Luis Fernández-Galiano   Icons expand, going beyond architectural and geographical boundaries. The new generation of emblematic works breaks through the conventional frontiers of architecture, becoming inhabited sculptures or built landscapes, and also multiplies virally to

Peter Buchanan   Parametricism and, in general, iconic architecture fancy themselves as being signs of the future, but in reality they are no more than the swan song of a caricaturized modernity.

Frank Gehry   France   The building’s 3,600-strong panels of hardened and stratified glass are supported by a highly complex triangulated structure of steel and wood that has been calculated digitally.

Frank Gehry   Panama   With its steel sheets and its bright colors, the huge origami-like roof of this museum devoted to biodiversity strikes a contrast with the vertical silhouette of Panama City.

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Curving and lit from above, the ramps and footbridges of the building trace complex organic voids that could not possibly have been built without BIM systems.

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Composed of three towers which vary in height, the complex generates public space in the interior and uses its lines to create areas connected by green zones.

Fernando Quesada   The Reina Sofía devotes an exhibition to Mathias Goeritz, whose career mixed European avant-garde with the constants of American cultures.

Juan Calatrava   From his first travels in 1907 up to his death in 1965 Le Corbusier collected some 2,000 postcards, for him fertile tools in the creative process.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid Río, the Spanish capital’s main urban project, is still a character in search of an author. Francisco Burgos, Ginés Garrido, and Fernando Porras-Isla have edited a fine book, which – full disclosure – I accepted the invitation to preface; but

Raúl González Bravo   Since 7,000 years ago, when man managed to smelt and shape it into a wide range of utensils, tools, and weapons, putting an end to the Stone Age, and into the Industrial Revolution, when its fine threads made transmission of electric currents and tel

gmp Architekten   Germany   Located on the site of an old factory, this archive harbors a major collection of original documents and books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria – including letters written by Martin Luther to the popes and emperors of his day – as well a

Arkon Jan Kabac, Meteor Architects   Poland   Containing an auditorium, a theater, conference rooms, lecture halls, music and plastic arts rooms, and a cafeteria, this university building adapts to the irregular geometry of the site through a tiered profile, sharpening as the floor plans narrows

Pitágoras Arquitectos   Portugal   The new volumes of the building rest on preexisting granite constructions, maintain their original volumetric composition, and present a ventilated facade of copper sheets placed in cross seams.

David Chipperfield Architects   China   Expresada al exterior, la retícula estructural se ha recubierto con paneles plegados de cobre de gran formato cuyo despiece se ha cuidado en extremo, y con piezas más pequeñas colocadas a junta alzada. 

LAN Architecture   France   Pre-oxidized copper is the solution adopted for the various elements of the building’s facade, from the mullions of the window frames to the lattices and the opaque panels that cover the edges of the slabs.

This magazine cannot be detached from the world commotion caused by the terrorist acts of 7 January in Paris, which took the lives of seventeen innocent citizens, and thus wishes to pay tribute to Charlie Hebdo and, in general, to the freedom of expr

Painter, sculptor, and author of note in modern Cuban architecture, Ricardo Porro died in Paris at the age of 89. Born in Camagüey, he studied in Havana, earning his degree shortly before going on a long and intense formative journey that brought him

Trained with Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, David Chipperfield soon realized that his language was not that of technological expression, but that of the pure forms of a minimalism which reinterprets the legacy of classicism in a highly personal wa

Working in historical environments can be a poisoned gift. Since the year 2007, when he won the major competition for the extension of the Asturias Museum of Fine Arts in Oviedo, the Pamplona-based Francisco Mangado has had to deal with problems of e

In one scene of the film Mr. Turner, directed by Mike Leigh, Queen Victoria makes the rounds of the Royal Academy, and hidden behind a wall, the painter – played by actor Timothy Spall – waits for her to pronounce her ultimately unrelenting judgment

Since the year 1907 the American Institute of Architects has given its Gold Medal to professionals deemed influential in architectural theory and practice. The prize for 2015 goes to Moshe Safdie, born in 1938 in Haifa (Israel) but based abroad since

The Spanish practice SelgasCano will be designing the Serpentine Gallery’s summer pavilion this year. With this decision the London institution seems to be confirming the change of course it seemed to make last year, when it assigned the popular icon

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Grenoble has decided to ban street advertising. The French city will remove the foliage of signs that fills its visual landscape, pioneering a European movement that defends the calm beauty of the city from the roaring screams of consumerism, and ser