Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Spain   The proposal transforms the Royal Shipyards of Seville, a 13th-century building with a floor area of 7,200 m² and comprised of 17 warehouses, into a space for social and cultural interaction in the heart of the city, accessible through Dos de Mayo st

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Spain   The archaeological remains of the lower level are surrounded by a cultural space, visible from the street. On the upper level a new public area includes a green plaza protected from the sun from which visitors can observe the ruins... [+]

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Switzerland   The international competition for the restructuring of the main railway station of Geneva pursued the double objective of optimizing its operations with a view to the future underground extension – between 2025 and 2050 –, and providing it with a new

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Italy   The proposal transforms the infrastructure that connects the historic and the 20th-century city – which stretch on both sides of the railway line – into a public space, covered with a green blanket and equipped with retail areas and public facilities

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Portugal   The design features two pieces that are joined by a light footbridge to keep the presence of a large closed volume from hindering the views over the river. The sloping surfaces seek integrating the new terminal into the roofs of the Alfama quarter...

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Switzerland   This urban project unfolds at the theoretical crossroads of the Croix Verte, opting for the large urban block as building typology able to accommodate a large green space in its interior and to restore the continuity of the plot... [+]

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   France   The ensemble is organized by strata, with a commercial plinth functioning as the base of an elevated garden on which the buildings sit freely. At street level, the filtering garden that collects rainwater is covered with a large pergola... [+]

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Germany   The new museum interacts with that of Gropius through a geometric discourse: a double gesture of concave subtraction with respect to a virtual prismatic volume characterizes the facade of a new public square and configures an interior garden... [+]

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Ukraine   Designed in remembrance of the victims of the Euromaidan protests that took place between 2013 and 2014 in Kiev, the project resorts to the symbolic archetype of the ascending route as a narrative mechanism that accompanies the visitor... [+]

Kengo Kuma   France   The position of the three longitudinal pieces, arranged along the harbor, creates a link between the new museum-lookout and the water. The superposition of the volumes and the configuration of the facade of zinc slats suggest movement and dynamism.

Barozzi Veiga   France   The proposal for the museum preserves the special industrial-maritime atmosphere of its privileged location in relation to the historic centre of Saint-Malo. Certain elements of the landscape resonate in the project: the large volumes of the fishing

Aires Mateus   France   The museum stands as the new icon of Saint-Malo, adopting the spirit and image of a fortress that offers visitors the opportunity to lord over the environment from the top, or to immerse themselves in the isolated universe behind its stone perimeter.

Moreau Kusunoki   France   Rather than standing as an isolated building, the new museum is conceived as a meeting place for citizens along the promenade surrounding the reservoir, so it is fragmented into a series of volumes that allow passing through the complex... [+]

DnA_Design and Architecture   China   Dedicated to Wang Jing – an imperial scholar of the Ming Dynasty who was chief editor of the Yongle Encyclopedia –, the memorial hall is inserted into the traditional town center of Wang village, which is quite run-down and threatened by neglect and

FabriKG   Mexico   To protect the building from floods during the hurricane season, the structure rises 1.2m with a concrete plinth on which the rammed earth walls rest. In this way the complex seems to emerge from the ground itself in the middle of a palm grove... [+]

De Gouden Liniaal Architecten   Belgium   The tower goes up in a former gravel extraction area now converted into the nature reserve of RivierPark Maasvallei. The outer walls were built with local materials – 20% gravel, 40% ocher-colored earth, and 40% clay, stabilized with trass – in seven

:mlzd   Switzerland   The walls are built with prefabricated elements of compact earth between 35 and 45 centimeters thick, cleaning the vertical joints to make them imperceptible. Inside the walls, insulated concrete columns support the slabs to avoid thermal bridges...

SoPA (Social Practice Architecture)   Tanzania   The project was built using mainly two materials: soil excavated from the site and locally collected wood. It was completed in a period of four months, with the participation of the people of Kibaoni as well as international collaborators... [+]

tres birds workshop   United States   This residence of 650m² was built using 200 tons of rammed earth colored with pigments from the region, and compressed into 75cm-thick walls that provide great thermal inertia to favor energy saving. Four geothermal wells were also installed for this

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   Between Kupfergraben Canal and the west facade of the Neues Museum, on the Museum Island of Berlin, David Chipperfield is building the James Simon Galerie, which will mark the new entrance to the complex. The building, with a strong articulating char

The Reina Sofía Museum offers a tour of the Russian avant-garde art produced during the heyday of Dada – between World War I and Lenin’s death –, exploring the features both movements share, such as the negation of classical art, the innovative fusio

The work of the photographer and architect Yiorgis Yerolymbos (Paris, 1973) reflects a particular interest in landscape and how it is transformed by humans. He has spent ten years documenting the construction of the Cultural Center of the Stavros Nia