Simon Architecture Prize

Galegos House

Galegos, Barcelos

Raulino Silva Architect

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The single-family housing is located in Galegos de Santa Maria, Barcelos, a plot terrain with circa 4000 sqm. The building was implemented near of the corner of 1º Dezembro Street and Trás da Fonte Street, allowing the construction of another house on the remaining ground to the North…

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Studio: Raulino Silva Architect (Portugal)

Authors: Raulino Silva

Location: Galegos, Barcelos

Program: Housing, single,

State: New construction

Video: Daniel Luciano

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The Burrow

Madrid

delavegacanolasso

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From the first caves, it took centuries to conquer the house’s privacy. Fresh courtyards, meandering accesses, accurate shadows. The correct use of light and view, little openings in thick walls. Today’s architecture has forgotten the importance of privacy and has succumbed …

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Studio: delavegacanolasso (Spain)

Authors: Pilar Cano-Lasso, Ignacio de la Vega

Location: Madrid

Program: Housing, single,

State: Renovation, extension, transformation

Video: Dr. Cato / Alejando Cano Carretero / www.drcato.com

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Wall Pattern Phenomena

Vitoria Gasteiz

EZN Visual Studio

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It’s a site-specific project that involves an emblematic part of the urban landscape as a canvas. An atonic synesthetic sequence of variable frequency that affects space and visitor emotions. It is an ephemeral experience that transforms the known space into a new dimensio…

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Studio: EZN Visual Studio (Spain)

Authors: Ezequiel Nobili

Location: Vitoria Gasteiz

Program: Cultural facilities, Public space,

State: Temporary or ephemeral

Video: EZN Studio

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CR House

Porto

Nuno Graça Moura, Arquitecto Lda

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The existing building, designed by the architect Fernando Ferreira and built in1949, is in the corner of Rua da Alegria and Rua Formosa, in Porto. It was profoundly altered, externally quite degraded and with volumes on the roof that occupied the old terrace. We propose the …

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Studio: Nuno Graça Moura, Arquitecto Lda (Portugal)

Authors: Nuno Graça Moura

Location: Porto

Program: Commercial facilities, Cultural facilities, Food and accommodation facilities, Housing, collective,

State: Renovation, extension, transformation

Video: Carlos Castro

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Tiny House in Cabanyal

Valencia

Kitônet

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An old beautiful fisherman district called Cabanyal, close to the beach, with a rich and emblematic architectural heritage located in Valencia, Spain was the main inspiration to restore this tiny house. An interesting challenge to convert perhaps one of the tiniest houses of the d…

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Studio: Kitônet (France)

Authors: Kitty Hartl, Nethzer Torres

Location: Valencia

Program: Housing, single,

State: Renovation, extension, transformation

Video: Camera: Randy Ezratty
Christian Hartl
Music: Theremin 4 - Carmn Ciclon

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Residenze Carlo Erba

6 piazza Carlo Erba, Milan, Italy

Eisenman Architects, Degli Esposti Architetti, AZstudio

SINOPSIS

For a triangular site included in the Piano Pavia-Masera (1909-1911), bounded by buildings built from the beginning of the 20th century to the Seventies, this project seeks to create a distinctly contemporary apartment building, while discussing both architecture ideas and the context, …

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Studio: Eisenman Architects, Degli Esposti Architetti, AZstudio (Italy)

Authors: Peter Eisenman, Lorenzo Degli Esposti, Paolo Lazza, Guido Zuliani

Location: 6 piazza Carlo Erba, Milan, Italy

Program: Housing, apartment,

State: New construction

Video: Marco de Bigontina ESPERIENZA-DRONE
esperienza-drone.it

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Viale Giulini Affordable Housing

Barletta

Alvisi Kirimoto

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A compact and down-to-earth architecture. The complex, which has 50 units including underground car parks and a ground floor dedicated to commercial activities, looks like a C-shaped monolith, spanning a height of six floors. The regularity of the elevations represents the main ch…

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Studio: Alvisi Kirimoto (Italy)

Authors: Massimo Alvisi, Junko Kirimoto

Location: Barletta

Program: Commercial facilities, Housing, apartment,

State: New construction

Video: Video: Mattia Caprara & Flavio Pescatori
Sound: Blue Dot Sessions

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Mediterráneo House

Mexico City

Inca Hernández

SINOPSIS

Mexico City is a historical setting with an enormous cultural and architectural heritage protected in its magical neighborhoods. Tacuba is one of them, this area has undergone social and urban transformations that have lasted to this day and where vestiges forged at different times can …

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Studio: Inca Hernández (Mexico)

Authors: Inca Hernández

Location: Mexico City

Program: Housing, collective,

State: Renovation, extension, transformation

Video: Oscar Hernández

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Teleclub with Thermal Buffers

Soria

BIZNA estudio

SINOPSIS

The new Noviercas’ Teleclub is a meeting place located in the centre of a square. The two naves, main spaces, are set up on "L" shape to give it great flexibility. They can be used independently or together to even accommodate all the inhabitants at once. Sliders, mobile partitions an…

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Studio: BIZNA estudio (Spain)

Authors: Rocío García Peña, Pedro Torres García-Cantó

Location: Soria

Program: Community development and social welfare, Cultural facilities, Food and accommodation facilities, Public space,

State: New construction

Video: Editing: BIZNA Estudio
Images: Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)

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5 social dwelling in Regal Street

Palma de Mallorca

Institut Balear de l'Habitatge (IBAVI)

SINOPSIS

This is the first project completed by the Institut Balear de l’Habitatge – IBAVI (Balearic Institute of Social Housing) that continues the Life Reusing Posidonia research line in Formentera, in this case adapted to the Mallorca resource map. The building is located in Son Got…

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Studio: Institut Balear de l'Habitatge (IBAVI) (Spain)

Authors: Carles Oliver Barceló, Alfonso Reina Ferragut, Antonio Martín Procopio, Xim Moyá Costa, Maria Antònia Garcías Roig

Location: Palma de Mallorca

Program: Housing, apartment, Housing, collective,

State: New construction

Video: Govern de les Illes Balears

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The Peratallada Garden

Peratallada

MESURA

SINOPSIS

When working with existing archaeology, we add new layers rather than starting afresh. When we renovate the past we add a contemporary language to a historical vernacular in order to create a new vocabulary. The philosophy once pioneered by Venetian master Carlo Scarpa still lives on in…

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Studio: MESURA (Spain)

Authors: Marcos Parera Blanch, Carlos Dimas Carmona, Jaime Font Furest, Jordi Espinet Roma, Benjamin Iborra Wicksteed

Location: Peratallada

Program: Landscape,

State: Renovation, extension, transformation

Video: MESURA

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Galegos House

la madriguera (the burrow)

Wall Pattern Phenomena

Casa Rosa

Tiny House in Cabanyal

Residenze Carlo Erba

Viale Giulini Affordable Housing

Mar Mediterráneo 34

Teleclub with Thermal Buffers

5 social dwelling in Regal Street, Son Gotleu, Palma

The Peratallada Garden