Herzog & de Meuron   France   The new Bordeaux Stadium is an expression of a fundamentally new architecture. The pure shape of the volume, by contrast to its light and open structure, creates an at once monumental and graceful architectural piece suited to the landscape of Bordea

OFIS Architects   Belarus   The foyer, which is accessed via stairs, is located on the first floor; it is a naturally ventilated and unheated area underneath the enclosure. Commercial areas are placed below on the ground floor…

Manuel Villa, Paisajes Emergentes   Colombia   The stadium changes its relationship with the city by transforming the system of access. A retail podium gives way to the public platform which leads to the stands and to the restaurant. The treatment of the facade changes the whole perception of the

enota   Slovenia   The project connects the city and the lake with a large concourse of sports facilities that house the three programs: sports hall, football field and running track, all linked by a connecting platform…

C.F. Møller    Sweden   The decreasing rate of snowfall in Sweden during the last years is the starting point for this project: a territorial landmark which hosts an icesport complex of 70.000m2 in a simple and emphatic form. With 135 meters in height it will be one of Swed

realities:united   Germany   Flussbad, Gold Holcim Award 2011, is a proposal for the development of mixed uses in the historical center of Berlin. It contains a recreational swimming pool and a reed bed water filter…

Family, Play Lab   United States   +Pool is a collaborative project to build a floating swimming pool, open to everyone, in the rivers of New York City. It is an exciting precedent for environmental urbanism in the 21st century. Without a specific client, the present initiative has ob

Fenwick Iribarren Architects   Qatar   The whole plan of the complex resembles a sitting camel. At night the textile roof shines in the desert, and a large tower rises like a totem to serve as an icon and point of reference from the city of Doha. The jockeys will direct the animals throug

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   France   The new Parc des Expositions of Toulouse, known as PEX, sits on a 60-hectare site of agricultural land at the edge of the city, near an international airport and one of the largest and economically important Airbus factories. This area on the outskir

Ateliers Jean Nouvel   Belgium   The schematic design submitted by Nouvel for the renovation of the Central Station in Brussels proposes the construction of 250.000m2 of offices, commercial spaces and convention center. The design strategy to integrate such density of program is bot

Junquera arquitectos   Spain   Green platforms, shaped as folded planes, build an artificial landscape which allows free-flowing itineraries, therefore erasing the original barrier between the north and south areas of Gijón…

bm2c arquitectos   Spain   The project presents sustainable and self-managed rental housing, grouped around a green courtyard where common activities take place, while the private areas are located on the exterior boundary…

Irisarri + Piñera   Spain   The center contains the remains of a Celtic fort located nearby. The interlocking volumes generate sequential views to the valley and the sea, relating these remains with the surrounding landscape…

Adhoc msl   Spain   The module, independent from the background, offers two realities: its intrinsically modular design using a two-dimensional geometry (Voronoi diagrams), and its urban design using coupled polyhedrons…

estudioHerreros, Bermúdez Arquitectos   Colombia   The new center, which will connect with the current fair, will create a new node in Bogotá. It aims to revitalize the nearby surroundings by creating attractive spaces and not being limited to specific uses. A bold and formally restrained volume gro

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, UdeB Arquitectos   Colombia   Various operations aim to activate and engage the surroundings, like raising the building to favor free-flowing circulation on the ground level and extending an adjacent roof with a gentle slope to the interior courtyard. The building, conceived as a

Saucier+Perrotte Architectes   Colombia   Inspired by the hills that close the landscape of the city, this iconic volumetry of inverted interlocking pyramids generates free space on the ground floor and creates a new horizon of public terraces…

Snøhetta, RIR Arquitectos   Colombia   The project focuses on solving the pedestrian connections in the site to reactivate the area. A striking roof grows up from the ground and touches it at strategic points to open urban circulations underneath. With an underground passage from the fair

JMPF Arquitectos, Zaha Hadid Architects   Colombia   In this proposal, the cohesion of the new public space is the main priority. It defines the ground floor as a continuous landscape from which a central plaza covered by the building arises…

Barozzi Veiga   Switzerland   Composed of a main building and two complementary ones, the project intends to define a new public space within a currently disused railway area, becoming an inhabited wall that serves as a neutral backdrop for urban life. The wall of the original bu

Caruso St John Architects   Switzerland   The main entrance to the complex is marked by a large portico that frames the views of the museum. Then, another open structure provides a covered path from the museum reception to the gallery building…

EM2N Architekten   Switzerland   The new volume of the museum is configured from the vertical projection of the boundaries of the existing hall. This will free up space on the ground floor to host a large multi-use room…

Gigon Guyer Architects   Switzerland   The new museum replaces the former railroad depot to achieve a better urban integration, creating two large public spaces linked by a wide passage with shops and galleries…

jessenvollenweider, Kuehn Malvezzi   Switzerland   The insertion of three new volumes in the old railroad depot results in a permeable building where indoor and outdoor spaces are integrated creating a whole and also supplement each other...

Durisch + Nolli   Switzerland   The exhibition areas are elevated to create a big covered public plaza that follows the direction of the railway lines and brings to mind the lobby of a large train station…

Francisco Mangado   Spain   The result of the competition for the construction of a Congress Center in Palma de Mallorca became public in 2005 (see AV Proyectos 10). Its aim was to add a new type of visitor to the already thousands of tourists that travel to the capital of this

Trained as an architect, Francis Alÿs (Antwerp, 1959) did not begin his artistic career until the early 1990s, after moving from Belgium to Mexico. There he devoted much of his time to walking around the city, turning the street into his true field o

the interpretative ability of Santiago Ramón y Cajal continues to amaze us today, when seeing his images side by side with those taken today by modern microscopes, as gathered in the exhibition entitled Paisajes neuronales, which describes the evolut

Beyond architectural documentation, Hélène Binet’s work reinterprets the buildings she photographs transcending the representation of reality to be exhibited as a work of art proper. Born in Switzerland and currently living in London, it was during h