Madrid’s recovery is a bittersweet one. Ten years after the real estate bubble burst, the city is experiencing a vibrant growth, but the return of the cranes has not brought competitions back, and architects with a cultural dimension have had to turn

Ecosistema urbano   United States   The project will transform downtown West Palm Beach by opening up the city to its new waterfront through a broad-scale, multidiscipline, evolutive, participatory, and bioclimatic strategy. 

Burgos & Garrido, LLAMA Urban Design   Peru   Echoing Limas traditional courtyards, the museum features an open-air space that wraps up the park and makes it possible to regulate the flow of visitors by leading them to the new entrances. 

Langarita Navarro   Peru   A network of mobile catwalks and hanging systems contributes to making the space adaptable to each event, helped here by a range of lighting, audiovisual, and signage solutions. 

The great recession caused numerous practices of the Spanish capital to emigrate in search of commissions in America, an ecosystem favorable to intercultural sharing

estudioHerreros, Bermúdez Arquitectos   Colombia   Located in the urban nucleus of the Colombian capital, the Ágora-Bogotá Convention Center is conceived to be a civic, technological, cultural, and environmental center of attraction for use by the city’s inhabitants.  With this as objective, the proj

Mendaro Corsini Arquitectos   Mexico   The historical archive of the state of Oaxaca presents a series of volumes that respect the topography of the Canteras park and connect with one another through courtyards and corridors. 

Alberto Campo Baeza, Gilberto L. Rodríguez   Mexico   Built as the prize in the traditional annual Tec lottery of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) with the purpose of raising funds for projects as grants for its students, this house is a tribute to Mexican architecture.

Aranguren + Gallegos Arquitectos   United States   The new ICA Museum in Miami has been conceived as an urban atrium which can be adapted to accommodate a broad diversity of art forms, thanks to the flexibility of its exhibition spaces. 

estudio_entresitio, MGP   Colombia   Unforlding from a simple grid of alternating squares, the museum intersperses spaces of varying scales in a visitor route, ritual in nature, that evokes the memory of Colombias armed conflict. 

Miguel Quismondo   United States   The new Magazzino Italian Art building, a renovated and enlarged old storehouse for dairy products, proposes a parallel structure that filters natural light and organizes the circulation elements. 

Josean Ruiz Esquíroz   With a temporary intervention, Anna and Eugeni Bach have managed to make Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion lose its materiality. 

Xavier Monteys   Now on view at Madrid’s Caixaforum, the exhibition focuses on the treatment that the Viennese architect Adolf Loos applied to interior spaces. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   A writer and an architect, Thomas Hardy (1840-1932) is not acknowledged in both creative fields on equal terms. As a writer he is considered one of the greats of English literature, and is immensely popular thanks to film adaptations of many of his n

Marta Peña   This aptly titled monograph produced by the Croatian publisher Oris presents 22 works that Tadao Ando has completed in the past 15 years. Dualities – West and East, inside and outside, nature and geometry, abstraction and experimentation, history and

Maite Báguena   The son of a Japanese couple that emigrated to Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) made true the American dream, starting out employed in a cannery to pay his way through the University of Washington and eventually marking the planet’s ceiling by di

Eduardo Prieto   Postmodernity buried Michael Graves, and it’s hard to find another architect who has dropped so fast from splendor to shame. Admired during the figurative floruit and reviled in the 1990s return to order, Graves (1934-2015) is now unknown to young ar

En octubre de 2007 se inauguró la ampliación del Museo del Prado proyectada por Rafael Moneo; pasados diez años, puede decirse que el nuevo museo ha sido un verdadero logro. En esta década se ha podido comprobar el feliz resultado arquitectónico de l

Consuelo Acha, Esteban Domínguez   One of the aspirations of contemporary architecture is to get close to the model of the ‘sustainable city’: the city that supplies itself with energy through renewable sources; the city whose wastes can be recycled and reused, where mobility is clean

Moneo Brock   Mexico   The house is located in the southern border of Monterrey (Mexico), close to Chipinque ecological park, an urban landscape dominated by the Sierra Madre mountain range. The house’s design addresses the features of a plot marked by the presence of four

The Vatican is participating in the Venice Architecture Biennale, for the first time ever, with a proposal that is an updating of the old theme of religious propaganda, using a series of ten chapels designed by signature architects that are scattered

Kenneth Frampton (London, 1930) was in May awarded the Golden Lion of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. In the words of the curators, the British historian and architect represents the “humanistic component” of “the various ‘movements’ and trend

Two strategies frequented by Rem Koolhaas from the start are hybridization and stacking, the concepts behind his Blox. Hybridization because it contains apartments, shops, offices, restoration workshops, and a museum, besides the new Danish Architect

The firm Mecanoo, based in Delft but also working from London and New York, has completed a cultural complex in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung. The National Center for the Arts is a huge complex that attests as much to Taiwan’s economic power as to

The Basel firm Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled its new residential project, part of the plan to refurbish the Badaevskiy brewery, abandoned for decades along the banks of the Moscow River. Located in the center of the Russian capital, the two apa

In collaboration with the French practices of Nicolas Laisné and Dimitri Roussel, the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has won the international contest to built a mixed-use development in Rosny-sous-Bois, 18 kilometers from the center of Paris. Named

The Citröen building in Brussels, an enormous industrial complex built in 1933, will be transformed into a new branch of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. The result of a competition that was held for the purpose, the design drawn up by the team

The Madrid studio of Emilio Tuñón has won the bid to expand the architecture school of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT). Its design divides the program into three blocks: the existing building, containing administrative services and off

The Spanish-Dutch team formed by the practices Estudio Lamela and KAAN Architecten, in collaboration with the engineering firms Ineco and ABT, has won the competition for the commision to enlarge Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, carrying the day over c

The Seville-based firm of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra is the winner of an international competition for the opportunity to restructure the central area of the Cornavin Railway Station in Geneva. The purpose of the project is to improve the station’s

Aniceto Zaragoza   Public works have always – amd especially since the 19th century – been an engine for social and economic growth. In the world’s underdeveloped countries, almost any building work can have extraordinary transformative power; nevertheless, as national