Spanish architect Francisco Mangado has created contemporary galleries for a fine arts museum in northern Spain by inserting a crystalline glass building behind the leftover facade of a demolished block. More about Francisco Mangado expands a Spanish museum by adding a new building behind a historic facade
Automated shutters are used to regulate the internal climate of this environmental science and palaeontology research centre for a university near Barcelona (+ slideshow). More about Palaeontology research centre wrapped in computer-controlled shutters
Actor George Clooney and film director Brad Bird have heaped praise on Santiago Calatrava's cultural complex in Valencia, which features as a key location in their new film Tomorrowland. More about Calatrava's City of Arts and Sciences is "insane" and "amazing" says George Clooney
This house in Spain by architect Ramón Esteve is fronted by solid stone walls, behind which rooms are organised around a swimming pool and terrace (+ movie). More about Casa El Bosque is a house flanked by stone walls on the edge of a Spanish forest
Terracotta tiles, balcony corridors and a secluded courtyard all feature at this renovated Spanish home, for which Barcelona studio Arquitectura-G has been awarded the European Union's Emerging Architect prize (+ slideshow). More about Arquitectura-G's Casa Luz features terracotta surfaces and a glazed courtyard
Spaces for cooking, washing, sleeping and storing are housed within plywood compartments inside this former nursery in Barcelona, recently renovated by local architect Carles Enrich Giménez (+ slideshow). More about Plywood partitions create rooms within rooms inside two Barcelona apartments
The bell tower of this monastery on the outskirts of Valencia features a ridged surface with a cross-shaped cut-out to indicate the buildings' use to passers by (+ slideshow). More about Hernández Arquitectos' minimal white monastery features a concrete-clad bell tower
A grassy lawn grows on top of this board-marked concrete farm building by Spanish architect Arnau Vergés, which is set into a slope beside an old stone house in rural Catalonia (+ slideshow). More about Arnau Vergés builds concrete outbuilding for 17th-century Spanish farmhouse
Spanish architecture studio BCQ has revealed its plans to enhance a Barcelona bridge, adding pollution-dissolving concrete, planted walls and paving that glows in the dark. More about Barcelona bridge to be upgraded with smog-eating concrete and luminous pavements
Each room of this townhouse in Spain is a separate block with a translucent frontage, which together create a stepped facade that glows after dark (+ slideshow). More about Rue Space's Casa #20 features a four-tiered facade of translucent glass
A steel-framed pergola covered in willow reeds shades the frontage of this seaside sailing school in Cádiz, Spain, by architects Héctor Fernández Elorza and Carlos García Fernández (+ slideshow). More about Lightweight pergola flanks new sailing school for Sotogrande's Royal Maritime Club
The walls and roofs of this golf clubhouse in Mallorca are clad in local stone to give the building a homogenous appearance that emphasises its angular monolithic form (+ slideshow). More about Golf clubhouse designed by GRAS to resemble "a rock in the middle of the course"
This house in Spain has triple-layer facades that allow varying degrees of light and privacy, and features a bedroom that can be hidden or revealed with the help of a sliding wall. More about SAU Taller de Arquitectura's Casa Migdia features sliding screens and a moveable wall
A skeletal framework that can be covered with screens or climbing plants extends from the gable end of this house in rural Spain, designed by architects Anna and Eugeni Bach (+ slideshow). More about Anna and Eugeni Bach extend gabled stone house with skeletal framework
A red brick wall spans the gap between two crumbling facades on a street in Catalonia, hiding a home by H Arquitectes with two courtyards and a central garden (+ slideshow). More about H Arquitectes inserts courtyard home between two existing Spanish houses
Muka Arquitectura's ribbed concrete residence completes the "first piece of the urban puzzle" for a largely undeveloped area of the Spanish city Ciudad Real (+ slideshow). More about Slabs of corduroy-textured concrete encase a Spanish home by Muka Arquitectura
Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has completed a pool-side home near Valencia comprising a squat white cylinder with terraces set into deep voids in its walls (+ movie). More about Crescent-shaped pool skirts cylindrical house by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Oriented strand board panels can slide back and forth to create a flexible floor plan whilst concealing utilities in this family apartment remodelled for a single inhabitant in Madrid by TallerDE2 Architects (+ movie). More about TallerDE2 Architects uses engineered wood to create adaptable Madrid apartment
A plywood staircase with built-in cupboards and bookshelves frames a doorway in this Madrid apartment – which follows the London home with a combined bookshelf and staircase we published yesterday. More about Plywood staircase by Buj+Colón Arquitectos integrates shelves and cupboards for a small flat
Squeezed between two existing buildings in Barcelona, this family home by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes features a steel frame, a timber facade and two street-facing balconies (+ slideshow). More about Alventosa Morell slots a four-storey house between two blocks in Barcelona