Jesús Granada, architectural photographer
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House in Ullastret (Girona), Spain.
The stone wall that marked the boundaries of the property ran around the whole site, and passers-by could only see the treetops. Although the materiality and the irregularity of the wall geometry gave it a particular character and presence, the planning regulations now in force obliged the street to be widened, making it impossible to preserve the…
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Lleialtat Santsenca Civic Centre in Barcelona, Spain.
This project had three starting points: an understanding of the historic value of Lleialtat Santsenca (1928), an old working class cooperative in the Sants district; detailed knowing about the building’s (physical) state in order to maintain as much material as possible; and sensitivity to the collaborative process involved in the building’s recovery, launched in 2009 by neighbourhood…
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Cristalleries Planell Civic Centre in Barcelona, Spain.
This public facility houses an adult education centre, a language standarisation consortium and a space for organisations on a triangular plot in Barcelona’s Parliament district. Two of the three sides of the site are defined by the heritage-listed Anglesola Street frontage of the former Planell glass factory, built in 1913. The building makes use of the entire…
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Multipurpose school building in Ghent, Belgium
In the harbour area, a narrow stretch of land alongside a dock is freed from port activities. A very simple ‘chopstick’ urban plan is being developed by O.M.A. in which open green pockets alternate with dense construction. In order to give the linear plan a notion of centrality, a public path is designed to cross the whole strip.…
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Surga house in Utrera
This project transforms a 1778 house-palace (called Surga House) into a Cultural Center of the 21st century with an extensive program that includes exhibition halls and an auditorium. From the beginning, this pre-existence was understood as a practically urban space that has undergone transformations of all kinds over time. Thus, it was based on a…
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Restoration of the Conference Centre in Córdoba, Spain.
To operate upon an existing building and its surroundings full of history, inevitably implies to take a stance on how to understand the intervention upon its historic heritage as well as its environmental impact. The Conference Centre of Cordoba is set deep in the heart of the Jewish quarter, a few steps away from the…
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Retirement house in Plasencia (Cáceres), Spain.
The residential centre is situated on the North East side of the city of Plasencia, on the border between town and countryside. From this location there is a magnificent view into the distance along the full length of the Jerte Valley. The plot itself is on a 25 metre slope, pointing in the same direction. …
