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Bilbao Architecture : Basque Buildings

Contemporary Architectural Developments in Biscay, north east Spain

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Bilbao Architecture Design – chronological list

Bilbao Building Designs – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

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Bilbao Building Designs – Latest Additions

3 Oct 2013
Mandragora Tattoo Studio
Design: BABELstudio

photo from architect
The design strategy conceives the large depth of the space as a quality of its own and therefore organizes the various uses of the tattoo studio by positioning three simple volumes of different heights along the enclosing wall.

5 Feb 2013
Orona IDeO, San Sebastian, north east Spain
Design: Xabier Barrutieta

photo © Xabier Barrutieta
Orona IDeO – innovation city is the flagship design of the new extension of San Sebastian’s Technology Park that frames in a public-private collaboration between Orona (a company that focuses its activity on lifts, escalators and moving walkways) and the Technology Park.

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12 Oct 2012
IDOM Headquarters Bilbao Building News
Design: Javier Pérez Uribarri of ACXT Architects

photo : Aitor Ortiz, Jorge Allende
The IDOM Group offices building is located in the old bonded warehouse in the Deusto canal. The building has 14,400m2 destined for offices, research and development areas such as the white-room and the prototypes workshop, and social spaces.

2 Jul 2012
Bilbao Arena – RIBA Awards 2012 Winner news
Design: Idom UK

photo : Jorge Allende
This 20,000 seat professional basketball stadium and community sports centre is perched on a grassy outcrop, its veil of green painted steel ‘leaves’ hanging five metres beyond the world-class basketball arena inside. This creates an exterior service zone (like the branches of a tree) for the building’s gloriously accessible array of air-handling equipment.

7 May 2012
Basque Health Department Headquarters>
Design: COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS

photo : Aleix Bagué
The new Basque Health Department headquarters is located at the last site that still remained unbuilt on the administrative and Business Center of Bilbao. The aim of the new building is bringing together staff in a recognizable place, in order to increase the efficiency of the service and identify easily the corporation. The project at the same time involves both economic and property profits.

7 May 2012
La Peña Multi-Sport Pavilion, north east Spain
Design: COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS

photo : Aleix Bagué
La Peña is one of the areas that suffered more from Bilbao’s post-industrial restructuring. For most of the twentieth century, the area was an open pit mining surrounded by dwellings for workers.