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		2012 Architect of the Year: Gentleman España Magazine	12/12/2012
		Gentleman España Magazine has chosen in it 2012 December's magazine Antón García-Abril as Architect of the Year in Spain. "Spain is suffering a huge economic crisis, but not a creativity's crisis. While construction colapses and a lot of architects lost their jobs, doors are open for them to go to other countries and show their talent."
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		Spainlab at ARCHDAILY	02/10/2012
		Archdaily one of the most important webpages of Architecture News, dedicates a special article to SPAINLab. On this article is possible to watch an Interview of Débora Mesa one of the Curators from the Spanish Pavilion.
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		Reader's House Explained	29/03/2012
		Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa, talk about Reader's House. The four videos from Fundación Germán Ruipérez helps to understand better the project that is about to open to the public.
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		ENSAMBLE STUDIO in Excelsior	28/03/2012
		The Mexican newspaper Excelsior dedicates a special article about Cervantes Theatre. Here is the Article in Spanish, if you would like to read:
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		Cervantes Theatre in "Milenio"	20/02/2012
		Milenio, a mexican newspaper, published an interview of Antón García-Abril, speaking about Cervantes Theatre at Mexico DF. They called the project, "El Cervantes, un teatro subterráneo" that means: "The Cervantes, the underground theatre".
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		'Cacao' Magazine Interview	29/09/2011
		'Cacao' is a Taiwan-based independent magazine publishing topics about creativity, art, communication, alchemy and opinion. It is “focused on the pursuit of dreams, the feeling of a creation and the touching work of creators, making their stories to be seen worldwide”. With this passion, they present Antón García-Abril in an issue about Madrid: Matadors, Dancers and Painters.
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		Cos’è architettura	18/04/2011
		The prestigious Italian magazine ‘Casabella’, which has dealt with international architecture since 1928, will soon get its 800th issue. On Tuesday, April 19th, Francesco Dal Co, Benedetto Gravagnuolo and Francesco Venezia will celebrate this special launching in Naples. This number is entitled “Cos’è architettura”, and benefits from the participation of Antón García-Abril, who talks with Rafael Moneo to try to answer this question in an interesting...
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		Ensamble's MZRRD10 in 'a+u'	30/03/2011
		The prestigious magazine ‘a+u’ has published its volume 486, which is given over to the analysis of 50 architects’ offices. Ensamble Studio is among them, and Antón García-Abril was interviewed to draw the main concepts of Ensamble’s working space. MZRRD10 is the head office, and it is settled in an old company store next to the Manzanares River in Madrid. Other aspects of the working style were also dealt, so have a look at the whole article!
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		Ensamble Studio in 'Monitor'	15/02/2011
		The Russian magazine ‘Monitor’ has interviewed Antón García-Abril, Ensamble Studio’s founder. He explains that Ensamble is “a team in search for architectural application of conceptual and structural experiments”, and shows their way of working, through an analysis of their most recent works, like the Reader’s House or the Cervantes Theatre, which are currently under construction. Read the interview inside.
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		'Architecture versus Design'	27/01/2011
		In February, Peter Eisenman wil be in ‘Círculo de Bellas Artes’ in Madrid for the opening of an exhibition about his latest project in Galicia and he will participate in a new edition of Contemporary Architecture courses. For this show, titled “Architecture versus Design”, the American architect has invited figures of several generations to analyze the dense framework that merges the architectural discipline, and the construction and design. Antón García-Abril is one...
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		Hemeroscopium House in 'The New York Times'	11/11/2010
		The real-estate section of the newspaper 'The New York Times' offers today a large article on the House Hemeroscopium and focuses on how the architect of this work, Antón García-Abril, built the house from three giant concret I-beams, two concret segments of an irrigation canal and two steel girders, all anchored by a 20-ton granite slab.
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		Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa in 'Sunday Times' South Africa	26/10/2010
		In South African newspaper 'Sunday Times' on the occasion of Architecture ZA conferences, Débora Mesa (as guest speaker), said: 'we believe structure and architecture are the same thing and so its design has to integrate mechanical, formal organisational and spatial aspects'.
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		NOW interviews: Antón García-Abril	02/09/2010
		Antón García-Abril was interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Venice Biennale 2010, for the series of NOW interviews. This series of interviews try to show an overview of all the participants at the 12th edition of the Biennale. It is produced by the Institute of the 21st Century with the support of ForYourArt, The Kayne Foundation, Brenda R. Potter, Catherine and Jeffrey Soros.
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		García-Abril at 'Julia en la Onda' radio program	28/07/2010
		Arturo Tellez interviews Antón García-Abril at "Julia en la Onda" radio show, today at 6:00 pm in "Ondacero" radio station.
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		The Truffle in 'La Gaceta'	19/07/2010
		The architect Juan Roldán begins today a group of architeture articles in the newspaper "La Gaceta". The first project that is shown in this new column is "The Truffle", a piece of work by Antón García-Abril & Ensamble Studio.
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		Hemeroscopium House in 'El Pais'	08/07/2010
		'El Pais' newspaper in its edition in July 5th, dedicates the section to "If buildings talked..." to Hemeroscopium House.
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		Hemeroscopium in 'España Directo'	07/07/2010
		The TV show 'España Directo' has traveled to Hemeroscopium House for a report on its architecture, with emphasis on its transparency and open spaces. Antón García-Abril, the architect, explains how comfortable living is in it. You can see the whole show inside.
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		Hemeroscopium in 'El Mundo'	07/06/2010
		'El Mundo' newspaper in its section "Author Houses" has published an article on the Hemeroscopium House and an interview with Antón García-Abril. You can read the full text and view the accompanying video inside
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		García-Abril in 'Imaginarte'	19/05/2010
		'Imaginarte' interviews the architect Antón García-Abril, who has spent many years chasing a dream of a better city. It deals with the possibility of changing the current urban system and the role of specialists in this topic.
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		Hemeroscopium in 'The Globe and Mail'	16/02/2010
		John Bentley Mays, columnist with the Canadien newspaper 'Globe and Mail', has written an article about prefab buildings, stressing the work of Ensamble Studio Hemeroscopium House: "Constructed in just seven days from immense prefabricated concrete beams, this building perhaps gives the same pleasure a Torontonian feels when walking under the highest elevated traffic deck of the Gardiner Expressway: There’s something wonderful...
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		Norman Foster's interview	07/09/2009
		Norman Foster returns to Madrid, but this time not to visit one of his works but to show, with more than 200 drawings, notebooks and models, the 50-year career that led him to be one of the world's most prestigious architects . 'Drawings 1958-2008' is the title of the exhibition that can be seen until 23rd September in 'Ivorypress' where, in addition, Foster will meet (from 15th on) other architects and artists.
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		García-Abril interviews Paredes-Pedrosa	26/06/2009
		Olimpia Theater, the National Auditorium and the Palau de la Musica in Valencia are some keys works by this study in Madrid: Paredes-Pedrosa. This couple talks with Antón García-Abril about their latest projects, the city, their close and lived works. In addition to art, architecture has for them "a significant burden of work, progress and improvement."
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		García-Abril interviews Holl	12/06/2009
		El Cultural latest edition publishes the interview to Steven Holl by Antón García-Abril. He is one of the most important architects in the international panorama. Not so well-known in our country, Steven Holl comes to BBVA Foundation who will award him Premio Fronteras del Conocimiento in the Arts category -first edition for this promising prize- on next Thursday 18th June.
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		Article about Norman Foster	21/05/2009
		Today, Antón Garcia-Abril publishes an article in "El Mundo" to honor the recient named Principe of Asturias Prize of Arts to the wellknown English architect Norman Foster.
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		Norman Foster's excellent career	21/05/2009
		El Cultural ("EL Mundo Magazine") honors today on its pages the prizewinner architect Norman Foster. Here are the first words by Antón García-Abril: I've always admired Normas Foster because he is the architec of the Technic. Specially nowadays when architecture has gone through an endlessly party of shapes and extravagance architecture have stayed over the international panorama. And Foster has just kept the same architect he was 40 years ago...
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		Vía Construcción interviews García-Abril	20/05/2009
		Number 68 of Via Construction Magazine, which deals with the present and future of the Spanish Architecture, offers an inteview to Antón García-Abril on Ensamble Studio and its more relevant works.
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		García-Abril in 'Promateriales'	06/04/2008
		Spanish magazine 'Promateriales' in its No. 14 April 2008, includes an interview to Antón García-Abril, foundator of Ensamble Studio, who talks about their last projects such as Hemeroscopium House in Madrid, Music Studies Center in Santiago de Compostela, or SGAE Headquarters in Santiago. Read the whole interview inside!
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