Venice, 05.2025 The official opening of the Architecture Biennale Time Space Existence, organized by the European Cultural Centre at Palazzo Mora in Venice, was recently celebrated. Juan José Castellón is presenting Impluvium Redux, a prototypical module in the form of an umbrella structure that operates…

Geneva, 03.2025 The proposal for the new Building 140 at CERN’s campus, by White Arkitekter and Burckhardt Architecture, has won third prize in an open competition, where xmade has collaborated in the design of the building’s envelope. The project features a timber structure that integrates…

Barcelona, 10.2024 Our partner Miquel Rodriguez has published an article called “Hybrid Envelopes. Between Easy-Tech and High End Technology” in the Roca Gallery web.   Click to check the article!  

Barcelona, 07.2024 Impluvium Redux is a modular system designed as a flexible solution that can be deployed on any urban rooftop or public space. Comprised of hollow ceramic columns that function as both structural elements and water collectors, an elevated modular floor, and a kinetic…

Genève, 03.2024 The proposal for the new Geneva Ice Hockey Arena, by gdap architectes, has won second prize in an open competition (two rounds), where xmade has collaborated in the design of the building’s envelope. The new “Patinoire” with a forceful geometry, solves the program…

Barcelona, 07.2021 The proposal by the team of Barozzi Veiga from Barcelona has been awarded with the first prize of the invited competition for the new Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology in Barcelona, Spain. During the two phases of the competition, xmade was collaborating…

Basel, 07.2023 The proposed extension to the existing building consists of two new timber-framed structures which are braced by cross laminated timber ceilings. The detailed facade consists of fine wooden pillars and horizontal brise soleils. Steel crosses are transferring forces through the outer layer of…

Lausanne, 04.2023 La Fondation de La Rozavère in Lausanne, Switzerland, is in the final phase of its construction process and will be open to the public in the early weeks of July. Designed by Juan Socas architects, xmade GmbH collaborated on the development and execution…

Madrid, 06.2021 The proposal by Heatherwick Studio, London, together with the local offices CLK Architects, Madrid, and BAC Engineering, has been selected the winning proposal for the new office building for El Corte Inglés, which is located in Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid. xmade was…

Houston, 03.2024 Juan José Castellón, Assistant Professor at Rice School of Architecture and partner at Xmade submitted “Building Ecologies”, an installation created in collaboration with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, the Shepherd School of Music, and the support of the…

Dessau, 01.2021 The new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany, has been awarded with the title Museum of the Year 2020 by the german sector of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). Designed by addenda architects, xmade GmbH collaborated on the development and execution of…

Tel Aviv, 01.2021 Updated pictures from the construction site of the Broadcom Building, Tel Aviv University. The glass facade with the twisted aluminium fins, that act as a sun protection, is coming together! Both the fins and the glass facade have been executed by Alumeshet,…

Lausanne, 01.2021 The new Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, was awarded with the Fritz Höger Award in the category “Grand Prix”. Designed by Barozzi Veiga, the museum opened its doors in April 2019. xmade GmbH collaborated on the development and execution of…

Barcelona, 10.2020 The issue 272 from the magazine of the Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme has been released. It contains very interesting articles by Pep Avilés, André Bideau, David Bestué, Nuria Casais & Ferran Grau, Matilde Cassani, Enric Llorach, Guillermo López, Mark…

Manlleu, 03.2020 The proposal by Josep Ferrando Architecture has been awarded with the first prize in the open competition for the building of the Policia Local in Manlleu. An exposed timber structure generates a compact volume and a ready-to-build modulated envelope system, consisting on prefabricated…

Genève, 10.2020 The proposal by the team Magizan + CCHE architects and Losinger Marazzi as general contractor has been awarded the first prize of the invited competition for a housing project in Les Acacias, Genève. xmade GmbH was in charge of developing the stoneware facade…

Barcelona, 10.2020 The Barcelona Architecture Centre, an exchange program for under- and graduate students in Barcelona for American universities (Texas A&M, Roger Williams and Clemson), has invited our partner Miquel Rodriguez to give a lecture about materiality, sustainability and construction processes.

Lausanne, 04.2019 In anticipation of the official opening of the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne by architects Barozzi-Veiga, in October 2019, the museum and the canton invited the citizens to visit the building during an open doors event in April 2019. The xmade team,…

Barcelona, 07.2020 The project of the Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires (Argentina) by Josep Ferrando Architecture has been awarded the FAD International Award 2020. The jury, with Mario Corea as president and the members Miguel Roldán and Jelena Prokopljević, have selected it “for its…

Seoul, 11.2021 Juanjo Castellón (co-founder, xmade GmbH) and his research team at Rice School of Architecture were awarded with the Crossroads X Prize for their F.E.W. (Food, Energy, and Water) rooftop prototype in the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism , SBAU 2021. The entry was one of 14 honored from among the 190 artists,…

Lausanne, 07.2019 Josep Ferrando Architecture + xmade GmbH have been awarded the fifth prize in the invited competition of the extension of the Tribunal Cantonal de Vaud in Lausanne. The geometry of the building is informed directly by the topography of the site: the proposal…

Toledo, 05.2020 Conference played with four hands by our partners Juan José Castellón and Miquel Rodriguez for the construction department of the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, invited by professors Sergio Cobos and Jose Aguado.

Fribourg, 09.2019 The multidisciplinary team lead by Estudio Herreros was selected to participate in the development of a proposal for the new Smart Living Lab in Fribourg for the EPFL and the University of Fribourg. During six months, the team has intensively worked on a…

Seoul, 11.2019 The new Swiss Embassy in Seoul was awarded the Korean Architecture Excellence Award 2019 in the administrative buildings category. The Swiss embassy, designed by Burckhardt+Partner and which opened in May 2019, is a contemporary take on the traditional Korean “Hanok” house that also…