Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Patrick Craine   United States   The house reduces its footprint to a minimum and functions as an environmental mediator – collecting water from the roof and releasing it during dry periods or when salinity and toxicity increase – to protect the island from the effects of climate ch

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Miguel Mesa del Castillo   Spain   Elevated on a steel structure and wrapped in planes of glass, refrigerated panels, and polycarbonate skylights, the house is organized around an elliptical crown of tractioned marble that invites to observe domestic everyday life... [+]

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   France   With a structure of laminated wood and a transformable modular facade, the building mixes residential uses and communal infrastructures, low-environmental impact production facilities, and intergenerational daycare centers... [+]

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Switzerland   Devised as an ecotone shared by the different species of Mälaren Lake and the Baltic Sea, the project functions as a City-Parliament able to organize the coexistence with human ecosystems: buildings, agriculture, infrastructures... The residential co

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Marta Catalán Eraso   China   In the artificial landscape of the old aerodrome, the project proposes inhabited mountains – able to improve the environment and promote civic encounter –, exploring architecture’s capacity to subvert the dialectic between natural and built territory

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Anotnio Yemail   Colombia   Designed to draw attention to the degradation of the wetlands of Bogotá, the device consists of a garden that is lifted by a light structure of steel tubes and stretchers, reproducing the relationship between water and the different ecosystems... [+]

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   United Arab Emirates   With a structure that spans over 30 meters and made up of photovoltaic panels that feed the systems designed to cool room temperature, the mobile prototype – still in testing phase – favors social interaction in the capital of the Emirates... [+]

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Israel   In a central public plaza of the city of Holon, a roof equipped with wind mill modules promotes the organization of activities through the interaction in a public digital interface, generating a meeting space that is filled with shaded areas... [+]

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Spain   Devised as an event in which different artists participate and that is open to the public, the slow process of intervention in phases at the CA2M art center invites to reflect upon the material instability of buildings over the passage of time... [+]

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Spain   The project recovers the original volume and space – built by Luis Gutiérrez Soto in 1950 –, unveils its columns, and builds a marble gazebo that organizes the uses; dichroic mirrors placed opposite to one another create disorientation... [+]

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Portugal   A recreation of scenes on a large scale reinterprets Powers of Ten (1977), the short film about the relative scales of the universe by Charles and Ray Eames, revealing alternative narratives, political conflicts, and forgotten historic events... [+]

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Spain   Aiming to direct the attention of the visitor towards the artworks, the intervention in ARCO minimizes the presence of architectural elements, placing the services in a secondary band and offering spaces for social interaction. 

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Italy   In 2017, BIG won the competition to design the historical San Pellegrino premises in the Italian Alps. The operation includes the construction of a visitor center, production zones, offices, and a bridge over the Brembo. The complex is unified by emp

MVRDV   Italy   A new building is located above the existing floor and reproduces the logo of the water bottles: a five-pointed star. Each point is directed towards an element of the environment: the river, the valley, the factory, the mountains, and the city.  Part

aMDL Michele De Lucchi Studio   Italy   After crossing a plant-filled bridge, a new entrance redefines the character of the historic plant; the proposal focuses on the relationship of the building with four elements: the environment, the water, the staff, and the visitors and clients... [+

Snøhetta   Italy   Inspired in the water production process, the new building – with spaces connected by a ramp – is wrapped in an undulating glass envelope topped by an ETFE roof. A mesh covers the existing volumes to give the complex a unified image... [+]

PMMT Arquitectes   Spain   An uninterrupted enclosure of vitrified brick pieces, assembled on a stainless steel mesh, functions at the same time as facade, pergola, latticework, and roof of a three-story single-family house laid out around a central courtyard... [+]

López & Rivera   Spain   The house goes up on a hillock in the coastal mountain range of Les Gavarres in Tarragona (Catalonia), surrounded by a typically Mediterranean landscape. This location and the features of the site determine both the organization of the program and th

AleaOlea arquitectura i paisatge   Spain   Santa María de Vilanova de la Barca is a Gothic church of the 13th century that was partially destroyed in 1936 during Civil War bombings. Since then the building has remained in a state of neglect and only the east facade, some fragments of the aisl

Taller de Arquitectura / Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo   Mexico   On a plot of 7 x 14 meters, and flanked by two voids of varying height, three planes of wood, concrete, and marble configure the different floors of a tower that is wrapped in ceramic walls tightened by thin steel cables... [+]

Sanuki Daisuke architects   Vietnam   The customer wanted to use local materials to make the construction cheaper. The terracotta block was thus chosen as the compositive element, combined using different patterns on the facade and in other voids arranged around the inner courtyard... [+

Studiomake   Thailand   Built using local stone in a reddish tone, the bricks that wrap the exhibition program undergo a double-firing process to obtain the gray hue of traditional Chinese bricks, symbolizing in this way the cultural exchange between the two countries... [+

Giancarlo Mazzanti   Colombia   In 2012 the Hospital Fundación Santa Fe of Bogotá called a competition to extend its facilities. Giancarlo Mazzanti (Barranquilla, 1963) presented the winning proposal, and the construction of the first phase began that same year: a building of 40,10

A century has passed, but the influence of the Russian Revolution can still be seen in the work of artists, designers, and architects around the world. To mark its centenary, the exhibition Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution gathers

The first retrospective devoted to Lewis Baltz after his death in 2014 offers a new overall vision of his career: from his first series in black and white of the 1960s and 1970s to his color photographs and the exploration of new languages during the