Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Druot   The proposals here presented as a sort of ‘consultancy service’ recover the spirit of modernism. Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform and reuse…

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Montenegro   The building will include 8,000m2 of housing on a steep slope of the bay between Budva and Svedi Stefan. The ‘topographic’ image of the proposal will help integrate the project gently into the landscape. Placed every 3.70m, the terraces of each unit

Sou Fujimoto Architects   Japan   A group of dwellings with the prototypical ‘house’ shape pile up in this apartment building in the residential section of the center of Tokyo. It consists of four dwelling units, each made up of two or three independent rooms connected by outdoor sta

Mecanoo   Spain   With a perimetral block and interior courtyard typology, the project includes 170 dwellings. The communal spaces of the complex will be covered with gold-colored tiles that will remind of the tone of olive oil…

Brenac & Gonzalez, ECDM, François Leclercq   France   The 24,800 m2 of the building are distributed in eight elements that emerge from a plinth. The different heights of these scattered elements help to ensure good lighting and thermal conditions. Likewise, the facades are widened to avoid direct front

CEBRA Architecture, JDS Architects, Louis Paillard, SeARCH   Denmark   Inspired in the shape of an iceberg, the project aims to ensure both the views of the sea and an appropriate natural lighting. This structure of crests and valleys brings these objectives closer. One third of the project’s 200 apartments will be set

estudioHerreros, MIM-A Arquitectes   Spain   The program – which combines subsidized and free-market housing – practically requires filling the available volume. This limitation, along with the demands of efficiency and simplicity, represents a challenge for the development of a project with so

Carme Pinós   Italy   The block traces a U-shape so that all apartments face the park. Corners are freed up to afford good views, and meanwhile, at ground level, the alignment is preserved constituting a commercial plinth. The scheme aimed to generate a monolithic buildi

Matos Castillo   Spain   With a core of vertical communication in each building, the dwellings are perpendicular to the corridor. The flexible character of the spaces is achieved through a series of sliding doors and panels… 

Daniel Ibáñez, Rodrigo Rubio   Spain   As an acupuncture exercise, the different camping models are positioned on the site as if they were catalysts. These models will perform as interaction platforms for workers and visitors of the delta…

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The Küppersmühle Museum, remodelled by the Swiss studio ten years ago, is extended with a translucent parallelepiped that, placed atop the silos, will turn the building into an urban landmark. The piece, placed 36m above ground level, has 22 new hal

Snøhetta   Gambia   The 90-hectare master plan is inspired by ancient African strategies like the natural structures, the fractal orders and the public spaces set in a hierarchy through sheds (bantabas), communal halls and atriums…

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Estonia   Making reference to democracy’s proximity and transparency, Tallinn’s new Town Hall asserts its presence as a porous canopy, a deep latticework placed over a large public marketplace. Each working room of the public institution will be totally visib

Manuelle Gautrand Architecture   Egypt   Built out of structural concrete models, this automotive showroom of 12,000 m2 takes the sphere as inspiration when conceiving and interconnecting the different exhibition halls of the building… 

CHORA   Germany   Tempelhof, key airport in the history of Berlin, is preparing itself for new uses once the air traffic has been closed down. The new urban plan focuses on energetic autonomy and sustainability…

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   The construction of a building devoted to the running of the bulls and the Sanfermines becomes an opportunity to endow the city of Pamplona with a referent from which to see and be seen. The proposal will go up in an old fire station, currently a plo

Arquitectos Ayala   Spain   The building on Abelias street belongs to the first construction phase of a larger complex consisting of two buildings located on either side of the A-2 highway, to the northeast of Madrid. The compound spreads from one plot to another in a natu

Lado Blanco Arquitecturas   Spain   Four km from Ciudad Real, a new urban intervention will open up the communication between several streets, extending the triangle formed by the Town Hall, the church and this cultural space. The auditorium stage can be turned around. The library, cl

Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects   Austria   Two interweaving bands house the program. With an itinerary that goes from the exterior’s straight lines to the sculptural character of the interior, the piece is organized around a large covered plaza…

Peter Cook   Austria   With lighting and thermal requirements in mind, the building’s cladding is draped with timber strips placed horizontally or vertically (and with a variable separation) according to orientation…

Carme Pinós   Austria   The project is made up of two buildings: one for classrooms located in the interior of the plot and a university building placed next to the edge of the campus, and that will serve as an access hall. The images of the two buildings are very differen

Luis Pancorbo, Inés Martín Robles   Spain   Using as basis a text by Schönberg on how a donkey going uphill manages to avoid the steepest parts of the slope, in this case the 12m drop is spanned thanks to a series of parallel stone walls. The stepped spaces open up to the views and at the sam

DOSIS   Spain   The proposal suggests a place similar to the ideal garden, the ‘Garden of Delights’. To be able to adapt the project to the plot’s unnevenness and slope, the study of soap bubble growth has served as reference. There are basically two types of rooms

ETB Studio   Spain   The group of pieces is generated by the fragmentation of the unit: in this way, the exchange between city and building is possible. The bold envelope is made with pigmented and perforated concrete…

Ignacio Echeverría   The motto ‘Take smoke; make water’ serves as pretext to reflect upon pollution in cities, giving rise to an occupation strategy that aims to create clean zones there where they are most needed. The idea is to generate an active skin composed of chem

Paul Galindo Pastre, Ophélie Herranz Lespagnol   Netherlands   The proposal is designed to reactivate Rijnhaven, a decaying Rotterdam port, by redefining a maritime border with a new structure to organize the flows with flexibility and provide a framework for evolution. The project develops a modulated honeycom

Rita Topa   Japan   This project focusses on the open spaces of the city of Yamate, built by the US Army during the occupation of Yokohama, a transition between the low-rise residential areas and the highdensity public zones. A network of parkings and empty lots in the

Mecanoo, LABB   Spain   Francine Houben directs the architecture office Mecanoo since 1984. With noteworthy projects like the library of TU Delft (completed in 1997), after a competition held in 2005 the studio was commissioned to build the La Llotja de Lleida Congress Cent

In the Brazil of the beginning of the 20th century, the cultural colonialism was so strong that artists mainly imitated the European style: Roberto Burle Marx (São Paulo 1909, Rio de Janeiro 1994) had to go all the way to the Botanical Garden of Dalh

Thanks to an in-depth research on the body as place, the interior space and the exterior to it and, therefore, of the boundaries and their break, the work of Antony Gormley (London, 1950) also includes sociological elements of some of the cities wher

We all have ‘manipulated’ a photograph some time, from the traditional cartoon drawing to the digital retouch in images that are not too attractive. Many of us have wanted to destroy them, to burn them, to make them disappear: they are keepsakes of a