The Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sijena, founded in 1188, has undergone a thorough transformation, one which has restored all the dignity of its historic spaces. The latest intervention, completed recently, has fitted out the old dormitory hall as an exhibition gallery for heritage pieces that have been returned to the monastery...
On a plot located in the old quarter of the municipality stands a building in which a community of several generations endeavors to weave a tapestry of private and shared spaces. Over and above the neighborhood’s...
I discovered vernacular architecture through drawingNorman Foster The library of Manchester is arguably one of the most important buildings of my life in terms of influence. There I disovered Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture...
In celebration of its twentieth anniversary, in 2024 we presented the magazine with an updated graphic design. Enjoy the changes made in AV Proyectos by taking up this offer of six issues (121-126) of its new phase for 50% of the usual subscription price...
This residential building for the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) stands on a trapezoidal plot between party walls. The main elevation, facing views...
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...
Eduardo Souto de Moura wraps up the triad that placed Porto in the circuits of global architecture by virtue of honoring vernacular tradition in combination with geometric rigor, constructive precision, and material solidity...
High in the Strážov Mountains, Uhrovec Castle comes back to life after years of abandonment. The renovation of what is considered one of Slovakia’s best-preserved castles sets new standards...
The second Forêt Monumentale is being held in the Roumare woods, in the French region of Normandy. It is an open-air artistic promenade, featuring thirteen monumental installations in dialogue...
Kaunas, Lithuania’s second most populated city, has opened Mokslo Sala, a museum devoted to environmental sciences. It is located on Nemunas Island, and has been completed seven years after SMAR won the competition...
The Majorcan city of Inca boasts a new public space in the heart of its old town, thanks to a project carried out by Flexo arquitectura – a Catalonia-based practice led by Tomeu Ramis and Aixa del Rey – that was part of a municipal strategy to improve...
On view through 6 July at Sala Alcalá 31 in Madrid is a solo exhibition of the artist Sonia Navarro (Puerto Lumbreras, Murcia, 1975). It gathers over forty works completed since 1999, including collages...
A lamp designed by Frank Lloyd Wright sold for a record-breaking price in a recent auction at Sotheby’s, fetching 7.5 million dollars (approximately 6.6 million euros) and thus becoming the most expensive object designed by Wright...
The winners of the fourth edition of the TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, sponsored by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) in collaboration with the Arquia Foundation, have been announced...
The sacred used to be clothed in the sublime. A vestige of this was seen in the conclave, a ritual that would awaken much less awe if it did not take place in one of the most beautiful enclaves on Earth...
Waters rise, temperaturas increase, and natural catastrophies keep happening, laying bare our incapacity to take care of the environment and showing that inaction has consequences...
In a city of Byzantine domes, Gothic arches, and Ottoman columns – a crossroads and a meeting point for millennia – stones have much to say. Anyone traversing Venice with sharpened eyes and ears...
More than six decades and one hundred works built on four continents attest to the extensive and prolific career of Renzo Piano at the helm of his ‘Building Workshop.’ The fourth monograph devoted to the oeuvre of Renzo Piano Building Workshop contains a selection of fifteen works and projects presented in a circular itinerary around the globe that begins and ends in Paris, the city that made the Genoese architect known worldwide. A special tour de force that goes from the sculptural profile of the Courthouse to the transparent compactness of the Paris Nord Hospital, via big cities like London (Paddington Square), New York...
The formal and programmatic daring demonstrated by Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, and Nicolás Maruri is patent in their colorful dwellings that liven up the Madrid outskirts as well as in the lightweight Spanish Pavilion at the Expo in Dubai, but the trio has managed to maintain that provocative attitude even when the occasion demands sensitivity to a delicate context or compliance with strict regulations, as we can see in their continued work in Cartagena and Luxembourg, Luxembourg, respectively, which Arquitectura Viva presents here. In the issue’s dossier, four works show that...
Under the title ‘Community Care’, AV Proyectos 128 features six works that cater to specific needs through an attentive and sensitive architecture that prioritizes a collective approach, as show the centers designed by Mae Architects, Vivas Arquitectos, or Dorte Mandrup. Paz Martín, architect and expert in the field, introduces the dossier with an essay that analyzes how assistance can shape the project strategy. Along the same lines, in an interview with the magazine the architect and professor Izaskun Chinchilla talks about the city of care and how the buildings that compose it are not just hospitals...
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...
Ever alert as we are to what is said about us abroad, any article printed in the foreign press causes a stir in Spain. In the same way, books by Hispanists spark special curiosity...
There has been much abuse of the oxymoron serio ludere in describing works where rigor comes with a smile, but what better way to describe the designs of Carme Pinós....
What do a crustacean, the Joseon dynasty, and Lebanon’s capital have in common? Little more than being in one improbable question. For Lina Ghotmeh, the answer is in microwaves...
The one-family house has been a fertile field for experiments, revealing strategies applicable to more complex projects. This is the area Felipe Assadi has operated in, and the book...
This residential building for the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) stands on a trapezoidal plot between party walls. The main elevation, facing views, is given a large porch that acts not only as an entranceway...
A project launched by Barcelona’s Municipal Institute of Housing and Renovation (IMHAB), a new eight story residential building redefines the urban landscape of Distrcit 22@. Integrated into the fabric of Cerdá’s expansion grid...
Located in Santiago and Zaraíche, a district of the municipality of Murcia, this housing development of 138 units for rent consists of a single building rising twelve floors plus an attic...
‘Terraces for Life’ was the scheme that won the bid for 40 social housing units promoted by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge of Barcelona (IMHAB) at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic...
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,’...
Ghana will be home to West Africa’s first facility specialized in children’s cancer. Commissioned by the Wish4Life Foundation, this ambitious project aims to transform children’s cancer treatment in the region...
The firms MGM Morales de Giles Arquitectos and Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos have together as a team won the competition to build the new Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)...
The scheme drawn up by AS+ for Dongguan Binhai Cultural District is an innovative technical, cultural, and environmental composite that orchestrates and combines natural and industrial resources to come up with forms, materials...
MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have won the competition to turn St. Francis of Assissi Church in Heerlen, built over a hundred years ago and offering religious services until 2023, into a public swimming pool for the Dutch city...
The war warning of European elites has feet of clay. Robert Kagan coined in 2003 a metaphor that stuck: “On major international questions today,...
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...
The German architecture curator, writer, and editor Kristin Feireiss has passed away at 82 years of age. She studied art history and philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. In 1980, she and Helga Retzer...
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...
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...
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...
