A joint work of Verne arquitectura – Víctor Larripa, Javier Martínez, Daniel Ruiz de Gordejuela– and Alejandro Maortua, the project involved designing a pelota court and a series of spaces for different uses in Aguilar de Codés, a small locality in Navarre, in the comarca of Estella Occidental...
Video artist who melded the material and the spiritual and applied modern technology to Renaissance subjects. In 1957, on a family holiday, Bill Viola fell in a lake. He was six years old. Sixty years later, Viola, who has died aged 73...
His photograph of five young people lounging on the Brooklyn waterfront as smoke engulfed Manhattan mesmerized viewers and stirred controversy. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the photographer...
The firm 3XN has won the competition to build a visitor hub on the port in Assens, a city on the Danish island of Funen. An oval-shaped building will accommodate exhibitions and activities throwing light on the impact...
A small lot in Punchbowl, a residential neighborhood in Sydney, is the site of the new home of the Australian Islamic Mission, a complex of buildings whose purpose is to facilitate learning and religious worship...
Apple The Exchange TRX, the first Apple retail location in Malaysia, has opened in the capital. Crowned with a dome, the store rises three levels with a viewing deck above, connected to a park. From the base to the top...
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...
The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University (UAD) has built a series of public spaces for Wanghu Village, in the mountainous zone of Zhejiang Province in China. In the context of rural...
On the shore of the Bacalar Lagoon, these free-of-charge public-recreation baths present stepped limestone walls that absorb the elevation changes and form terraced viewpoints. The intervention diffuses the edges...
In the countryside of the central Italian region of Umbria lies Valfabbrica, a village of medieval origin. The municipal cemetery outside the historic center was recently enlarged by Andrea Dragoni...
In the industrial park of the Chinese city of Suzhou, around Jinji Lake, stand five public pavilion, five of which are newly buildt and the rest are renovated. An outcome of a 2022 competition, the two-floor wooden cabin...
On view through 16 July at the Roppongi Museum in Tokyo is ‘Miss Dior: Stories of a Miss,’ an exhibition designed by Shohei Shigematsu, a partner at OMA, which walks visitors through almost eight decades...
The winners of the awards given by the Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes (CSCAE) were announced at a ceremony where Josep Llinàs accepted the Gold Medal for Architecture and the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation...
The Japanese Junya Ishigami has received the Frederick Kiesler Prize of Architecture and the Arts in Vienna. This accolade, which comes with a money award of 55,000 euros, has been given since 1998 and the list of previous winners includes...
Luís Ferreira Alves, fotógrafo de arquitectura falleció en julio de 2022. El documental Luís Ferreira Alves: Um Olhar Construído pretende establecer una conexión entre su obra, especialmente como fotógrafo...
Paul Chemetov has died at 95 years of age. A militant communist and a prolific builder of social housing developments, the French architect set up a practice with Borja Huidobro in 1983. The work for which he will most be remembered...
The RIBA International Awards for Excellence are given to projects worldwide that stretch the boundaries of architecture and standards of excellence. Irrespective of style, complexity and size of both scheme and budget, successful...
Since they set up their studio in 2006 – a time marked by the impact of the financial crisis – Arquitectura-G has completed a considerable number of projects while continuing their research and dissemination work in the field. Almost two decades later, AV Monographs collects twenty works that take stock of the polyphonic creativity and international expansion of the studio: from exemplary interventions on existing structures to lucid new-build housing projects, via experimental spaces for retail or transformations of historical complexes. All this is accompanied by a foreword signed by Harquitectes...
Although the emptying of the countryside is now a matter of importance on a state level, it is still those close to rural environments who are most active in ensuring that the wrongly understood idea of progress responsible for vacating that world does not become the remedy to reinhabit it. Óscar Miguel Ares has harnessed the profilts yielded by wind farms in small towns of his native Valladolid to strengthen their network of facilities, through buildings rooted to the place that community ties, a selection of which is featured in the latest Arquitectura Viva. This time the magazine’s ‘dossier’ presents three interventions on heritage pieces...
In line with The Mannerist Mind, the essay by Francisco González de Canales, AV Proyectos 123 publishes the innovative proposals of six European studios that emerged in the post-crisis context, and which apply traditional solutions with a contemporary approach. Anna Puigjaner sits down for an interview with this magazine about these ‘new mannerisms’, and to discuss how MAIO, the office she directs with María Charneco, Alfredo Lérida and Guillermo López, shies away from classifications to defend a political practice, more sustainable and inclusive. The issue continues with the conversion...
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...
Arnold Toynbee famously said that “history is not just one damned thing after another,” and Peter Turchin has set out to try out the British historian’s intuition through a colossal data base from which to deduce patterns of development...
In February 1951, Le Corbusier went on his first trip to India. The Government of Punjab – the state that emerged in the northwest after the split of the British Raj – had tasked him with the urban planning of the new regional capital...
Unlike texts penned from the plane of erudition, this book is testimony of wisdom acquired over decades of practical experience. Urban legend has it that in the late 1960s, Terán tried to publish maps and plans he had been collecting for years...
Aby Warburg (1866-1929) and his mythical Mnemosyne Atlas are essential references in the histories of art and visual studies. His influence on our work is evident...
Uncrewed Chang’e-6 lander is carrying rock and soil samples in ‘very important achievement’ after lunar liftoff China’s uncrewed Chang’e-6 probe is on its way back to Earth carrying the first samples from the far side...
Since November 2023, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has been sending a steady radio signal to Earth, but the signal does not contain usable data. The source of the issue appears to be with one of three onboard computers, the flight data subsystem...
AutoFlight’s five-seater Prosperity eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft completed a significant milestone by autonomously flying the 50km (31 miles) route from Shenzhen to Zhuhai. The flight from Shenzhen to Zhuhai...
MareNostrum 5, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) supercomputer located in Spain was officially inaugurated in Barcelona by Pedro Sánchez...
In order to obtain a large, unobstructed main space, the more private rooms of an apartment in the Niño Jesús neighborhood are placed together in a compact block of chromatic contrasts. A volume with curved contours...
From tapestry to wall. In essence, this was the Copernican turn Semper took with his principle of cladding, whereby structure gave up its protagonism in architecture in favor of Bekleidung: though humans...
An old construction on the premises of the agricultural cooperative of Flix – a municipality in Ribera de Ebro, a comarca of the province of Tarragona – has been turned into a cultural center. Counting a built area of 524 square meters...
A young couple has pooled two separate professions in a single street-level establishment in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, revamping the space to make it both a hair salon and a tattoo studio. Eager to avoid the usual...
The Seville-based firm Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos has won the competition to expand and renovate the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, located at Calle Requena 1, next to the Plaza de Oriente. Unifying the premises...
The firm 3XN has won the invitation-only competition to build an art center in the South Korean city of Chungnam. The scheme draws inspiration from the movement of an orchestra conductor’s baton...
Foster + Partners have unveiled the latest schemes, drawn up in conjunction with Arup, for California High-Speed Rail’s first four stations. These will be in the cities of Merced, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Hanford...
The British firm David Kohn Architects has won the competition to redesign SMAK, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, in collaboration with the Belgian practices no Aarchitecten...
Our continent has gone to the polls at a critical time, and architecture cannot be indifferent to the great dilemmas of the moment, for its own...
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...
The Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki has died in his Tokyo home at the age of 95. Born in 1928 in Tokyo, Maki graduated from architecture school there and worked with Kenzo Tange. He pursued further studies in the United States, where he collaborated with SOM...
The French architect, professor, and historian Jacques Lucan died on 8 October, leaving a body of work characterized by the link he maintaned between professional practice and academic reflection...
Antonio Fernández Alba would have deserved a poet to be present in this sad ceremony of farewells, because his biographical and intellectual journey was a lyrical and artistic adventure. In a different century he would have perhaps been known...
Antonio Fernández Alba has died at 96 years of age. An architect, a professor at the Madrid School of Architecture, and a member of both Spain's Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Spanish Academy,...
