News Blog

• See video of Flores & Prats presenting the new project for the theatre Sala Beckett / Obrador Internacional de Dramatùrgia, won in a competition in February 2011 and now under development.
• 12th December 2011: The Foundation and the project for the New Theatre Sala Beckett / Obrador Internacional de Dramatùrgia is presented publicly in a press conference at Social Centre Can Felipa, Barcelona.

• Editorial SKIRA prepares a book on the Microsoft Headquarters (see interactive book preview). To be presented in Triennale di Milano in September.
• 8th June 2011: The new headquarters for Microsoft Italia, a green campus of 7.5 hectares, is completed on the outskirts of Milan.

• 31st May 2011: The building 111 is explained in the programme Continuarà on Televisión Española TV2.
• 18th May 2011: The building 111 is explained in a programme on TeleTerrassa.
• The building 111 is selected finalist for the FAD Awards.
• 9th May 2011: Closing event of the exhibition about the building 111 in Terrassa.

• 13th April 2011: Journalist José Angel Montañés writes a review in the national edition of newspaper El País about the Building 111 at Terrassa, Barcelona.
• 11th April 2011: Opening of the exhibition about the Building 111 (Terrassa, Barcelona), at Sala Picasso of the Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya in Barcelona.
• 8th April 2011: The art critic Llàtzer Moix writes in newspaper La Vanguardia a review about the Building 111 at Terrassa, Barcelona.

• The 111 Social Housing project in Terrassa, Spain, is discussed in a critical essay in spanish newspaper ABC.
• Flores & Prats Archs win the competition for the new Theatre Sala Beckett / Obrador Internacional de Dramatùrgia in Barcelona.

• Eva Prats introduces the House in a Suitcase apartment in an interview on YOUTUBE.

• The Housing building at Terrassa is posted on Architizer to participate in the housing competition Total Housing 2010 (TH2010).

• Housing project in Terrassa is commented on by architectural critic Anatxu Zabalbeascoa in her blog “Del tirador a la ciudad” of El Pais.

• See aerial images of the completed social housing project in Terrassa, Barcelona.

• See images from our summer workshop in Venezia, Italy: ‘a Private Room in a Public Building’.

• View construction images from Palau Balaguer in Palma de Mallorca taken by Adrià Goula. For more info see Palau Balaguer (project archive).
• Springtime shots of Plaça Pius XII (see project: ‘Plaza en el Besos’) taken by Àlex García show the square after five years of use. The climbing plants have established themselves and now cover the pergola.

• Images from ‘Cities in transformation’, Exhibition and Symposium held in Phoenix, Arizona.

• The website is updated with new sections ‘NEWS’ and ‘ARCHIVE’. Within the archive section information and images for each of our projects can be found, as well as direct links to project films.
• New films have been added for the projects: Microsoft Milan, Casa en una Maleta and Viviendas en Terrassa
• See the latest photos of Flores Prats social housing project in construction at Terrassa.

• Flores Prats run a one week workshop as part of the 2009 Charettes at the Universtiy of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (6th to 11th October 2009). See a one minute documentary film by student James Longfield (Windows Media Video file).
• Images from Flores Prats introductory workshop given to Final Year students at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow (29th September - 3rd October 2009).

• In Venice, from 29th June to 17th July 2009, the office ran a summer workshop as part of the International Summer Workshops of the Università di Venezia.