New call for COAC Grants for Local and Internat...

New call for COAC Grants for Local and Internat...

The Architect’s Association of Catalonia opens, for the seventh year running, its Call for Grants for local and international development cooperation projects related to architecture and urban planning. These grants respond to the commitment of the Association to allocating part of its budget to social pursuits.

Open call for the 11th AJAC Awards

Open call for the 11th AJAC Awards

The AJAC Awards were created in 1996 by the Young Architects Association of Catalonia (AJAC) with the purpose of showing the high potential and quality of work by young architects, as well as providing these emerging professionals with a good spread of their work.

The Architects' Association of Catalonia u...

The Architects' Association of Catalonia u...

The Architects’ Association of Catalonia unveiled the new façade of its head offices in Barcelona on 22 January. The project has consolidated the neutrality of the office building so that Picasso’s frieze stands out even more.The new image for the head offices highlights the original design by Xavier Busquets while incorporating improvements in energy and environmental efficiency such as soundproofing and solar panels.

Open call for the 10th Rosa Barba Landscape Pri...

Open call for the 10th Rosa Barba Landscape Pri...

Open call for the 10th Rosa Barba Landscape Prize, sponsored by Fundación Banc Sabadell framed within the 10th International Biennale of Landscape Architecture under the motto: "Perfomative nature" , to be held on  26th, 28th and 29th September 2018 in Barcelona.

The ministers for Governance and Territory pres...

The ministers for Governance and Territory pres...

The Minister for Governance, Public Administrations and Housing, Meritxell Borràs; the Minister for Territory and Sustainability, Josep Rull; and the Dean of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia, Lluís Comerón, presented on 5 September at the COAC the launch of the future Catalan Agreement on Urba

Arxiu Jujol donates the Barcelona projects of a...

Arxiu Jujol donates the Barcelona projects of a...

This donation further consolidates the collaboration between the Jujol Archive and the Historical Archive of the COAC, which began almost 20 years ago. At that time, the architect’s heirs loaned more than 100 of the projects that Jujol had undertaken in the province of Barcelona to the COAC.

Barcelona City Council awards the tender to imp...

Barcelona City Council awards the tender to imp...

Barcelona City Council has announced the award of the international tender to define the transformation of the Rambla. The winning team is Km-ZERO, made up of 15 professionals from different disciplines, who will take on the challenge of the comprehensive physical and social revitalization, improvement and transformation of Barcelona’s Rambla and its immediate catchment area.

The COAC awards its Cooperation Grants for the...

The COAC awards its Cooperation Grants for the...

The Architects’ Association of Catalonia awards local and international development cooperation grants for architecture and urban planning, which this year are being awarded for the sixth time. Of the ten projects submitted, an evaluation was made of their compliance with the basic rules, the architectural proposition, the use of local materials and their level of social participation.

The ultimate recognition for Catalan architectu...

The ultimate recognition for Catalan architectu...

Integration with the place; a complete redefinition of the user’s relationship with nature, with his or her own body, with intimacy, with natural rhythms; and the consideration of the city as a landscape are some of the concepts that have led the team at RCR Arquitectes to win this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize.

OFFICE KGDVS fills the auditorium for the first...

OFFICE KGDVS fills the auditorium for the first...

On Thursday, 26 January, the ‘Europa Europa’ cycle kicked off, curated by the architect and publisher Moisés Puente. Every 15 days until the month of June, a showing of European architecture will be presented, with lectures from 5 guest architects and 4 critics, and introduced by Catalan architects.

Social aspects, quality and precision in the wi...

Social aspects, quality and precision in the wi...

The winners of the 3rd European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention AADIPA were announced by the jury on June 15th at the COAC headquarters in Barcelona. The announcement of the 18 short-listed projects, from which two special mentions and four winners were chosen, was made during the 3rd International Architectural Heritage Intervention Biennial AADIPA.

BAAS & Espinet/Ubach to design the new Vall...

BAAS & Espinet/Ubach to design the new Vall...

The team of Catalan architects that forms