Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the midst of the Third Industrial Revolution, we must not forget the First and the Second. Between the 18th and 19th centuries, Europe was the stage of a huge technical and social mutation, the greatest experienced by humanity since the Neolithic

Miguel Ángel Álvarez Areces   Industrial vestiges, as cultural heritage of the first order, reflect the identity of landscapes and communities, but also present considerable economic potential.

Menos é Mais, João Mendes Ribeiro   Portugal   Consisting of a group of programmatic islands arranged around an old alcohol and tobacco factory, the building adopts the materials typically used in the area.

ADH Architectes   France   Halfway between a renovation and an altogether new construction, the project restores an abandoned military barracks and adds a permanent circus carp.

51N4E   Belgium   The restored machinery pavilions of an old mine facility in Genk coexist with two new buildings which complete the program and reinterpret the original forms and materials.

E2A   Switzerland   On the outskirts of Zurich, in the industrial quarter of Escher-Wyss, stood the abandoned old warehouse of what was once a textile factory. The Escher Terrassen project has transformed it into a venue for rehearsals of the city’s opera company, and a

Riegler Riewe Architekten   Poland   The project involved the refurbishment of an abandoned old mine, reinstating heavy industry and mining as two of the main signs of identity of the city of Katowice.

Francisco Javier San Martín   The artist born in Murcia, winner of the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts in 2015, counts among the leading champions of conceptual art in the Spanish scene.

Julia Ramírez Blanco   Multifaceted and pioneering, Elena Asins combined art and technology, and explored the aesthetic opportunities offered by digital media.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Climate change and fossil fuels are two key factors of the contemporary crisis, so ‘sustainability’ and ‘energy’ have become essential terms in the current debate. Three recent books help to define these concepts and emphasize their relevance. Ian Mo

Alejandro Bernabeu   Among structural systems inspired in nature, tree structures – or branching structures – are perhaps the ones which most directly present a formal and functional analogy. But the structural behavior of trees and the requirements they have to meet dif

Open Architecture   China   The first prototype of the hex-sys modular system for temporary showrooms is close to the new railway station of Guangzhou, China, although it could have gone up anywhere. Modular, reconfigurable, and reusable, it is formed by 40-square-meter tessell

Norman Foster   France   The project for the expansion of the facilities of Château Margaux, one of the most important producers of wine in the world, included the design of a new building for the handling, mainly, of varieties of white grape. The new construction extends fr

AREP   Morocco   Located in the vicinity of the port, at the point where the medina, the Art Déco district, and the city’s recent urban developments meet, the new railway station of Casablanca accommodates under its vast roof all the functions to be expected of a tra

VTN Architects   Vietnam   Like so many other cities in the Asian continent, Vietnamese ones are undergoing intensive urban development. After years of frenzied growth, these cities have gradually lost their original natural features, and are no longer exuberant tropical fores

The Madrid neighborhood Las Tablas now features a campus or ‘city’ of the banking conglomerate Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA). Its nickname, meaning ‘the sail,’ refers to the shape of the vertical construction that lords over the entire estat

The London collective Assemble, made up of young architects and designers, has been given the 2015 Turner Prize, one of the most important awards in the United Kingdom. Handed yearly by the Tate museums to a British visual artist under the age of fif

The partners Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi have won the AIA Gold Medal, becoming the first duo ever to receive an award heretofore reserved for individual architects. The prestigious medal is conferred annually by the Board of Directors of th

The Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid is the new winner of the gold medal that the Royal Institute of British Architects confers annually on a professional whose work has had a significant influence on the advancement and dissemination of architectu

The obsession for upscale apartments has reached a new peak in New York City with the tower at 432 Park Avenue that the Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly (with offices in New York, Palo Alto, London, Manchester, Abu Dhabi, and Buenos Aires) recently

The recently opened Shanghai Tower in the Pudong district of China’s economic capital, has taken its place as the second tallest building in the world, after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Soaring 632 meters and 128 floors, the new supertall skyscraper –

Kiel Moe   What is the significance of energy for architecture? What might an architectural agenda for energy be? Unfortunately, these are difficult questions for architects because, in architectural discourse, energy is a vague term with imprecise denotations.