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09/09/2017
With a scheme of twelve staggering skyscrapers, an elevated pedestrian network and a beautiful green urban park, Mecanoo architecten has been named the winner of the urban design competition for the Shenzhen North Station business district...
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08/09/2017
"Last year I took my artwork to the next level by travelling to the Amazon rain forest to collect the sights and sounds of one of the worlds most amazing jungles, with the hope of spreading awareness about its plight...
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04/09/2017
Wired
This is the first entry in a new video series, HardWIRED: Welcome to the Robotic Future, in which we explore the many fascinating machines...
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04/09/2017
Duncan Sinfield
The launching of iPhone 8 is set to take place on 12 September in the Steve Jobs Auditorium within Apple Park, Apple Inc.’s new campus designed by Foster + Partners in Cupertino, California.
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01/09/2017
Designed by architect Bjarke Ingels, LEGO House in Billund (Denmark) will open on 28 September. Made from 21 interlocking parts, with an amazing LEGO brick shaped keystone on top...
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21/08/2017
Thank you to drones this video shows a different image of Hong Kong, one of the largest cities in the world characterised for its hyperdensity and extreme compactness...
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11/08/2017
Khaleej Times
Dubai´s newest attraction will be ready by the end of 2017, consisting of two 150 m towers connected by a 93 m long bridge...
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21/07/2017
Imagen Subliminal / Miguel de Guzmán
The only thing constant in life is change, and Brooklyn’s evolution from sleepy outer-borough to cultural epicenter is best seen and felt along bustling 4th Avenue...
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12/07/2017
Inspired in a cavern, the framework of arcades arranged in a seemingly randowm way graduates the building’s atmosphere and opens the inner space to participation by the readers.
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11/07/2017
Marking World Earth Day, John Gerrard: Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017 stands as a symbol of climate change and modern society’s dependence on oil.
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09/07/2017
This kids' clothing line designed by Royal College of Art graduate Ryan Mario Yasin has a pleat system that lets garments stretch to fit even after growth spurts. Yasin, who was part of the school's masters programme in Innovation Design Engineering...
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06/07/2017
Inspired by the Theory of Relativity from Albert Einstein, this is a visual essay about perception and knowledge as reflection of our reality. Mass curves space and time...
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29/06/2017
The Madrid practice of Pablo Gil and Jaime Bartolomé, in collaboration with the engineering firms Typsa of Spain and Asian Consulting of Pakistan, will be building a new passenger terminal at Allama Iqbal Airport. Construction is to begin during the second half of 2017.
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29/06/2017
Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten, who works with Koolhaas at OMA, have designed the fourth MPavilion. This is a temporary pavilion raised yearly by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. It includes an amphitheater...
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14/06/2017
The Autobahn Motors building in Singapore features a multi-storey window facade with 15 levels and 4 columns of exotic and luxury cars on display. With over 27 years in the business, Autobahn Motors specializes in pre-owned Luxury, Sports, Convertibles...
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03/05/2017
Apple Dubai Mall is reinventing the traditional introverted idea of mall-based retail as a more outward looking experience that engages with the spectacle of urban life. Its design is a highly innovative response to the culture and climate of the Emirates...
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01/05/2017
Beauty of Science
A short film featuring 8 precipitation reactions shot with a microscope. This film is part of an education resource called Envisioning Chemistry...
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28/04/2017
Good Company Pictures
Directed by Kaspar Astrup Schröder, BIG Time is a new documentary staring Bjarke Ingels, the Danish architect and BIG founder.
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20/04/2017
The Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart have completed a new research pavilion exploring building-scale fabrication of glass and carbon...
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.jpg "Wang Shu Interview: Architecture is a Job for God (Salto a sitio externo para ver el artículo completo)")
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14/04/2017
Louisiana Channel
The Chinese architect Wang Shu’s buildings – a crossover between traditional Chinese culture and large-scale modern architecture – have earned him the prestigious...
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31/03/2017
Creative Review
Olafur Eliasson, Jamie xx and Wayne McGregor’s touring ballet Tree of Codes has arrived in London for a week-long run at Sadler’s Wells...
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28/03/2017
Ghost in the Shell opens in theaters nationwide on March 31. In the near future, Major (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash...
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16/03/2017
The Canarian studio of Fernando Menis has been commissioned to draw up a basic scheme for redeveloping the waterfront park of Puerto de la Cruz, a municipality in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
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07/03/2017
V&A Museum of Design Dundee
The V&A museum has released a movie and photographs showing how far construction has progressed on its new Kengo Kuma-designed outpost in Dundee.
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23/02/2017
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the De Stijl artistic movement, the City Hall of The Hague has reproduced a work of Piet Mondrian on its facades with plastic panels.
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21/02/2017
Meet eight of the most creative thinkers and imaginative minds working in the world of art and design today in the new Netflix original documentary series, Abstract: The Art of Design.
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16/02/2017
Using geo-tagged tweets we have inferred users trips in Spain during a period of 55 days. User trips are defined as the movement between consecutive geo-tagged tweets by the same user within the day. The video shows those trips as a function of time...
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01/02/2017
Vicious Cycle features a group of little autonomous robots performing a range of repetitive functions, driven by mechanical devices. But as the mechanisms mercilessly start getting faster and faster, things take a turn for the worse for the helpless robots...
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27/01/2017
In the Swiss alpine resort town of St. Moritz, Norman Foster has completed the renovation and enlargement of this two-story sports pavilion built in 1905. Facing an outdoor ice-skating rink, the building stretches on with a new grandstand protected by a wooden roof.
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27/01/2017
Imagen Subliminal / Miguel de Guzmán
Yǔzhòu is an immersive light installation we were commissioned for the newly created Luneng Sanya Bay Light and Art Festival in Hainan, China. The installation consists of a maze...
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New Books
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AV Monographs
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analyzes in each issue a theme related to a city, a country, a tendency or an
architect, with articles by leading specialists complemented by commentary on works
and projects illustrated in detail. Published bilingually, with Spanish and English
texts placed side by side.
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Arquitectura Viva
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covers current topics, taking stock of recent trends in set sections: cover story,
works and projects, art and culture, books, technique and innovation. From 2013
on, monthly and bilingual, with Spanish and English texts printed side by side.
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AV Proyectos
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is the third member of the AV family: a bilingual publication essentially focussed
on design projects (with special attention on competitions and construction details),
heretofore only laterally dealt with in the other two magazines.
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Other publications
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Francisco Mangado
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This 208-page, hardback and clothbound, bilingual (Spanish-English) book presents fifteen works carried out from 2000 to 2020 by the firm of Francisco Mangado, who explains them in terms of the concepts that have driven each one of them.
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H&deM (1978-2019)
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The tireless creative pulse of the Swiss office, which over the course of four decades has produced some of the most emblematic examples of contemporary architecture, is illustrated here in a bilingual Spanish-English edition, made up of two volumes of 352 pages each, presented in hard-bound cloth.
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H&deM (2003-2019)
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The volume includes 41 prominent works started between 2003 and 2019, such as Elphilharmonie Hamburg, buildings like Helsinki Dreispitz and Feltrinelli Porta Volta, Vitra Schaudepot, and the proposal for the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
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H&deM (1978-2002)
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The volume covers 43 of the main buildings initiated between 1978 and 2002, showing the formal transformations and material tests carried out during the first years of career in Basel up to the studio’s worldwide recognition.
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The Age of Spectacle Time of Uncertainty
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Luis Fernández-Galiano portrays the development of architecture in the course of the turn of the century through 256 articles written for El País from 1993 to 2006, presented in 2 volumes containing close to 2,500 images and 2,000 references to the protagonists of projects and debates of the period in question.
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Time of Uncertainty
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Through a selection of essays written by Luis Fernández-Galiano for El País, Time of Uncertainty – volume 2 of Alexandrine Years – examines the beginnings of a 21st century marked by 9/11, wars, and climate change.
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The Age of Spectacle
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The Age of Spectacle, volume 1 of the book Alexandrine Years, offers a chronicle of the bonanza and optimism of the 20th century’s closing years through texts that Luis Fernández-Galiano wrote for the newspaper El País.
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RCR arquitectes
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Land architecture, but also architecture of the land. After three decades of work, Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have obtained universal recognition for a stubbornly local oeuvre.
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SANAA
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The 352-page volume, in hardcover and fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, which gathers the complete oeuvre of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa over almost three decades of work of the three studios they lead in Tokyo
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Francis Kéré
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The ICO Foundation has published a bilingual (Spanish and English) catalog of the exhibition ‘Francis Kéré: Primary Elements.’ Presenting a selection of 33 works, the book journeys through the professional trajectory of the Burkinabe architect.
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David Chipperfield
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The Fundación ICO presents the bilingual Spanish-English catalogue of the exhibition ‘Essentials. David Chipperfield Architects.’ Featuring thirty works and projects, the book covers thirty years in the career of the British architect.
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Juan Navarro Baldeweg
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The Fundación ICO publishes, in bilingual Spanish-English edition, the catalogue of the exhibition ‘One Zodiac. Juan Navarro Baldeweg,’ which covers the professional career of the Spanish architect, establishing connections between his works as if they formed a zodiac, a ring of constellations.
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The Architect is Present
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Published by the Fundación ICO in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book ‘The Architect is Present’ shows the work of five studios that work in underprivileged contexts, proving that scarcity of means can stimulate technical inventiveness and comunity participation.
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Spain mon amour
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Published by the Fundación ICO in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book ‘Spain mon amour’ reviews recent Spanish architecture through fifteen works in fifteen different cities, completed by five studios and represented by five prominent photographers.
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Atlas: Europe
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Devoted to the most recent architecture of the European continent, it is the fourth volume in a series which develops and updates the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: Africa and M. East
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Devoted to the most recent architecture of Africa and the Middle East, is the third volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: America
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Devoted to the latest architecture of America, it is the second volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published by the BBVA Foundation in 2007, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: Asia and Pacífic
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This Atlas, devoted to the latest architecture of Asia and the Pacific, is the first volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published by the BBVA Foundation in 2007, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas. Circa 2000
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The BBVA Foundation presents Atlas. Arquitectura global circa 2000, a volume of 312 pages published also in Spanish. Centered on the period opened by the Fall of the Berlin Wall, this work intends to be a critical assessment of world architecture in our global times.
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Spain Builds, 1975-2010
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Second edition of the work published in 2006 coinciding with the exhibition on architecture in Spain held at the MoMA. Now, to mark Spain's presence at Expo Shanghai, the oeuvre is extended, adding Chinese to the original languages.
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