Under the title ‘Community Care’, AV Proyectos 128 features six works that cater to specific needs through an attentive and sensitive architecture that prioritizes a collective approach, as show the centers designed by Mae Architects, Vivas Arquitect

Paz Martín   The World Health Organization, constituted in 1946, defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” This approach invites us to understand the term in a holistic ma

Mae Architects    United Kingdom   This senior daycare is part of a complex of listed buildings of Morden College, which harbors a community of elderly people. Founded in 1695, Morden College is located in Blackheath Park, in Southeast London. Seeking to address the problem of lonelin

Čtyřstěn    Czech Republic   This center for the palliative care of children, in the Czech city of Brno, also provides rehabilitation, therapy, and holistic support for the patients’ families. In contact with the surrounding nature, the complex is embedded into the slope of the

NORD Architects   France   Conceived as a village, this healthcare center in Dax – in France’s Landes department – is designed specifically for people afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The objective of the project is to improve the quality of life and the overal

AV62 Arquitectos   Spain   On the outskirts of the town of Derio, near Bilbao, the Barcelona firm AV62 – led by Toño Foraster – was commissioned by APNABI (Association of families of people with autism spectrum disorders) to design this day center for young persons diagnosed w

Vivas Arquitectos   Spain   This shelter in Barcelona’s Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district can take in a hundred homeless women. A work of the firm VIVAS Arquitectos (César Vivas and Cristian Vivas), it has a day center and a night center seeking to assist and accompany its residents

Dorte Mandrup   Denmark   Architecture can profoundly affect our behavior, emotions, and physical health. With this in mind, Dorte Mandrup has designed a center to encourage physical activity and improve the well-being of people struggling with life-style related diseases...

Enrique Morillo   Urban ailments and care are trending issues, but instead of pretentious antidotes or empty essays, Izaskun Chinchilla proposes affordable recipes for the city and accurate reflections on the impact architecture should have on these fields. During a w

Eduardo Prieto   That we Europeans profess a profound, historical ignorance of Albania is proven by the fact that when referring to the Balkan country, we always go to that adjective, ‘Balkan.’ As a good tailor’s box, Balkan serves to combine topics – mountains, reli

Bofill Taller de Arquitectura   Albania   Four concrete volumes with a circular floor plan – based on the silos where the Barcelona office is located – are organized symmetrically around a square-shaped core. The exaggerated proportion and the color palette of the interior create an almost t

Selgascano, FRPO   Albania   Located near the Montenegro border, Shkodra is one of Albania’s oldest cities. An important cultural and economic hub, it was the capital until 1920, when the seat of government moved to Tirana. Along with a natural landscape it has a rich cultural h

Valerio Olgiati   Albania   The Rruga Adem Jashari mixed-use development presents three russet-hued towers and a white stepped pyramid. Located on a strategic site in the Albanian capital, on the boundary between the urban fabric and an adjacent park, the pigmented concrete co

OODA architecture   Albania   This mixed-use 50-floor tower in the western part of the the capital of Albania is designed to offer 54,423 square meters of residential, office, and commercial space and also a hotel. It presents two interconnected volumes of different heights. The

CEBRA architecture   Albania   The impressive mountains that surround the capital of Albania inspire the design of this mixed-use skyscraper set to be the country’s tallest, and houses apartments, shops, boutique hotel, business area, offices, and parking as well as restaurants an

MVRDV   Albania   On its main facades, the tower is characterized by cantilevered offices and apartments. Each one of them represents a town or city of Albania, so the visual play they generate with the terraces, seen from afar, configures an abstract map of the count

Herzog & de Meuron   Denmark   Within a privileged enclave of the city of Hillerød, the New North Zealand Hospital is nestled in nature and contains a garden in its center. The hospital design transcends conventional operational boundaries, which is rarely achieved by the tall, fu

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Five centuries ago, Thomas More situated his Utopia on an imaginary island; fifty years ago, César Manrique built his on a real island. Lanzarote got its name from the Genoan navigator Lancelotto Malocello, linking itself to Arthurian legends through

On view through 20 April at the historic Hexagons Pavilion in Madrid’s Casa de Campo park, designed by the architects José Antonio Corrales and Ramón Vázquez Molezún, is ‘Oh, If I Only Could Listen,’ an exhibition of the Parisian artist Pol Taburet.

Andrés Reisinger is one of the most sought-after visual artists and designers today. He has conquered a unique position in contemporary culture, occupying and defining the fertile space between the digital and physical spheres. Originally from Argent

Christ & Gantenbein, Bovenbouw Architectuur    Belgium   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 of the Court of Appeal in the Waalsekaai neighbor

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, ALB-Architect   Kosovo   Designed by BIG in collaboration with the local firm ALB-Architect, the project for the new Opera & Ballet Theatre in Prishtina – the capital of Kosovo, in the Balkans, southeastern Europe – features four performance halls and a public plaza. It

Neri Oxman’s design lab, OXMAN, has been working for many years on Oº, a material integrally composed of polyhydroxyalkanoates (a type of thermoplastic polymer), used to manufacture shoes and clothes with digital tools. The fabric of organic origin h

New York-based designer Armando Cabral has teamed up with the famed Swiss modular furniture brand to create a collection inspired in the Nkyinkyim, an Adinkra symbol from Ghana, which represents movement, adaptability, and progress. The collaboration