All posts tagged “#public-building

Biodiversity Centre

BIODIVERSITY CENTRE, Loja (Granada)  The ruin and the tree  “Architecture and landscape joined together in the shade of a great pre-existing tree”. The building is located on the outskirts of Loja town in marked agricultural character. This project relates to a beautiful plot of cultivated […]

Water Office

  WATER OFFICE New office for Loja Local Water Company The new headquarters of the Loja Local Water Company are located in the ground floor of an old silo from the 50s. The new construction seats under the ancient weighbridge concrete canopy as an external […]

Museum of the Almazara de Las Laerillas

MUSEUM OF THE ALMAZARA OF LAERILLAS The Almazara of Laerillas produced oil until the 1940s. From then to the 1990s it was used as a storage space, remaining in a semi-ruinous state. Some of the buildings gravely deteriorated, especially their roofs and walls, however, the […]

The Route of Balconies

The Route of Balconies Network of public areas in Loja, Granada (Spain) Rufus T. Firefly, Groucho Marx in Duck´s Soup, maintains a hard dispute with the nation of Sylvania in the famous Marx´s Brothers film from 1933. The still black and white photo in which […]

Stairway to Heaven

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN  Fire escape staircase at the Rest Home in “El Padul” (Granada) The need of installing a fire escape directly linking the second floor to the outside of the building is identified in the reform and compliance project for this Rest Home in […]

Centre for Agricultural Training

CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL TRAINING Tocón, Illora. Granada. The project proposed for the Centre for Agricultural Training of Tocón is a large metal structure and enclosure designed to contain smaller constructions. These will function independently and serve to the various uses provided in the functional requirements […]