A series of cubic volumes and stairs of concrete gives rise to this house near the beach of Dumas, in the city of Surat, India. On a stone base, the building fuses traditional architectural elements with contemporary ones. Around a central staircase flooded with natural light, it accommodates four generations of the client’s clan...
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In this project carried out by the practice of Laura Salazar, Pablo Sequero, and Juan Medina, two adjacent asymmetrical volumes form a greenhouse and a semi-outdoor living room, creating a hybrid of the agricultura
The Laherrère Center is part of an urban renewal program for the Saragosse district of Pau, the capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of France’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It rises on the site of an old hospice...
Zvi Hecker has died at the age of 92. "I am an artist whose profession is architecture." That is how the Israeli architect, painter, and designer defined himself. His built works include the Heinz-Galinski-Schule in Berlin, the Jewish Center in Duisburg...
A solar observatory built to substantiate Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity has been reopened in Potsdam. Constructed between 1920 and 1922 by the architect Erich Mendelsohn in collaboration...
The transport Complex (CIT) is the result of a competition called by Metro de Madrid in 2016. The project has a double objective: on one side the urban regeneration through an existing plot...
The town of Fuentes is nestled in the Sevillian countryside, in the Guadalquivir valley. Settlements from different periods have left a rich cultural and monumental heritage, further enhanced by its landscape...
British schools are crumbling due to an aerated material that was popular after World War II. The issue centers around “reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete,” a material known more widely as RAAC...
The dwelling can be said to have two different degrees of intensity: that of everyday living, and that of the less used spaces, which do not need as many direct connections. Fragmented but linked by exterior spaces...
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...
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...
In 1892, Hotel Weiss opened across the old train station of Dornbirn. The new Flint hotel chain includes the old villa, a listed building now featuring six suites, the largest of which preserves original furniture...
Located at the entrance to the Brazza area of Bordeaux, this sports center has built area exceeding 15,700 square meters and rises 20 meters. The exterior spaces are superimposed like urban squares and streets protected...
The 290-square-meter house is located in La Guardia Pilosa, a locality belonging to the Barcelona municipality of Pujalt, which was abandoned in 1967 but has gradually been repopulating and currently counts 20 inhabitants...
On an enclosed site behind rows of terraced Victorian houses, the project involved refurbishing an old sheet-metal workshop that in the 1980s had been turned into offices, and transforming it now into a residential complex...
SCAPE and founder Kate Orff receive the fifth OBEL AWARD architecture prize for the radical breakwaters design and community and ecosystems-driven approach to adaptation. Living Breakwaters bis a half mile linear necklace of near-shore...
On view through 8 October 2023 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona is a site-specific art installation by Oscar Abraham Pabón. The Venezuelan architect...
The Mexican architect Frida Escobeda has been given the Charlotte Perriand Award of the Créateurs Design Association. She is the third recipient of this accolade for trailblazers in architecture and design...
The Japanese Imperial House and the Japan Art Association have annually since 1989 awarded the Praemium Imperiale in five categories. They are: Vija Celmins, Olafur Eliasson, Wynton Marsalis,Robert Wilson and Francis Kéré...
The Basel firm uses augmented reality in its current London exhibition, but does not really need to. Since its founding iin 1978, the studio of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has so intensely explored the materiality of architecture...
For many, this title is an oxymoron. It seems that associating modernity and beauty is as provocative as writing frozen fire or the sound of silence. To use André Bretón’s famous line, “[modern] beauty will be convulsive...
If there is no doubt that ‘size matters’, and that scale is one of the main factors in architecture, it is also true that the propositional interest of a building is independent from its size. To support this argument, the sixteen houses selected here represent the very different strategies and dimensions that can address domestic space. With size as organizing element, the issue starts with a minimum shelter of less than 30 square meters in southern Australia, and includes examples that range from seamless integrations into their contexts and careful interventions on heritage to daring typological experiments...
Essencial Geometries. Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen steer their practice with rigid frames out of which a profoundly lyrical architecture comes forth: works where pure geometries and matrix order help them make a link between artistic image and spatial experience. Arquitectura Viva now presents a selection of them – from a large public facility and two houses to a group of pavilions – that shows how life can spontaneously arise also from fixations. In this issue’s dossier, four European buildings present new constructional uses of wood: the Maritime Center in Esbjerg (Denmark) by Snøhetta and WERK Arkiteker...
AV Proyectos 118 collects the latest projects by Dorte Mandrup, the Danish architect whose Copenhagen-based studio works on projects that set out to intervene with care on urban and natural contexts. The issue also includes the winning and shortlisted proposals in the two most important competitions held in Spain over the last months: the refurbishment of the station of Chamartín in Madrid, finally won by b720, UNStudio, and Esteyco; and the conversion of the former convent of St. Clare into the Museum of Pontevedra, commissioned to Nieto Sobejano. The construction section covers Snøhetta’s proposal...
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...
Xenophon came to be highly popular among students of classical Greece because the simplicity of his language was perfect for translation exercises, perhaps in the same way that Julius Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic wars...
There are marvels to be found in the corners of maps. “Here be dragons” was the warning on a Renaissance globe regarding the Pacific’s still unexplored coasts, in line with early cartographers’ custom of filling their maps with...
“Our cities are ill.” From Mesopotamian settlements to the medieval city, and especially after the Industrial Revolution, urban cores have altered to accommodate demographic growth and adapt to social advances...
Lumpen people wander the streets of the Quartiere Tuscolano; bicycles wheel from the borgate to the new working-class districts; a helicopter flies over the empty grounds of the Aqua Claudia transporting a Christ statue to St. Peter’s…...
Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander - carrying a rover in its belly - touched down on the lunar soil after a 20-minute, nail-biting finale watched by millions of people across the world. Hours later, the Pragyaan rover...
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope was launched for a six-year mission to shed light on dark energy and dark matter and chart the largest-ever map of the universe...
Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as a horizon-to-horizon hazy band of stars. Now, for the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has produced...
The study, published recently in Nature, has reported on a “Loophole-free Bell test with Superconducting Circuits”. Random number generators, developed by Quside Technologies in collaboration with ICREA Professor at ICFO Morgan W. Mitchell...
Portugal was born in Guimarães. At least that is what the – modern – inscription on one of its walls says, in allusion to the fact that the first independent Portuguese king, Afonso Henriques, established his court in this town...
Although senates are, in general, bodies made up of elected citizens, they have not managed to shake off a certain elitist whiff. At least by etymology, the senex (the elders of the tribe) and the patricians, peers...
With its operatic ending immortalized by Giuseppe Verdi, Gustav III of Sweden made an – indirect – contribution to universal music, though the truth is that this enlightened monarch also supported in life the art of Euterpe...
This thorough revamp of a 50-square-meter flat was carried out with a material budget of only 10,000 euros. Six decisions were made at the outset. The first one was to work with termal gradients in the functional and...
The firm MAD Architects, headed by Ma Yansong, has unveiled its design for a cultural center in Anji, located in southeast China’s Zhejiang Province and known as the country’s bamboo and white tea city. The 149,000-square-meter...
The Madrid practice Nieto Sobejano has won the Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition, carrying the day over five other finalists: David Chipperfield Architects (London)...
One of China’s ancient imperial capitals and the eastern gateway of the Silk Road, Xian has in the past years become an important hub of new technologies. This includes semiconductor manufacturing, robotics...
The Danish architect Dorte Mandrup has won an international competition to build an institution for the preservation and celebration of Inuit culture, linked to the indigenous populations of the Arctic regions of North America...
Fortress-Europe lodges migrants at sea. The Bibby Stockholm, a residential barge built in 1976 to be used as alternative accommodation, has become a symbol...
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...
Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who gained worldwide fame with his sculptures and paintings of corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91. His works feature outsized people and animals...
John Francis Charlewood has died at the age of 96. The author of Freedom to Build (1972) and Housing by People (1976), the British architect and theorist is known for his work on self-build housing and urbanism in relation to users
Architect Raymond Moriyama, co-founder of Moriyama Teshima Architects, passed away at the age of 93 on September 1, 2023. Moriyama’s legacy includes the design of several prominent buildings across the globe...
August was more cruel than April. The suffocating heat and the fires burned up media covers, but the heart of architecture froze at the news of the death of Jean-Louis Cohen and Peter Buchanan...
