Sacyr's Blog

Jorge Nieto tackles the sustainable city concept from a point of view that gives vital importance to relationships with others and the environment. 

Architecture was an Olympic "sport" until the middle of the 20th century and still plays a fundamental role in the Olympics. Barcelona, Beijing and London are some of the cities transformed from top to bottom by this event.

The Fibonacci spiral has been used for centuries as a means of connecting with the divine and for aesthetic reasons. But is the so-called golden ratio just a fascinating way to achieve pleasing designs or does it actually contribute to making buildings more sustainable?

From Julia Morgan, the world's first woman with a degree in architecture, to the more futuristic Zaha Hadid, on the occasion of International Women's Day we celebrate outstanding women in a field in which they were even more invisible than in technology, engineering or science.

According to Wikipedia, Tente was a line of Spanish construction toys consisting of interlocking plastic bricks that could be assembled to create, on a small scale, something very similar to what we see in modular architecture.