AV Proyectos 119 dedicates its dossier to Manuel Cervantes, whose latest projects - organized into three groups -, reflect the commitment of the Mexican office to tradition and context. The section that follows features the finalist projects in the c

Manuel Cervantes Estudio, Ambrosi | Echegaray, Hugo Sánchez Paisaje   Mexico   This project for the design of a didactic public space was presented in a competition to rescue the natural water system of Chapultepec Forest, a green lung for the City with rivers, tributaries, and basins that compose an almost endemic landscape...

Manuel Cervantes Estudio   United States   The natural therapy center merges into a pine tree forest within the Indian Canyons of California. To respect the environment as much as possible, the project proposes a series of light timber pavilions without foundations that could damage the groun

Manuel Cervantes Estudio, Nicholas Préaud   One of the advantages of architecture designed only for the metaverse is that, since it is never actually materialized, the high carbon emissions associated to construction never occur. Utopia is a structural exploration that exemplifies this asserti

Manuel Cervantes Estudio   United Arab Emirates   The traditional organization of the hotel, in which the services are distributed vertically, disappears in this project design. The family units are broken up and connected horizontally, providing privacy and comfort for women guests...

Alberto Kalach, Manuel Cervantes Estudio   Mexico   The hotel complex seeks to distance itself from the voracious American touristic business. Its geometric distribution in plan, its formality overall, and the chosen materials are guided by an organicity that reduces both the visual and the environmen

Manuel Cervantes Estudio   Mexico   La Pedrera is a general plan designed for the countryside of Mexico City. It includes spaces to celebrate all sorts of sports activities, such as horseriding or kitesurf, as a tribute to Greek olympic architecture and its palaestrae...

Manuel Cervantes Estudio, Héctor Esrawe   Greece   To control the development of the Cyclades, the regulations demanded a building that would not alter the landscape. Taking the cave houses as reference, the bathrooms are buried with a sequence of cylindrical spaces open to the sky with large roofli

Manuel Cervantes Estudio   United Arab Emirates   On the outskirts of Dubai, and in contrast with its busy activity and density, the project is broken up into small constructions that are disseminated in the landscape and create an ideal atmosphere for the center devoted to longevity and to improvin

Manuel Cervantes Estudio, Taller Héctor Barroso, Jorge Ambrosi   Mexico   Located in the state of Nayarit, west of the country, the proposal rests on the ground with a succession of staggered terraces, which alternate layers of water with vegetation, and allow enjoying both the mountain views and the Pacific seascape...

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   United States   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); Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York); Johnston Ma

David Chipperfield Architects   United States   The public space of the museum is transformed to create a staggered topography that extends from the exterior of the building, crossing the new sequence of interior exhibition wings until reaching the rooftops, which are also accessible....

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   Aside from the building for the art gallery, the proposal includes a civic center in which the different programs converge. South of the plot, on top of another new pavilion, a suspended roof offers a place for outdoor activities...

Johnston Marklee   United States   The vaulted profile of the new pavilions, the ethereal and porous materiality of the envelope and the redesign of the circulation inside the galleries aim to spark in the visitor the sensation of walking through a ‘museum in a garden’...

Michael Maltzan Architecture   United States   The stepped gallery sequence is woven together with a new “superfloor” of gallery and program spaces that float above the treetops. The original concourse is transformed into a transparent facade that reveals the activity inside...

Weiss/Manfredi   United States   To break with the hermetic structure of the original building, the design proposes the addition of a series of spaces with generous headroom that culminates in a cantilevered main gallery. The rooftop garden offers beautiful views of the park...

Atienza Maure   Spain   Destroyed in a fire that only spared its stone walls, a large house in the Castilian region has been refurbished through the insertion of a structure that replicates and completes the original. Between new arches of white concrete, skylights seek to

Noa González, Ara González   Spain   The starting point of the refurbishment project was to remove the elements added in previous interventions that distorted the original character of the house, in order to improve and update the existing spaces according to current demands. The new el

Harquitectes   Spain   Placed behind the main facade, the staircase shaft functions as a patio that favors natural ventilation while protecting the living space from street noise and disturbances and controlling the views from and to the exterior.

Jacobo García-Germán   Spain   The project involved the thorough restoration of a house built between 1933 and 1936 and located in Madrid’s El Viso neighborhood, an example of Spanish rationalism. The main architect of El Viso was Rafael Bergamín, with the collaboration of Luis Bl

Barozzi Veiga   Germany   The imposing and mountainous backdrop of Inn River valley, on the border between Austria and Germany, inspires the geometry of the new Dynafit headquarters, consisting of two pyramidal forms visible from the main road that connects both countries.

The stage designs by the Galician artist break the molds of conventional realist theater and blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. The striking color combinations that compose her scenes seek to visually impact the spectator.

In her snapshots, Lynne Cohen deliberately flirts with ambiguity. Even though the interiors photographed are located in completely functional places, it is difficult to distinguish an installation or ready-made from a spontaneous take.