Luis Fernández-Galiano   We look at the young to make out the profiles of the world to come. Nevertheless, the projects of the last generations harbor desires rather than predictions. Driven by a system in which acknowledgment is based on singularity, the majority of emergin

FNP Architekten   Germany   In the year 2005 the studio Fischer & Fischer Architekten, formed by Oliver and Susanne Fischer, merged with that of Martin and Stefanie Naumann, of the firm Richter Naumann, to found Fischer Naumann Partnerschaft in Stuttgart. That same year the

FNP Architekten   Germany   Currently they are working on a collective housing project in Killesberg. Large green spaces are laid out over different volumes containing communal areas, which flow onto inner courtyards, and the apartments, distributed over the upper floors and in

Terroir   Australia   The Australian office Terroir was established in 1998 and simultaneously opened two offices, in Sydney and in Hobart, the capital of the island of Tasmania. Of the three partners of the studio, Gerard Reinmuth is in charge of the first office, wherea

Terroir   Australia   The Castle Cove area, north of Sydney, is the site assigned for a single-family house of reinforced concrete walls that evoke the steepy, rocky ravines that are so characteristic of the local landscape...

Alles Wird Gut   Austria   Since 1999, the Viennese team of architects Alles Wird Gut (everything will be okay, in German) has worked on several projects embracing the different scales that range from urban interventions to interior design projects. The four members of the stu

Alles Wird Gut   Austria   In the project for the sports firm Adidas in Bavaria, a perimeter volume adapts to the boundary of the plot, encircling a series of three-story independent buildings organized around large courtyards containing the offices...

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   Besides occupying those residual deltas left under tilted roofs, and in the same way as Hockney’s inverted perspectives, the vertical body is sliced with slight diagonal deviations that attempt to elude its most immediate neighbors and absorb the fre

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   At the Parr House, on the contrary, the program extends horizontally between the local vegetation and the fruit trees of the owner’s old estate, located in Chiguayante. The rooms of the dwelling are housed in a series of truncated prisms built with t

MAD Architects   China   Presented in 2006 with the Young Architects Forum Award from the Architectural League, MAD – MA Design – is a Beijing-based atelier directed by three young architects: Yosune Hayano, Qun Dang and Yansong Ma, who founded the office in 2002. The team,

MAD Architects   Denmark   The project for the Denmark Pavilion addresses the desire to export a product designed and made in China. It is a low-energy use single-family house that is built in Beijing, displayed in Barcelona and Berlin, and from there transported to Copenhagen

UnSangDONG Architects Cooperation   South Korea   The architects Yoon Gyoo Jang and Chang Hoon Shin both studied at Seoul National University. After completing their training in different Korean studios, the team founded its own office, UnSangDONG Architects Cooperation, in the year 2001. Influenced

UnSangDONG Architects Cooperation   South Korea   For its part, the proposal for the Asian Culture Complex in Gwangju is designed as a large horizontal and perforated surface that organizes the program in three levels. The hammock-shaped folded surface accomodates in its interior a cultural center,

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The Psychiatric Hospital in Helsingør, a port city in Denmark, is halfway between the suggestive forms generated by the new digital technologies and the rigorous geometries that characterize the more functional structures. In the research prior to th

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   With a slightly less intricate program, and also in their home country, the office has drawn up a huge residential development in Ørestad, on the southern fringes of Copenhagen, which organizes the housing units along the perimeter and reserves the c

Bevk Perović arhitekti   Slovenia   The Slovenian architect Matija Bevk and the Serbian Vasa J. Perovic established their studio in Ljubljana in 1997, where they have built the extension of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, work for which they obtained a special mention as emergi

Bevk Perović arhitekti   Slovenia   In a similar way, the project for the multipurpose complex located in Vilharjeva is characterized by the use of a unitary enclosure that wraps the different volumes, which accommodate apartments, offices and retail areas...

Enric Ruiz-Geli, Cloud 9   Spain   Born in Figueras in 1968, Enric Ruiz Geli graduated at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, also the city where he established his studio, Cloud 9. Ruiz Geli is currently involved in the construction of Villa Nurbs, a single-family house located

Enric Ruiz-Geli, Cloud 9   United States   In the project for the New York Aquarium, located on Coney Island, the envelope evokes fish scales thanks to a luminous and interactive network configured with thousands of solar responsive LED lights, whose color changes depending on the time of the

Xefirotarch   United States   Hernán Díaz Alonso earned his degree in architecture from the National University of Rosario in Argentina and Columbia University. After completing his training in Barcelona with Enric Miralles and in New York with Peter Eisenman, in the year 2000 he

Xefirotarch   France   In the project for the Seroussi Pavilion in France, the nest-shaped volume is generated from a central core that accommodates the program and three pod-like spaces conceived as galleries that can be closed to increase the surface of the pavilion. Wit

Block Architectes   France   The french architects Denis Brillet, Benoît Fillion and Pascal Riffaud created Block, an experimental design office, in the city of Nantes in the year 2000. Award-winners of the Nouveaux Albums de la Jeune Architecture in 2002, presented by their cou

Block Architectes   France   In the town of Sainte-Féréole, the office is currently developing the project for a tourist residence that blends seamlessly with the landscape, placing on a valley hillside 25 independent bedrooms conceived as isolated volumes that are separated fro

Boyd Cody Architects   Ireland   The irish Dermot Boyd and Peter Cody both graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology in 1990, although they developed their careers independently in Europe and in the United States up to the year 2000, when they established their studio togeth

Boyd Cody Architects   Ireland   For its part, the Dromard House, located on the coast of Carrowreagh, is designed as a single reinforced concrete volume with courtyards of different sizes to ensure the natural illumination and ventilation of the rooms...

Sou Fujimoto Architects   Japan   Facing the Pacific Ocean, on a rocky stretch southeast of Tokyo, House O twists to face the sea and frame different views. The uniqueness of its floor plan, conceived as the branches of a tree, is its spatial continuity. All the spaces – entrance, li

Sou Fujimoto Architects   Japan   At the N House, located on a small plot amid the dense urban fabric of Chiba, the relationship between the public and the private space is nuanced thanks to the positioning of three boxes perforated by large openings and the partially covered garden

Polaris   Luxembourg   Polaris was founded in Rotterdam in 2001. Initially the office was set up as a collective of architects, but in the year 2005 the studio – led by Carole Schmit and François Thiry – moved to Luxembourg, from where they develop several projects located

Polaris   Germany   Awarded with the first prize in the international competition organized by the Berlage Institute of Rotterdam, in which they participated with the architect Michel Verstraete, the urban design proposed for the German city of Cologne reflects the conc

Fernando Romero   China   After establishing the studio LCM in the year 1999, Fernando Romero founded LAR – Laboratory of Architecture – in 2005, opening offices in Los Angeles and in Mexico City. From then on, the studio has centered its attention on the exploration of compl

Fernando Romero   Mexico   Located in the colony known as Irrigación, north of the capital of Mexico, the project for the Soumaya Museum, designed to house a private art collection, divides 14,000 square meters in five levels. A geometry that emerges from rotation and torsion

BAR Architects   Netherlands   The dutch architects Joost Glissenaar and Klaas van der Molen met while they were both students at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture, and they established their own office in the year 1999 after they earned the first prize in the fifth edition of

BAR Architects   Netherlands   Also between tradition and modernity is the project for single-family houses located in Rotterdam, where spatial innovation is combined with conventional materials...

Atelier da Bouça   Portugal   The portuguese Filipa de Castro Guerreiro and Tiago Macedo Correia graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto in the year 2000, founding with Bruno Figueiredo in 2001 a space for experimentation where different architects c

Atelier da Bouça   Portugal   Along the same line of work, the Environmental Control and Interpretation Center is part of the plan for the reconversion of Polis Cacém, a satellite city of Lisbon. The program, which includes exhibition spaces, laboratories, a documentation center

Plasmastudio   Italy   Plasma Studio was established in London in 1999 by the Venezuelan Eva Castro and the German Holger Kehne, obtaining almost immediate international recognition with the innovative refurbishment projects of several residential and commercial buildings

Plasmastudio   Germany   At the Darmstadt University Library, in keeping with their most daring projects, the layout is generated from a continuous space that recalls a flowchart...

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The Swedes Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård Hansson founded their studio in Stockholm in 1999 with the ambition of presenting their work as an experimental alternative to conventional Swedish architecture. Their interventions cover different areas that

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   With a similar desire to filter the views of the landscape, in the project for a summerhouse in southern Sweden the whole program is wrapped up under the same skin...

EM2N Architekten   Switzerland   Founded in Zurich in 1997 by Mathias Müller and Daniel Niggli, the studio EM2N has gradually shifted its attention from a sober, rational design based on stylistic simplification – heir to the Dutch avant-garde and characteristic of Swiss contemporar

EM2N Architekten   Switzerland   In the same way, at the Toni-Areal project – a new university complex in Zurich that houses the Academy of the Arts and that of Applied Sciences, a library, cultural spaces, restaurants and apartments –, an iconic ramp connects the campus with the ur