Though during the last century concrete and brick have played the leading role in construction, AV Proyectos 124 takes a stand for wood as a powerful alternative. This view is supported by architects and professors like Óscar Linares, who comments on

Óscar Linares   Except for the great monumental works in the history of Western architecture, in which stone was used to create large, vaulted structures, the most commonly chosen material to cover space was solid wood. Several features supported its use in the cons

Kengo Kuma   Japan   A local company took the initiative of developing this cultural project as a coworking space and cafeteria. The structure and finishes are completed with cross-laminated timber panels, of which Okayama Prefecture is the largest producer in the countr

Steimle Architekten   Germany   On the north shoe of Lake Constance – in Markelfingen, a district town of Radolfzell am Bodensee – stands this timber construction that is a hub of community life, providing sport facilities and event spaces. The project’s central defining feature bo

Holzer Kobler Architekturen   Germany   Based on the traditional constructions on pilotis found in the area, a loadbearing timber structure in which five cubes of solid wood are inserted at different heights and positions offers views of the coastal promenade and the landscape. The numerou

Henning Larsen   Faroe Islands   Situated within a picturesque fjord and protected against the Atlantic’s harsh winds while offering views of the neighboring islands, Klaksvík is the second-largest town in the Faroe Islands. The firm Henning Larsen was commissioned to design an urba

EFFEKT   Norway   Considered the father of modern skiing, Sondre Norheim turned into a full-fledged sport what up to the mid-19th century was little more than a traditional means of locomotion, and popularized the slalom – in the local dialect, a course along a smooth

MAPAA, Duque Motta & AA   Chile   In southern Chile's Malleco Province, specifically in the commune named Los Sauces, stands this building that is part of the education ministry's drive to build eight small schools in Araucanía Region, where a high percentage of the population is Map

Tomás Villalón, Nicolás Norero, Leonardo Quinteros   Chile   This theater in Panguipulli, a small rural municipality in southern Chile, in the region of Los Ríos, rises on the shore of the glacial lake it takes its name from. On a concrete plinth containing dressing rooms and services, the volume is actually t

noA architecten, David Kohn Architects, Asli Çiçek   Belgium   The British firm David Kohn Architects has won the competition to redesign SMAK, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, in collaboration with the Belgian practices no Aarchitecten and Asli Cicek. The objective is to redefine the museum’s

Xaveer De Geyter, ALTSTADT office for architecture   Belgium   The cores and facades of the extension are joined to form the main structure. The slabs and standardized roofs favor natural lighting through a continuous window that offers the option of controlling how much light is used in each room...

FELT architectuur, Monadnock, aNNo architecten   Belgium   Two barrel-shaped volumes are integrated into the layout of the park to free up more green space, preserving the autonomy of the Floralia Hall both in form and in function. The two buildings reinterpret the historic structures flanking this central r

Caruso St John Architects, De Smet Vermeulen architecten   Belgium   A bold structure of steel and wood, resting on new foundations at independent points, stretches over the existing building like a bridge. Not only does it extend the area of the museum, but it also increases the headroom for the upper floor galleries

Christ & Gantenbein, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   The rectangular volumes that remain by Floralia Hall are drastically altered, making the original neoclassical appearance disappear. This huge central nave functions as an interior extension of the public space surrounding it, now transformed into a

Alejandra Galache   Little by little, wood takes on strength as one of the alternatives to brick and concrete, which have for years monopolized the building sector in Spain. The Madrid-based architects Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano, co-founders of SUMA Arquitectura

Kéré Architecture   Benin   In the wake of decolonization in Africa, Benin achieved full independence from France on 1 August 1960, then under the name of Dahomey. The building in which the declaration was signed at the time has until now served as the headquarters of the Parli

Luis Fernández-Galiano   As Pier Paolo Tamburelli says in his introduction, the monumental Entwurff of Fischer von Erlach is not architectural history, but historical architecture. The Italian professor and architect, whose books On Bramante and his Grundkurs at TU Wien were

The Transspecies Kitchen experiment transforms pieces of marble discarded as waste during stone extraction into a sustainable kitchen that relies on fermentation as the primary method of preparing food. This harnesses the ecological energy produced b

The latest Cruise collection imagined by Virginie Viard, unveiled shortly before her departure as creative director of Chanel, was presented with a film protagonized by Marion Barbeau and the Ballet National de Marseille, in which they dance through

The work of the Canadian artist Jeff Wall (Vancouver, 1946) has contributed to redefining photography as part of contemporary art. His practice of the tableau inherits from the history of painting its most fundamental feature: composition. The 36 wor

Achieving elegance through simplicity, without ornaments or formal excess, is perhaps the most recognizable aspect in the work of the Japanese architect Junya Ishigami. His latest furniture line continues the sinuous and delicate geometries of previo

Natural Material has presented at the annual exhibition of The Mindcraft Project art platform a collection of lamps that show the capacity of the biotextiles produced by the studio to spread light. The textiles are handmade with a mix biopolymers, na