Barozzi Veiga   Switzerland   Composed of a main building and two complementary ones, the project intends to define a new public space within a currently disused railway area, becoming an inhabited wall that serves as a neutral backdrop for urban life. The wall of the original bu

Barozzi Veiga   Switzerland   The commission involved the extension of the old home of the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur, an eclectic Palladian-style building raised in 1876, known as Villa Planta. The design is a double exercise in maximum integration within an urban ensemble, mak

Barozzi Veiga   Italy   The historic center of bruneck, a small town in the Bolzano province of the Italian Alps is a unique urban agglomeration composed of a series of aristocratic villas featuring a large garden enclosed by walls. One of these former aristocratic villas

Barozzi Veiga   Switzerland   The project seeks to reactivate the pedestrian walk along the course of the river connecting paths through a simple and compact volume, organized in two tiered levels with a sequence of openings that minimize its presence in the landscape... [+]

Barozzi Veiga   Spain   In the natural context of Los Puertos de Beceite, in the comarca of Matarraña (Teruel), art gallerists Christian Bourdais and Eva Albarrán promoted the Solo Houses initiative: a collection of architecture projects that invites visitors to embark on a

Barozzi Veiga   Switzerland   With the idea of transforming a cultural space into a meeting place, the project blends with its urban environment thanks to three clear geometric structures: a longitudinal piece, a 40-meter-high tower, and a large entrance hall... [+]

Langarita Navarro   Spain   The proposal is developed in two synchronized stages: the urban pavement is reduced to a bare minimum to let the original landscape emerge and, at the same time, the removed slabs are reused in buildings that can be adapted to different functions...

David Domínguez, Flu-or, Vanesa Veira Castro, Alba González Vilar   Spain   The project proposes a program of urban unification and activation in the two neighborhoods – As Xubias and A Pasaxe – through the insertion of a series of facilities: new housing, crops, greenhouses, a park, and a parking lot... [+]

Juan Socas Architecte   Spain   The scheme tackles the whole seafront of Palma de Mallorca under the premise of not building, and selects five bands on which one same building matrix is applied, and which includes ecoboulevards, a tramway, a green screen etc... [+]

bammm   Finland   To address the growing demand for housing and offices for students and researchers at the Alvar Aalto University campus, the scheme proposes a series of buildings with a central core clad with a polyhedric lattice that creates semi-open spaces... [+]

Elisabeth García Asensio, Pablo Allen   Germany   Maintaining the blocks of an old military school and a series of Alpine structures, the bands are separated by parallel corridors, whose folds mimic the topography of the mountains around them and harbor the program underneath... [+]

Mounir Ayoub, Yony Santos, Nuria Fernández, Vanessa Lacaille   Switzerland   Under the motto of ‘Intermediary City,’ in the suburban neighborhoods of Onex, Bernex, and Confignon the scheme proposes an urban plan with fluid forms, increasing the density of the existing and the coexistence with the rural... [+]

Seemann-Torras Architektur   Germany   A void in the city center is reactivated by placing three buildings interspersed with low-cost temporary facilities. The second phase proposes an open ending: making ephemeral spaces permanent or planning a future urban development... [+]

DSRT, Gonzalo Gutiérrez   Germany   The scheme proposes five strategies and 25 actions that stem from the intention of transforming the north-south axis into a linear park related with the green ring and housing public events in a central area, currently occupied by a transformation hu

Taller de Casquería   Germany   The project analyzes the city of Marl, connected with the region of Ruhr and with a mining population condemned to unemployment, and proposes placing a waste recycling center for electronic circuits (WEEE) in the industrial buildings... [+]

Knitknot Architecture   Norway   The project identifies and redefines five types associated with ‘suburbia’ – housing, parking, shopping center, service station, and ‘beyond housing’ –, articulated by a new ‘strip’ that gives all the remaining elements unity and coherence... [+]

Antonio García Martos, Claudia Sánchez Fernández, Íñigo Cornago Bonal, Irene Climent Silvar, Lara Freire, Mario Vila Quelle   Germany   The project proposes an open urban regeneration process where different agents from the administration, the private sector, and citizens collaborate to transform Selb into a more resilient city, through a series of urban tools... [+]

PLAYstudio   Norway   The project proposes an integral urban strategy of 20-30 years linked to a change in the economic model of the region and that is structured in three groups of operations organized in three phases in time: the ‘Forus Hub,’ the ‘Cluster 0’, and the ‘I

LCG Arquitectura   Poland   On the shore of Vistula River, the project proposes a longitudinal piece of Cor-ten steel over two levels: one of transit where multimedia devices are placed and that functions as an urban museum, and an upper one that works as a viewpoint... [+]

Openact Architecture   Croatia   Nine activator structures are proposed as a way of blending the Sava River with the urban fabric. These structures are to be built with standard methods and will be moved or swapped between the different sites along the river... [+]

Jean Nouvel   United Arab Emirates   As a result of an agreement between the United Arab Emirates and France in 2007, the Louvre Abu Dhabi seeks to embody a spirit of openness and dialogue between cultures; thus, in its 8,600 square meters of galleries it will display artworks with a hi

Born in 1965 in Beijing, where he lives and works, Hong Hao’s artistic career spans almost three decades. He graduated in 1989 from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, earning international prestige and recognition for photographic series li

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1963, photographer and director David LaChapelle is known internationally for his talent for combining a unique hyperrealistic aesthetic with a critical social message. He started out collaborating with Interview mag