The main objectives in this commission were to ensure views of the lake, one of Chile’s largest, for the entire house, and to make it easy to adapt to different situations (owners being alone or with their children or other visitors). The solution eventually formulated by Guillermo Hevia and Catalina Poblete was a curved building...
The school complex is located in a regular, orthogonal urban grid of Mitry-Mory, in the Île-de-France region. The program joins an eight-classroom nursery, a leisure center, and a lunchroom for preschool and primary...
The old City Hall of Fonsagrada, erected in 1845 and in disuse since 2015, has been turned by the Galician practice Firm Arquitectura —Daniel Gómez Magide and Adrián López Rancaño— into a museum for works...
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...
CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati was commissioned to design Quisimangia (Here we eat), a dining hall for employees of Mutti, a leading firm for tomato-based products. The location is Montechiarugolo, in the province of Parma...
A work of ARQ Associates in collaboration with Brescia Infrastrutture, the new theater in Brescia, in Italy’s Lombardy region, falls under ‘Oltre la strada,’ a larger operation to reurbanize the industrial area around Via Milano...
The Lujiatan Wetland Park Commercial Service Center, designed by MUDA-Architects under the direction of Lu Yun, is situated in Wenjiang District, Chendu City. The environs of the Jinma and Minjiang inspired...
The environs of a dismantled tobacco factory have been reconditioned as a green expanse of land that serves as much to accumulate rainwater during the typhoon season as to curb flooding...
The new headquarters of Prodis, an organization devoted to assisting and promoting adults with intellectual disabilities, is located in old industrial buildings of Filatures Matarí, within the Vapor Cortès...
This wooden house in the south of Chile responds to a privileged natural environment, between a green plateau and a forest of coihues that descends to Lake Ranco. The 147-square-meter residence is organized...
Naninuena is a narrow elongated house that responds to the site’s topographic conditions. It adapts to the pronounced slope of the terrain with meticulously positioned supports anchored directly to the bedrock...
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) has announced the projects to be presented in the central hall of the Spanish Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, which will run from 10 May to 23 November 2025...
In the international competition for the new Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design, five of the 624 anonymously submitted schemes have been shortlisted for the second phase. They are: 96 Tyrsky, 351 Kumma, 486 Moby, 545 Tau, and 616 City, Sky and Sea...
Among the activities being held for the centenary of the birth of Rafael de La-Hoz Arderius (1924-2000) are two complementary exhibitions in Córdoba: ‘Rafael de La-Hoz’s Public Work: From Detail to City’ in the Presidential Gallery...
For anyone unfamiliar with Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, this publication is useful. If it is true that architects think with eyes, one need not have crossed paths with these Swiss to see that their gaze is inquisitive and sharp...
This selection offers a tour of twelve houses that we have published in 2024, which respond to the domestic space by applying different strategies. The houses with different dimensions are inserted in their contexts, attending to the relationship with the exterior..
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...
Upon completing forty years of existence, AV Monographs publishes the second issue of its international Portfolio, which features the most prominent buildings finished abroad, complementing the already classic Spain Yearbook. This time the twelve works are grouped under the intelligible Vitruvian order, where firmitas highlights the structural nakedness of the projects by Christian Kerez in Muharraq, NP2F in Bordeaux, Gustav Düsing+Max Hacke in Brunswick, and Junya Ishigami in Rizhao; utilitas interprets the community experiences proposed by La Cabina de la Curiosidad in Zumbahua, C733 in San Blas, A Threshold in Bangalore...
Operating from Paris and Nice since 2009, NP2F has worked on the most varied themes, among which a special interest in sports spaces stands out. As architects of Cartesian method, the firm’s members tackle their projects from a deduction process grounded on the drawing, which helps them take on the complexities of the context and turn them into gestures of great clarity, restrained but intense. The dossier of the issue explores how the design of urban spaces can contribute to mitigating floods like Valencia’s recent ones. Using his own work in this environmental focus. The Zaragoza architect Iñaki Alday presents four water parks...
With issue 126, AV Proyectos closes the first year of its new phase, during which its covers have highlighted the most pertinent technical, social, and symbolic themes in the present moment of architecture. This new issue gathers projects that can be associated with abstraction, accompanied by the review of the latest essay by Pier Vittorio Aureli and an interview with professor Marina Otero, in which she discusses the abstract revolution of data from the perspective of architecture.The issue continues with the construction of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, by Thomas Phifer and Partners, which precedes the usual series...
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...
These two very large books document monumental buildings. The Complete Works of Herzog & de Meuron, by Gerhard Mack, released its fifth volume (presenting projects completed between 2002 and 2004)...
Children take two years to learn to read, and many take a lifetime to have a voice. Especially a writer, who uses such abstract mediums as words, sometimes to inform us, other times to move us, but always to draw...
Gong Dong raises buildings to stir emotions. Many architects are able to, but few make this the purpose of their practice, let alone so explicitly; it may be an effect of intellectualism to want to unearth...
Distanced from any kind of essentialism, both the Greek scholar David Hernández de la Fuente and the journalist Pedro García Cuartango explore Spain’s mythical roots from the lenses of history and the territory...
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...
Two for two! A duo of interacting galaxies commemorates the second science anniversary of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which takes constant observations, including images and highly detailed data known as spectra...
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,’...
José María Sánchez García was commissioned to build the new law school on Universidad CEU San Pablo’s Moncloa campus, in Madrid. Construction is already underway at Julián Romea 16...
Zaha Hadid Architects – in collaboration with Bureau Cube Partners – has won the anonymous competition to transform the old Milan Vapa paper factory in Belgrade into the new Nikola Tesla Museum...
Located near the Montenegro border, Shkodra is one of Albania’s oldest cities. An important cultural and economic hub, it was the capital until 1920, when the seat of government moved to Tirana...
The galleries devoted to the growing holdings of modern and contemporary artworks at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) will be undergoing a revamp, following a scheme, selected in 2022...
If the images of cars dragged by the flood waters along a street in the municipality of Sedaví are the best picture of the violence of nature in its catastrophic...
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...
Works of science fiction are more about the historical moment they are created in than about the uncertain future they are supposedly set in. Hence, whether or not...
The Greek writer Vassilis Vassilikos, author of the political novel Z (on which the Costa-Gavras film of the same title was based), tells of how a few days after...
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...
Frank Auerbach’s paintings, each one wrested from chaos over weeks and months of struggle, place the artist firmly in the English tradition stemming from Constable, who had the same feeling for the material world...
The Italian architect Alberto Ponis has died at the age of 91. Born in Genoa in 1933, he completed his architecture studies in Florence in 1960. Shortly afterwards he moved to London, where he worked with Ernö Goldfinger...
The critic and historian Joseph Rykwert has died at 98 years of age. Born in Warsaw in 1926, Rykwert studied architecture at Bartlett and later at the Architectural Association. He first worked with architects like Maxwell Fry, Jane Drew, and Richard Sheppard...
Just like Beatriz de Moura and Esther Tusquets, Rosa Regàs belonged to a generation of rich kids – cultivated and naughty at the same time – that made Barcelona a haven of freedom and creativity in the death throes of the dictatorship...
