Luis Fernández-Galiano   We commemorate 1914 at the heart of the conflict. A century after the Great War began, we Europeans watch the economic colossus of the continent with precaution, and hope the material giant also becomes a spiritual one. That tragic carnage, started b

Yorck Förster   Demographics can partly explain the growth of spiritual needs in the Germany of the present, but how has architecture responded to this unexpected return to religion?

Schneider + Schumacher   Germany   This Autobahn church presents a cold crystalline exterior but shelters within it an organic and cave-like interior immersing the worshipper in a warm welcoming atmosphere.

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   Located on the outskirts of the city of Cologne, this ensemble of buildings centered around a protestant church also comprises a private chapel, a columbarium, and a sculptural bell tower that marks the access into the premises from the street. The v

Königs Architekten   Germany   Bonded with bricks rendered in bluish tones, the bold walls of this church harbor within it a misty space bathed in the light filtering in through a sinuous and diaphanous roof.

John Pawson   Germany   The replacement of glass with onyx, the white plaster of the surfaces, and the new pieces of furniture give the interior of the church an atmosphere so mystic as to be minimalist.

kister scheithauer gross Architects   Germany   A stone prism with a filigree of Stars of David harbors the synagogue of the community of Ulm, a replacement of the one that was burned down during the infamous ‘Kristallnacht’ of 1938.

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   Sober brick walls engage in a dialogue with the sinuous silhouette of this diocesan building evoking the forms of the Baroque church that previously stood on the site.

José Manuel García Roig   In 1914 war was considered by numerous German artists and intellectuals to be a kind of regenerative act of ‘hygiene’ or battle for culture.

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   The Glaushaus, Taut’s romantic alternative to standardization, opened its doors just two months before the outbreak of the Great War.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Decomposing architecture into its different elements is something that was already present in Vitruvius, and certainly in Alberti and the subsequent treatises, but it was only formalized in the Beaux-Arts teachings codified in the books of Durand, Re

Ramón Araujo   Crises do not go with skyscrapers, yet the last years have seen them consolidating their presence to the limits of science fiction. A few decades ago they were an exception characteristic of American financial centers, rising only sporadically in Eur

Dominique Perrault Architecture   Austria   Conceived as the new ‘gate’ of Vienna’s business district on Danube Island, the asymmetrical DC Towers are home to an extensive mixed program of uses, from offices to a restaurant through a hotel and private apartments. The first of the two construct

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   China   With its rigorous prism of offices on a podium floating 36 meters above ground, Shenzhen’s new stock exchange mirrors the no less afloat nature of financial capital. It rises 254 meters and 46 floors with a usable area of 265,000 square meters (85,00

Rafael Moneo, GCA Architects   Spain   In an area where other towers of similar height go up, the new headquarters of Grupo Puig goes up in Plaza Europa, midway between El Prat Airport and the city. The tower complies with the urban codes regarding floor plans and height. The purpose that

Jean Nouvel, Ribas & Ribas   Spain   Part of the complex of new facilities of the Fira de Barcelona, this 110-meter tower accommodates a hotel program, distributing its 26,000 square meters of floor space in two volumes – separated by an open atrium partly colonized by plants – reached

That Koolhaas always ‘wins’ is proven in his latest project: the curatorship of the Venice Architecture Biennale, which this year is structured on ‘Fundamentals’ and three themes: ‘Elements’, ‘Absorbing Modernity’, and ‘Monditalia’. Only ‘Elements’ h

Carrying the day over 26 other candidates from 16 countries, José María Sánchez García is the fourth architect, and the first European, to obtain the BSI Swiss Architectural Award, succeeding Solano Benítez of Paraguay, Diébédo Francis Kéré of Burkin

It is no easy task to urbanize the desert, but globalization has shown that nothing is impossible. The question is at what cost, although the various regimes of the Gulf do not seem to worry about it. For them, ‘development’ is simply ‘managed’, hid

Neither the outcry in public opinion nor the support expressed by local architects, nor even an eventual apparent willingness on the part of Mayor Ana Botella to adjust has made Norman Foster change his mind: his Foundation will not be located in Mad

With the various grandstands put in place at the last minute, construction workers still gathering and packing up their tools, and lingering echoes of the all-year demonstrations against the US$15 billion investment on an event that a large number of

Eduardo Mangada   Madrid City Hall is reviewing its General Plan of 1997 through two work documents: a ‘Preadvance’ and an ‘Advance’. Stripped of all technical-administrative paraphernalia, these initiatic documents clearly reflect the theoretical and cultural sustena