Our project “The Rehabilitation of La Carbonería” has been shortlisted in the XVI Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism. The Jury has selected 126 out of the 524 entries presented in the “Built” category.
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La Carboneria, shortlisted at the European Awards AHI for Intervention in the Built Heritage
The rehabilitation of La Carboneria in Barcelona has been shortlisted for the AHI European Awards of Architectural Heritage Intervention in the Built Heritage category. The international jury, comprised of architects Dikkie Scipio, Susana Valbuena, and Kimmo Lintula, selected 16 out of the 174 entries presented in this category from around Europe. Our entry, which competes alongside the Rehabilitation of the Neue Nationalgalerie of Berlin by David Chipperfield, the Galenicum offices by HARQUITECTES, and the OMBU building in Madrid by Foster + Partners and Ortiz Léon, can be found HERE.
Lecture at ETSAB Barcelona School of Architecture
On May 16th 2023, Ángel Borrego Cubero will give a conference at ETSAB Barcelona School of Architecture in which he will talk about the challenges we have faced and the solutions we have adopted for the rehabilitation of La Carbonería, the oldest standing building in the Eixample iconic neighborhood of Barcelona. Built in the 19th century by Narcis Tarragó, at a time of confrontation between Ildefons Cerdá and the Barcelona City Council over what the future Eixample should be like, the building bears the imprint of those tense moments in its strange configuration: it has got 4 facades. The most spectacular of them remained hidden and inaccessible until 150 years later when the history of the building was studied and it was decided to protect it due to its relevance in understanding modern Barcelona. On how we have addressed the diversity of significance layers that the building holds, how we have recovered that façade for the city and other stories about the building and its rehabilitation process, are themes Ángel Borrego will tackle in the Aula de Graus, next Tuesday, starting at 1:00 p.m.
We thank the ETSAB Cultural Activities Area team for the opportunity to present our works; in particular, to Enric Granell Trias, Deputy Director of Culture of the ETSAB; and Carolina B. García Estévez, Deputy Director of Publications.
Lecture at Ukrainian FULBRIGHT CIRCLE
On Monday, February 6, 7:00 p.m. (Kiev time), Ángel Borrego Cubero will give the talk “Stories of Peace, Architecture and Conflict”, hosted by the Ukrainian FULBRIGHT Circle, within their series “Living on the Edge”. The event is streamed on:
Guest speaker at the 16th Urban Commerce Congress of Vitoria
Angel Borrego Cubero has been a speaker at URBAN COMMERCE 2022 – XVI Foro sobre Comercio Urbano (the 2022 Urban Commerce Congress) organized by the Vitoria City Council. He participated at the debate titled “El comercio de proximidad en las nuevas dinámicas urbanas” (Local commerce in the new urban dynamics) with Lluís Frago Clols, Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Barcelona and Pilar Zorrilla Calvo, Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Marketing and Market Research Area , who also moderated the discussion.
EL PAIS architecture critic reviews La Carboneria
Our recently completed project, the rehabilitation of La Carboneria of Barcelona, has been reviewed by El Pais’s architecture critic Anatxu Zabalbeascoa.
MONOCLE interviews Angel Borrego Cubero about La Carboneria’s rehabilitation
We are happy to be able to share some of the fascinating history of the La Carboneria building and its rehabilitation project, as told by Ángel Borrego Cubero in conversation with David Stevens, on MONOCLE’S The Urbanist.
Lecture at University of Mons
On the 24th of February 2022 , in Mons, architect Ángel Borrego Cubero gave a lecture addressed to the students of the Faculté d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme de l’Université de Mons, of the Service de Génie Architectural et Urbain de la Faculté Polytechnique and of the École Supérieure des Arts-Arts2.
Alongside the lecture, there were also several screenings of “The Competition”, the documentary film on competitions of architecture made by Borrego.
The lecture and the screenings, were part of “Jeudi Archi“, an event organised by the Université de Mons, l’Ordre des Architectes de la Province de Hainaut and Plaza Arthouse de Mons.
La Vallita Mágica initiative, reviewed in Diario16
Jaume Prat Ortells reviews our project “La Vallita Mágica” in his section at Diario16 newspaper: “El mobiliario urbano, que se podría instalar fácilmente, segrega una parte del espacio público para los niños únicamente durante el rato que éstos lo necesitan. Este elemento es perfectible y puede adosarse a una fachada para crear una especie de patio inglés para los centros educativos más pequeños, o para los pequeños patios de servicio. OSS, el estudio de Ángel Borrego, ha decidido bautizar este invento como La Vallita Mágica. La gestión es sencilla: conseguir que, en el caso de Madrid, el Ayuntamiento y la Comunidad, titulares los unos del espacio público y los otros de las escuelas, se pongan de acuerdo. El espacio no queda privatizado, sino segregado en horas de recreo y equipado con un nuevo mobiliario urbano el resto del tiempo.”
USS, shortlisted at the XIV Spanish Biennial of Architecture
“Urban Space Station. An advanced greenhouse to make urban life better”, a project by Angel Borrego Cubero and Natalie Jeremijenko, is a shortlisted project at the XIV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (XIV BEAU).