The efforts to preserve a Norman castle have concluded with the insertion of a timber platform that covers the ruins while tracing a more accessible interior visitor route. The framework raised over four solid pillars also holds up a series of suspended catwalks, which serve to connect spaces that had long been hidden and allow the...
With a prolific career spanning more than five decades, Rafael Moneo is considered a key figure in contemporary Spanish architecture, and his work has inspired several generations of architects around the world. Born in Tudela (Navarre) in 1937, the first Spaniard to receive...
Respectful with the history and the genius loci, but radically contemporary; based on a language of clean geometry, but essentially material; signature architecture, but at the service of the community. This is how we could describe...
Promoted by the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI), this public-housing block is located at Platja d'en Bossa, south of the city of Ibiza. Designed by estudi08014 – Adrià Guardiet and Sandra Torres – the apartment...
So eager to modernize, the 19th century’s rulers did not properly weigh up the potential effects of their disentailment policies, leaving a vast pool of church property unprotected. In the case of the Convent of...
Demas Nwoko, Nigerian born artist, designer and architect, is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia...
The deputy vice-president of the government of Navarre, José María Aierdi, and the secretary-general for Urban Agenda and Housing of Spain's central government in Madrid, Iñaqui Carnicero, presided over an encounter with the construction...
Amid bamboos on the shores of a lake in Huanggang, a city in the Chinese province of Hubei, these faceted constructions of laminated wood have floorplans composed of three hexagons containing a bedroom...
The Design Museum in London has unveiled an artwork by Ai Weiwei titled Water Lilies #1. Made of Lego bricks, it will be part of the exhibition ‘Ai Weiwei: Making Sense’...
Just like the rest of the countries in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has experienced a deep transformation over the last three decades, from a rural and agricultural economy to an urban and industrial one. This fast metamorphosis has brought along huge economic...
Pritzker Prize laureate of 2022, Francis Kéré has become a symbol of social and sustainable construction. Born in the Burkinabè village of Gando in 1965, Kéré studied in Germany and set up his office in Berlin, from which he returns time and again to his country...
Arquitectura Viva celebrates its 250th issue with a special edition that presents utopias as an optimistic alternative to the dim panorama marked by economic decline, epidemic threats, and the devastation of war, all this in the context of a climate emergency...
On these covers, the rough strokes of nine female painters illustrate the intellectual and social mutations that have marked recent times. The transformation is the theme of ‘Debates,’ the latest addition to the book...
The old building of the Mariñamasa School Home – a student residence in Ourense, built in 1970 by the architects Emma Ojea and Walter Lewin – was turned into a center for research and innovation in vocational...
A pitched timber roof lies on a play of volumes that rest strategically on the sloping terrain. The apparent abstraction that organizes the floor plan maintains a visual connection between the space indoors and...
In 2017, BIG won the competition to remodel the historical San Pellegrino complex in the Italian Alps. The development plan includes a visitor center, work areas, offices, and a bridge over Brembo River. Besides giving...
This sports facility is part of the production complex of the Mexican tool manufacturer Truper, used by its employees and their families. There are no other constructions around, and the complex tries to keep its...
A decade after his series of dense urban landscapes juxtaposed with cemeteries of Hong Kong, the photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro presents images of graveyards in the Egyptian desert. Necropoli of Egypt captures surrealist compositions...
American architect A Eugene Kohn, who co-founded Kohn Pedersen Fox, has died of cancer aged 92. Architect Kohn led KPF, which is responsible of designing six of the world's twelve tallest towers, including the Shanghai World Financial Center and Hong Kong's International...
From 10 May to 7 August the Centre Pompidou in Paris will be hosting an exhibition on the six-decade career of Norman Foster. Taking up almost 2,200 square meters of floor space, the retrospective will present 130 of the architect's projects in seven themed sections...
He almost failed architecture school. Now he’s netted the profession’s top prize, the Pritzker. Britain’s modernist master talks about the building that changed everything – and running a bar in Spain...
David Chipperfield has a disciplined heart. Like Charles Dickens’ almost homonymous character, he tenaciously strives to temper his sensibility with rigour; however, unlike David Copperfield, the architect has disciplined his heart...
Rafael Viñoly, the Uruguayan-born and New York-based architect known for designing landmark buildings around the world, has died aged 78. Viñoly’s sometimes controversial work included more than 600 structures...
With a prolific career spanning more than five decades, Rafael Moneo is considered a key figure in contemporary Spanish architecture, and his work has inspired several generations of architects around the world. Born in Tudela (Navarre) in 1937, the first Spaniard to receive the Pritzker Prize (1996) is the author of major works in his country like the Bankinter Headquarters in Madrid, the Museum of Roman Art in Mérida, the Kursaal Auditorium in San Sebastián, and the Prado Museum extension; and of buildings abroad like the Los Angeles Cathedral, the extension of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm...
The visible head of one of Italy’s busiest architecture practices, Mario Cucinella is the author of numerous projects which, more than a distinctive style, share a fundamental idea: the use of technology in making headway towards the goal of environmental sustainability and a better society. Arquitectura Viva now presents four of his public works that attest to this ecological and civic commitment: offices in Ferrara, a community center in Peccioli, a church in Mormanno, and a museum in Milan. This issue’s dossier, for its part, features four English projects representing different approaches to the challenge of working on...
AV Proyectos 115 brings together the most recent projects by Cobe, the Danish studio led by Dan Stubbergaard, which applies Scandinavian tradition to intervene in all the dimensions of the city. Next, four timber dwellings, of different scales and located in Europe and South America, show the versatile character of this material. The construction section analyzes BIG’s proposal for a new factory for S. Pellegrino in Bergamo. The pages after this are devoted to the work of Andrés Reisinger, the Argentinian designer based in Barcelona who shapes the Metaverse with a style recognizable for its dreamlike yet precise color palette...
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 world changed on 24 February 2022, but the start of the war in Ukraine was produced by the tensions in the tectonic plate of Eurasia. There is no way to understand the conflict without knowing the history of Russia...
We tend to think that young people are rebels. In truth, all they want is a change of order. At no other age does one rely so much on peers for recognition in the face of a vague adversary. In the final analysis, what they...
The battle of ‘modernity’ was waged not only in the field of forms and techniques, but also in that of ideals. It has been necessary to acknowledge that modernity was ‘ideological’ for it to be assessed with detachment...
Moshe Safdie (Haifa, 1938) and Robert Stern (New York, 1939) are almost the same age, come from middle-class Jewish families that originated in Europe, and run major practices on the U.S. East Coast, but no modern Plutarch would...
Differential rotation of Earth’s inner core relative to the mantle is thought to occur under the effects of the geodynamo on core dynamics and gravitational core–mantle coupling. This rotation has been inferred from...
A new project known as the Habitable World Observatory aims to better understand near-Earth exoplanets and study those that could support life. NASA is contemplating an ambitious project: the Habitable...
US space agency rejoices after re-entry of spacecraft that should clear way for possible lunar landing of astronauts by 2025. Orion’s return brings to a completion the first flight of Artemis I...
Pictures of the sky can show us cosmic wonders; movies can bring them to life. Movies from NASA’s NEOWISE space telescope are revealing motion and change across the sky. Every six months, NASA’s Near-Earth Object...
This project in Madrid’s Carabanchel district creates an 85-square-meter unfinished space that the inhabitants can renovate on a limited budget, saving on construction costs. The bareness allows future interventions where...
There is no doubt that we live surrounded by what Debord acidly called the marchandise vedette, articles that compete to be displayed in the most irresistible way possible, appealing to our senses and our wallets...
At Consell de Cent 349, in the Eixample, the first Barcelona store of the Australian cosmetic firm Aesop, founded in Melbourne in 1987, has opened. The firm of the Italian Fabricio Barozzi and the Galician Alberto Veiga...
This eatery designed by MOCA estudio (Carlos Moles Romero, Adrián Sánchez), is at Santa Engracia 54, in Madrid's Chamberí neighborhood. On the ground floor of a listed 1925 building, it has a floor area of 300 square meters...
In the presence of Park Seo-Bo (Yecheon, 1931) – a leading figure of South Korean contemporary art, father of the Dansaekhwa movement of minimalist monochrome painting – the first stone has been laid for...
The Portuguese firm OODA has won the international competition to build the new headquarters of the Albanian television network Klan TV in Tirana. Carried out in collaboration with the local office Artech...
David Chipperfield Architects Berlin has won the contest to revamp and enlarge the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, located in the capital's Exarcheia neighborhood, which possesses one of the world's major...
The building takes advantage of its location in Logroño, at the point where the pilgrim route to Santiago enters the city, to create a public staircase connecting the street to a garden roof that serves as a deck for views...
Play is something serious. The Neoplatonists used the oxymorons serio ludere and iocare serio to refer to a light way of dealing with matters of importance...
The great epidemiologist Larry Brilliant once said that “outbreaks are inevitable, but pandemics are optional.” I thought about this quote and what it reveals about...
If humanity invests just an extra 2% of Global GDP in developing eco-friendly technologies and infrastructure every year, this would be enough to prevent catastrophic climate change...
In a desperate attempt to lure employees back to their offices, companies are laying on all manner of novelty treats, from monogrammed water bottles to...
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...
As an educator, Robert Geddes worked to put architecture on an equal footing with other disciplines. As an architect, he was known for buildings at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton...
Arno Lederer passed away in Stuttgart at 75 years of age. He opened his practice in 1979, to be joined by Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir in 1985 and Marc Oei in 1992, and developed a humanistic approach to the profession, upholding...
In Ahmedabad on 24 January, Balkrishna Doshi died at the age of 95. Trained under Le Corbusier, he was an educator of several generations of Indian architects and the nexus between European modernity and that of his country...
The French architect Renée Gailhoustet, recipient of the 2022 Royal Academy Architecture Prize, has died at the age of 93. A defender of public housing, she designed numerous residential projects in the Paris suburbs as well...
