The Tate Modern has had a substantial impact on London since the opening of the first phase in 2000. Beyond its influence on the city’s artistic, cultural and social life, it has been a key for the urban development of the South Bank. Keeping up with
The new headquarters for BBVA go up on a site facing the A1 highway on the periphery of Madrid, surrounded by newly built offices, commercial buildings, and scattered residential developments. The site is placed on the north of the Paseo de la Castel
The project to extend the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar encompasses three dimensions: urban development, architecture and museography. It centers on the issues of reconstruction, simulation and integration. Two building complexes – the medieval convent
A vocation of service and a political slant have together set the tone of Alejandro Aravena’s Biennale, where hardly any stars have participated.
In the context of the Spanish Pavilion in the Venice Biennale, the curators of ‘Unfinished’ engage in conversation about its exhibition, winner of the Golden Lion.
Ever since human beings began to handle metals around 6,000 B.C., the development of metallurgy has been associated with humanity’s revolutions – not only the technological, but also the economic, social, and cultural ones.
First it was a market; the it was station and cultural center; now, it is a station, cultural center, and shopping center. The case of Les Halles in Paris is that of a fast-changing palimpsest, and what is interesting is that the building just comple
Located in Saint-Louis, a French municipality between three frontiers and that in fact belongs to the metropolitan area of Basel, Le Forum is a building of over 5,700 square meters for sports and cultural events.
The new mechanics hall of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne follows the 7.2 x 3.9 geometric scheme that has defined the campus since it was built in the 1970s. The result of an international competition, the project organizes its 19,000 sq
The contorted pyramid rose behind the brick cliff and hundreds of people laid siege on the building, eager to contemplate the new spaces and the new collection: the enlarged Tate Modern opened its doors just as the country’s polls were being readied
A leader in defending Madrid’s architectural heritage, Vicente Patón Jiménez, died on 7 June. Born in the capital in 1948, he studied at its architecture school under masters like De la Sota, Carvajal, Cano Lasso, and Sáenz de Oíza, then began a long
Born with the millennium, the Serpentine project was entrusted to a purely artistic view of architecture, a view where use – in this case the questionable use of a small summer pavilion – was understood as a mere trigger of ephemeral buildings, folie
The results of this year’s FAD Awards for Architecture and Interior Design stick to the tone of previous cycles: on the one hand, concentration on the creative scene of Catalonia; on the other, attention to the Portuguese world.
Many of the exemplary works of the Modern Movement have been mythologized by the heroic historiography of modernity, but few as much as the Barcelona Pavilion of Mies van der Rohe. This despite the pavilion’s having been brought down after its closin
The ideological effervescence of the 1960s and 1970s, which meant to give the coup de grâce to modernity, had its most enduring text in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published by MoMA half a century ago and written by Robert Venturi,
More than rebuilding cities, planners are destroying them: this was the conclusión of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a book published in 1961 by Jane Jacobs, then a cultural promoter married to an architect who through articles written
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