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Published on Leave a comment on Contemporary Architecture in Spain: Murcia Town Hall

The Murcia Town Hall (Spain) raises in the Cardinal Belluga Square, a baroque square where the protagonist are the façade of the Cathedral designed by Jaime Bort and Cardinal Belluga Palace, the work of the architect Canestro. Moneo designs the building of the Town Hall content in its role as a spectator, without seeking the status of protagonist held by the two historical buildings. However we do not imagine a commonplace spectator.

Civil power is embodied in this building on the place where the Church shows its power. The façade/retable of the Town Hall facing the square could never, nor would ever, want to compete with the classical order. It's organised as a musical score, numerically, accepting the system of horizontal levels of the floor slabs. The façade resist symmetries and offers as its key element the balcony of the gallery. The Town Hall has not an entrance on the square. It respects the pre-eminence of those buildings which have occupied it for so long.

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Published on 1 Comment on Spain to give legal residence to non-EU property buyers

There’s no such thing as an illegal immigrant with money. At least not in Spain thanks to the Government’s new strategy to revive the real estate market. The proposal is to change the immigration law to grant legal residence to non-EU citizens who buy a property in Spain for more than 160,000 euros.

casa 300x225 - Spain to give legal residence to non-EU property buyersSecretary of State for Commerce Jaime García-Legaz announced the project on Monday although later Prime Minister Rajoy stressed that as yet “no decision had been taken”.
There was an immediate response from other political parties, unions and immigrants’ associations, who described the plans as “strange” and “implausible”.

García-Legaz explained that the reform process would be set in motion within a few weeks and that he considered the 160,000 threshold to be “balanced” with respect to the government’s objectives.
“We can’t establish a lower price limit, because that would generate a massive demand for residence permits using a property as an excuse to get one,” he stressed.
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Published on Leave a comment on Vacational rental detached villa in Ibiza (Baleares)

6 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, Area Lot 1,500m2, Built area 600m2, Swimming-pool, 500m away from the Beach, Luxury property, In Urban Area

Ibiza Es cubells. A spectacular new villa located on the south coast of the island, featuring exquisite interior design and furnishing by renowned interior decorator Tomas Alia. The villa offers excellent sea views. 6 bedrooms , 7 bathrooms , pool.

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Published on Leave a comment on El Casar Bus Station, Caceres, Extremadura

In the town of Casar de Cáceres, located 10 kilometres from the capital of Cáceres (Extremadura), the architect Justo García Rubio planned his most audacious work: a terminal for long-distance buses featuring complex engineering and a superbly slender design.

The most characteristic element is the curved white concrete ribbon which folds in on itself and serves as a roof and as a depot for travellers and vehicles. A laminar structure resembling a sculpture, whose shape is not only designed to be aesthetically pleasing, but also functional: it expels the contamination from the buses' exhaust pipes and diverts it away from the schools flanking the station.

The result is strongly reminiscent of the soft architecture pioneered by other architects such as Oscar Niemeyer and Félix Candela.

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Published on Leave a comment on Vacation Rental Villa in A Village Worth a Visit: Frigiliana

This beautiful villa is found in the quiet countryside just a short drive from the centre of Frigiliana, Málaga. The spacious interior is beautilfully furnished in a rustic style. The large sun terraces offer marvellous panoramic views of the countryside, mountains and distant shoreline.

This single storey accommodation consists of: Kitchen with Dishwasher, Microwave, Oven, Hob, Fridge/Freezer, Breakfast Bar, Lounge with Satellite TV, DVD Player, 1 double Bedroom with standing fan and on suite bathroom, 2 Twin beded rooms with standing fan that share a full bathroom.

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Published on Leave a comment on University Housing by Guallart Architects, Gandía

This project was developed in Gandia, a town with a population of 75,000 to the south of Valencia. The aim was to develop a hybrid project that would function essentially as a student residence while meeting the requirements of social housing, with the corresponding standards and characteristics.

The proposed programme includes 102 apartments for young people, 40 apartments for senior citizens, and a civic and social centre for the town council. The most interesting question from a programmatic point of view is the provision of shared spaces in the apartments for young people, which is in effect a new version from the traditional residence for young people.

The fact is that the idea of sharing spaces is fully compatible with the goals of social and environmental sustainability, grounded as it is on the principle of ‘doing more with less’: that is, offering people more resources through the mechanism of sharing.

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Published on Leave a comment on Foreign nationals taking advantage of falling costs are descending on the ‘costas’

All is not lost: they say that the end of the property crisis is coming from the East, where Spain offers sunny weather, good services, excellent communications and now, cheap housing too. This has become a land of opportunity for a certain type of foreign client with money in their pockets. Mortgage loans may have dried out, but that does not matter; these customers pay in cash.

46353 919545 foto 1 300x224 - Foreign nationals taking advantage of falling costs are descending on the 'costas'The Mediterranean region is producing a new model of real estate opportunity: the two-bedroom apartment for 60,000 euros. This is what some banks had been trying to avoid for a long time: demolition prices. But there it is. Reality has moved faster than the government and its bad bank project.

There are two ways of looking at life in the real estate sector. Looking out from the top, on the 19th floor of Madrid's Torre Picasso, the workplace of investment fund consultants, the situation is viewed with a cold, cautious eye: "In the short term, the bad bank will act like the casting-out-nines technique. Things will never be the same," says Rafael Roldán, an executive at Ernst & Young. Or, in other words, big capital has yet to make a move.
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Published on 6 Comments on Perfect Holiday Rental House in Calpe (Alicante)

4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, Area Lot 900m2, Built area 300m2, Area useful 300m2, Swimming-pool, Seaside Resort, In Urban Area

Luxury villa with impressive seaviews and private pool in Calpe  (Alicante) for 8 people. This villa is situated in the quiet living area Oltamar, only a few minutes from the beach and the town centre Calpe. This villa has a living area of 300 m² arranged on 2 floors. The plot has 900 m², is completely enclosed and has a parking for 3-4 cars.

Upper floor: large living – dining room with air conditioner, sat-tv/tdt and access to the covered terrace and the pool with seaviews. Separate kitchen, completely equipped with ceramic hob, dishwasher, microwave, refrigerator with freezer, oven and other utensils for the kitchen. Large bedroom with double bed and air conditioner. 1 guest-toilet with wc and washbasin. 1 large bedroom with double bed, panoramic seaviews, air conditioner, Access to the terrace and bathroom in suite with bath, shower, wc and washbasin. 1 utilityroom with washing machine.

Ground floor: (Access by internal stairs) large living room with confortable sofa and sat-tv. 1 bathroom with shower, wc and washbasin. 1 small kitchen with 2 hotplates, refrigerator with freezer, dishwasher and other utensils for the kitchen. 1 dining room with access to the terrace. 1 large bedroom with views to the sea. 1 bedroom with double bed. 1 bathroom with shower, wc and washbasin.

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Published on 3 Comments on Ideal Holiday Villa in Benissa (Alicante)

5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, Area Lot 1,000m2, Built area 180m2, Swimming-pool, Pets allowed

Villa in Benissa (Alicante) Costa Blanca, Spain with private pool, for a maximum of 10 persons. This villa is situated in a hilly, wooded and residential area. The accommodation has a lawned garden with gravel and trees and beautiful views of the bay, the sea, the valley and the mountains. Its tranquility makes this a fine villa to celebrate your holidays with family or friends and even your pets.

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Published on Leave a comment on MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León

The Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León (MUSAC) is located in León (Spain). It is a set of autonomous, interconnected exhibition rooms enables exhibitions of different types and sizes to be created; each irregularly shaped room constructs a continuous, yet spatially separated space which flows into other rooms and patios, providing longitudinal, transversal and diagonal vistas.

500 Prefabricated beams close off a series of spaces characterized by systematic repetition and formal expressiveness. Outside, the concave shaped public space accommodates different activities; a place surrounded by huge colored panels of glass and acts a place of personal intercommunication.

Inside, a great expanse of continuous, yet distinctive, spaces dotted with patios and large skylights gives rise to “an expressive system that communicates the interests art and architecture share: the contemporary manifestation of the variable and the perennial, the different and the same, the universal and the transitory, as an echo of our own diversity and equality as individuals.”

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