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The Junta de Andalucía has issued the scoping document for the strategic environmental assessment and found nothing that prevents development. Next comes initial approval by the city’s planning department, expected at the end of October.

Familia La Ancha’s restaurant opens its fifth venue on the ground floor of Serras Sevilla, with large windows onto the Cathedral and the Giralda, in the complex refurbished by EDDEA.

The magazine devotes its “First In” column to Serras Collection’s fourth hotel and credits EDDEA with the architecture: three historic houses opposite the Cathedral turned into a 43-room hotel.

Luis Ybarra joined the Mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, to lay the foundation stone of the two subsidised rental schemes EDDEA has designed for Inmobiliaria Osuna.

The former residence of the Marquis of Villamarta and the adjoining apartment building, designed between 1915 and 1920, reopen as a five-star grand luxury hotel following EDDEA’s refurbishment.

The commission from the United Nations Development Programme opens a new stage for the studio in Asia. The first field mission identified an area of up to 100 hectares with high potential for urban regeneration.

The Junta de Andalucía approves the PGOU amendment that turns 165,698 m² of warehouses on Avenida de las Razas into 700 subsidised homes, with works expected from 2027.

The Andalusian Housing and Refurbishment Agency awards the project’s research and development phase to two consortia. EDDEA is part of one of them, alongside Ghenova, Tecnalia and Aicia, to design an industrialised, nearly zero-energy construction system for subsidised housing.

All 64 homes at La Altana, in Espartinas, are sold and occupied. The project turned a six-metre change in level into the scheme’s great opportunity.

The 84-home subsidised housing scheme developed by Vimpyca in Marbella reaches the structure-complete milestone: two symmetrical blocks of ground floor plus three and penthouse around a central courtyard.

Residencial Idara: new housing in Entrenúcleos. EDDEA designs 275 homes for Pryconsa in Dos Hermanas, now one of the major answers to the housing shortage in the Seville metropolitan area.

The company will refurbish some 15,000 square metres in warehouse 5 and sheds 7 and 8 of the Muelle de Tablada for a corporate campus of nearly 1,000 professionals, the first major operator to land in the district.

EDDEA puts the finishing touches to Serras Collection’s first hotel in Andalusia: 43 rooms across three listed houses by Aníbal González and José Espiau, with a rooftop facing the Cathedral’s monumental façade.

EDDEA, in a joint venture with BURO4 Arquitectos, has been awarded the urban planning technical assistance contract to support the strategic evolution of Mercasevilla.

The Vimpyca development in which EDDEA is involved joins the new neighbourhood in southern Seville with 136 subsidised homes arranged as an open block.

Bilbao, Port Vell and Santander share the stage with Seville at the launch of the 50th issue of PORTUS magazine. José María de Cárdenas set out the vision for the Port Urban District in conversation with Rafael Carmona, Ibon Areso, David Pino and César Díaz.

The Port of Seville puts the restoration project for the Iron Bridge out to tender for €150,000 and marks its centenary with a square, an exhibition and guided tours. EDDEA’s masterplan turns it into the Teatro del Puente.

Three different public authorities have commissioned EDDEA to design three new Seville neighbourhoods: the Distrito Urbano Portuario, Barrio de Quarto and the Distrito Aeroespacial. More than 30,000 homes for 60,000 people.

The BOJA publishes the final approval of the amendment to the Port Special Plan (Plan Especial) for areas AP-1, AP-3, AP-4 and AL-9, the step that unlocks the transformation of the port waterfront designed by EDDEA.

After more than 15 years in the Russian market, EDDEA is taking a firm step towards the emerging markets of Central Asia. Its blend of an international team and in-depth knowledge of local standards, processes and dynamics is attracting notable interest from the region’s leading institutional and private players.

EDDEA is part of UTE 1, the joint venture selected to compete for A Coruña Marítima, the project that will transform A Coruña’s port waterfront and mark a turning point in the relationship between port and city. The tender drew 78 firms from 9 countries in 14 joint ventures, including IDOM, RSHP, BIG, Zaha Hadid, TYPSA and Junquera Arquitectos.

After eight years in the making, the Port of Seville’s DEUP reserves more than 100,000 m² at Tablada and 85,740 m² at Mirador de Batán for port–city interaction uses.

The Junta de Andalucía selects five teams for the competitive dialogue on the industrialised subsidised housing project. EDDEA is competing in the joint venture led by Ghenova, alongside Tecnalia and AICIA.

Mairena del Aljarafe Town Council has launched the second phase of the redevelopment of Parque Central Porzuna, an ambitious project designed by EDDEA.

Seville City Council has approved the first Planning Study for structural refurbishment in the Torreblanca area, promoted by Caralca and drafted by EDDEA. It will turn three unfinished structures from the property bubble into a modern, sustainable housing complex.

Through Sevilla Activa, Seville Provincial Council has held the first public participation sessions for the new Barrio de Quarto in Bellavista, with the collaboration of EDDEA and Factor-IA. The initiative seeks to bring residents’ voices into the urban design, addressing mobility, sustainability and heritage.

Vía Ágora awards EDDEA 313 industrialised homes in Santa Bárbara, the first residential scheme in Seville’s Distrito Aeroespacial, with prefabricated façades.

Seville City Council approves the development of the new Aerospace Urban District in Santa Bárbara, an operation of more than 10 million square metres that will bring together productive, residential and service uses next to San Pablo airport.

EDDEA presents its proposal for the Santa Bárbara District in Seville, a scheme of 2,000 family homes with green spaces and open architecture, designed for family life.

Participatory urban design in Seville: the Barrio de Quarto collaborative workshops exceed expectations, with strong turnout from Bellavista residents.

EDDEA completes the Kaohsiung Pop Music Centre, an 88,000 m² cultural complex that transforms Taiwan’s waterfront after a decade in development.

The Port Authority of Seville and AIVP organise a European meeting on port–city integration. José María de Cárdenas spoke at the event and guided the visit to the Port Urban District site.

Pryconsa entrusts EDDEA with the design of its first project in Entrenúcleos (Dos Hermanas): a 275-home apartment scheme committed to efficiency, sustainability and urban quality, with two buildings linked by an inner courtyard and a green area with a swimming pool.

Iberdrola Inmobiliaria has awarded EDDEA the urban development of sector SR-15 in Mairena del Aljarafe, a new residential scheme with more than 380 homes and a central park that puts pedestrian life first.

EDDEA is developing an innovative mixed hotel–residential project for Azora in Seville, optimising the returns of student residences during holiday periods.

Pryconsa commissions EDDEA to design 275 homes in Entrenúcleos, Dos Hermanas: a residential scheme with gardens and communal spaces in the Seville metropolitan area.

Urban planning in Seville: EDDEA and Factor-IA develop Cortijo del Quarto, conserving 50% of the land and providing accessible public housing.

EDDEA designs 101 innovative homes for Insur in Entrenúcleos, with professional offices and industrialised bathrooms.

The EDDEA partner spoke as an expert at a UNIA summer course on how ports and cities currently coexist.

In the spirit of the 1929 Exposition, port land and industrial heritage will be reclaimed for green space, leisure, offices and university centres

De Cárdenas and Ybarra explain the project to turn an iconic building in the heart of the city into a hotel for the Serras Collection group

The EDDEA partner was one of the ten jury members who judged the five categories of the awards convened by the Andalusian Regional Government and the professional associations.

The studio’s founding partners looked back on their 30-year career at the ‘Referentes’ forum, organised by Abbantia Law Firm and Clínica Cuve.

José María de Cárdenas taught a class to students on the Master in Business for Architecture & Design at IE’s Madrid campus, with CITYPLAIN and the Euro 60 modular platform as case studies.

Work has recently begun on the project, a gated development of apartment buildings with homes of up to four bedrooms.

EDDEA’s founders attended the official opening of the cultural complex in March in Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s second-largest city.

The five-star grand luxury hotel designed by EDDEA will transform three listed buildings of Sevillian Regionalism into 43 rooms with privileged views of the Cathedral.

The proposal for this neighbourhood of more than 4,000 homes, ‘Azul y Verde’ (Blue and Green), weaves in the site’s existing tree cover and watercourses.

The new urban quarter will have 10,000 square metres of open space, shops and more than 800 homes, 50% of them subsidised.

The EDDEA partner reflects on the state of affordable housing and proposes measures to make Andalusia a pioneer in the field.

The event highlighted the studio’s pioneering role in internationalisation, new models of city-making and industrialised construction.

José María de Cárdenas says that “our experience can help make the capital a benchmark as a major city of southern Europe”.

Twelve projects out of 239 shortlisted reached the final of the 2023 edition of these awards, the most important in the country.

Citythinking’s Managing Director spoke at the BIMtour session devoted to concrete, with a talk on industrialising the construction of affordable housing.

With an investment of 49 million euros, the complex will offer more than 200 homes with views over Seville and a distinctly innovative look.

EDDEA’s co-founding partner spoke at the technical conference organised by FIDAS on the new challenges facing architecture and lighting in creating sustainable, healthy spaces.

The studio has developed the brief and architectural concept for the future offices, a 3,800-square-metre building.

Among the firm’s most recent initiatives, the newspaper highlights the commission to plan and design Seville’s new Port District.

The second part of the interview in ABC de Sevilla. EDDEA’s CEO argues that a magnet building cannot transform a city on its own, makes the case for mixed uses in large historic complexes and places the future Museo de Sevilla beside the river.

Interview in ABC de Sevilla on the studio’s 30th anniversary. EDDEA’s CEO discusses the Port District, the shortage of middle-class housing in Seville and public participation as a method.

José María de Cárdenas and Jorge Izquierdo review initiatives undertaken in cities around the world to transform former port areas.

Combining homes, green spaces and shops, the scheme aims to broaden Cádiz’s housing supply and integrate existing infrastructure.

Jorge Izquierdo, architect at the firm, explains the uses planned for the new Navalips neighbourhood, with housing, green spaces, shops and leisure.

Arketipo, one of Italy’s leading technical journals, publishes an article on the Cazorla high-resolution hospital and the way it is set into the topography.

The building at number 12 Avenida de la Constitución in the Andalusian capital will become a 43-room hotel.

The Taiwanese complex is competing in the Cultural Architecture category of ArchDaily’s Building of the Year 2023 awards, while Parametric Architecture examines the hexagonal grid that orders the ensemble.

The initiative envisages a new urban quarter with room for 10,000 square metres and more than 800 homes.

The project proposes transforming 40 hectares of riverbank next to Avenida de Las Razas into a new neighbourhood for the city.

José María de Cárdenas and Paris city councillor Geneviève Garrigos came together at this specialist forum on the city, held in Cádiz.

Two of the world’s leading architecture and design magazines devote features to what makes the building so distinctive.

The awards recognise support for, and contributions to, the revitalisation of the property and construction sector.

Spain’s most-visited property portal includes the Museo Íbero in its selection of iconic buildings in Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville, expressly crediting the Seville studio EDDEA.

“With our CITYPLAIN platform we have built more than 6,000 homes in the last two years alone,” says José María de Cárdenas, announcing that the studio has joined the Madrid cluster.

The cutting-edge architecture of this development of 52 single-family homes is combined with the benefits of its shared amenities.

Citythinking’s platform was a finalist in the digitalisation and technology investment category of the awards at the REBUILD fair in Madrid.

The team’s competition entry is organised around a large interior atrium onto which every workspace opens.

Following its opening, the Kaohsiung Pop Music Centre has entered the leading international architecture titles, which examine its 88,000 square metres and its sea-inspired geometry.

Arranged in three areas with several open-air spaces, the complex sets out to become a creative and leisure hub for the city.

Issue 42 of PORTUS carries a technical article by the EDDEA team setting out the plan’s ten strategic axes and its three areas of intervention: Delicias, Batán and Tablada.

Developed by Vía Célere, the 87-home building stands at one of the corners of Seville’s San Bernardo neighbourhood.

In an interview for ‘Porcelanosa in’, EDDEA’s founding partner reflects on how the studio and the profession have evolved.

The initiative includes the construction of a boutique hotel and a high-end winery that will offer visitors a range of exclusive experiences.

The DUP co-design process gathered 454 public contributions, distilled into 25 proposals. What the city is asking for is not a spectacular operation: it is a neighbourhood.

With wide avenues, pedestrian areas and a range of facilities, the new neighbourhood will be fully integrated into the town.

Liveability, inclusiveness, connectivity and identity: the four axes through which EDDEA approaches the relationship between port and city, presented at the conference on the new Strategic Framework for Spanish ports.

The initiative seeks to preserve the historic and heritage value of this former industrial structure, which dates from the 19th century.

The new park between the Ciudad Expo and Los Alcores neighbourhoods has involved partially burying the bed of the Porzuna stream.

Projects from 47 countries competed in this edition of one of the most important architecture and interior design awards in the world.

Opened at the end of 2017, the museum is the most important cultural facility built in Andalusia in recent years.

ABC Córdoba brought EDDEA’s CEO together with AGi architects and Ecosistema Urbano to debate the future of the city after the pandemic. De Cárdenas set out the studio’s methodology and the figures behind Moscow’s Spanish Quarter.

EDDEA’s urban planning brand joins the worldwide network of port cities, which highlights its role at the head of the Technical Office for Seville’s Port Urban District.

The PACT conference announced Anja Sophia Ehrenfried as a keynote speaker for its 2020 edition. Eduardo Mayoral, CTO of Citythinking, also featured in the final programme.

The intervention area covers the left bank of the Alfonso XIII dock, from the Puente de las Delicias to the Puente del Centenario.

Neinor’s new development lies in the south-east of the city, on the municipal boundary between Seville and Dos Hermanas.

Residential blocks linked by green areas will be designed to meet the population growth the city is experiencing.

The building is woven into the landscape, making its natural surroundings an active part of patients’ recovery.

Citythinking’s managing director spoke in Kyiv about the disruptive technologies changing architecture. World Architecture Community and ArchDaily covered her talk.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia adds Citythinking’s tool to its master’s programme, with Eduardo Mayoral, the team’s CTO, leading the workshop.

The scheme is a gated complex with a large central area that acts as a green lung and a space for community life.

The 100-home complex offers shared spaces with swimming pools, a padel court, a children’s play area and green spaces.