Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ice cracks, and so does our future. The polar regions control the planet’s weather system, and the gradual loss of marine or glacial ice is altering significantly the global dynamics of climate. To the lower reflection of solar radiation we must add

Having finished his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and worked for architects of renown, among them his fellow Dane Bjarke Ingels and the Dutch team MVRDV, Dan Stubbergaard (Copenhagen, 1974) founded COBE in 2005. He has since combin

COBE Architects   Denmark   The enlargement of the Red Cross’s Danish headquarters pursues two main objectives: to create a place for volunteers to meet and work in, and to give the city a new public space.

COBE Architects   Denmark   The transformation of an old grain silo into a building that mixes residential and public uses was part of an overall plan to redevelop the Danish capital’s Nordhavn industrial port.

COBE Architects   Denmark   The building presents a series of spaces of different sizes and functions that together bring up the idea of a village community formed by combinations of small dwellings.

COBE Architects   Denmark   This urban intervention is the result of an in-depth dialogue with the local community, thanks to which over a decade of failed polemics and proposals has come to an end.

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   A century after its founding, artistic and ideological discrepancies among its leaders refute the previously held perception of a unitary Bauhaus.

Fernando Gómez Aguilera   This year marks the birth centennial of a sensual and exuberant artist whose work and identity cannot be separated from the island of Lanzarote.

Iñaki Bergera   Rigorous and hedonistic at the same time, the work of Fernando Higueras exalts nature and life, far from fashions and labels.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The bible of the Modern Movement, Space, Time and Architecture, was originally published in English, and the career of its author is inseparable from his links to America. The Swiss art historian and architecture critic Sigfried Giedion was secretary

Juan Coll-Barreu   Perhaps the first paradigmatic conceptualization of the house subsequent to the Modern Movement was the one drawn by Charles Eames halfway through World War II. Six months before the launch of the Case Study Houses program, John Entenza, editor of th

Libraries have been one of the symbols of bourgeois society. Originally confined to monasterios and palaces, distant havens of elitist knowledge, libraries eventually became quintessential public spaces in the capitalist and increasingly democratic c

Vector Architects   China   Situado a tres horas de Pekín y abierto hacia el mar, el edificio completa el equipamiento cultural de un conjunto de vacaciones cuyo objetivo es recuperar los lazos con la naturaleza.

Barcode Architects, OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   France   Located on one of the docks over the River Orne as it flows through Caen, the Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale (BMVR) sits at the tip of a peninsula historically devoted to the port activities and that is now undergoing a redevelopment pr

Max Dudler   Germany   As the library building rises between the old quarter and the part of the city that is architecturally heterogeneous, it serves to connect the layers of the history of Heidenheim.

Sebastián Irarrázaval   Chile   The library project resulted from a public-private initiative whose mission was to reconstruct the city after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated the ctiy in 2010.

Sean Godsell   Australia   The site of the residence slightly slopes in both a northward and southward direction. A cyprus pine grove acts as a windbreaker, providing protection against the Australian region’s prevailing southwesterly winds. A 30x30-meter parasol, a light meta

The Hyatt Foundation has awarded the 2019 Pritzker Prize to Arata Isozaki, one of the masters of Japanese architecture, a bridge between the modernity imported from Europe on one hand, and eclectic international modernity on the other. Born in Oita i

Born in Carballiño (Ourense) in 1936, Manuel Gallego Jorreto is this year’s winner of Spain’s National Architecture Prize, given by the Public Works Ministry. This is his second time to land the award. In 1997 he was commended for a work, the Fine Ar

An interesting phenomenon has been taking place in contemporary art: sculpture tending to appropriate architecture’s resources for itself, in the same way that architecture becomes more and more sculptural, so much that there are cases when one is at

Maybe the lethargy that has taken over our bodies after so much submission to the dictates of the mobile phone has led to the fashion of the even-harder, in a search for radical experiences brought to extremes. This would perhaps explain construction

One of the masters of modern architecture in the United States passed away at the age of 96 last 1 March in Guilford, Connecticut. Hailing from Ireland, Kevin Roche traveled to America in 1948 to study under Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institut

A major figure of Italian design died at 87 years of age on 18 February in Milan, the city of his birth. A graduate of Politecnico di Milano, Alessandro Mendini combined active involvement in the ‘radical design’ movement of the 1970s – as head of th

A leading Spanish abstract sculptor of the 20th century breathed his last on 11 March in Madrid. He had very recently turned 94. Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Martín Chirino was among the founders and leaders of the group El Paso, which revive

The huge technological multinationals wield power of the soft kind, not with violence but through a silent, albeit extremely profitable wheeling and dealing with our digital footprints. This power for the time being meets with little resistance, prot

The paranoia that the digital revolution has begun to spark has its counterpoint in the blind optimism that associates good with progress and progress with the machine. Expressions of this optimism are competitions like the one held for the design of

Niall Ferguson   Today, the combination of technological innovation and international economic integration has created entirely new forms of network. We must ask ourselves: is our age likely to repeat the experience of the period after 1500, when the printing revolut