If you're anywhere near Plaza de la Encarnación (in the northwest corner of El Centro), the Metropol Parasol is impossible to miss. Its towering presence, consisting of six wooden mushroom-like shapes ...

Architects J Mayer H have completed a giant latticed timber canopy as part of their redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnacíon in Seville, Spain. The Metropol Parasol scheme includes an ...

Designed by J. MAYER H. architects, this project has already become the new landmark for Seville, – a place of identification and to articulate Seville’s role as one of the world´s most fascinating ...

The Metropol Parasol was arguably the most important structure to open last year, and it has without doubt come to be one of the most photographed new architectural works of the decade. Designed by ...

Metropol Parasol is situated within the Seville’s historic medieval sector. In fact, it looms over archeological ruins, which have been incorporated into a museum. The honeycomb umbrella roof is now ...

Seville gets hot in the summer. So to provide shade, J. MAYER H. Architects built a parasol. A huuuuuuuuge parasol. A parasol that hovers over an entire swath of the city’s old-town district. A ...

Bilbao and Valencia may have put Spain on the contemporary architecture map, but now Seville, distinguished by its magnificent cathedral and the Giralda bell tower, is not far behind. Thanks to a ...

For all of its old world charm, Seville, Spain also boasts the massive, modern and unruly Metropol Parasol – the world’s largest wooden structure. Designed and created by the German firm J. Mayer H.

Summer 2010 marks the opening of “Metropol Parasol”, the Redevelopment of Plaza de la Encarnacíon in Seville, designed by J. MAYER H. architects. After finishing the concrete works in 2008, the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Never ones to sit back and wait for things to happen, we sped over to Seville in 2010 to check ...