The project is one of a series of interventions sponsored by the philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer and aimed at preserving the castle of Bishop Auckland, with a view to promoting the town – located at the confluence of the rivers Wear and Gaunless, in Durham County, England – as a visitor destination...
The owner’s wishes were clear: to replace the original house he grew up in with a similar one, strategically positioned to avoid direct exposure to the neighbors. The Zurich-based Portuguese architect...
Housing, Spain Yearbook 2024, Arquitectura-G, Houses of the Year 2024, Peris + Toral , architecten jan de vylder inge vinck, Structural Timber, Social Heritage, La belleza común, José María García de Paredes. Meeting Spaces...
This 105-square-meter chapel is located at the heart of the new building on the Madrid campus of the IESE Business School. The project seeks to accentuate this central position through a curvilinear geometry...
The project to expand the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) – a work of the architect Lina Bo Bardi – is part of an overall renovation that began in 2014, in which the Brazilian firm Metro has participated from the start...
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has awarded its 2025 Gold Medal to Deborah Berke, in acknowledgment of a professional career of over four decades that “exemplifies innovation, inclusivity, and sustainability.”...
In 2012, the cities of Basel (Switzerland), Huningue (France), and Weil-am-Rhein (Germany) signed an urbanistic agreement to create a cross-border district. Inserted in the first phase of the neighborhood’s development...
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...
On 2 October Museo ICO officially opens ‘José María García de Paredes: Meeting Spaces,’ an exhibition curated by the architect Ángela García de Paredes for the birth centenary of one of Spain’s leading architects in the second half of the 20th century...
In Valverde de Leganés, a municipality in the province of Badajoz, in Spain’s Extremadura region, Paradigma estudio – María Navarro Cifuentes & Manuel Jesús Píriz Gil – has completed this health center in an area which...
In Seville, in an environment characterized by its heterogeneity – very diverse in architecture, uses, and sizes – this residential complex seeks to effect a morphological continuity between the new construction...
This welcoming center is part of the metamorphosis of the Ruinart champagne house in Reims. Sou Fujimoto’s design draws inspiration from the sparkling bubbles of champagne. Built with stone and wood...
With a built area of 520 square meters, this block of tourist housing takes up a plot on Rúa Pedro Álvares Cabral, in Porto, where a leafy tree used to stand. The project seeks to bring back memories of that tree...
On view through 2 February 2025 at Mobility City, a space run by Fundación Ibercaja in Zaragoza, is ‘The History behind the Myth,’ an exhibition of sixteen vehicles of the British luxury car maker Rolls-Royce...
The portrait in 2016, which was dark and showed Trump looking back at the camera from a chair, was considered a genuine graphic editorial, and the violent foreshortening and pyramidal composition of this year’s image is sure to draw in a similar tide of commentary...
The cathedral finally resurrected following a meticulous five-year, €700m restoration. “The area around Notre Dame has changed so much throughout history,” says Bas Smets, who won a competition to redesign the area around...
Koyo Kouoh has been appointed with the specific task of curating the 61st International Art Exhibition to be held in 2026. Koyo Kouoh (Camerun / Switzerland) is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town...
The winners of the latest Tile of Spain Awards for Architecture and Interior Design, organized by ASCER, the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association, were announced. Chairing the jury was Rafael de La-Hoz, with José González Gallegos...
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named 85 Social Housing in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona), an 85-unit timber-framed social housing development designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes...
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 by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron in their home town of Basel is now an international practice with seven offices around the world and a project count that well exceeds the six-hundred mark. But far from falling into repetition, their language continues to reinvent itself, and if the Rossian laconism of their early works gave way to the sumptuous skins of the nineties, the new century ushered in an era of icons, and today they combine their distinctive material refinement with innovative solutions that care about the present and the future...
The association culture of Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood nourishes the practice of Lavol, a collective grounded on participatory and horizontal structures, in the awareness that only in a community spirit can current problems be addressed and market logics dealt with. Arquitectura Viva presents its work in four movements that are simply variations on the same residential theme, placed in context in a short article by Josep Maria Montaner and Zaida Muxí. For its part, this issue’s dossierfeatures four buildings designed by Vietnamese firms: the Urban Farming Office in Ho Chi Minh City, by VTN Architects...
AV Proyectos 125 dedicates its cover to social heritage, a concept that includes the conversion of industrial buildings into civic spaces. As Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats point out in the article that accompanies the section, such interventions aim to give new life to the traces – material or immaterial –, that are identified after a careful observation of the existing. And in its further analysis of this theme, the magazine conducts an interview with BURR, the young Madrilenian studio that focusses its practice on the reactivation of unused industrial facilities. The issue also features several proposals of G124, the university working group...
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...
In their latest books, both Vishaan Chakrabarti and Albert Pope propose new models for the city. But whereas the Calcutta-born New Yorker defends a pragmatic utopia that inserts ecological architectures...
Architecture is a spatial and material reality bound to its perceptual nature, created from the architect’s scopic and analytical baggage, documented and disseminated through an imagery filtered by the photographer’s eye...
The medieval sages never saw elephants, but read Pliny’s descriptions and drew them, to then include them in picture books they called bestiaries. A bestiary of sorts, made not of animals but of unbuilt buildings...
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...
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,’...
Flaunting its name, the Madrid Moderno development was in 1906 dubbed in the newspaper ABC as “the most European of Madrid neighborhoods”: an ensemble of garden-city schemes of which barely twelve small houses...
The Cabonon is a fully equipped apartment with a floor area of just 6.89 square meters, including an infrared sauna and a whirlpool bath. Its inside dimension are: height 3 meters, width 1.97, length 3.6. A large window overlooks the city...
A Renaissance prince in the full sense, Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy was besides a capable statesman a true lover and patron of the arts. It was his treasure of classical sculpture that would form the core...
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...
This complex devoted to the culture and historical heritage of the Ewé ethnic group is located in the city of Notsé, 80 kilometers from Lomé, the capital of Togo, in West Africa. Every first week of September since 1956...
Fundación Ibercaja presented the project for the renovation of the Goya Museum of Zaragoza, following a scheme drawn up by the local practice of Sergio Sebastián Franco, winner of the anonymous ideas competition held for the purpose...
The masterplan drawn up by Populous for Riyadh has been unveiled. It includes King Salman Stadium, which, seating 92,000, will be among the world’s largest sports arenas. Programmed for completion late in 2029...
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...
