Mateo Arquitectura

Mateo Arquitectura has been awarded first prize in the competition to design Îlot B6 city block and construct a housing block in Bassins à Flot in Bordeaux (France).

Presentation of The Factory in Paris

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“The Factory”: Prize for the Best Project Abroad by a Spanish Practice

The 4th NAN de Arquitectura y Construcción 2010 Prize has awarded Mateo Arquitectura the Prize for the Best Project Abroad by a Spanish Practice for “The Factory”, its new office building in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris.
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New Office Building on the old Renault Factory land from Josep Lluis Mateo on Vimeo

Video: Tiago Câmara

Completion of The Factory, the new office building by Josep Lluís Mateo on the site of the old Renault factory in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. Winning project in the invited competition organized in 2006

When addressing this project for an office building, we started off by thinking about the entire city block as a series of buildings with spaces between them to introduce light and air into the empty space. In this way we began to see the building as a mass that formed Rue Emile Zola, like a complex volume. We had some prior experience with this type of building in terms of dimensions, depth, and so on, that went almost automatically into the drawings and models. I always start this way, with a very abstract volume as a base. more »

Photo: Pedro Pegenaute

Last Wednesday, November 10th, ELISAVA School of Design celebrated the lecture “Criteria and Opportunities in Architectural Exploration” more »

New Film Theatre of Catalonia from Josep Lluís Mateo on Vimeo

Video: Jonathan Guillén

New building for the Cinematheque of Catalunya (Archives, Library and Cinema Halls) in the Raval, Barcelona.

First Prize. Restricted competition 2004

<<The new building will stand in the Raval, one of the most run-down parts of Barcelona’s historic centre and currently the object of an energetic policy of demolition and new run-of-the-mill construction.

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Consultation on the construction of four apartment buildings and the landscaping of a park on the site of the Andromède mixed-use development.

First prize awarded in 2010

The Andromède neighbourhood. Organization of the block

<<Andromède: the new neighbourhood being developed in a sequence between the Aéroconstellation and the river Garonne.
Our idea is to mark the start of this sequence opposite a park, the Cours Pinot, close to the main approach road, Avenue Andromède. more »

PGGM Building coming soon from Josep Lluis Mateo on Vimeo.

New Headquarters of PGGM Insurance Company from Josep Lluís Mateo on Vimeo.

Video: Tiago Camara

New Headquarters of PGGM Insurance Company

First Prize. Restricted competition

2002 – 2010 – Zeist / Holland

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Located nearby the city of Zeist, close to Utrecht, the tender put forward the requirement for increasing the offices in the current building by 25.000 m2, and at the same time recover a park by means of the construction of a 25.000 m2 underground car park. more »