Catalunya Media City is emerging as a hub for production, research, and training in the audiovisual, digital, and video-game sectors. This ambitious initiative is articulated in two principal operations: renovation of the historic Sant Adrià del Besós thermal power plant, in accordance with Garcés de Seta Bonet y Marvel’s...
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Just as Chillida paid tribute to the sea with geometrical shapes carved in alabaster, a moviehouse in Haikou alludes to the island’s coastal nature with similar abstraction and a heavy material presence...
Built high on a hill near the town of Santa Bárbara de Nexe, this concrete house fuses with nature while evoking the image of an old ruin. To make the most of views, the main livable zones are placed...
David M. Childs has died at the age of 83. A partner at SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) since 1971, the American architect designed One World Trade Center, the 541.3-meter (1,776-foot) tower that rose on the spot where the twin towers destroyed by 9/11 had stood...
Commissioned by the Port Authority of Rotterdam, Portlantis gives insight into the intricate workings of the Dutch city’s harbor. The recently inaugurated building – all of 3,533 square meters – is a stack of five rotated...
This residential project uses industrialized construction techniques and dry assembly as strategies to optimize resources and reduce emissions, as well as minimize waste generation and integrate principles having...
Time has passed since 1980, when Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron built the small house painted in Klein blue, and also since 1999, year of their first AV issue. With almost fifty years of experience, the studio founded in their home town of Basel...
Arquitectura Viva gathers in one volume of 320 pages, with a special price of 60 euros, hardbound and in fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, 50 housing projects built in Spain since the year 2000. Always at the center of the architectural debate...
How do we want to work tomorrow? That is the question that EM2N set out to answer in designing the building located at Binzstrasse in Zurich. From the start of the project it was clear that the Swiss practice would itself...
A new district, designed by Heatherwick Studio, has opened in Xi’an, honoring the Chinese city’s legacy of craftsmanship and ceramics. The Xi’an Centre Culture Business District (CCBD) is south of the historic core...
The town of Jaljulia – close to the historic Sea Road, which connected Egypt and Syria in the Middle Ages – features the remains of a khan or caravasar built in the 14th century. This building, once was a hub for travelers...
In its abstract and material essence, the X house arises from a tension between a stunning location and the desire to inhabit it. The conflict is addressed with a firm determination to create a new element that is not ‘in,’...
The winners of the three competitions that have been held for the renovation of the Fira de Barcelona – as part of the first phase of the overall revamp of the Montuïc trade-fair grounds – have been announced...
On view through 20 April at the historic Hexagons Pavilion in Madrid’s Casa de Campo park, designed by the architects José Antonio Corrales and Ramón Vázquez Molezún, is ‘Oh, If I Only Could Listen’...
Ricardo Scofidio has died at 89 years of age in Manhattan. In 1981 he and his wife, Elizabeth Diller, opened Diller Scofidio, which Charles Renfro joined as a partner in 2004. Works that the firm DS-R has built in New York City include the High Line...
Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins Pritzker 2025 Born in 1956, Liu Jiakun lives and works in his native city, Chengdu, where he opened his practice in 1999. He grew up in a family of physicians...
The architect Rafael Olalquiaga Soriano has passed away at 85 years of age. Born in Bilbao in 1939, Olalquiaga began his professional career in 1963, when he graduated from Madrid’s School of Architecture, and in 1967 he earned his doctorate in the same institution...
In this series, Manuel Álvarez Diestro covers some of the driest places on the planet, journeying through countries likes Egypt, Oman, and Iran. Here the Cantabrian photographer explores the relationship between architecture and geological formations...
As every year for more than three decades, and coinciding now with the 40th anniversary of AV magazine, the Yearbook 2025 gathers in a double issue a selection of 25 works which now include, as in the previous edition, buildings by Spanish studios in other countries – Belgium, Italy, Romania, Germany, Norway, Argentina, and Taiwan –, taking stock of the growing recognition Spanish architecture enjoys beyond our borders. Thus, prominent projects like the new stadium of the Real Madrid, by L35 with gmp and Ribas & Ribas, the refurbishment of the Atarazanas in Seville by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra...
The AV/Arquitectura Viva project marks its fortieth birthday this year, and to celebrate this anniversary the first issue of 2025 returns to the theme of its maiden issue: collective housing. And if in 1985 it focused on the Berlin IBA, this time it presents experiments in different parts of Europe which show how the constant concern about the residential situation is now more pressing than ever. An essay by Abel Fernández Villegas calibrates the political, social, and ecological emergency that should not leave out the construction of homes, and this is followed by a selection of mass housing schemes carried out in Austria...
AV Proyectos 127 explores earthen construction, a technique recovered in projects like those of Boltshauser Architekten, Studio Mumbai, Assemble or Peris+Toral, among other studios included in this dossier that shows how tradition and innovation can intertwine to explore different types, scales, and ways of dwelling. This approach is broadened with the perspectives of architect Anna Heringer and rammed earth expert Martin Rauch, discussed during aconversation on the capacity of this material to generate spaces with a huge social impact and respect for the environment. Furthermore, TAKK works...
Arquitectura Viva presents —in Spanish-English and digital format only— the second compilation of buildings published in the ‘In Detail’ section of AV Proyectos. The volume, of over 200 pages, features twelve works covered with comprehensive sets of technical plans, details, and photographs documenting the different stages in the construction process of some of the most prominent buildings completed in recent years around the world. The new selection includes cultural infrastructures like the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron or the Contemporary Creation Center of Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano...
The art market is a good example of the conspicuous consumption theorized by Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class, and two recent texts by outsiders document the extremes of ostentation...
Two publishers of the Penguin Group and another of the Planeta – the latter with two titles – compete in bringing art closer to the general public. For this they use different literary tools and take distinct approaches...
In 1957 Eduardo Torroja published Razón y ser de los tipos estructurales, and the next year it appeared in the United States as Philosophy of Structures. That it was immediately translated – by Jaroslav Josef Polívka...
With near-annual punctuality Fundación Fisac and its director, Diego Peris Sánchez, this time with Javier Navarro Gallego, release a new tome of the series through which they have since 2014...
With key private sector space executives in attendance for his Monday inauguration, President Donald Trump declared that the U.S. will prioritize space exploration during his second term...
It would be a nightmare lab leak: Synthetic bacteria escape the petri dish and unleash a global plague that life on Earth is incapable of defending itself against. That’s the concern raised by a group of eminent...
The launch was remarkable: a booster rocket with twice the power of the Apollo programme’s Saturn V lancing into the early-morning sky on a tight, bright column of blue-tinged flame. But that wonder has been seen four times before...
This landmark achievement has been conducted by the FlyWire Consortium, a large international collaboration including researchers from the University of Cambridge, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology...
Until the time Eusebi Guëll moved his textile factory there and established a workers’ colony with the help of Gaudí, Santa Coloma de Cervelló was just a farming village on the banks of the Llobregat, and its modest...
This 56-square-meter apartment was renovated on a low budget, so the exercise in personalizing the space involved getting the best out of solutions and materials available in the market, such as standard tiles put...
This residential project seeks to convey serenity and calm through the manipulation of light. To do this it carefully explores how to capture light shining from above, generating an enveloping experience...
The renovation works at the Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel involves several spaces. The inauguration of all the new spaces is scheduled for the summer of 2025. First to be completed is ‘The Council,’...
English football club Manchester United has announced plans to build a 100,000-seat stadium designed by Foster + Partners. The ambitious project will be erected near the 74,140-seat Old Trafford...
Bhutan’s second international airport, located in Gelephu, is strategically located near the Bhutan-Indian border, surrounded by lush subtropical forests, mountains, and rivers. Spanning 68,000 square meters...
This hotel and residential complex is located in a terrain of irregular contours in Dhërmi, a picturesque town in the Albanese Riviera that faces the Ionian Sea. The ground plan follows a grid to organize the premises...
The British Museum has announced that Lina Ghotmeh Architecture has by unanimous vote won the bid to redesign its Western Range galleries. The scheme drawn up by the Paris-based firm led by the Lebanese-born...
The imperial presidency of Trump was inaugurated with a sequence of executive orders orchestrated like coups de théâtre, signed off with the bold strokes...
Dear Luis Fernández-Galiano, By way of wishing you a happy New Year, I simply wanted to express how much I appreciate your faithful contribution to architectural culture...
The increase in the frequency and intensity of fires in different parts ofthe world has prompted experts to suggest that we may have entered a new epoch...
Ten people have perished in a conflagration which in a matter of minutes wrapped the facades of the fourteen-story building in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia...
Grupo Ayuso presents its Pérgola series for terraces and gardens. With mixed aluminum and canvas coverings, it is designed to provide spaces where one can enjoy the open air while being sheltered against adverse weather...
With over 80 years of experience behind it and headquartered in Ontinyent (Valencia), the Atenzza business group is dedicated to the production and marketing of textile products for interior and exterior...
The Galician company Comenza, which specializes in developing industrialized railing and handrail systems, presents the PVD Black Finish for its GlassFit CC-800 and GlassFit CC-775 glass railings, offering it as an...
Companies are increasingly aware that only through digital transformation can become more competitive. This is already mandatory in public companies, with the new BIM standard, and the trend is spreading in the...
Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader of Ismaeli Muslims, has died at the age of 88 in Lisbon. Born in Geneva (Switzerland) in 1936, throughout his life he did not only carry out programs in key fields like education...
The British architect Dennis Crompton has died at the age of 89. A founding partner of Archigram (with Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Ron Herron, David Greene, and Michael Webb), Crompton devoted himself to preserving the group’s legacy...
David Lynch, who has died aged 78, was the most original film-maker to emerge in postwar America, as well as the greatest cinematic surrealist since Buñuel. His understanding of desire, fantasy and dread was unparalleled...
Yoshio Taniguchi has passed away at 87 years of age. The Japanese master completed post-graduate studies at Harvard, and worked with Walter Gropius and Kenzo Tange before founding his own studio in 1975...
