There is one construction-based sector where the machines have not stopped working and where at times it is difficult to find qualified staff to carry out certain jobs. With building cranes in hibernation and more than 200,000 people out of work in Malaga province that may be hard to imagine, but it is true. This sector is within in the triangle formed by Marbella, Estepona and Benahavís and last year it generated more than 250 million euros worth of business and about 4,000 jobs, of which 1,000 were direct.
Detached villa for sale in Ibiza, Balearic Islands
6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, Area Lot 4,500m2, Built area 400m2, Seaside Resort, Brand New, In Rural Area, Swimming pool, Parking for 8 cards, Balearic Islands
The house of this week is a luxury and minimalist villa for sale, situated in Ibiza, newly remodelled with fine materials and top quality. Surrounded by bush, it has magnificent sea views and sunsets. The area is very quiet and peaceful.
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Eco Boulevard, Ecosistema Urbano Architectos, Madrid
This is a series of sustainable public spaces, a meeting point for those who live in the area of Vallecas, a suburb of Madrid. It is on a 500 x 50 m road, a pilot experience for the climatic adaptation of outdoor spaces, awarded in 2004 at the Eco-Boulevard competition organized by the Residential Innovation management office within the Municipal Housing Corporation of Madrid and funded by the European Union (LIFE programme). The tree of air is a light structure that is self-sufficient and can be dismantled. It consumes only what it can produce through photovoltaic solar energy collection systems. Selling this energy to the power network generates a superavit on the annual balance sheet and this is reinvested in the maintenance of the structure. “Three Pavilions, or air-trees, work as supports, open to multiple activities chosen by the users. Installed in the non-city as temporary prostheses, they will be used only until the inactivity and climatic adaptation problem is corrected.”
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Alicante’s property market is finding salvation in Russian investors
In Alicante, the euros are flowing in from Moscow. Russians have become the saviors of the Mediterranean province's property market and tourism sector, and now that Cyprus - their former Eden - has been bailed out by the EU, Russians are turning to Alicante to lay down their money. First they come on vacation for a few days to check out the beaches and the climate on the Costa Blanca, and later they return to purchase a holiday home, cash in hand - no down payments, no mortgages necessary.
Clients from Russia have overtaken the British in the foreign home-buyer ranking. Half of the 7,000 residences sold to non-Spaniards in Alicante province last year went to Russian families, a market that represented less than five percent of the total just four years ago.
What with the Russians buying and the British selling, the area of La Vega Baja is experiencing a new property boom that places Alicante at the top of the Spanish list of existing home transactions. According to Public Works Ministry figures, the province topped the list of home sales to foreigners during the first nine months of 2012. Most of the total of 2,501 transactions involved Russian buyers. Málaga was a distant second on 1,111.
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Stunning Villa for sale in Marbella (Málaga)
7 bedrooms, Area Lot 2,700m2, Built area 1,118m2, Swimming-pool, Seaside Resort, Second Hand, Luxury property, In Urban Area
Luxury villa just minutes from the city of Marbella (Málaga), internal and luxurious urbanization Los Monteros with 24 hour security. 200 meters from the beach. In an area equipped with all the services and shops. A newly built exclusive house with exceptional qualities. Exquisite design. Comfortable and spacious. Ability to negotiate the furnishing. Marinas, golf and golf, airport, all within minutes.
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Architecture in Spain: Atocha Monument, Madrid
This is a monumental tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks on March 11th, 2004, Madrid.
It consists out of 2 parts, intimately related: the glass cupola and the room underneath it. From this room, visitors can watch the inside of the cupola, where messages are visible, printed on the glass. These messages were written in the successive days after the bombing. The 11 m high glass cupola is formed by 2 different layers: transparent colourless glass blocks and an ETFE membrane. The blocks are glued together with acrylic glue that hardens when exposed to ultraviolet light. The glue is still transparent, but the ETFE foil contains a 97% transparency, subject to change, according to the pressure within the room. The messages will be seen through the glass skin during the day, and appear different during the night. The room is accessed directly from the main lobby of the station of Atocha. The blue coloured space is like “an empty space, in silence, with the light as a protagonist”.
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Thousand properties could be spared demolition in Alicante
Approximately 1,800 Alicante properties could be spared demolition. They will be legalised following changes to the 1988 Coastline law due for debate in Spain’s senate later this month.
The news was welcomed by home-owners in Denia, Javea, La Albufereta, Serra Grossa in northern Alicante. Homes in Arenales del Sol in Elche, Guardamar, El Pinet and Santa Pola will also benefit from the amended legislation.
The existing law stipulates that a 100-metre strip of land above the high-water mark must be left free for public use. This is expected to be reduced to 20 metres, enabling the legalisation of pre-1988 homes.
At present owners of properties infringing the 100-metre strip were told they could occupy them only until 2018, after which they were to be demolished.
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Outstanding Villa for Sale in Madrid
8 bedrooms, Area Lot 2,627m2, Built area 1,050m2, Second Hand
Stunning newly built villa in the best area of the Moraleja (Madrid)
Very open main floor with interconnecting voids and the garden to ease outdoor life and the possibility of meetings. Large living / dining room of 140 m2 dining room connected to the office and the kitchen (70 m2). Hallway with lift and complimentary toiletries. Departure from the kitchen to the summer dining in the garden.
On first floor - A master suite with 130 m2 living room, bedroom with large dressing room, office with sleeping and bathroom TV. Junior Suite of 70 m2 with bathroom.On the second floor are two large double bedrooms of 50 m2 with bathroom and balcony with a view to the development.
In the basement enjoys several pieces such as cinema / tv / music acoustically conditioned 50 m2 (as estimated by engineer) for optimum sound like cinema or concert hall. Delivered with 3 meter screen and pre-installation 5. 1 and 7. 1. Gymnasium. Guest room with bathroom. Service apartment for two people with kitchen, living area, bedroom and bathroom. Laundry room and separate plate.
Outside - Large garden with landscape designs and installation of automatic sprinklers and music. Porch 50 m2 living room with doors open to motorized. Pool with underfloor air conditioning by taking advantage of geothermal energy.
ABC Museum, Illustration and Design Center, in Madrid
The new ABC Center of Drawing and Illustration, by Aranguren & Gallegos Architects, comes with a willingness to be an artistic international reference and a cultural symbol of Madrid. The installation in the old factory building in Amaniel Street has to be a suitable intervention in a historic building without sacrificing the character of expressing a contemporary center with a diverse range of cultural and artistic institutions.
The existing building has a possible dual access from two streets connecting them in an interior court. Before the intervention, one of the entrances was through a longitudinal height body that closed the courtyard. From this front we propose the principal access to the new Center ABC. To achieve this, the mentioned longitudinal body is restructured as a great “girder” of translucent glass that operates as a lintel towards the interior court. Located inside is the cafeteria, and under it, through a glass floor on which you enter the courtyard, the basement of the new center catche the light.
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Andalusia housing chief calls for national evictions summit
The Andalusian chief of public works and housing, Elena Cortés, on Thursday called on the central government to organize a conference involving all the regions to debate the burning issue of evictions.
She also hoped the conference would give the Andalusian regional government the opportunity to explain in detail the 
new decree on social housing it approved on Tuesday, under which it plans to seize the homes of the needyiest families subject to eviction for up to three years.
Cortés said the central administration has a "golden opportunity" to advance in the same direction by passing the Popular Legislative Initiative on evictions presented in Congress by the Mortgage Victims Platform, which supports dation in payment — canceling a mortgage by handing back the keys to the bank — social housing, changes to mortgage laws and civil lawsuits, and the halting of eviction procedures.
Cortés explained the region's new social housing decree would come into effect on Friday, allowing eligible families to apply for a temporary seizure of their home at one of the housing protection offices it opened in Andalusia's various provincial capitals last October.
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