In line with The Mannerist Mind, the essay by Francisco González de Canales, AV Proyectos 123 publishes the innovative proposals of six European studios that emerged in the post-crisis context, and which apply traditional solutions with a contemporar

Francisco González de Canales   The resumption of professional practice after the 2008 crisis revealed new sensibilities in European architecture, among them an attitude towards design that related to what traditionally had been considered mannerist: ambiguities, tensions, dislocat

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   The new municipal library of Sint-Martens-Latem, in the Belgian province of East Flanders, presents a saddle-shaped roof delimited by a circular perimeter that makes it cut a distinctive figure in the village center. The Brussels firm OFFICE Kersten

fala   Portugal   The roof slopes. The perimeter wall curves. The central space is fragmented. These three gestures shape a colorful one-story single-family block located in a suburban corner plot, a situation that determines the alignment of each facade. The volume i

architecten de vylder vinck taillieu   Belgium   Through a simple gesture, this barn is converted into a livable space: an incision empties out a section of the volume to generate a new access and improve lighting. On one side of the cut, glass; on the other, a mirror that creates an optical effect

6a architects   United Kingdom   The Tree House is situated in the communal garden of two small cottages, curving around a central sumac tree. Its ramped interior connects the old buildings with the new ones, reorienting the house around the garden to create a fully accessible famil

Anna & Eugeni Bach   Spain   To span the unevenness between the different platforms that organize the district of Can Peguera, the project suggests a series of new accesses via ramps, stairs, and elevators which, in addition to solving the connections, add character to the publi

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   “Majorca is paradise, if you can stand it!” This warning pronounced by Gertrude Stein, directed at Robert Graves when he told her about his plans of leaving cold England, echoes in a house that harnesses traditional wisdom to create an agreeable redo

Enrique Morillo   Perhaps too much has been written on the changes occurred in the profession since the economic crisis. More than a decade later, many of the architects who then faced a desolate panorama, lacking in major commissions, have managed to establish their

MAD Architects   Netherlands   The FENIX Museum of Migration is the result of a commission from the Droom en Daad Foundation – a Netherlands institution that is helping redefine Rotterdam for the 21st century through the development of new kinds of arts and cultural institutions.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Edith Farnsworth returns home. Mies van der Rohe’s mythical house, which the National Trust for Historic Preservation acquired in 2003, celebrates its twenty years of being open to the public with a tribute to the nephrologist who commissioned the pr

The photographer Boris Savelev (Chernivtsi, 1947) has always had a independent eye, and throughout almost six decades of career he has shaped a characteristic pictorial language, marked by strong color contrasts and particular shades of red. His imag

After three years of renovations, the Grand Palais will host the fencing and taekwondo competitions during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Built for the 1900 Universal Exposition, the Grand Palais has been closed since March 2021 for renovations, led b

Amidst the tide of challenges faced by the fashion industry under pandemic restrictions, OMA’s laboratory of ideas (AMO) took on the complex task of rethinking Bershka’s retail strategy. The first contact took place with the Bershka Flagship Milano,

The Costume Institute’s latest exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, aims to reactivate the sensory capacities of masterworks in the MET collection. For this purpose, different techniques have been used, from artificial intelligence and

IAAC   MO.CA is a prototype for a self-sufficient mobile dwelling, built using zero-kilometer laminated wood and digital construction techniques. It was developed in the Advanced Ecological Building & Biocities (MAEBB) masters program offered on the Valldau

The Minera Table and the Branch Console are included in the new and exclusive Erosion Collection by Zaha Hadid Architects for Neutra, presented at the latest Salone del Mobile Milano. The collection’s organic geometry evokes the beauty of natural st

Arquitectura-G has designed a line of eyewear for the Barcelona firm Kaleos. The initial idea behind this collaboration was to create timeless items in an elemental aesthetic that captured the simple essence of what eyeglasses are: reinterpretations