévez] Barcelona has some of the densest neighborhoods in Europe, so it … More

Barcelona, Bauwelt, community, Poblenou, school, SUMO Arquitectes

Up Close and Personal

[Originally published in Bauwelt 4.2023] One of the growing problems facing Spain today is the ongoing depopulation of its interior … More

Aragon, Auditorium, Bauwelt, brick, Magén Arquitectos, small town

Yellow Garden

[Originally published in Bauwelt #16.2022] When Spain imposed its nation-wide lockdown to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on … More

Bauwelt, COVID-19, garden, Granada, Improvisation, nightclub, Tomás García Píriz

Community Integration

[Originally published in Bauwelt 14.2022] With a current average life expectancy of almost 84 years, Spain’s is one of the … More

adaptive re-use, Bauwelt, Chamberí, day center for elderly persons, Madrid, Mariluz Sánchez Moral & Padilla Nicás Arquitectos

Open House

[Originally published in Bauwelt March 2022] Since the emergence of the pandemic, outdoor private space has come to be newly … More

architecture, Arquitectura-G, Barcelona, Bauwelt, courtyard, flexibility, house, inside-outside

Urbicide Rebellion Slaughterhouse Reno

[Originally published in Bauwelt 8.2021] The adaptive reuse of L’Escorxador del Cabanyal, a former slaughterhouse in Valencia, Spain, as a … More

activism, adaptive re-use, Bauwelt, Boris Strzelczyk, David Estal, El Cabanyal, l'Escorxador del Cabanyal, protest, punk, Salvem El Cabanyal, Tato Herrero, Valencia

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Criticalista collects Rafael Gomez-Moriana's writings on architecture and the built environment. All photographs by the author unless indicated otherwise.

©2014 Rafael Gomez-Moriana. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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