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Tanto la piscina como el balcón fueron diseñados por el arquitecto.

Tanto la piscina como el balcón fueron diseñados por el arquitecto.
Both the pool and the balcony were designed by the architect.
From Lesson 363:Correlative conjunctions (no solo... sino también)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Tanto la piscina como el balcón fueron diseñados por el arquitecto.

Why use tanto... como... instead of just using ambos?
Ambos means "both" as a standalone pronoun or adjective. But when you want to name the specific things using the structure "Both [A] and [B]", you must use the correlative conjunction tanto [A] como [B].
How does verb agreement work with tanto... como... subjects?
Even though la piscina and el balcón are both singular nouns, tanto... como... links them to form a single compound subject. Since there are multiple items in total, the verb must take the plural form fueron.
Why is diseñados masculine plural when the first subject is la piscina (feminine)?
Whenever a sentence has a mixed-gender compound subject (the feminine la piscina plus the masculine el balcón), any adjective or past participle describing them must default to the masculine plural form.
Why use fueron diseñados instead of the passive se (se diseñaron)?
Because the sentence specifically names who performed the action using por el arquitecto. When you introduce the "doer" of an action with por, you generally must use the true passive voice (ser + past participle) rather than the passive se.

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