MVRDV   France   In order to improve the connection between the historical center and the seafront of the French city of Caen, the 550-hectare masterplan will redevelop the peninsula and the neighboring towns of Mondeville and Hérouville, located by the Orne River. 

NL Architects   China   As part of a masterplan in Sanya, the southernmost city of China, in Hainan, the supermarket, located on a triangular plot, is covered by stepped terraces filled with luxuriant vegetation and a small commercial street that runs through these.  The ma

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Sweden   Located on a privileged plot facing Gärdet Park, in the Swedish capital, the building rises stategically at each corner to guarantee views from every point and to bring natural sunlight into the interior courtyard throughout the whole day. Consisting

JDS Architects   Turkey   The project wishes to integrate the building in its mountainous surroundings with an M-shaped volume that opens up to the city offering new spaces such as squares, intimate gardens and large terraces inspired by the curves and slopes of the landscape

BAT (Bilbao Architecture Team)    British Overseas Territories   To transform the island into an autonomous and sustainable location, the scheme proposes an optimal management model of local resources (bamboo and rock), through architectural and urban design adapted to climatic and topographic conditions...

Ecosistema urbano   Italy   According to the ‘Reggio approach’, the environment can be seen as a ‘third educator’. For this reason, the spaces in the school are extendable and adaptable, with in-between areas with no predefined use to generate constantly changing spatial situat

GmasP, Eovastudio   Poland   The multifunctional building runs lengthwise across the plot fragmented by a series of displacements that generate squares, gardens, parking spaces and entrances. The choice of material recovers the industrial and architectural tradition of the regi

Enrique Llatas, Francisco Rojas   Peru   In order to redevelop the historic city center, the proposal intervenes on the street, with the citizens as main actors, transforming the six main squares and incorporating mobile urban artifacts called ‘danzaqnobots’ that produce music or screen pro

PKMN (pac-man)   United States   In order to reactivate the spaces between blocks, the project proposes a range of games that will encourage citizen participation and teamwork by introducing communal amenities, artistic and creative activities, urban objects or cycling gatherings...

Christian Kerez   China   Christian Kerez’s studio, based in Zurich, has designed a thirty-story tower in Zhengzhou, the largest city in the province of Henan, in the center of China. The project by the Swiss team proposes a structure that becomes lighter as it rises to adapt

TAAU, David Chipperfield Architects   Mexico   Nuevo Polanco is an old industrial area in Mexico City, where several refurbishment and conversion projects are currently in progress. Aside from the Jumex Museum, there are other noteworthy buildings in the area such as the Cervantes Theater, by the

The city of Los Angeles, where James Turrell was born in 1943, is hosting an exhibition (at LACMA) that covers five decades of creation through a selection of fifty works – including the monumental Roden Crater in a volcano in Arizona, on which the a

Within an exhibition series devoted to architecture and urban planning, Madrid’s ICO Museum, in collaboration with PHotoEspaña, proposes a photographic overview of both disciplines. This joint initiative starts out with a retrospective exhibition pre