Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas   Spain   Although the earthquake, of 5.1 magnitude on the Richter scale, was felt in the whole region of Murcia – and even in the provinces of Granada, Almería, Albacete, Málaga, Alicante, Ciudad Real and Jaén – the devastating action concentrated along a str

Canals Moneo Arquitectos   Spain   The designed module (containing three housing units and measuring 2,5x10,5m) allows building in different phases, and can also propose, or adapt to, other urban fabrics...

Melendo Parrón arquitectos   Spain   The scheme proposed combines an orthogonal module with another one which has two curved facades placed opposite to one another, so their addition generates a series of zigzagging volumes...

Módulos Vivendi   The Barcelona-based team Módulos Vivendi, which includes urban planners, environmentalists and specialists in modular architecture, has won the competition to rebuild the neighborhood of San Fernando in Lorca. With a project under the slogan ‘Modulor

Albert Clèries, Joaquim Mulà   Spain   Densifying the urban fabric allows controlling the current excessive public space while keeping contact with the agricultural landscape and creating visual axes between isolated blocks...

Vicens & Ramos   Through a series of white blocks of prefabricated concrete carved with vertical and horizontal gardens, the project recovers the labyrinthine configuration of the historical urban fabric...

Vaillo + Irigaray    Spain   Antonio Vaillo and Juan Luis Irigaray’s proposal has been selected as winner of the competition called by the Pamplona City Hall to build two churches for the city with a prototype that is inspired in the building traditions from the twelfth to the f

Herzog & de Meuron, Ai Weiwei   United Kingdom   As every summer since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London presents the temporary pavilion located in Kensington Gardens, designed this time by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and by the Chinese artist and architect Ai Weiwei. Taking an arc

JDS Architects   Belgium   The Belgian city of Kortrijk, which borders on France, will host a new school complex next to the Leie River. Between the classrooms and the river, the existing buildings of this central district of the city are completed with a series of renovations

Dominique Perrault Architecture   France   In order to turn the racecourse into an icon for the horse racing world, the project includes refurbishment works, new construction, and landscaping, adding up to a total of 22,000 m2 of built areas and 70,000 m2 of green spaces. The most important i

MVRDV   Netherlands   The Glass Farm is MVRDV’s seventh proposal to reuse the market square site of Schijndel, a Dutch town located 25 kilometers from Eindhoven and which suffered bombings during World War II. The new building, covered entirely with a glass facade, will h

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Russia   Three years after its foundation, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture moves its location from the semi-industrial neighborhood in the north of Moscow to one of the city’s best known public spaces, Gorky Park; from the former bus garage designe

Aytaç Architects, Eisenman Architects   Turkey   Istanbul, one of the cities in which more civilizations have lived throughout history, is an urban palimpsest, a collision of space and time where different cultures coexist...

Atelye 70, Francesco Cellini, insula | insula architettura e ingegneria   Turkey   The project’s main objective is to sew the various urban fabrics that exist in a city with fourteen million inhabitants, currently sectored with pathways and mobility infrastructures...

Mecanoo, Cafer Bozkurt   Turkey   The project transforms Yenikapi into the central node of trade in Turkey, where the seaport of Istanbul will converge with the railway network, a new gate connecting Europe and Asia...

Barozzi Veiga   Switzerland   The commission involved the extension of the old home of the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur, an eclectic Palladian-style building raised in 1876, known as Villa Planta. The design is a double exercise in maximum integration within an urban ensemble, mak

EM2N Architekten   Switzerland   The project aims to make the most of the existing elements (Villa Planta and the gardens), relocating and clarifying the access. A series of retaining walls will organize the program...

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   The scheme consists of a ceramic envelope with a vertical detailing in different scales. The ceiling of the interior rooms reproduces the facade detailing, which is interspersed with LED lights...

Durisch + Nolli   Switzerland   In the proposed scheme a buried basement connects the old building with the extension: a project with two heads, inspired by the work Deux Têtes by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti...

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   Three years after its foundation, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture moves its location from the semi-industrial neighborhood in the north of Moscow to one of the city’s best known public spaces, Gorky Park; from the former bus garage designe

The Barbican Centre in London brings together over 400 works created by the community of artists and artisans around the Bauhaus (1919-1933), in accordance with Walter Gropius’s project for “the unification of the arts under the wings of great archit

Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) signed all his books as ‘Venetian architect’, although he only carried out one building. The shortage of commissions in Rome in 1740 led him to replace the architect’s tools for the engraver’s burin, generating

The unlimited colonization of every corner in the world has made the relationship between the natural and the artificial become closer. The result of this manipulation is the main field of study of the Dutch artist Bas Princen (Utrecht, 1975), who us