Mateo Arquitectura

The extension of the Head Office of PGGM Insurance Company in Zeist (Utrecht, Holland) receives the NAN Prize for the Best Project Abroad by a Spanish Practice.
more »

After a series of actions to remodel the main entrance and the ground and first floors, Josep Lluís Mateo is to undertake a further intervention into the Banc Sabadell tower block on Barcelona’s Diagonal.

more »

“[…] The main constraints of the site were the street, the inner courtyard and the adjacent elements. The site’s relation with the street suggested that the building should fold to protect the sidewalk in a very striking urban gesture: you move alongside the building and, at the same time, beneath it. It is a contemporary version of the old porches. The building provides refuge, protects you and then gently lets you go as you pass. more »

Josep Lluís Mateo’s interventions in the entrance and on the ground floor of the Banc de Sabadell building in Barcelona  are open to visitors this coming 22 October as part of year two of 48H Open House in Barcelona.
more »

Headquarters of the new Film Theatre of Catalonia in the Raval district of Barcelona
First prize, public competition 2004

<< About the form… The ruins mark the structure of the buildings. The Roman forum formalizes the plane of foundations and drains.
more »

Architectural coordination of the built complex of a city block and housing design in Bassins à flot (France)
First prize. Invited competition, 2010

Last December, Josep Lluís Mateo was awarded first prize in the invited competition for the design and construction of block B6/B9 in Bassins à flot, Bordeaux (France). The programme comprises a series of dwellings and a commercial strip. These dwellings will have private gardens, a car park and a communal garden area for the residents.

more »

Architecture & Cinema: real and fictional spaces (August 2011)

Locarno, located on the banks of Lake Maggiore at the foot of the Alps, hosts since 1946 the Festival del Film Locarno, one of the oldest film festivals in the world. In the Spring Semester 2011 the chair of Professor Dr. Josep Lluís Mateo has proposed the students to design a building for the “Cineteca Svizzera” more »

Josep Lluís Mateo will be taking part in the “3rd Critical Reflections” debates organized by the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya Autonomous Catalan Government on 19, 20 and 21 July at the Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona. This cycle sets out to reflect on the state of culture in Catalonia today. more »

In the last excerpt from the interview for Conditions Magazine, Josep Lluís Mateo analyzes some of the reasons to why a lot less building is going on in Europe these days. more »

Connecting Hall, Main Entrance of the national Gallery and access between the palaces Slam and Schwarzenberg International Competition, First Award. 2004

After winning the Restricted Competition in 2004 the construction of the new central access to the National Gallery in Prague began in late 2009 and works are ongoing, it will be completed by the end of this year.

more »