Foster + Partners   France   Foster + Partners será el equipo encargado de rehabilitar y ampliar las prestigiosas bodegas Château Margaux en Burdeos, una propiedad de más de 200 años de antigüedad —la finca, sin embargo, ya se dedicaba a la elaboración de vino desde el siglo XVI

MVRDV   Netherlands   The city of Almere, within the metropolitan area of Amsterdam, is on the verge of experiencing a large population growth geered by urban plans like that of Oosterwold or Almere 2030, which foresees the construction of 60,000 new homes. In this contex

Jan Musikowski   Germany   In the heart of Berlin, in a strategic position between Hauptbahnhof Station, the River Spree and the Reichstag, the so-called ‘House of the Future’ is born with the purpose of becoming a landmark platform in the dissemination of the latest scientifi

E2A   Switzerland   On the left shore of Lake Zurich, a new police station designed by the Swiss team E2A is tucked in between the pier and the rowing club, establishing a transition between them. The volume is divided into two levels separated by a technical mezzanine

Rivas & Ureña   Spain   With their proposal ‘Maridaje’ (marriage or connection), the young Madrid-based architects Isabel Rivas and Javier Ureña have won the call for ideas Landscape, Architecture & Wine, organized by Arquideas and the Compañía Vinícola del Norte de Esp

AV62 Arquitectos   Afghanistan   The area’s conflictivity urges to protect the museum with a huge boundary wall, impassable from the exterior and internally lined with vegetation, visually becoming part of the garden. The longitudinal evenness generated by the vaults is interrupted

Emilio Tuñón   Afghanistan   The project draws inspiration from the traditional building types and the spatial sequences distinctive of Muslim architecture, seeking a renewed image of the rich Afghan culture. The organization of the museum, based on that of the Afghan citadel Qa

fs-architekten   Afghanistan   A group of buildings modelled as a mountain range wishes to blend into the landscape and metaphorically represent the beauty, independence, unity and strength of Afghanistan’s culture. The different materials used endow the project with distinctive f

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   In September 2007, the Spanish Ministry of Culture called an international competition for the design and construction of a public library in the city of Ceuta. The project’s complexity resided in two perpendicular aspects: the floor plan had to keep

Japanese animated films involve a painstaking production process which includes the meticulous design of the scenarios where the action takes place. Each cut stems from a collection of drawings and paintings that are still done by hand today. The exh

On another notice, the photographer Paula Gortázar walks us through the interiors of the European Parliament, spaces that most people are unfamiliar with but where important decisions affecting our everyday lives are made. From Greece to the Roman Em

In 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered a mysterious radiation – which he called unknown ray or X – that was able to penetrate the surface of bodies and reproduce their structure on photographic film. This phenomenon has had a hug