Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The latest addition to the Berlin Kulturforum goes up between the Philharmonic of Scharoun and the Neue Nationalgalerie of Mies van der Rohe, designed as a large gabled volume with multiple accesses that replicates the materiality of the nearby Matth

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The project aims to place the remote location behind the Ostbahnhof on the map, within a larger master plan to renew the old industrial area with a Boulevard of Music, a broad promenade linking the new music quarter with the station and the city cent

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The extension of the original museum, a project by Herzog & de Meuron dating from 1999 on an old mill that was closed down in 1972 after successive transformations since it was erected in 1860, discreetly joins the brick structures along the dock...

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   At a height of 205 meters, the design of the new tower – with office space for 3,100 employees – relates explicitly to the studio’s first high-rise for the pharmaceutical company in the Wettstein neighborhood, and is governed by the same volumetric c

Herzog & de Meuron, Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter   Denmark   The plan is the marriage of two seemingly contradictory goals, which the design in the form of an organic cross manages to combine: the desire for a large flowing central garden and the necessity for short internal connections...

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The new campus of Berggruen Institute in the Santa Monica Mountains is a landscape vision as much as an architectural project. A self-sustaining linear park, inspired by the gardens of the Alhambra, organizes the different elements of the program...

Herzog & de Meuron   Russia   The project to revitalize the factory buildings follows a double strategy of renovation and extension. The protected structures are recovered and assigned new uses, and the rest is cleared to create a new green area, an urban park by the river... [+]

Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas   United Arab Emirates   Passive bioclimatic systems temper 60% of the spaces. Air is drawn through the perimeter by means of moist esparto panels that generate adiabatic cooling, and is extracted through the cones thanks to the chimney effect... [+]

Carme Pinós   United Arab Emirates   The pavilion is designed as an elongated gallery that rises and folds tracing a spiral shape, embracing a central oasis cladded with glazed tile in blue tones. Its modular and reconfigurable design guarantees the pavilion a second life after the Expo

estudioHerreros   United Arab Emirates   The pavilion is wrapped with a skin of cellular polycarbonate sheets and vertical methacrylate tubes filled with different materials; in this way the color and textures take center stage during the day, and the translucency of the interiors stands ou

Irisarri + Piñera   United Arab Emirates   The building is a lightweight structure containing the different ‘boxes’ (closed spaces for specific exhibition purposes and services), and that functions as a ‘support stage’ for the textile walls that organize the free use areas... [+]

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   United Arab Emirates   The design for the pavilion resorts to the use of light and shadow to transport visitors to Spain, proposing a large plaza surrounded by a lattice that touches the ground lightly, and is covered by the closed exhibition spaces that are placed on top,

Selgascano, FRPO   United Arab Emirates   A total of 13,792 m³ of air is enclosed in nine cylinders of recycled ETFE of 730 cm in diameter, supported by a light steel structure. The two front inflatables have the capacity to move to adapt to changing light, climate, and program conditions...

AntiStatics Architecture   China   The six concrete panels of seven centimeters that cover the facade with the portrait of Mao Zedong were designed using fluid dynamics algorithms to optimize the transport of loads, thanks to which the envelope doesn’t need a substructure... [+]

StudioVRA   Spain   On the outside the building offers a texture of variable depth – protecting and concealing the concreting joints – and a flat but nuanced finish on the inside. Two types of concrete and two different wood formworks have been used to achieve this... [

stpmj   South Korea   The stratified facade of these homes is achieved thanks to a set of variations in the elaboration of concrete, adjusting the water-cement ratio, the amount of pigment, and the aggregates to achieve a variety of shapes, textures, and colors... [+]

Barclay & Crousse Arquitectos   Peru   The new museum seeks to address the fragile balance between preserving heritage, sharing it with the public, and integrating it with the landscape, cradle of the indigenous Paracas culture.

Heatherwick Studio   United Kingdom   The new Coal Drops Yard shopping district, located in the heart of King’s Cross next to Regent’s Canal, has been created through the refurbishment of two old rail warehouses built in the 19th century to receive coal for London as it arrived from the

The Fundación Juan March presents the first exhibition in Spain on the figure of Lina Bo Bardi (Rome, 1914 - São Paulo, 1992). The show wishes to reflect the artistic and cultural panorama of Brazil in the second half of the 20th century. ‘Tupí or no

Roger Grasas (Barcelona, 1970) has won the Descubrimientos PHotoESPAÑA 2018 Prize with ‘Ha Aretz’ (‘the Promised Land’). The series, completed over seven years in the byblical landscapes of Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey