Flores & Prats   Spain   The project to refurbish and extend the industrial complex respects the old buildings, a series of warehouses for metallurgy and textile uses; but also the environment, with special attention to the street’s character, its trees, and how much light o

Flores & Prats   Spain   With reuse urbanism as starting point, the proposal deepens in the sparse memories and traces of a neighborhood that the new developments were erasing, to establish in this way coherent strategies to help recover the ‘good life of the place’...

Flores & Prats   Spain   The Arnau refurbishment project aims to turn the old theater into a contemporary venue fit out with new technical innovations, but also to recover its emblematic cafés and decorated halls evocative of past times and of a way of understanding culture.

Flores & Prats   Italy   The installation for the 2018 Biennale worked with the idea of liquid light to reproduce, on a 1:1 scale, a skylight from Sala Beckett in Barcelona (an old co-op building converted into a theater), and to recreate the air of the original space with l

Flores & Prats   Spain   Cal Maiol School draws on the character and the past of Can Batlló, associated with industrial activity. The new complex includes the existing transformer station and establishes a relationship with it in terms of type, construction, structure, and p

Flores & Prats   United Kingdom   The new auditorium is placed underground, conceived as a large foyer where the building’s horizontal connections converge. The character of the intervention is marked by the preservation of the three historical facades and the existing vaults...

Flores & Prats   Belgium   The project furthers on the research lines of the Sala Beckett project to refurbish the city’s Ancien Théâtre des Variétés and recover its role as a civic place of encounter closely linked to the history of the place, but that looks to the future. Th

Flores & Prats   Sweden   Beyond the construction of the first residential buildings on the site, the commission involves establishing, together with a multidisciplinary team, the criteria to build a new community as part of the expansion plans for Råängen, an agricultural ar

Crossboundaries   China   The new urban space, pervaded by the spirit of the artistic community of Songzhuang, is articulated by a zigzagging linear wall that alternates brick and steel to conceal the parking lot, and that unfolds to house the different playground areas.

waa / we architech anonymous   China   Playgrounds emerged during modernity, and constitute small oases that separate children from a city for which they are still not prepared. Robert Moses saw them as symbols of democracy; Aldo van Eyck, as spaces that are fundamental for social integra

SLAS architects   Poland   Playgrounds emerged during modernity, and constitute small oases that separate children from a city for which they are still not prepared. Robert Moses saw them as symbols of democracy; Aldo van Eyck, as spaces that are fundamental for social integra

Tomas Ghisellini Architects   Italy   The heterogeneous stage proposed rests with systematic discipline on an orthogonal matrix of 2x2 meters, to establish rules and a ‘do it yourself’ philosophy that creates endless options for altering and extending the original plan...  

DVCH / De Villar Chacón Arquitectos   Mexico   The firm of the Madrid architects José de Villar and Carlos Chacón won the competition to design a park included in the plan for Valle del Puebla in Mexicali, capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California. Spaces of different scales interconne

Mendoza Partida, BAX studio, SPRB Arquitectos   Mexico   In 2015, the joint proposal presented under the choral signature MXSI – the Barcelona studio of Mara Partida and Héctor Mendoza (Mendoza Partida), and Boris Bezan (BAX Studio) – and the local office SPRB Arquitectos, led by Carlos Rodríguez and Laura

The latest film of Wes Anderson (Houston, 1969) pays a unique tribute to the golden years of independent journalism, and in particular to The New Yorker, of which the Anderson is a self-declared fan since his teens. Set in the newsroom of an American

For mathematicians, chalkboards are more than a blank space on which to write or draw; they offer a means of communication that is inherent to the field, ideal for its explanation and creative process. While in other sciences or fields of research ch

The London-based Chilean artist Francisco Ibáñez has been taking photographs since he was given his first camera as a Christmas gift at the age of 14. After training to become an architect, he turned his long-held interest in photography into a caree