Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo founded Ecosistema Urbano in the year 2000, a multidisciplinary studio with offices in Madrid and Miami. They define their approach as ‘urban social design,’ in which urbanism, architecture, engineering, and sociolo

Ecosistema urbano   United States   The project will transform downtown West Palm Beach by opening up the city to its new waterfront through a broad-scale, multidiscipline, evolutive, participatory, and bioclimatic strategy. 

Ecosistema urbano   Paraguay   The proposal consists of four parts: a Sustainable Development Plan, a Plan for Urban and Territorial Planning, Pilot Projects – for management and physical intervention – and a 15-month online and in-person participatory process with all the agents.

Ecosistema urbano   Paraguay   Winner of the competition to revitalize the historic center of the capital of Paraguay, the Madrid team Ecosistema Urbano proposes a new way to improve the city and create new spaces. Backed by international and local experiences, the project combine

Ecosistema urbano   Spain   A network of reactivated spaces is proposed to improve the urban experience in the historic center of Cuenca, UNESCO World Heritage. The initial phase proposes six ‘high priority’ spaces, chosen as the first activators of the revitalization plan... [

Ecosistema urbano   Spain   The project transforms the Teatinos Campus through the insertion of outdoor infrastructures for education, culture, social interaction, and leisure, applying bioclimatic strategies to improve comfort conditions in the public spaces... [+]

Ecosistema urbano   This dismountable space of information, exchange, and connection is configured by its occupants, who endow it with a distinctive and ephemeral identity, transforming it into a square, an agora, or stage in real time according to collective needs... [

Ecosistema urbano   Bangladesh   The project for the improvement of public spaces in Dhaka proposes the creation of a network of community facilities – educational, social, and cultural – that serve the most vulnerable communities by creating safe environments... [+]

Ecosistema urbano   Mexico   The strategic plan to revitalize the historic center of the city defines actions that can be implemented in the short, medium, and long term, and a start-up catalyst project that transforms an underutilized building into a space of collaborative entr

Ecosistema urbano   The studio develops participatory tools and dynamics to promote multidirectional communication between institutions and citizens, so that the process of revitalization of cities is more innovative, creative, and consensual... [+]

Ecosistema urbano   Local-In is an open source web and cell phone digital tool designed to promote creative, participatory, and collective creative urban processes that make it easier to consult, explore, and visualize a huge variety of geo-referenced data... [+]

Sidereal   Russia   The development of the different types of buildings is generated from a single structural module, which also defines the uses, of 3.6m x 3.6m. This 12.96m² room is repeated giving rise to apartments of varied sizes. The brief proposes using local woo

Pedro Pitarch   Russia   The proposal inserts in the blocks a series of ‘social capsules’ containing specific public programs. This hybridization blurs the boundaries between domestic and public programs, leading to an enhanced type of architecture and living... [+]

Raúl Gutiérrez Salgado   Russia   Instead of offering three specific floor plan types, the project proposes a flexible system in which the prototypes share a unique catalogue of apartments and can be interconnected to obtain almost infinite urban configurations... [+]

McCullough Mulvin Architects   Ireland   The project transforms the medieval St Mary’s Church into a museum, recovering its spatial complexity through the reconstruction of the north aisle and the choir, and using wood and lead, a material that connects with the stone of the original walls.

Herzog & de Meuron   China   The former Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Prison, known to the locals as ‘Tai Kwun’ (or big station), is a walled compound of heritage buildings at the commercial center of Hong Kong Island. Established by the British after 1

Hardel Le Bihan Architectes   France   The building is located on the edge of the city and wraps its concrete walls with a thin skin of perforated anodized aluminum panels. The different wavy patterns of the panels help diffract traffic noise and reduce acoustic reverberation in the adjac

aoe   China   The sales office is covered with a metallic mesh skin that protects the building from direct sunlight, thus saving energy by optimizing thermal behavior. The steel fabric enhances a subtle and poetic contact between the landscape and the interior...

Estudio de Arquitectura Toni Gironès   Spain   The first phase of the project to transform the large urban vacuum of 6,000 m² into a new public space consists in building a structure of corrugated steel rods that restore the geometry of the original cavea through its guidelines and generatrices..

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   On the famous Miracle Mile of Los Angeles, Renzo Piano is finishing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a project of almost 28,000 square meters on the campus of the LACMA, next to the three buildings designed by the Genoan architect to extend the

The rise of a renewed interest in Brutalism seventy years after its birth is reflected both in the growing defense of heritage ascribed to this architectural current – arising from the Modern Movement with Le Corbusier and the use of béton brut (raw

Massimo Listri (Florence, 1953) began his career as a photographer when he was just 17 years old, collaborating with numerous publications dedicated to art and architecture, his two other great passions. He founded the mythical magazine FMR with Fran