AV Proyectos 118 collects the latest projects by Dorte Mandrup, the Danish architect whose Copenhagen-based studio works on projects that set out to intervene with care on urban and natural contexts. The issue also includes the winning and shortliste

Dorte Mandrup   United States   The new Fay Jones School subdivision embodies the woodworking tradition of the city. A subtle glass covering that is superimposed to the wood structure lets passers-by see the laboratories, the exhibitions, or the workspaces from the street…

Dorte Mandrup   Germany   The remains of Anhalter Bahnhof Station are exposed thanks to the museum’s curved facade, which functions as a backdrop. The new vaulted space does not intend to rebuild the original hall, but to unveil the history of this symbol of Jewish exile…

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   In Gothenburg’s new quayside district and with more than 37,000 square meters, Kaj16 is one of largest hybrid structures in the world: the modular timber crown rests on a permeable concrete base that becomes an interwoven part of the city…

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   The facade is formed by small windows interrupted by larger openings that frame the most important sites of Karlskrona. The mosaic facade relates to the multiple architectural styles in the city and showcases the evolution of its naval past…

Dorte Mandrup   United States   The itinerary proposed crosses the park, and the new range of community spaces complement its current activity. In the center of the composition, the main building of La Brea, which is elevated off the ground, concentrates the cultural programs…

Dorte Mandrup   United Kingdom   The aesthetic of the school dialogs with the buildings on the sides, and the facade folds from the street forming vegetal terraces. Though half of the monolithic structure is preserved, a timber framework reinforces and lightens it visually…

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   The station has been renovated several times on the basis of the same element: the vault. The new design respects this geometry and is inspired by the city’s yellow brick facades to rebuild a large double-height hall in the three-story building…

Dorte Mandrup   Denmark   The motif of a tree crown is reimagined in the roof construction with its canopy resting lightly on the outstretched branches offering shelter from the weather, and letting daylight filter through the semi-translucent cover like a clearing in the for

Dorte Mandrup   Norway   The village of Andenes, 300 kilometers from the Arctic Circle, is on the Norwegian island of Andøya, in an area frequented by whales on their migratory journeys. Here the Danish studio Dorte Mandrup will be building a seaside viewpoint for watching w

Dorte Mandrup   Germany   An old bunker from World War II acts as the foundation for a new maritime management hub. While a steel frame surrounds and heightens the primary construction, the bunker will be used as an exhibition space with its roof reinvented as an internal cou

Dorte Mandrup   Canada   The Danish architect Dorte Mandrup has won an international competition to build an institution for the preservation and celebration of Inuit culture, linked to the indigenous populations of the Arctic regions of North America. The project for the In

AV Proyectos 118 collects the latest projects by Dorte Mandrup, the Danish architect whose Copenhagen-based studio works on projects that set out to intervene with care on urban and natural contexts. The issue also includes the winning and shortliste

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, ESTEYCO, UNStudio   Spain   The railway complex is transformed into a large courtyard that generates several internal itineraries around the platforms and the tracks, guaranteeing connectivity and improving pedestrian circulation between the accesses from each side. The archite

Eduardo Souto de Moura, Ezquiaga Arquitectura, Francisco Mangado, Saitec Engineering, WSP Spain   Spain   A series of large chimneys designed to bring in light and ventilation gather the structural elements of the urban park planned to cover the platforms of the intermodal station, and whose distribution is inspired by the form of the tracks themselves…

Grimshaw Architects, TYPSA, Rubio Arquitectura   Spain   The proposal’s main aim is to improve the connection between Chamartín and the city, turning the plaza into a destination in its own right. Modular and prefabricated construction is used both on the roof and on the short-distance train platforms…

AECOM    Spain   The station, covered by a textile canopy, constitutes two referential urban spaces: the platforms and the inner streets. The perimeter paths connect the four sides of the complex and generate different atmospheres for public use…

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), Luis Vidal, Meta Engineering, Fhecor, Carlos González Casado   Spain   The solar roof, formed by a simple structure of individual pitched modules, protects more than 130,000 square meters of station, and adopts a dynamic parallelogram shape that softens its encounter with the city along its four orientations…

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Nexo arquitectura, Porras Guadiana Arquitectos   Spain   The perimeter blocks enclose the central space, in a manner similar to that of the typical plazas of the historic centers in Spanish cities. In contrast, a technological aesthetic prevails in the metallic forest of canopies that protects the platform

Foster + Partners, Junquera arquitectos, Arup Associates   Spain   This flexible system organizes the ensemble by means of a geometric grid inspired by the current domes. The proposal consists of a modular terminal, a system of raised platforms, and a minimum intervention on the old passenger terminal…

Ayesa arquitectura, Zaha Hadid Architects, Italferr   Spain   The north terminal, inspired by the mountains in the backdrop of the station, is a geometric response to the vaulted system of the south terminal. In both cases, the double-height floors offer visual and spatial continuity with the exterior…

IDOM, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, AREP   Spain   The roof of solar panels will protect both travelers waiting in the station itself and the terraces of the blocks of offices, and adopts the form of a series of catenary arches that evoke that profile of the city with the sierra of Madrid in the back

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   The Madrid practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has won the international competition to refurbish, restore, and expand St.Clare’s Convent as the new home of the Pontevedra Provincial Museum. Their scheme was selected over those of the ot

KAAN Architecten   Spain   The east wing is expanded and containedly renovated with the aim of preserving the convent’s typology as much as possible. The west gallery for its part is more noticeably transformed into a two-story climate-controlled archaeological center...

David Chipperfield Architects, Carlos Seoane   Spain   Part of Santa Clara street is integrated into the proposal to open the museum to the city without forgetting the cloistered nature of the convent. New construction work is minimal, because most of the intervention reorganizes and highlights the old b

Kengo Kuma   Spain   Taking advantage of its strategic position on the border of old town and the new city, the project seeks to become the green heart of Pontevedra. The light roof, inspired by the original one, articulates the whole complex and shelters the public area

Snøhetta, Alfonso Penela   Spain   The new roof, inspired by the gracefulness of a veil in the wind, connects the volumes on both sides of the cloister and oversails the ruins to shelter them from the weather. The inner courtyard had a residual role, but now it distributes the spaces

Snøhetta   China   The new library of the subcenter of Beijing, the completion of which is foreseen for the beginning of 2024, will offer a contemporary and timeless space for the exchange of knowledge, with which the Norwegian firm praises China’s rich culture. With a

For the Spanish Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, celebrated in this edition under the motto ‘The Laboratory of the Future,’ the architects Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña curated ‘Foodscapes’, a multidisciplinary project t