Andrés Lupiáñez, Balbina Mateo, Eduard Balcells, Honorata Grzesikowska, Marcos Ruiz De Clavijo, Valentin Kokudev   Spain   Developed on the site of Sagrera Park in Barcelona, the transversal ‘green watercourses’ follow maximum slope lines and function as riverbeds and spaces to socialize, among which constructed bands of varied typologies emerge.

Carles Enrich   Spain   The proposal preserves the site’s character as a void, and transforms it into an urban vegetable garden; in exchange, it increases the action area to its immediate environment and inserts small housing-factory modules in the existing structures.

n'UNDO   Spain   A network of connected and reshaped public spaces and another of private courtyards adds value to the history of this village in Extremadura and provides it with a socio-economic aspect, as it attracts visitors during the proposed local festivity.

Ana Rosa Soria Sánchez, Carlos Soria Sánchez, Irene Vitorica Donezar, Laura Fernández García   Spain   The housing in this working class neighborhood in Guipúzcoa is relocated and functions as a hinge between the urban and the industrial area. Alternative uses for existing buildings and a cultural strip in the Legazpi-Urretxu axis are proposed.

Ramón Bernabé Simó, Tomás Labanc   Austria   Searching for flexibility, the project proposes mixed-use buildings and 24/7 activities to make it easily adaptable to changes; private and public space blend in favor of a functional transparency that encourages user engagement.

Arenas Basabe Palacios, Enrique Arenas Laorga, Luis Basabe Montalvo, Luis Palacios Labrador   Sweden   The urban / rural duality in the project is emphasized through the colonization of the territory with a densification system in time; an agricultural mesh of urban gardens inserted in the voids of the residential tissue is overlapped to this system.

n'UNDO   Sweden   Under the premise of not building in new areas and of minimizing the impact, construction is densified and the road network is restructured following a policentric scheme. The main street becomes an integrating element between country and city.

Ana Quintana Zazzurca, Elisenda Lurbes Soriano, Giorgia Sgarbossa, Sergio Romero Moreno   Germany   Preserving the traces of the military base, the project addresses the disconnection of the natural corridor by proposing a transversal park with foot and cycling paths, and inserts three building types: linear, massive and isolated, next to agricultu

CALMM   Belgium   Two pedestrian and two traffic axes generate the urban pattern, with a commercial itinerary joining two squares located on land unsuitable for building. The single-unit housing is replaced by a typology that can evolve with time and social changes.

Adrià Guardiet   Poland   A perimeter and low rise volume connects the blocks of the existing built fabric organized in pedestrian superblocks of variable dimension; these absorb in their basement the parking lots, previously reduced in the public space.

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Germany   The German publishing group Axel Springer is currently shifting from print to digital media. To launch this move the company decided to call a competition to extend its Berlin headquarters with a new building that would act both as a symbol and as a

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Germany   Organized as a three-dimensional neighborhood around a helicoidal street, the new building sets up a dialog with the public space, generating a square that articulates and unifies in one campus the two main buildings of the publishing group.

Büro Ole Scheeren   Germany   Devised as a contemporary counterpart to the existing headquarters, the building has a faceted enclosure that dissolves into the ‘Collaborative Cloud,’ an excavated void that creates a flexible and permeable space for collaboration and interaction.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Citymakers, Hargreaves   Russia   Based on the concept of wild urbanism, which integrates the built and the natural in hybrid landscapes, four types of Russian biomes exist in the park, organized in terraces descending from northeast to southwest: tundra, steppe, forest and wetland.

Latz + Partner, Maxwan, TPO Reserve   Russia   Giving a prominent role to the historic city and to the views, the park is organized in terraces and the buildings meld into the slope in order to minimize their impact. The inclusion of a great variety of species guarantees biodiversity.

MVRDV   Russia   A network of paths, drawn from the superposition of the traces of the buildings that have occupied the plot over the last centuries, defines more than 750 gardens with different shapes, sizes and programs, which vary during the year.

Arup Associates   United Kingdom   In order to simulate as much as possible the natural habitat of insects, the design proposes a superposition of wooden layers with perforated cells that follow Voronoi patterns, in which organic and inorganic detritus can be introduced. 

Nendo   Japan   A hut made of wood panels, with urethane coating on its exterior, houses 78 nests for birds on one of its sides; on the other, a small room that can be reached after climbing a ladder allows to watch the birds from a short distance. 

Creenan / Mastalinski / Stern / Nead / Selin   United States   A steel structure holds in its interior a suspended cypress wood cabin that shelters a honeybee colony; parametrically designed, the exterior perforated stainless steel panels protect from the wind and allow for both solar gain and shading. 

menthol Architects   Poland   Inspired by the silhouette of a bird’s flight, a stainless steel structure designed as a cascading rack holds modular drawers of 320 x 220 x 290 mm with a total of 90 nesting chambers. The tower functions also as a lamp and as an urban sculpture. 

Ants of the Prairie   United States   Useful in the natural control of plagues and as pollinators, bats are an endangered species in the northeast of the US; a prototype built with glued wooden panels of different geometries generates a warm atmosphere suitable for their reproduction.

70F architecture   Netherlands   Commissioned by the municipality of Almere and built upon the concrete foundation of a farm that burned down in the 1980s, the project consists of a wooden box designed with facade shutters that open automatically with sunlight. 

Fuksas   Italy   Chosen as winner after a competition in 1998, the design of the new congress center underlines the contrast between the sinuous forms of the volume that constitutes the heart of the building – the ‘Cloud,’ with an auditorium for 1,850 spectators – an

Author of the famous images of the construction of Brasilia, Marcel Gautherot is one of the main figures of contemporary Brazilian photography. Born in Paris in 1910, he studied at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, specializing in interior and