Nordic Nature. An early interest in ceramics and sculpture continues to palpitate in the importance that Dorte Mandrup gives to form in each and every one of her projects, all of which are capable of complying with a delicate context, a demanding pro

Luis Fernández-Galiano   While we discuss the price of electricity, the ghost of famine hovers over the world. It is energy we are talking about in both cases, but while exosomatic energy depends on social organization, endosomatic energy has biological boundaries. Alfred Lo

Born into a family of architects and engineers, Dorte Mandrup (1961) nevertheless started out in ceramics and sculpture, interests in youth that still echo in the importance she gives to form in each and every one of her projects, all of which are ca

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   With its angular forms clad in Robinia wood, the new kindergarten of a small coastal village evokes the image of traditional fishermen houses in the historical province of Scania. Located between the beach and the village, the new center for early ed

Dorte Mandrup   Denmark   The thorough renovation of the visitor center went hand in hand with an expansion designed to complete one’s experience of the world’s largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats. The original massing was modified in a way that would mak

Dorte Mandrup   Greenland   On Greenland’s rugged coastal landscape, a twisted triangular structure offers a point from which to observe the area’s icebergs as well as a hub for residents and visitors alike. Minimizing contact with the ground in order to allow natural surface r

Dorte Mandrup   Norway   The village of Andenes, 300 kilometers from the Arctic Circle, is on the Norwegian island of Andøya, in an area frequented by whales on their migratory journeys. Here the Danish studio Dorte Mandrup will be building a seaside viewpoint for watching w

With the title ‘The Milk of Dreams,’ the curator Cecilia Alemani has put together an exhibition in which almost all the participants are women.

Antonio Lucas   From the early canvases in protest against the Estado Novo to her images of women in pain, Paula Rego defended a militant art up to the end of her days.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University, and Disorder gives a history of the 21st century where both the terms of her chair are interpreted from the prism of energy. As in her work of 2017, Oil and the Western Economi

Eduardo Prieto   The eyes of architects are greedy: they read, trap, and manipulate forms, and that’s a good thing. But in their fascination with the visual, architects and those who teach them to discriminate between what is and what is not ‘architectural’ have side

Carlos Jiménez   Llàtzer Moix extracts parables and axioms from his readings of the lives of architects: their works, personalities, and contributions to the city and the larger environment. Books like La ciudad de los arquitectos or Queríamos un Calatrava abound wit

Alberto Ballesteros   Ancient Mandarin had no word for ‘architect.’ Builders were craftsmen, skilled but unschooled folk who did not mix with erudites and elites. So in China it took time for Western-style architectural practice to take root, through the decaffeinated mod

Norman Foster   Around 83% of global energy is generated by burning fossil fuels. So, the transition from our predominantly dirty production of energy to one which is clean is at the very heart of our combating global warming. There is also a moral dimension to the

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Do you know who wrote this? On 7 August 2021, Renzo Piano sends me a picture of the laconic interior of his refuge in the Alps, another of the bucolic view from his window, and a third of a yellowish press cutting with lots of underlines. Can it be a

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Italy   The seed of the project was the idea of a building rising from the ground to create the picture of children – leading characters here – living in a bright, cheerful space set in mid-air, as if on treetops. The idea of ‘lifting’ is closely associated

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Greece   Replacing the scattered health infrastructure of the city, a cutting-edge health center appears in the woods on the outskirts, and patients will benefit from the natural surroundings as they heal. Komotini will be the first of three hospitals carried

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Greece   Como en los otros dos centros de la iniciativa, la configuración en alas longitudinales maximiza la apertura al exterior para garantizar luz y ventilación natural en las habitaciones y en las salas de operación. As in the initiative’s other two cente

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Greece   An altogether new building replaces an obsolete clinic that has been operating since the 1950s and will have the space and means to provide more specialized medical departments. In a firm commitment to sustainability, Greek hospitals will have near-z

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   France   The compact campus envisioned to go up over an old Citroën factory will seal the merger of two hospitals in the suburbs of Paris, and serve as a center for medical university practicums. Conceived as a superposition of neutral trays that are easily a

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Italy   Famous for its cutting-edge treatments, a medical center in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh will be expanding its facilities to provide healthcare services to all Sicilians. The hospital facilities take up an unobstructed, permeable gro

Izaskun Chinchilla   Italy   Anyone going to a house party knows that the interesting things often happen in the kitchen, not in the living room. This can easily be extrapolated to large events like the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, around which other events have ar

Buzzo Spinelli Architecture, Antoine Dufour   France   If stones could talk, those of the Citadel of Bastia could be chroniclers of the city, given that the Corsican commune arose in the wing of this Genoese bastiglia atop a promontory and eventually took its name. Witnesses of thriving trade in periods

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In spite of the exceptional reception the public has always given him, Santiago Calatrava’s L’Àgora is regarded with suspicion by critics. Not only because of the visual populism the construction flaunts, but also, and above all, because this skeleto

A storefront opened in 1961, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which like any corner shop sold all kinds of everyday articles, but were really made of wire and papier mâché. Starting with that fleeting experience, Claes Oldenburg devoted himself t

Foster + Partners   Spain   This retrofit project breathes new life into a historic industrial building in Madrid, creating a sustainable exemplar of building reuse and revitalizing the surrounding area. With over 10,000 square meters of new office space, the project unifies a

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The FLUGT Refugee Museum of Denmark has officially opened in the town of Oksboel, at the site of the largest refugee camp from World War II. The 1,600-square-meter complex seeks to give voice to displaced people worldwide. The intervention has preser

ABLM arquitectos, ATELIER62   Spain   ABLM arquitectos (Arturo Blanco, Laura Martínez) and ATELIER62 (Rodrigo Martínez, Arturo Menduiña H., Juan Pérez, Luis Ruiz) drew up a scheme that placed first in the competition to refurbish the 16th/17th-century Hospital de la Concepción in Burgos

Alcolea + Tárrago   Spain   With a scheme titled ‘Fragments of Nostalgia M02025’ Rubén Alcolea and Jorge Tárrago have won the bid to renovate the Nave de la Pulpa in La Azucarera, a park in the municipality of Monzón. The project transforms the old pulp warehouse into a congres

With the intention of bringing together under one same roof the entire collection of the extinct Museum of Artistic Reproductions, the National Sculpture Museum made a call for competition that would result in a project to fit out the Renaissance pal

Without shadow there is no light, and in full knowledge of this, the Sorolla Museum has put together an exhibition that showcases a less usual version of Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), painter of a dazzling Mediterranean Sea, who at many points in the

For the first time in an exhibition devoted to the oeuvre of Juan Muñoz (1953-2001), there will be few of the enigmatic dummies of people that reawakened interest in the human figure at a moment in time when sculpture seemed to have practically done

The artist Carmen Calvo (1950) is only the third woman ever to be given the Julio González Award since its inception more than twenty years ago, and to celebrate this the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern in the city of her birth is until 2 November hos

José María Ezquiaga   Recent Spanish urban planning is sullied by the fact that political debate, professional criticism, and academic analysis have given way to the judicialization of urban problems, dragging into the sphere of legality all matters that really ought to s

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   Singapore   As Bachelard said, the dreams that transport us back to childhood sometimes gravitate around the house in which we felt protected, the ‘topography of our intimate being.’ So it is that the special affection three siblings feel for the home they grew