_2B space to be presents an exhibition by the Slovenian photographer Primož Bizjak curated by María Millán, as part of the Hybrid Festival 2018 and the XV Madrid Architecture Week. The exhibition includes a selection of large format photographs.

Last Monday May 28th was the opening of the exhibition "Arcadio Blasco: My father and his luminous drawings" in _2B space to be, our art space in Madrid. The exhibition will be open until July 15th.

The mayor of Bucaramanga is building a metropolitan strategic plan, under the supervision of Moneo Brock.

Belén Moneo gave the conference 'Towards a sustainable urban model' at the International Conference on Architecture and Climate Change at the Catholic University of Pereira, Colombia.

Jeff Brock will be the fourth and last speaker at the conference series of the 8th edition of Alcalá Alchitecture Week.

Daniel Canogar presents ‘Ráfagas’ at _2B space to be, our exhibition space, in collaboration with Galería Max Estrella. Visit the exhibition from monday to friday, 10:00-14:00 and 16:00-20:00, until May 15th.

On Wednesday, April 11, the V edition of the Conference on architecture, technology and design for water and society SMART WATER SMART CITIES took place at the Roca Madrid Gallery organized by the We Are Water Foundation. Belén Moneo participated in the round table 'shared visions / shared initiatives'.

Last days to visit our exhibition "Methacrylate" in B.D Madrid! Open until march 31st in C/ Villanueva 5 in Serrano. Monday to Friday 9:30-13:30 and 16:30-20:00 and saturday 10:00-14:00

Belén Moneo curates the series of conferences on sustainability "Objetivo2020: ciudad, arquitectura y energia positiva" in the ETSAM. This program of meetings and conferences will take place at the School of Architecture of Madrid during the months of February, March, April and May 2018.

Next wednesday, March 7th at 12.30, will be the opening of the exhibition Women #madeinETSAM in the main hall of ETSAM School of Architecture. The exhibition features the work of some of the female professors who have studied at ETSAM. The exhibition will include some works by Moneo Brock directed by Belén Moneo.

Todomuta Studio presents Re-Collectors in _2B SPACE TO BE, a collection of unexpected objects that explore fragmentation, imperfection and the uncertainty principle. These exquisite pieces evoke the movement in the stone. This exhibition is part the "Off" program of Madrid Design Festival and the VIP program of ARCO Art Fair.

On March 1st in MINI Hub, we will present the urban bank that we are going to design during the "Bench a Day" workshop which we will be leading on the 20th and 21st of February within the Madrid Design Festival program. The workshops of the different designers will be developed in the "Mountain on the Moon", an installation by Enorme Studio with MINI Hub in the Plaza de la Luna.

Within the "Off" program of Madrid Design Festival, we inaugurate the exhibition 'Methacrylate' at B.D Madrid (C / Villanueva 5), opening on Friday, February 16 at 7:00 p.m. The exhibition gathers several of our designs in this material, that take advantage of its structural and chromatic properties.

Our Parish Church in Pueblo Serena has been featured on Phaidon's new guide of contemporary architecture: DESTINATION ARCHITECTURE: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO 1000 CONTEMPORARY BUILDINGS 

"Featuring 1,000 of today's most compelling buildings by the world's finest architects, Destination: Architecture is an unparalleled and comprehensive resource for anyone wanting to get more out of their travels."

Marta Jarabo and Luis Amália present Furnishing temporalities / Sequencing spaces, an exhibition generating a dialogue between these two different but complementary concepts.

Jeff Brock was invited as the visiting professor at Taku Sakaushi Lab in 東京理科大学/Tokyo University of Science, where he presented our work and led a two week workshop on sanctuary spaces in Tokyo.

Last December 14th we were in Cosentino City in the auction of the book of original sketches by the architects awarded with the COAM Prize and Luis Moreno Mansilla Prize 2017. Our Parish Church in Pueblo Serena was awarded with the Luis Moreno Mansilla 2017.

This week we have been in Mexico visiting the construction site of the Casa TEC we are building in Monterrey. Incredible views of Monterrey's Sierra Madre from the terrace of the house. Soon it will be finished!

We are working  in Santo Domingo with IBEROSTAR Hotels & Resorts on a 11,500 m² hospitality project located in the historic city center, on a lot with several existing buildings and lush vegetation.

Yesterday was the opening of "White noise containers", a sound installation by the artist Alfredo Morte for _2B space to be, exhibition space associated with Moneo Brock.

Open from October 26 to November 30, from Monday to Friday, from 10:00 to 14:30 and 16:00 to 19:00. C/ Benigno Soto 14, Prosperidad, Madrid.

We have just finished the video of the Parish Church in Pueblo Serena. We hope you like it!

We have already began the interior design for the "TEC House 205", using collage techniques in the drawings, combining bright colors in the furniture and materials, using mexican hidraulic tiles, some of our furniture designs and painted wall papers. The house will be raffled to raise money for scholarships by the Technological University of Monterrey.

Our Parish Church in Pueblo Serena (Monterrey, Mexico) has been awarded with the American Architecture Prize 2017 within the category "Institutional Architecture".

Our Parish Church in Monterrey has been awarded with the 2017 COAM Luis Moreno Mansilla Prize!

Our Parish Church in Pueblo Serena is shortlisted in the #BlueprintAwards2017, organized by Blueprint Magazine, within the category "Best Public-Use Project with Private Funding". The results will come out in October!

Our space dedicated to art _2B Space to Be has a new website! You can now see everything we have done and what is yet to come in http://spacetobe.art

The Espacio Fundación Telefónica will be part of Open House Madrid 2017. Do not miss the guided tours on Saturday September 30^th and Sunday October 1^st at 12:00 and 17:00. The building is also included in the itinerary #MADEINETSAM, along with other projects by teachers at Madrid’s School of Architecture.

Architizer's editor Sydney Franklin has interviewed Jeff Brock together with Seves about the design process of the characteristic glass blocks used in the façade of Panticosa Thermal Baths.

Extract from the presentation of Belén Moneo as president of the jury of the 2017 FAD awards.

Next weekend, 14-15-16 July, we will be in Jaén participating in INTERVENTIONS 4. An independent project organized by Isidro Blasco, who invited 12 artists to take part in the different spaces of the "casa de la Grisa" that is in Calle Higueras Sabater # 6, en Sabiote, Jaén, Spain.

Last friday (june 30th) the ArquinFAD 2017 awards were presented, with Belén Moneo acting as president of the jury. Congratulations to all the winners. Here you can see all the projects.

Our Thermal Baths “Termas de Tiberio”, awarded Best of Year 2009, is in the cover of Decade of Design; a 10-year collection of architecture and design projects by Interior Design magazine. It also features our Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid, awarded Best of Year “Culture” 2012.

Jaime Lorente OPENING 25 May, 20h (c/ Benigno Soto 14, Madrid)

The work at Space to Be (_2B) is the result of a sum of different operations with which Jaime Lorente has been working over the past five years.

Our 'Parquet' carpet goes to Lisbon!
It will be part of the exhibition "Novo Mundo" at the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência. Open from April 22nd to July 2nd.

This weekend is Open House Monterrey, an architecture festival offering tours of buildings in this Mexican city. Our parish church in Pueblo Serena is included in the event and Claudia Harari (responsible of the landscape design with Harari Landscape) will guide the tour of our project.

Ya estamos de vuelta de Milán, muy agradecidos por el 1er Premio en la categoría de edificios Religiosos con la Parroquia en Pueblo Serena en los Archmarathon Awards SELECTIONS@MADE!

On Tuesday February 14th at 8PM MONDO GALERIA presents the sofa Sonia D designed by Belén Moneo for the brand ECUS Sleep. This sofa is surrounded by the photographs of the exhibition "Legendary" by Terry O'Neill, with portraits to some of the most iconic figures from the 60's to the 90's.

Moneo Brock has designed a new product for the gallery Casa Gutierrez Nájera which will be exhibited at the Mexican art fair Zona MACO (February 8-12th).

SOULBOX is a colorful cabinet made of acrylic glass.

Our Parish Church in Pueblo Serena won Interior Design magazine's Best of Year (BoY) award in the Projects: Institutional category. Thanks to the Magazine and to all who collaborated, professionals and artists with whom we worked on this project: Artemio Garza, Gabriela Pulido, Irene Alberdi, Harari Landscape Architecture, Valerie Sauthier, Francisco Leiro, Carmen Pinart, Pedro Cuní, Axioma, RGT Ingeniería, Grupo Termo Control, Artemide, Arau Acoustic and the teams at Moneo Brock, Pueblo Serena and Plaza Huajuco.

On December the 3rd we traveled to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic to present our project for this emblematic place, developed together with Rafael Moneo and Harari Landscape Architecture. Our principal objectives are to recuperate the space surrounding the Puerta de Don Diego, a worthy historical landmark, to eliminate architectural barriers and to create areas of shade, providing new areas for rest.  

Our carpet "Parquet" has been chosen as a finalist in the 5th Iberoamerican Design Bienal (BID16). We invite you to attend to the exhibition organized by Dimad at Matadero Madrid, from November 21st until February 2017.

We are optimistic that our house for the TEC of Monterrey will be certified LEED Gold. Energy efficiency has been a priority in our design from the very beginning. The house is half-buried to benefit from the earth's thermal inertia and a series of shady courtyards generate microclimates that help maintain a comfortable temperature. Besides providing for generous cross ventilation, the house is oriented so that solar incidence is optimized. Canopies and vertical screens protect façade openings from excessive insolation, while on the roof photovoltaic panels capture solar radiation and shade the building mass below. 

Invited for her work on the rooftop playground at the Hospital "12 de Octubre" in Madrid, Belén Moneo participated on October 21st Belén Moneo in a discussion on "Neuro-Architecture" during the XXXIV Spanish National Congress of Health Care Engineering. She spoke of spatial qualities, their impact on perception and the benefits they offer patients. The image is of a project by Olafur Eliasson which Belén used as an example in her talk. You can read the whole conference talk after the jump.

Enorme Estudio + Moneo Brock: Local curators of the exhibition 
The exhibition "Letters to the Mayor", promoted and curated by Eva Franch (Storefront for Art and Architecture), will present letters from Madrid-based architects addressed to the city's mayor, with innovative ideas and visions for the city. This idea was born in NYC in 2014 and since then it has been carried out in several cities. In Madrid's edition we participate as local curators alongside Enorme Estudio. The exhibition opens on September 29th at 12PM at COAM during the Architecture Week. See you there!

Visit to Mexico
Finally, the West façade and the bell tower of the parish church in Monterrey are finished. In the picture you can see the location of the church surrounded by the landscape designed by our collaborators Harari Landscape, whose outstanding work will be completed in 2017. 

Hotel Mercer
Our architecture and interior design project for the Hotel Mercer in Barcelona's Gothic neighborhood has been awarded with the Honorable Mention in the category of "Hospitality". 

Dialogue between Spain and Mexico
Jeffrey Brock participated on September 1st in the third edition of Arquideas at Mexico City in a dialogue about public space, architectural heritage and sustainability in cities, where architects from Mexico and Spain shared ideas and perspectives. 

House in Mexico 
Last July in Monterrey we presented our schematic design for the House 205, designed alongside Daniel Roselló.This house will be raffled by the Technological University of Monterrey (TEC) in order to "sponsor educational growth through the program ´Leaders of Tomorrow`, which gives full scholarchips to students with scarce economic resources and high acdemic performance".

Jeff Brock Lectures
Jeff brock gave a lecture at the Universidad Autónoma de Cuernavaca on working methods and the transformative capacity of architectural projects at MEXTROPOLI, the International Festival on Architecture and the City and the Latin American forum that gathered thousands of people for 4 days. The city of Mexico was, from March 5th – 8th, the most important place for thinking, designing and enjoying critical activities through a series of conferences, talks and workshops. Click here

We would like to emphasize our enthusiasm for the presentations of Josep Bohigas, who put forth myriad ways of resolving various housing problems, and that of Raúl Cardenas from Tijuana, whose projects with Torolab are always inspiring for their extraordinary degree of humanity.
Josep Bohigas Talk

Round-table 
Belén Moneo and Jeff Brock participated in a round-table discussion on prefabricated buildings on April 7 th in Madrid, organized by Sergio Baragaño (barchitects) and moderated by Marisa Santamaría.  Architecture is possibly the discipline most committed to industry and technology; searching for efficiency and savings in the constructive process, we support standardized production systems. Taking advantadge of our experience designing a house of minimum dimensions, we sought to break free of the language of the container-box, seeking a versatile solution while still observing the constraints imposed by the need to transport the house from factory to site.

New product design
Our Sofa SONIA D, with neat clear lines and intense color, has been selected for the Exhibition Producto Fresco 2016, opening Wed. June 15th in Madrid.
ICON is the new collection from ECUS Sleep S.L.U of armchairs, sofas and sofa-beds featuring striking fabrics, elegant shapes and fabulous designs. 

Refurbishment of a courtyard in the historical City of Santo Domingo
The developer and architecture connaisseur, Claudio Suarez Tarrado, has given us the opportunity to work on his project “Casa Velázquez”. Our participation is focused on the refurbishment of pre-existing elements, built in different periods and with different methods, harmonizing the building group by applying a unique architectural language. MONEO BROCK will be responsible for selecting finishes. Refurbishment is a fascinating exercise that, together with urban consolidation, constitutes architecture’s principal mode of action within the historical city’s fabric.

Nominated with the chimney Articulare
The Articulare chimney designed by Moneo Brock for DAE Chimeneas has been nominated for the Delta Awards 2016.  The Delta Prizes celebrate superior quality design, highlighting its importance as a driver of an industrial economy and its fundamental role as an expression of our social and cultural values. Behind every design object is the work of several professionals who have dutifully considered the final user and the manufacturing process. 

MONEO BROCK  and the architect Daniel Roselló have been selected to design together House 205 for the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, México, which will be raffled to support the scholarships "Lideres del Mañana".These scholarships are specifically directed to promising youths, who are seen as "Tomorrow´s Leaders".

The exhibition "Letters to the Mayor" at COAM, the Madrid iteration of the project promoted by Eva Franch of New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture, ended on October the 28th. It was a great experience to curate this project alongside Enorme Studio. The 75 letters written by local architects and addressed to the mayor of Madrid have interested many visitors. You can now read them online using this link. (Photo by Javier de Paz García.)