Tag: cuban architecture

Located in a centrally located area in Old Havana, this iconic place pays tribute to Francisco de Albear y Lara, ...

Talking about architecture is reflecting on the conditions in which this practice is carried out. Who projects, how, for what, ...

The Cuban capital’s grilles have been, from their earliest years, artifice and ornament. But also usefulness and protection.

They all had their years of glory, their time of sequins and brilliance, but for many of them those times ...

The U.S. company was in charge of the construction of several of the best-known and most important buildings in the ...

If the plans become academically impeccable documents, but popularly incomprehensible; if they do not respond to the concerns and questions ...

From above, the city exhibits other perspectives and attributes; discover, from another angle, its wounds and contrasts, its impoverishments and ...

Located at the end of a wide pocket bay, Cienfuegos has a unique charm that has inspired poets and artists, ...

Not all the physical deterioration of cities is due, far from it, to the lack of material resources, nor is ...

First a military fortress and today a museum, the Castillo de la Real Fuerza is one of the Cuban capital’s ...

Havana’s monumental architecture is well known. Less famous are the rural ruins that dot the Cuban countryside. From the crumbling ...

The audacious green vision of landscape architect Jean Claude Forestier contributed to the urban enrichment of the Cuban capital.

The works, which began last year, “focused on the intervention on the main bridge, which maintained its original image,” said ...

This Monday, four buildings in the cities of Sancti Spíritus and Trinidad were awarded the Provincial Prize for the Conservation ...

It wasn’t just about infrastructure. Movie theaters formed part of Cubans’ daily life and imagination with an unusual force.

The Cuatro Caminos Market will reopen on November 16, as part of the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the ...

I At first it was a path linked to sugar production, the great change that brought the plantation economy to ...

Even though he has built a successful career in the United States and still prefers English to communicate with others, ...