Simon Architecture Prize | BBVA Bancomer Operative Center

BBVA Bancomer Operative Center

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BBVA Bancomer Operative Center

Mexico City, Mexico

IDEA Asociados

SINOPSIS

BBVA Centro Operativo is an office tower of the BBVA Bancomer Corporate located in Mexico City. The project was designed by the international firm SOM who collaborated with the Mexican firm IDEA Asociados to carry out the architectural direction of the project and FitOut since 2013, unt…

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Studio: IDEA Asociados

Authors: Agustín Caso Bringas, Daniel Camhi Montekio & Jorge Álvarez Ruesga

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Video: IDEA Asociados

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Aldo van Eyck. Le Musée Imaginaire

Loenen aan de Vecht, The Netherlands

Alejandro Campos Uribe

SINOPSIS

This house was built in 2016, 1964, or the seventeenth century. It has been under construction for 300 years. In late 17th century, a Dutch family built a house in Loenen, near the River Vecht. Throughout the centuries, it underwent several transformations. In 1964, Aldo van Eyck…

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Studio: lcarquitectura

Authors: Alejandro Campos Uribe

Location: Loenen aan de Vecht, The Netherlands

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Real Estate Boom House

Cardedeu, Spain

Lluís Alexandre Casanovas

SINOPSIS

The so-called “Spanish housing bubble” collapsed in 2008, leaving behind a huge housing stock which reflects the societal transformation of most of the country’s population through the consolidation of a credit system and the emergence of diverse financial products. This project e…

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Architect: Lluís Alexandre Casanovas

Authors: Lluís Alexandre Casanovas

Location: Cardedeu, Spain

Video: Joana Colomar (Director), Nilo Zimmermann (Director of Photography), Aitor Bigas (Editor), Aina Salarich i Marta Cruañas (Production), Zak Ramis (PA)

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Kunstmuseum

Basel, Switzerland

Chris Gantenbein Architekten

SINOPSIS

The Kunstmuseum Basel extension successfully complement the main 1930s house without overshadowing it: this is the red thread of the project, which strives at creating kinship while maintaining individuality. Like in its counterpart, the extension’s façade hints at a classical …

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Studio: Chris Gantenbein Architekten

Authors: Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein

Location: Basel, Switzerland

Collaborator: TRANSFER Global Architecture Platform

Video: 2017 Directed, filmed, sound design and post-production by Pablo Casals Aguirre. Co-produced by: Pablo Casals Aguirre and TRANSFER Global Architecture Platform

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Teopanzolco Cultural Center

Cuernavaca, Mexico

ISAAC BROID + PRODUCTORA

SINOPSIS

The project for the new Cultural Center is located on a site opposite the archeological zone of Teopanzolco, a situation that proposes two fundamental strategies: on the one hand to enhance the relationship with the archeological site and on the other to generate a significant public sp…

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Architects: ISAAC BROID + PRODUCTORA

Authors: Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles

Location: Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico)

Video: Juan Pablo Benavides (PRODUCTORA)

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Square Street

Barcelona, Spain

Bosch Capdeferro Arquitectura

SINOPSIS

This project faces the urban refurbishment of Marià Labèrnia Street, placed in Turó de la Rovira’s summit, one of the last foothills of the Coastal Range before the change of slope that forms Barcelona’s plain. This geological formation includes a series of hills that emerge from…

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Studio: Bosch Capdeferro Arquitectura

Authors: Elisabet Capdeferro Pla i Ramon Bosch Pagès

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Video: Bosch Capdeferro Arquitectura

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AGORA

Olot, Spain

unparelld'arquitectes

SINOPSIS

The centre of the sports complex of El Morrot is a square-shaped public square, defined by two porches and open to the football pitches. This square connects visually with the natural landscape an it becomes separated from the industrial estate. An interruption in the base leads …

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Studio: Unparelld’arquitectes

Authors: Eduard Callís, Guillem Moliner

Location: Olot, Spain

Video: Pep Sau and Job Ramos

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Vara de Rey Promenade and City Center Pedestrian Renovation

Ibiza, Spain

aldayjover architecture and landscape

SINOPSIS

Paseo Vara de Rey and Plaza del Parque are Ibiza’s most vital public spaces, located at the base of the UNESCO World Heritage fortification Wall. A 1960’s unfortunate operation fragmented these spaces into minimal sidewalks and reduced promenades isolated by parking lots and transit…

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Studio: aldayjover architecture and landscape

Authors: Iñaki Alday, Margarita Jover, Jesús Arcos, Francisco Mesonero, 05AM

Location: Ibiza, Spain

Video: aldayjover architecture and landscape, Germán Lama, Lourdes Grivé, Pep Tur

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GG House

Querétaro, Mexico

g3arquitectos

SINOPSIS

Description: The Casa Campanario, placed at the edge of a ravine, isolates itself from the neighborhood while opening up to the ravine’s landscape. While their thermal and acoustic qualities add to the comfort of the house, it is their density and texture that construct the spat…

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Studio: g3 arquitectos

Authors: Juan Alfonso Garduño Jardón / Ana Isabel González Urevig

Location: Querétaro, Mexico

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Boxing Gym

Guadalajara, Mexico

ZAP arquitectura + paisaje

SINOPSIS

Description The Boxing Gym is located in northern social housing neighborhood in Guadalajara, Mexico. Built inside a former neglected park, one of the few public spaces existing in the area. This new gym triggers the public space, the building is located in the southern area…