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, on the two central plots of a linear property of four. This arrangement makes the building have only two main facades...
The city of Venice holds its 19th Architecture Biennale, open to the public from 10 May to 23 November 2025. Titled ‘Intelligens: Natural Artificial Collective’ and curated by Carlo Ratti, the main exhibition explores the meeting of nature...
New additions to the Jianchuan museums, which house the country’s largest private collection, are three interconnected pavilions harboring the memory of the Cultural Revolution. Like temples in bustling areas...
The refurbishment and expansion of Building Q at the Murcia Science Park, within the university’s Espinardo Complex, aims to combine energy efficiency, functionality, and comfort through a design focused...
The war warning of European elites has feet of clay. Robert Kagan coined in 2003 a metaphor that stuck: “On major international questions today, Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus.” ...
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...
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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...
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 National Gallery in London reopens the Sainsbury Wing to the public in 10 May, after a revamp led by the New York firm of Annabelle Selldorf, in collaboration with Purcell, a British collective of heritage experts...
The new Faculty of Engineering of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (UniBZ) is the outcome of a competition organized by the NOI Techpark Südtirol/Alto Adige, won in 2018 by the Italian firm Olivieri Office...
The refurbishment of Zarautz Palace, which was in a ruinous state, constitutes another stage of its history. While preserving the heritage value of its walls, the project turns it into a new cultural facility for Getaria...
The facilities of the oldest Chinese distillery still in operation are surrounded by new production buildings with pitched roofs, where traditional fermenting and liquor-making practices are perpetuated...
At an event held at the Royal Post Office, the regional government of Greater Madrid – the Community of Madrid – officially presented the project for the City of Justice, an ambitious judiciary complex that will start to go up this June in the Valdebebas area...
On view at the Berlin gallery Aedes through 14 May is ‘Shaping the Unbuilt Environment – Working With the Already – There,’ an exhibition on the work of the Madrid practice that Natalia Gutiérrez and Julio de la Fuente set up in 2006...
The Venice Architecture Biennale’s Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement is going to the Italian architect and designer Italo Rota (1953-2024) – in memorian in this case – and the American philosopher Donna Haraway...
Every year, TIME magazine famously names its 100 Most Inluential People. On it this time are the architects Ma Yansong and Annabelle Selldorf. Ma Yansong, the founder of the firm MAD Architects, appears in the Innovators category....
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...
Modern architecture wanted to be industrial; the architecture of today wants the same. But in a different way. We have overcome the old program of heroic industrialization; we disbelieve in the maximalist...
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...
Pritzker Prize 2025. Our magazines had barely published flashes of the exquisite and silent work of Liu Jiakun, an architect who at the outset was keener on persevering in his career as a novelist than on mastering the art of building. But in the heat of his recent distinction with the Pritzker Prize, Arquitectura Viva offers a run-through of his trajectory through six projects of civic scope that melt into intense spatial and narrative experiences where memory and the everyday overlap poetically. For its part, the issue’s dossier presents three educational projects, each located in a different African country...
AV Proyectos 127 explores earthen construction, a technique recovered in projects like those of Boltshauser Architekten, Studio Mumbai, Assemble or Peris+Toral, among other studios included in this dossier that shows how tradition and innovation can intertwine to explore different types, scales, and ways of dwelling. This approach is broadened with the perspectives of architect Anna Heringer and rammed earth expert Martin Rauch, discussed during aconversation on the capacity of this material to generate spaces with a huge social impact and respect for the environment. Furthermore, TAKK works...
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...
These two histories of history give narratives an influence on architecture, so we could perhaps call them operative historiographies. The book by Crison and Williams, which calls for a reencounter between architectural...
The region of New England is located in the Appalachian Highlands, on the Atlantic coast of the United States: a territory divided by the Connecticut River and dotted with lakes, mountains, marshes, and sandy beaches...
“Travel is discovery, travel is life. When you set out on your travels, you look for one thing and find another. A journey is a bit like going to some big library and looking for a book. It’s true that you’re looking for one book...
In cultural terms, architectural activity involves permanent revising, updating, and redescribing, and the fresh look offered by this presentation of Jaume Bach’s fifty-year practice demonstrates this...
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,’...
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 firms Christ & Gantenbein (Switzerland) and Bovenbouw Architectuur (Belgium) have won the competition to design the new Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M KKA) on what is currently the site...
BIG Bjarke Ingels Group has won the international competition to design the home of the new Hungarian Natural History Museum in Debrecem, Hungary’s second-largest city. The 23,000-square-meter complex...
Catalunya Media City is emerging as a hub for production, research, and training in the audiovisual, digital, and video-game sectors. This ambitious initiative is articulated in two principal operations...
The imperial presidency of Trump was inaugurated with a sequence of executive orders orchestrated like coups de théâtre, signed off with the bold strokes...
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...
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...
Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader of Ismaeli Muslims, has died at the age of 88 in Lisbon. Born in Geneva (Switzerland) in 1936, throughout his life he did not only carry out programs in key fields like education...
