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Published on 2 Comments on Beautiful Villa for Sale in Calpe, Alicante

4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, Built area 240m2, Swimming-pool

Impressive, newly constructed modern villa with private pool in Calpe (Alicante), with fantastic seaviews and view to Peñón de Ifach, situated in a very quiet area surrounded by forest. This villa is arranged on 2 floors with a living area of approx. 240 m2. It has an enclosed plot of 800 mo aprox. With a parking area for 3-4 cars.

Ground floor: large living-dining room with fantastic view to the sea, Peñón de Ifach and the pool and with access to the terrace and the pool area. 1 guedt toilet. Seperate kitchen, completely equipped. 2 large double bedrooms, both of them with bathroom en suite (one with shower and one with bath).

Upper floor (access by internal stairs) 2 large double bedrooms, each of them with bathroom with shower en suite. Accsess to the solarium with views to the sea, Peñón de Ifach and the pool.
External: nice, enclosed plot with garden, very private, pool of 4,5x5m. The villa has central heating throughout the house.

More information on the following link: spainhouses.net

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Published on Leave a comment on Church in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands

Designing and constructing a church has never been an easy task for architects. It is a challenge to create a space not meant for accomodation or further customization, but a space that has its own soul, gives an aura of serenity and conveys intimate spiritual experience. This particular church, completed in 2008 in a town La Laguna on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain), is a challenge well done by Fernando Menis of the Menis Arquitectos.

The building consists of four volumes, visually separated by rifts in the walls that align into cross on the front nave. Apart from the obvious symbolic function they allow the daylight into the interior which strengthens the calm meditative atmosphere. The whole structure takes up more than 1000 m² and cost 600,000 euro.

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Published on Leave a comment on The bright side of the property crisis

Development madness turned Spain into the European country that created the most urban land between 2000 and 2006, according to a recent study by the European Environmental Agency (EEA). A series of satellite images show that over this period, Spain accounted for 24 percent of all newly developed land in the European Union, followed by France with 12 percent and Germany with nine percent.

Spanish Country 300x225 - The bright side of the property crisisThe subsequent economic crisis has served to slow down this trend, benefiting green areas and arable land, as well as some of the animal and plant species that live in them. But the real estate bubble has left behind enough land already classified as available to build on to last the next 35 to 40 years at an average annual pace of around 150,000 new housing units, according to the Public Works Ministry's Urban Information System.

That means there are 709,577 hectares of land that could still be rescued and returned to nature.

It is this great pocket of land that environmentalists want to win back by having it reclassified as green space once more, at least in cases where construction is not imminent. It will not be easy because money, or the promise of it, is at stake.
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Published on 2 Comments on Luxurious Villa for Sale in Marbella (Málaga)

6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, Area Lot 1,112m2, Built area 545m2, Seaside Resort, Brand New, Luxury property, In Urban Area, On golf course, Marbella (Málaga)

Villa Los Naranjos is an amazing new villa situated in a Golf Resort. With a plot of 1112m2 and a house of 545 m2, the property has a 100 m2 terrace and if offers great views to the sea and the mountains.

The Villa is a built with 6 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms. You can also see a full equipped kitchen, garage and radiant floor, sauna and Jacuzzi.

To contact the real estate agency, click on the following link: spainhouses.net

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Published on 1 Comment on Architecture in Spain: Puerta de Europa, Madrid, by Johnson and Burgee

The twin office towers known as Puerta de Europa I and II located in Madrid, Spain defy the typical conventions of skyscraper construction. Designed by American architects Philip Johnson & John Burgee and commissioned by the Kuwait Investment Office (KIO), these structural expressionistic towers straddle one of Madrid’s most important boulevards – the Paseo de la Castellana.

The location of a subway interchange made the placement of the two towers near the street impossible. Their bold design is in part a response to the need for the footprints of the towers to be set back from the interchange while at the same time bringing the towers together as a single compositional whole. The towers lean towards each other and over the plazas, ensuring their visibility from up and down the Paseo and creating a portal which, being at the Northern end of the business district of Madrid, has been called a metaphorical gateway to Europe. The façade of each tower is a composition of a major grid -clad in stainless steel conforming to their structure-, a minor grid of red mullions, and a third grid comprising the light grey mullions of the curtain wall.

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Published on 1 Comment on Regional coastal decree eases restrictions on urban development

The Junta de Andalucía’s new law to protect a 500 metre-wide strip along the region’s coastline that it still undeveloped is to be less severe than expected.

955410 15724 14 300x224 - Regional coastal decree eases restrictions on urban developmentThe decree, drawn up by the PSOE-IU coalition at the helm of the Junta, will affect some construction plans on the Costa del Sol, but not as many as the town halls (most of the governed by the PP) had feared.

The ‘Plan de Protección del Corredor Litoral de Andalucía’ is to be on public display until October 31st to allow affected parties to present their objections.

The decree does affect residential plans for some 204 hectares of land previously designated for construction in several municipalities.

A total of 3,577 homes had been due to be built on this land, while another 193 hectares were the location for development projects (involving 3,893 homes) that will be partially affected. The land in question is in areas that do not have an approved ‘partial’ development plan that allows the construction. Projects on land that do have partial plans will be able to go ahead.
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Published on 4 Comments on Lovely Country Style House in Sant Andreu de Llavaneres (Barcelona)

5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, Swimming-pool, Seaside Resort, Luxury property, In Urban Area, Sant Andreu de Llavaneres, Barcelona

565 m2 on three floors in prime area of Maresme. On the lower floor there is a garage with space for three cars, a basement of 60 m2 and storage room of 10m2.

On the first floor are the kitchen with access to garden, living an iron place and a guest room with bathroom.

The house has a two-level living room with fireplace and access to the porch.

On the top floor is the children's area with games room and two bedrooms with their own bathrooms. It also has suite with shower and bath tub with exit to the terrace.

More information on the following link: spainhouses.net

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Published on Leave a comment on Sustainable Building in Pamplona, Navarra, by Vaillo-Irigaray

Gamesa is a multinational company engaged in the manufacture and maintenance of wind turbines for green energy production. The building is situated in a micro-suburban landscape into a business park. This technology park, located in Pamplona (Navarra), is characterized by an implantation of buildings in isolation, in a green environment. Surrounded by road links, the project responds as a great infraestructural milestone, as a large transparent tank. An autonomous geometry floating on a green hillside.

Carrying out an exercise of coherence and economy of means, the intention is to meet the requirements of the property with minimal resources:

-The visibility and positioning of the building.
- Interior nighttime lighting for safety.
- Transparency of the facade and interior-exterior bidirectional visibility.
- And, very important, reducing energy consumption of all facilities.

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Published on Leave a comment on Benidorm’s prized high-rise tower becomes a symbol of incompetence

In May 2012, when Benidorm government officials climbed up the InTempo - the European Union's tallest residential building still under construction - for a photo op, they had an idea. The twin towers joined at the top by a cone were to become a symbol of the post-crisis takeoff of the Spanish city of skyscrapers par excellence.

intempo4 300x255 - Benidorm's prized high-rise tower becomes a symbol of incompetenceBut in late December, with 94 percent of the building completed and 35 percent of units sold, Spain's bad bank, Sareb, announced that it was taking on the loan that a savings bank had extended to the developer eight years ago.

By that time, a construction firm, Olga Urbana, pompously advertised what was going to be "an unquestionable banner of the future." The landmark building would rise meters up into the clouds. The now-defunct Caixa Galicia extended a 92-million euro loan in 2005 - a mortgage that ended up at Nova Caixa Galicia following the merger of Galician savings banks. Now Sareb has assumed the loan for 46 million euros, representing a debt release of 50 percent.

The inauguration was initially scheduled for mid-2009, then pushed back to the summer of 2011. For months, it was evident that no progress was being made at all on the site. But the project's real situation did not emerge until last week, and it is a complex one: although the loan belongs to Sareb, the contract shows that building itself is the property of Olga Urbana, and only a realtor called Maxxima may sell it.
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Published on 2 Comments on Minimalist white villa for sale in Ibiza, Balearic Islands

5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, Swimming-pool, 1st Row from the Sea, Brand New, Luxury property, In Urban Area, Balearic Islands

Ibiza Villa in 1st sea line in Talamanca, plot of approx 2000 m2, house 300 m2 with 5 bedrooms, garden, swimming pool, room service has 1 detached house, 1 large suite upstairs with bathroom. The bottom has 3 bedrooms.

More information on the following link: spainhouses.net

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