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Ranking of the best Architecture Studios in Spain | Architizer

Architizer, one of the platforms in the architecture sector with the most influence on social networks with more than 1 million followers on Instagram, has made a ranking of the 25 best architecture studios in Spain, selecting Fran Silvestre Arquitectos as the first position.

For the ranking, the following has been taken into account:

The number of A+ awards won (2013 to 2023)
The number of A+Awards finalists (2013 to 2023)
The number of projects selected as “Project of the Day” (2009 to 2023)
The number of projects selected as “Featured Project” (2009 to 2023)
The number of projects uploaded to Architizer (2009 to 2023)

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New project finished | NIU N290

In NIU’s systematized architecture, each N290 is the same and at the same time different from the rest. The adaptation of the model to their landscape makes them unique. Its insertion into the topography, in this case over a slope, leads the project to an accommodation of an access staircase that becomes a project in itself. The house saves and circumvents the imposing pine trees that characterize the house.

The configuration of the house is made around a central courtyard, which reminds us of an impluvium. Four pieces with the same morphology, open on the long sides and closed on the short sides, are radially intertwined generating four outdoor spaces with different characters. An exterior space for the day area, another for the kitchen, an exterior space related to the bedrooms and another that functions as a pedestrian entrance area. The interior spaces of the house extend to the exterior, with exactly the same dimension, like a carpet that gives continuity to the spatial sequence. Thus, the habitable volume is extended and only the shade and the climate control will tell us whether we are inside or outside.

You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.

Under construction | Well Villa

The site works of the project are currently in the structure phase. Located in the PGA golf course, in Girona, the house seeks the best views over the place where it is set. The project is solved by means of two extruded spaces, two overlapping volumes, in which the upper one moves towards the lake in front, giving as a result a cantilever that aims to generate a great shaded terrace. Two elements that define a single project, in which we appreciate facades of great dynamism generated by different openings in them, that allow for a comfortable reading of the building.

Under construction | House in Sotogrande

The project, which is in the planning and foundation phase, is located opposite is located in front of the Sotogrande’s golf course, the house proposes to inhabit the shade generated between the ground floor plan and the roof. A large cantilever allows to stop the intense sun of Cádiz and to protect from the abundant rains of the area of the Sierra de Grazalema.

More info soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin y Pinterest profiles.

New project | House in Costa Dorada

The project solves the program of a single-family house located on the Costa Dorada in Spain. Due to the position of the plot, the architecture is slightly skewed to seek the best views over the sea.

More info soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin y Pinterest profiles.

Finalists | IF Design Awards

Our project for Colección inHAUS By has been included as a finalist in the prestigious iF Design Awards in the Professional Architecture Concept category. The organization will announce the winners at the end of March.

The iF Design Awards are one of the most important international design awards. For the 2021 edition, more than 10,000 projects have been presented from 52 countries around the world.

Awards | Bulthaup contest

Our studio has won the second prize in the seventh edition of the bulthaup competition: kitchen as a living space. The aim of this competition is to recognize those projects by architects and designers from Spain, Portugal and Andorra that have a bulthaup kitchen as the protagonist and that reflect the values of the brand: creativity, quality of details and aesthetic conception.

You can find more information about this contest here.

Lecture | Universidad Católica de Colombia

Next Friday, November 27th at 3:00 p.m. (Spain) and 9:00 a.m. (Colombia), the architect and studio member Pablo Camarasa will give an online lecture about the work and the most relevant projects of our studio for the Design faculty and Architecture Program of the Catholic University of Colombia.

To attend the online lecture, send us an email to media@fransilvestrearquitectos.com

New project finished | Àtic Blanc

New finished project: Àtic Blanc. Located in the center of the city, the typology of this kind of house is reinterpreted. Looking for the feeling of being in an isolated house, the terrace is understood as a patio open to the sky and from which to contemplate the city of Valencia.

More information coming soon on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedinand Pinterest profiles.

New project finished | House of Silence

The project seeks to respond to a house and a studio for a musician.

The working area is partially buried in the lower part, responding to the acoustic needs. The upper floor is designed closed to the immediate environment due to the proximity to the next houses and projecting a kind of courtyards open to the large gardens in the surroundings.

Pati Blau | Architizer

Pati Blau, one of the studio’s recent completed projects, has been chosen by the Architizer platform as project of the week.

Architizer is one of the platforms in the architecture sector with the most influence on social networks. You can see the post here and know more about the project on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.

New project finished | Pati Blau

It was in the Muslim era when the so-called farmhouses were concentrating the population of the Ribera Alta, although some of these settlements had an Iberian origin. Over time these population centers have become places connected to the big city in a simple way and with an enviable quality of life. With all the good that the proximity of a large city offers and all the advantages of living connected to the territory and its culture. The project emerges as an interpretation of this typology.

You will find more information about this project soon in our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.

Winners | German Design Awards

The project Kouros Tower has been declared as winner of the prestigious German Design Awards in the category Excellent Architecture.

German Design Awards are the official design awards in Germany granted by the Ministry of Economy and Technology of the country and it focuses on the outstanding achievements in the different fields of design. The German Design Award identifies and presents unique design trend.

New project | Can Ras, Mallorca

Made to disappear. This is how the concept for this house on the island of Mallorca is presented, a few meters from the shore of the Mediterranean sea.

The house is made up of a set of pieces that move in one direction, offering exterior spaces as patios between the various volumes that contain the different interior uses. Thus, with this movement, a volume is fragmented into small parts, giving each of them a unique character and their own autonomy.

You can find more information about this project by our studio of architects in Mallorca in our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.

Publications | designboom

The latest project released by our studio, Compluvium house, has been published in the prestigious international magazine designboom .

Based in Milan, Beijing and New York, designboom is a web magazine with more than 3 million readers and a great impact on social networks, publishing daily the latest news in the fields of industrial design, architecture and art internationally. It was the first web magazine to focus on these fields and it features interviews and firsthand studio visits of renowned designers and architects, in addition to coverage of international design fairs and new projects.

You can read the full article of Compluvium house here.

Collaboration | Refurbishment in Los Remedios, Seville

Our studio has recently collaborated with YUNESTORTOLERO Architects for a refurbishment project located in the Los Remedios neighborhood, Seville.

The project seeks to respond to the program with as few partitions as possible to accentuate the sensation of amplitude. A linear piece organizes the space and activates the areas through which you get inside, hiding the unnecessary for the enjoyment of life.

You can know more about the project here.

Publications | GA Houses

Our project House in Rio de Janeiro has been published at japanese magazine GA Houses 169 issue, together with other ongoing residential projects from offices like Aires Mateus, Ryue Nishizawa, Kengo Kuma or SouFujimoto.

Alongside with it, it could be seen until June 7th at Tokyo GA Gallery an exhibition where published projects will be shown.

Photoshooting | New project

Recently, has taken place the photoshooting of the last project finished by our studio. For photography we have the collaboration of Diego Opazo and for the video, with the filmmaker Jesús Orrico.

You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.

Nominated | Building of the Year 2020 by ArchDaily

The platform of architecture ArchDaily has nominated two projects of our studio for the ArchDaily Building of the year 2020, Penthouse in Costa Blanca in the Interior Architecture category and The fourth room in the Housing category.

You can find more information about these projects in the Interior Design section of our website and in our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest.profiles.

New project finished | Dental Clinic

Located in the center of the city, the project arises to give response to a new clinic whose values are based on an extremely personalized treatment to the client. The layout of the building, which dates from the beginning of the last century, conditioned the distribution.

You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.

Happy New Year | Best wishes

Best wishes for the New Year
Els millors desitjos per a l’any vinent
Die besten architekten wünsche für das neue jahr
新年快乐
Tanti auguri di buon anno
新年のご多幸を祈る
Os melhores desejos para o ano novo
Les meilleurs architectes voeux pour la nouvelle annéeSzczęśliwego nowego roku
Τισ καλυτερεσ ευχεσ μου για το νεο ετοσ

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New project finished | Penthouse in Costa Blanca

The project consists in the refurbishment of a penthouse located in the Costa Blanca of the Mediterranean Sea. Boosting the views of the Bay of Altea becomes the most important element of this proposal.

You can find more information about this project soon on our website and on our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profiles.

Winners | German Design Awards

The project Hofmann house has been declared as winner of the prestigious German Design Awards in the category Excellent Architecture.

German Design Awards are the official design awards in Germany granted by the Ministry of Economy and Technology of the country and it focuses on the outstanding achievements in the different fields of design. The German Design Award identifies and presents unique design trend.

Publications | 100 Houses: Nature and Nurture

The project Hofmann house has been published in the book 100 Houses: Nature and Nurture, edited b Images Publishing, one of the world’s leading publishers of architecture and design volumes. It specializes in lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed books that showcase leading and emerging architects and designers internationally.

This edition pulls together an exceedingly diverse collection of 100 of the best contemporary houses from across the globe, each showcasing new and recent cutting-edge residential designs by some of the world’s leading architects and designers with full-color photographs that help underline the sensitivity of today’s design practitioners to the natural environment, as well as the care and attention paid to interior design.

Monograph | Scenarios for life

The second edition of the monograph of our studio, Scenaries for Life, edited by TC Cuadernos, is now available after the first one is sold out.

The monograph compiles in 224 pages the most significant works made by our studio from its foundation until 2018.

The main works such the House of the cliff,  the Balint House or the House between the pine forest, developed with plans for the first time in this volume.  The interior design, the rehabilitation and the big scale works are also included.

New project | House in Benahavís

The house located in a privileged environment, arises from its implementation in the place. A plot with a steep slope that descends to the east and main views that open out to the south.

With this starting point the house is deposited in the upper level, supported by a single element arranged perpendicularly to the mountain.

You can find more information about this project in our website or in our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Pinterest profile.

Publications | Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

The house on the cliff has been published recently in the book Houses: Extraordinary Living by the renowned publisher Phaidon.

The book explores the world’s most innovative and influential architect-designed houses created since the early 20th century and it also celebrates the incredible diversity and beauty of the house as never before, from modernist icons to feats of technological, material, and spatial innovation in the 21st century.

You can find the book here.

Publications | DETAIL’ 20

The  Hofmann house  project has been published in DETAIL’ 20, a recognized professional and international annual magazine of architecture and construction details produced by the editors of IW Magazine in Taiwan.

The magazine focuses the article on explaining what the project consists with pictures and plans. Only available in physical format.

Interview | Archilovers

Archilovers, one of the most relevant online platforms in the architecture sector with great impact on social networks, has published a special dedicated to Fran Silvestre Arquitectos.

Our initiative aims at “peeking behind the curtain” of our Architectural firm by asking to answer 10 simple questionsand give the readers an inside look of the studio.

You can read the interview here.

Under construction | MDK headquarters

The project consists in the construction of the headquarters for Mondraker, a company dedicated to the manufacture of competition mountain bikes. Located in an industrial park and surrounded by orthogonal edification, the building seeks to break away from the adjacent geometry and encloses itself, with a circular plan hollowed out by a central courtyard. Two vaults pierce the geometry allowing the access to the building, and creating a sort of central atrium which can be used, due to its form, to generate events and exhibitions. This geometry separates the building from its surrounding, reinforcing the corporative identity of the company and improving the quality of the open space in the plot.

You can find more information about this project in our web, or in our Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Twitter profile.

Monograph | La belleza eficaz

The second monograph of our studio, La belleza eficaz, has been sold out and a new edition is now available. The monograph is produced in Italy by the publishing house Casa Editrice Libria, within the Arianuova collection, an Italian publishing house specialized in architectural books that is characterized by a careful design that values the essence of the projects through a simple graphic design and direct, all this collected in a small format that converts each of its publications into an unique book.

The publisher has also published monographs of international architecture studios such as Barozzi Veiga, Bak Gordon, Tatiana Bilbao, Alberto Campo Baeza, Claus in Kaan, Steven Holl, Ensemble Estudio, Livio Vacchini or Pezo von Ellrichshausen.

You can find the book here.

Nominated | Hofmann house

The Hofmann house has been nominated for the ARCHMARATHON international architecture and design awards in its 2020 edition, held in Milan.

From September 25 to 27, our studio will be in Verona to present the project at the world event MARMOMACC, leader for the natural stone industry.

Publications | Arquitectura y Diseño

The house in Sotogrande designed by our studio, has been published in Arquitectura y Diseño, one of the most read magazines in the sector.

Located in front of the Sotogrande’s golf course, the house proposes to inhabit the shade generated between the ground floor plan and the roof. A large cantilever allows to stop the intense sun of Cádiz and to protect from the abundant rains of the area of the Sierra de Grazalema.

You can read the article on Architecture and Design here  and learn more about the house in Sotogrande in the project section of our website or in our Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube.

Selected Juror | Archiproducts Design Awards

The Awards celebrating the excellence in Design are back and one more year, Fran Silvestre will be among the professionals of the industry that form the selected juror in this new edition of the Archiproducts Design Awards.

“Design tells a story that will never cease to astound and amaze: that of brands and Designers which, together, gamble on an idea and start a path made of experimentation and research for improving the way we live and inhabit a space. It’s the magic of the project, the collaborations between brands and Designers combining forces, resources and talent to give shape to a forward-thinking idea.”

Publications | Plataforma Arquitectura

“The first thing one might notice about the houses and other projects of Fran Silvestre and his studio is their particular atmosphere of extravagantly understated elegance and luxury, which is as recognizable in its own right as the work of, say, John Lautner or John Pawson. […]”

The Hispanic version of ArchDaily, Plataforma Arquitectura,  located in the top 10 of the most influential blogs in the world spreading the best of the international architecture, has recently published the article by the critic David Cohn, Solid and Void. The publication consists of an extensive reflection of the work of our studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos.

You can read the full article here.

 

Publications | Esquire

“An international studio with projects around the world, something unthinkable fifteen years ago, when his professional career began.”

Our studio has been published in Esquire, a magazine that every month is the meeting point of the best writers, photographers, stylists and all those who best represent the man of the XXI century, feeding his social conversation with his prescriptive power, his journalistic rigor and an iconic design.

New project | Alzheimer’s treatment center

The project Alzheimer’s treatment center arises from a double commitment, to respond to a very specific needs program and, on the other hand, to the coexistence with pre-existence.

It’s projected an articulated building on two levels, on the ground floor, the most public spaces are linked with the landscaped courtyard and with the current building, allowing a fluid relationship between both. On the upper floor, a closed patio is generated in order to provide privacy and a control of the lighting of the most private spaces, such as the multisensory stimulation room or the administration rooms of the center.

More info about this soon in our Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest.

Publications | ArchDaily

The Hofmann house as one of the 80 best houses in the world in 2018 according to the ArchDaily magazine.

With more than 4000 different projects published during 2018, the magazine has decided to end the year with a selection of 80 houses where the architectural design, materials and construction innovation or challenging topography stand out. A selection that highlights the most exciting moments of this year for the architecture.

Read the article  here.

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