Arnau Sastre, Cecilia Ramos Vielba, Pol Viladoms   Spain   In a region of Aragon where seasonal tourism is a powerful economic engine, this project proposes the development of productive and leisure activities related to the culture of wine...

DJ arquitectura   Spain   The study area harbors realities common to a metropolis (shopping mall, small industries) along with rural features like ditches or cattle paths. This contrast defines the real identity of the place...

David Recio, Marc Nadal, Josep Ferrando Architecture   Spain   The use of a structural grid of 5 x 7.5 meters unifies the proposal. It integrates existing roads with the use of diagonals. Five housing types arranged diagonally extend the interior perception...

Guillermo Gosalbo, José López, José Manuel Calvo   Spain   The proposal adjusts to the sloping topography of the site. The block type is made up of three levels that have independent accesses to permit a greater freedom of use...

CUAC Arquitectura   Spain   El nuevo desarrollo urbano propuesto en un área al norte de San Bartolomé (Lanzarote) toma como modelo la edificación tradicional, densificando los bordes de la manzana y liberando el centro...

CUAC Arquitectura   Netherlands   The 450 residential units in the Dutch city are distributed in towers, blocks and groups that reinterpret the urban blocks of row-housing. Each one of the units has a direct relationship with the canal...

Jaime Font Furest, Jordi Espinet Roma, Jordi Parcet Comas, Marcos Parera Blanch   Croatia   The proposal defines three different levels: a lower one devoted to entertainment and underground parking, a middle one for retail and services, and the top one, at street level, for road traffic...

Héctor Arderius Salvador, Roberto García Fallola   Kosovo   Both housing and university buildings share the same constructive logic: reinforced concrete superstructures hold prefabricated lightweight drywall housing modules...

Sukunfuku Studio   Sweden   The project is based on the typical fishermen houses of the Swedish coast of the Baltic. The proposal modifies the riverbed of the Tommarpsan, creating canals that control the risk of overflow...

COBE Architects, MVRDV   Denmark   In the Danish city of Roskilde, home of the rock festival of the same name, an old concrete factory of 8,000 m2 will be transformed into a new multifunctional and creative center. Three new volumes are placed above the existing spaces: the museum, co

Anna Heringer   Morocco   Drawing inspiration from the ksar and the madrasa – Maghrebi fortified cities and schools –, and combining local knowledge with modern technology, the project reinvents earth as building material able to fulfill current comfort needs and safety requi

AGI Architects   Kuwait   El complejo residencial en altura, de 42.000m2 situado en el distrito kuwaití de Jabriya, consta de apartamentos categorías media, alta y lujo según su tamaño, acabados e instalaciones comunes a su servicio. La plaza elevada actúa como área de reunió

META   Chile   El proyecto ubica, a lo largo de la costa de la VIII Región chilena, diez pabellones concebidos para operar como piezas estratégicas en la restitución de las identidades locales tras el terremoto de 2010...

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   La Peineta Stadium is expanded to become the new football field for the Atlético de Madrid, with the possibility of becoming an athletics stadium if Madrid hosts the Olympic Games in the year 2020. The stadium will be built 10m below the current leve

GRUPOTEC   Spain   The headquarters of the SERVEF in Alicante include an office at street level. A skin of aluminum tubes placed in frames turn the facade into a rugged shell to protect the building from sunlight…

PKMN (pac-man)   Spain   The front of the museum’s extension is a reflection of the original facade made of perforated steel sheet. In the new access the pavement spreads inwards from the street to the entrance. The rooms’ structure, of steel and a single span, ensures a ver

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Spain   Can architecture be a mediator between cultural production groups and the public effort to make this production accessible to the general public? The project addresses that challenge. The proposal adds three structures of stage equipment to the free

Foster + Partners, Juan Carlos Cabanelas   Spain   The winning project proposes a topographic union between the neighborhoods of A Ponte and Vinteun through a public space of 20,000 m2, which adapts to the difference in height with a slope. A sequence of arched canopies covers the intermodal station

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), Luis Vidal   Spain   The form of the station stems from the analysis of the urban fabric of the surrounding neighborhoods in continuity with the existing streets, providing accessibility in all directions. A bold conceptual gesture solves both the topographical problem a

Francisco Mangado   Spain   A large catenary concrete surface defines the central space of the high speed train station. This structure extends descending in the north-south axis, covering the bus docks…

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   The covering of the tracks is conceived as a park that unifies two urban areas. The oval geometry of the openings that allow the illumination of the platform is kept throughout the park. The project proposes dividing the extension of the Xesús Pousa

estudioHerreros, Rubio & Álvarez-Sala   Spain   The station is proposed as an urban bridge, linking two areas of the city that were poorly connected. The departure lounge is located over the tracks and the access is kept in the lower level…

Alejandro Zaera-Polo   Spain   The building emerges as a hybrid of bridge and tunnel, with a budget strategy that is based on covering the minimum, linking the two adjoining neighborhoods via footbridges. The geometry of the station building is created as a series of vaulted arcad

Eduardo Souto de Moura, João Álvaro Rocha, Adriano Pimenta   Spain   Besides the station and the urban connection, the proposal includes a 28m-wide landscaped boulevard. The complex creates a solid connection with accesses through both north and south…

Burger Rudacs Architekten   Germany   Placed over the auditorium, the four modules of 18m in depth adapt to the slope. The building stretches the alignment of Werastrasse, where the main access is located…

gmp Architekten   Germany   The school building echoes the prominent sloping location with a tiered design, moreover defining three distinct program areas – living, learning, performing – that meet the center’s requirements…

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   The volume proposed expresses an urban scale towards Schützenstrasse. In contrast, the side entrance towards Werastrasse has one level and reflects a more domestic scale…

Ensamble Studio   Mexico   In pre-Columbian cultures monuments were erected towards the Sun, considered the universal essence of life, to enhance its spiritual relationship with the Earth. Under the strong sun of Mexico City we can now find the latest completion by the Spanish

Behind the posters of the films of Pedro Almodóvar or Álex de la Iglesia, the records of Alaska or Miguel Bosé, we find the figure of the Argentinian artist Juan Gatti (Buenos Aires, 1950), author of a large part of the iconography of our country dur

Matthew Picton sculpts cities on paper, representing not only the formal characteristics of the urban fabric, but also the events that shaped it. With a degree in Political Science and History, the London artist dissects the political past of cities

Ummah in Arabic language refers to the community of Islam believers regardless of their nationality or doctrinal interpretation of the Koran.Through the photographs included in the book Ummah, imágenes de un islam plural (or ‘Ummah, images of a plura