AV Proyectos 129 explores the architectural potential of color at different scales, and three exhibitions in Madrid – reviewed by Luis Fernández-Galiano – serve as the introductory frame for a series of projects that are examples of this versatility:

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Between concept and consumption, color colonized Madrid’s spring offer of art. Controversially at odds with concept and condemned for its connection to consumerism, color was celebrated through three shows: the Fundación March hosted an ambitious exh

Beatriz Ramo – STAR strategies + architecture, Bernd Upmeyer – BOARD Bureau of Architecture Research and Design   Netherlands   The Cabonon is a fully equipped apartment with a floor area of just 6.89 square meters, including an infrared sauna and a whirlpool bath. Its inside dimension are: height 3 meters, width 1.97, length 3.6. A large window overlooks the city. The Cabano

Wiki World, Advanced Architecture Lab [AaL]   China   This cabin is located in Jiangxia District, in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, and is part of a plan to build a series of unique homes embedded in nature. It is a simple cabin, resembling a container in an intense blue color, hidden in the forest and loc

TEST   Spain   This prefabricated house presents a balloon-frame structure of eight modules, each measuring approximately 3x3x3 meters, and are clad in panels of texturized wood. It rises on pillars reinforced with sprayed concrete, joined by mechanical fixing elem

Selgascano, Diego Cano-Lasso   United States   In Mount Washington, a suburb in the hills of northeast Los Angeles, this house with impressive views of downtown LA adapts to the very steep lot it sits on, which faces southwest, making it necessary to shield the house against strong sunlight. Tube

Padilla Nicás arquitectos   Spain   Through a project carried out by Francisco José Padilla and Juan Manuel Nicás on the initiative of Fundación Juegaterapia, the roof of Gregorio Marañón Hospital’s maternity and neonatal building – a 2003 work of the architect Rafael Moneo, in collabo

MVRDV   Albania   Built in 1988 as a museum dedicated to the communist dictator Enver Hoxha, the Pyramid of Tirana has been converted by the Rotterdam firm MVRDV into a cultural center. Located in the heart of the Albanian capital, it has reopened with the original co

Enrique Morillo   Anyone who knows Javier Jiménez Iniesta, or who has visited one of the works by Studio Animal, knows well that patterns are not cut out for him. For those not so fortunate, this conversation will help untangle his syncretic universe, in which there i

Eugeni Bach   Desde la implementación del Plan Cerdá, Barcelona ha sabido crecer a varias velocidades. Por una parte, con el desarrollo del planeamiento; por otra, con intervenciones puntuales, convertidas después en piezas esenciales de cada barrio; y en tercer l

Smiljan Radic, Miquel Mariné, Beatriz Borque, César Rueda   Spain   The Multifunctional Hall will go up on the current site of the Palau de Congressos and the Palace of Nations. The project foresees the construction of a new two-story building and a landscaped footbridge linking with the refurbished Palace of Communi

Forgas Arquitectes, Archambac (Arquitectura Sideral), Álvaro Fernández García   Spain   The future Palau de Congressos will take up the present Palau Alfons XIII. The proposal respects the original structure, by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, and proposes a series of spaces like the new access from the plaza through a lobby and a courtyard-gar

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, MIAS Architects   Spain   The project blends the original oeuvre of Puig i Cadafalch and Jujol with modern structures conceived to harbor flexible workspaces, an auditorium for more than 200 people, and a new facade onto Gran Via, with a sawtooth roof and crowned by skylights

Garcés - de Seta - Bonet | arquitectes, Marvel   Spain   Catalunya Media City is emerging as a hub for production, research, and training in the audiovisual, digital, and video-game sectors. This ambitious initiative is articulated in two principal operations: renovation of the historic Sant Adrià del Besó

Barozzi Veiga, Tab Architects, Koplamp Architecten   Belgium   Since the end of the 18th century and until 2006, year in which a modest museum on the history of the city was installed, Groeninge Abbey in Kortrijk had remained empty. In 2020, Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga won the competition called to transf

Like music, comics are composed of a divided time: a minute, an hour, a day, a year... And Chris Ware (1967, Omaha, United States) uses streets, party walls, and doors to mark that tempo and create his own ‘beats’ in the form of urban axonometries an

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United Kingdom   V&A East Storehouse has opened in London, offering an experience that breaks away from the traditional concept of a museum. Located in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, within the East Bank cultural quarter, this publicly accessible storage facility fuse

Printemps, the historic French luxury department store, opens its first US outpost. It is located in a landmark building, One Wall Street, one of the Art Deco jewels of New York. Designed by the Paris-based architect Laura Gonzalez, the new store rei

What is home? Is it a city? A building? A feeling? This question has for years chased Do Ho Suh. A simple – but not easy – question that has pushed the South Korea-born, London-based artist to look for an answer through his work, on view until 19 Oct

For the first time, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk and Van Gogh museums have teamed up to organize a joint exhibition on a major contemporary artist: Anselm Kiefer. The retrospective features a selection of 25 works grouped under the German title ‘Sag mir wo

In Tadao Ando’s universe, the green apple is the symbol of youth. Not the youth “wasted on the young,” as the playwright Bernard Shaw said, but the one that Ando himself still exudes at 84 years of age. Placed outside several of his buildings, his gr

The design team of Foster + Partners and Danese Milano have created Ori, a bird feeder that can also serve as standing water bath, catering to the basic feeding and sanitation needs of a variety of bird species. Ori was developed through an iterative