Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   In 2016, EMBT participated with four teams – Stefano Boeri, MAD, Cino Zucchi, and Mecanoo – in a multidisciplinary workshop to redefine seven old railway yards that break the urban fabric of Milan imposing barriers between neighboring districts... [+

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   Outside the ideal city that the architect and urbanist Biagio Rossetti built for Ercole d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, in Renaissance times, the Church and Parish of San Giacomo contrasts its organic contour and open form against the compact and rigid natu

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   In 2004, the city of Naples invited, under the motto ‘Architecture, Archaeology and Art’, firms like those led by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Álvaro Siza, Benedetta Tagliabue or Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas to design the new metropolitan line.

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   France   A pergola of panels inspired in the lively colors and patterns of African fabrics unifies the exterior volumes and the plaza. The central space, clad in the same material and with four zigzagging stairs, receives natural light through a large skyligh

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   China   The current structure of the area lacks spaces with the capacity to promote public life, so the new Fudan campus wishes to create a new social hub for the community. Its pieces are connected with each other and with the other schools by a new green s

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   China   The Mangrove Reserve in Shenzhen Bay served as inspiration to carry out this design, in which lush vegetation colonizes three towers destined to host the new Vanke headquarters, which incorporate multiple measures to erect them as a symbol of sustain

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   China   Taking the image of a cypress forest as reference, evoking the name of the company founder, the tower vanishes in a play of reflections on the facade as it rises. The collages and initial models were very important in the design of the skin and volum

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Italy   The setting for the exhibition ‘Italian Lexicon: Stories and Faces of Our Country’ features structures of unfinished air combining arches, vaults, and exedras, returning to the architectural language of classical Rome to establish a dialogue with the

Foster + Partners, Luis María Uriarte   Spain   The proposal restores the original entrance of the museum and turns Plaza Arriaga into the new heart along the museum’s spine. A new structure rests across the buildings of 1945 and 1970, adding 2,000m² of gallery space on a single, open flexible fl

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, AZAB   Spain   The geometry of the new landscape is defined as a smooth curve that moves between the buildings of 1945 and 1970. This line generates a surface that rises at three points to produce the necessary spaces for the extension of the museum... [+]

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The proposal strictly observes the competition brief, on the understanding that it calls for the ‘extension and refurbishment of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum’ and not for a new museum. The first step was therefore to assess the current location, which

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The extension is incorporated as a new piece to the heterogeneous sum of interventions. A cubic volume of concrete rises above the ground occupying the empty space between the two buildings, and creating a strong contrast with them... [+]

SANAA, IA+B   Spain   The emblematic spaces of the Arriaga and Chillida squares are enhanced by floating elements, which favor traffic and accessibility by providing covered resting spaces. Euskadi Square is renovated to become a welcome point to the site... [+]

Snøhetta, José Ramón Foraster   Spain   An ascending route takes visitors up to the last floor, where they discover how the museum opens to the landscape. The plaza, previously enclosed, rises to connect with Doña Casilda park, and contains an outdoor amphitheater for cultural events... [+

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   At 15.6 meters in height, the tower offers visitors spectacular views of the wetlands and the mountains. The tower is built and wrapped with wood, with a shingle facade of Douglas fir, and a roof skylight that lets light reach the interior spaces...

ORMA Architettura    France   Three observatories built by artisans from the area using local wood (‘Laricio’ or andemic pine) go up in different spots of Corsica Regional Park. Each tower is designed to adapt to its specific location and context, offering the best views to obser

Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter   Denmark   The structural system is designed like a supporting frame thanks to which the tower can expand gradually as it rises. All individual elements, including handrails, stairs, landings, and balustrades, form a part of the tower’s overall structural syste

EFFEKT   Denmark   A work of EFFEKT, the Copenhagen firm headed by Tue Foged and Sinus Lyngeesta, this tower contains a spiral walk of oakwood from which to enjoy views over the treetops of Gisselfeld Klosters Skove, a forest 60 kilometers from the Danish capital. The

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz   Spain   Envisaged as an architectural prototype based on the equalization of the Form/Matter/Flow relationship, the PLANTA project is organized in thermodynamic key to achieve a triple program: museum, thermal machine, and observatory, simultaneously display

Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and with an exhibition design by Renzo Piano, the show ‘Calder Stories’ covers five decades in the career of Alexander Calder (1898-1976), unveiling lesser known facts about the work of the American author, like his coll

Thomas Jorion (France, 1976), is a self-taught photographer based in Paris, who travels around the world with his 4×5' large-format analog camera, searching for ancient and once majestic architectures currently abandoned and in ruins, and photographi