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The Catalan Prime Minister at the closing cerem...
The Catalan Prime Minister at the closing cerem...
Putting an end to six months of a participatory process was a challenge, to say the least. The chosen venue was Sant Antoni Market... under (re)construction. A privileged venue, because few people had accessed it before.
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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park wins the Rosa Barb...
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park wins the Rosa Barb...
The design project for the parklands of the London Olympic Games has been granted the 9th Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize, given on September 30th in Barcelona, within the International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona. George Hargreaves, Mary Margaret Jones and Gavin McMillan, from Hargreaves Associates, are the authors of the project.
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The yearbooks of the Architects’ Association of...
The yearbooks of the Architects’ Association of...
Checking information in the 27 Yearbooks published by the Architects’ Association of Catalonia between 1899 and 1930 is now even easier thanks to the digitization undertaken by the COAC Library's staff.
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The Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbani...
The Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbani...
The 13th Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) goes to the United States for the very first time to exhibit at the Cooper Union in New York, before travelling on to France, Germany, Japan and Sweden.
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The COAC’s Historic Archive completes the catal...
The COAC’s Historic Archive completes the catal...
The staff of the COAC’s Historic Archive have catalogued the collection of documents donated by architects Federico Correa (b. 1924) and Alfonso Milà (1924–2009) to the COAC.Federico Correa and Alfonso Milà studied architecture together before going on to work at José Antonio Coderch’s studio. In 1953 they set up their own practice, Correa-Milà, and enjoyed a prolific career as architects and designers
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Works featured at the seventh Architecture Exhi...
Works featured at the seventh Architecture Exhi...
On 7 July, the Torre Nova de Cal Pons hosted the presentation of the seventh Architecture Exhibition of Central Catalonia, including the prize-giving ceremony and the inauguration of the exhibition organized by the Architects’ Association’s regional offices in Bages-Berguedà and Osona.
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Second International Exhibition of Catalan Arch...
Second International Exhibition of Catalan Arch...
The Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC), through the Taula de Mostres, is organising the second International Exhibition of Catalan Architecture in order to record, showcase and disseminate the work undertaken by Catalan architects working outside Spain.Registration closes on 15th October 2016. Registration is open to members of the COAC or other architects as specified in the rules.
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'Atlas of Political Clichés', the new...
'Atlas of Political Clichés', the new...
A new issue of the journal Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme will be available for Sant Jordi (St George's Day) this year. It is a double issue (266-267) which, under the heading 'Atles de clixés polítics' [Atlas of Political Clichés], explores some of the topics raised in the previous issue, 'Casa i contradicció' [House and Contradiction].
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Award-winning projects at the 19th edition of t...
Award-winning projects at the 19th edition of t...
Award-winning projects at the 19th edition of the Architectural Awards of the Counties of Girona On 3 June 2016, the Girona branch of the Architects' Association held the award-giving ceremony for the 19th edition of the Architectural Awards of the Counties of Girona.
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Aranzadi Park, by Aldayjover Architecture and L...
Aranzadi Park, by Aldayjover Architecture and L...
The design magazine Azure announced the winners of the AZ Awards 2016 at a ceremony in Toronto on 17 June. Aranzadi Park, designed by the Catalan architecture firm Aldayjover Architecture and Landscape, won the jury award for Best Landscape Architecture.
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Architecture Congress 2016. Constructing and di...
Architecture Congress 2016. Constructing and di...
This year, the Architects’ Association of Catalonia is organising an Architecture Congress which will provide a meeting place for professionals, the general public and institutions to move forward with a new positioning of architecture that facilitates better responses to the new social, environmental and economic challenges facing society now and in the future.
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Pop Up Green
On September 28th, a rug of small plants will cover part of Plaça Nova in Barcelona, in front of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia, to give the starting signal for the 9th International Biennial of Landscape.
Entitat organitzadora: Biennal del Paisatge, COAC
Barcelona
Free
Presentació