With issue 126, AV Proyectos closes the first year of its new phase, during which its covers have highlighted the most pertinent technical, social, and symbolic themes in the present moment of architecture. This new issue gathers projects that can be

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Figuration and abstraction have been opposite poles of a debate which in the field of architecture has often been confused with the tension between tradition and modernity. In fact, the postmodern movement of the 1980s reclaimed the figurative, espec

Eduardo Prieto   We like to think of abstraction as the artistic act that creates a world of forms stripped of the dirty constrictions of reality. But any abstraction is rooted in matter; it is concrete abstraction rooted in tangible objects while giving shape to the

Bilgin Architects   Turkey   A 20-square-kilometer site in Karapınar that is no longer suitable for agriculture but holds significant energy potential due to the region’s desert climate has been designated as an energy specialization area. The Turkish company Kalyon Energy has h

Lluís Jubert - Taller d’Arquitectura, Ferran Pelegrina i Associats    Spain   The project is located in La Joncosa del Montmell, in the comarca of Baix Penedés, where the old vineyards come together on the interior slopes of the massif that lends its name to the municipality. At the end of a pleasant promenade from the town c

Aires Mateus   Portugal   A natural platform in the Melides mountains, just a few kilometers from the coast, provides the site for this holiday rental home, promoted by Primosfera: a Lisbon-based company which assesses the construction of properties with the same dedication a

Studio di Architettura Zermani Associati   Italy   The major enlargement of a cemetery has combined a grammar of classical references with a bare materiality to give shape to spaces intended for the rites of final farewells. Emerging from the ground as a bold urban symbol honoring the memory of the d

KAAN Architecten   Netherlands   KAAN Architecten was commissioned to design a visitor center for the Netherlands American Cemetery (NEAC), the only World War II U.S. graveyard on Dutch soil. The new building blends respectfully into the premises, partly sunken into the sloping hill

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   The new classroom and library building is organized as a compact structure, with a perimeter bay of classrooms that braces, in its interior, three large voids placed diagonally along the section that harbors two multipurpose rooms and a canteen. The

Alberto Ballesteros   Computers and cell phones entangle our lives with the network more and more every day, and this is possible thanks to a complex support that does not float on a cloud precisely. Professor Marina Otero has devoted a part of her prolific research work

Thomas Phifer and Partners   Poland   Aside from being the first project built in Europe by the New York-based firm Thomas Phifer and Partners, the new building for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw – popularly known as MSN Warsaw – is the Museum’s first permanent home since its foundin

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The historian Pedro García Martín culminates his tetralogy on images at the same time that Annie Leibovitz’s portraits of the King and Queen of Spain are on display, and this happy autumnal coincidence triggers commentary on depictions of power. In S

Saul Steinberg (Râmnicu Sarat, Rumanía, 1914–Nueva York, 1999) studied architecture in Milan, city to which he arrived at 19 years of age after fleeing anti-Semitism in his home country of Romania. Shortly later, the rise of fascism forced him to lea

‘Línea P’ or P line – officially Pyrenees Defense Organisation – was a network of defensive fortifications planned and built under the Francoist regime, when the Civil War ended, with the objective of blocking the mountain range to fight off foreign

As a photojournalist or as a portrait artist, Henri-Cartier Bresson (1908-2004) created timeless compositions that have influenced the style of subsequent generations. His snapshots of encounters and spontaneous situations, many of them considered ic

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Andrea Tabocchini   Italy   The new Gallery of the Kings at Turin’s Museo Egizio has been inaugurated. The remodeling was carried out as part of preparations for the 2024 celebration of the institution’s bicentennial. In 2023, the scheme drawn up by OMA in collaboration with An

The new outdoor furniture collection by Zaha Hadid Architects pays tribute to the Mediterranean way of life and brings together the British studio’s experience in the world of design with the knowledge of materials of the Spanish brand iSiMAR. Named

The spacesuit, baptized AxEMU (Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit), will benefit from Prada’s “expertise on high-performance materials, features, and sewing techniques,” and also from technological innovation to offer unmatched safety, mobility, and