Not far from the chimney chutes that embody the industrial memory of Sant Adrià de Besós, the offices of a technology firm – and also the residence of its founder – have settled in what was once a printing company within a block set between party walls. As it was impossible to make openings for better lighting...
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Norman Foster’s firm has won the competition to design the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park in London. The final design will be unveiled in April 2026 to coincide with the centenary of the monarch...
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...
In Denmark, where more and more temples are closing down, the new Højvangen Church is a notable exception. Located in a forest on the outskirts of Skanderborg, it is the first to go up in the area...
The Luxembourg-born architect, writer, and draftsman Léon Krier, one of the key drivers of the postmodern movement, passed away on 17 June in Palma de Mallorca, where he had been living since 2013 with his partner Irene P. Stillman...
On view through 21 September at the Prado Museum is the first major monographic exhibition on Paolo Veronese ever to be put together in Spain. The Italian painter masterfully integrated Renaissance architecture into his pictorial compositions…
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...
The office buiding HORTUS has opened its doors in the technology campus Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area, in Allschwil. It offers approximately 10,000 m² of space for around 600 workplaces...
The Þjórsárdalur valley in the Southern Highlands of Iceland is the location of the Stöng archaeological site. Around twenty Viking settlements there were buried when Hekla Volcano erupted in 1104. In 1939...
Barcelona takes another step forward in its commitment to providing affordable housing with the construction of this building at Illa Glóries, which is part of a larger development...
Located on Lake Starnberg in the foothills of the Alps, about 20 kilometers from Munich, these two houses combine timber and concrete. They stand on a site where there was only one dwelling...
The escalation of the war in the Middle East opens Pandora’s Box, Israel bombarded Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities, killing nuclear scientists and military leaders, and Tehran responded...
After over a century, Casa Batlló has completed one of its most ambitious restoration works: the full recuperation of its rear facade and the private courtyard on the main floor, where the Batlló family resided. This intervention has brought back Antoni Gaudí’s original design...
The Spanish photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro documents urban development across China and South Korea through ‘Seas of Construction,’ a series in which construction sites become abstract landscapes charged with symbolism...
On view through 1 September at Castel Nuovo in Naples is an exhibition of the renowned photographer Mimmo Jodice. In ‘Napoli metafísica,’ over fifty images engage in dialogue with works of Giorgio de Chirico...
On view through 14 September at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) in Barcelona is an exhibition on Francesc d’Assís Galí (1880–1965), a key figure in Catalan art of the first half of the 20th century...
The Vall d’Hebron Research Center by BAAS Arquitectura and Espinet / Ubach Arquitectes has won the 67th FAD Award for Architecture. The projects selected in the other categories are: La Nave in the Vía Trajano neighborhood of Barcelona, by Atienza Maure, for Interior Design...
The Mexicans Colectivo C733 have found in the ideas of Eladio Dieste a constant source of inspiration: in their a rational approach to the use of materials, their respect for human effort, and their way of understading the project as a perfectly orchestrated symphony. This philosophy has enabled them to build more than fifty projects across Mexico in just five years, in the context of an ambitious government strategy to improve infrastructures and public spaces in vulnerable contexts. Thanks to a millimetric coordinatoin and a shared view of social innovation and sustainability, C733 has managed to turn each...
Visitable until 13 October is the World Expo of Osaka, the Japanese city’s second. If in 1970 the future envisioned was one of steel and concrete, this time the fair is a sampling of sustainable construction that will leave no built legacy: the premises will be totally dismantled to let the artificial island recover its port function. To cover this huge event, Arquitectura Viva presents a full article signed by Néstor Montenegro, Fernando Muñoz, Rocío Pina, and Carmelo Rodríguez, the designers of the Spanish Pavilion who highlight the conceptual swerve of an exposition historically characterized by excess and deficits...
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...
A project of the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB), the Illa Glòries housing development of four blocks and 238 dwellings is located between Gran Via de las Corts Catalanas, Carrer dels Encants Vells...
Building C of Illa Glòries is part of an ambitious project instigated by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB) that offers a total of 238 apartments in four buildings (A, B, C and D)...
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...
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...
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...
