Luis Fernández-Galiano   In What Style Should We Build? This is the title of the controversial book published in 1828 by the young architect Heinrich Hübsch, arguing that technical progress and social change had rendered the neoclassical style obsolete, and sparking an inten

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   Reinterpreting the classical museum on a contemporary note, the new volume has an underground connection with the old construction, beneath the street that separates the two buildings.

Meili Peter   Germany   The sobriety of the volume that forms the museum’s new wing strikes a contrast with the interior configuration of the halls, which are slightly turned out of line, creating a kind of static dance.

Diener & Diener Architekten   Poland   The renovation of the building uses its corner configuration to form a new skin of cast concrete panels and glass panes that has the effect of enhancing the urban character of the complex.

Max Dudler   Germany   The new twin buildings in Bielefeld are designed in accordance with a shared language that enhances the importance and uniqueness of the iconic places that they serve.

Emilio Tuñón   Time is the thread of this essay by Emilio Tuñón which traces the historical footprint of the Royal Palace, explains the concept of the new museum, and remembers his partner Luis Mansilla.

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   On a vantage site of Madrid’s cityscape, by the Royal Palace and overlooking the Campo del Moro from the plaza of the Almudena, the museum is surrounded by heterogeneous and complex heritage. The project is based on two fundamental principles on an u

Carlos Jiménez   An exhibition on RCR Arquitectes at the ICO Museum in Madrid traces an itinerary through the over three decades of shared creativity of its three Catalan members.

Estrella de Diego   The exhibition ‘Gravity’ offers a photographic walk through the oeuvre of the British master of Land Art, while presenting some works he has executed on the spot.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   “My architecture stands mute and cold.” Aldo Rossi summed up his work paraphrasing a Hölderlin line whose desolation also recalls the architect’s devotion to Giorgio de Chirico. The solitude and silence of the painter’s urban landscapes resonates in

Ramón Araujo   The fundamental innovation in the initial spurt of modern architecture were the building systems that replaced the 19th-century ones, which were based on traditional materials and mural construction. Materials and techniques now involved a production

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Located in the Gundeldingen Quarter of the Swiss city of Basel, the Südpark ensemble building reinterprets the neighborhood’s historical character, putting in a contemporary note through its skin. The new prefabrication techniques make it possible to

Narch Arquitectes   United States   The first block of micro-apartments ever to go up on the island of Manhattan is located in the Kips Bay neighborhood near the East River, and is an effort to address the growing demand for affordable housing for the increasingly frequent family unit

Miguel Ángel García-Pola Vallejo   Spain   Taking the orthogonal arrangement of the school’s other buildings as a reference, the canteen tries to connect with all of them while solving the problem of vehicular access from the parking lot. The new volume, with its rectangular floor plan and it

Valerio Olgiati   Portugal   The four concrete walls that surround Villa Além cannot be seen by the passer-by, hidden as they are amid the cork oak trees of a lush forest in a recondite spot of Portugal’s Alentejo region, just ten kilometers inland from the Atlantic coast. The m

The Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava has inaugurated at Manhattan’s Ground Zero a work of extraordinary visibility and symbolic importance. Located at the World Trade Center, the Oculus station will connect ten New York City subway l

The French architect Claude Parent passed away on 27 February, hours after turning 93. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1923, he who was Le Corbusier’s student built few but highly influential works, from Villa Drusch in Versailles to the Church of Saint

Japan’s leading independent architectural practice, Nikken Sekkei, in collaboration with the local firm Joan Pascual i Ramon Ausió Arquitectes, has won the competition for the new arena of Futbol Club Barcelona, which will maintain the structure of C

The Swiss partnership Herzog & de Meuron has been commissioned to build the new stadium of London’s Chelsea Football Club. The sport facility, which is to replace the current Stamford Bridge Stadium on the same spot in the British capital, will h

In the wake of the shelving of Zaha Hadid’s project, the Japan Sports Council organized a second competition for the design of the new Tokyo National Olympic Stadium in the Shinjuku ward of the capital, and the winner was the Japanese architect Kengo

The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has wrapped the six front columns of the Konzerthaus of Berlin with thousands of orange life vests salvaged from refugees arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos in their massive and often tragic attempts to r

The Spanish artist Miquel Barceló is the subject of a double exhibition currently ongoing in the French capital. ‘Sol y sombra’ (Sun and Shade) looks at the bullfighting theme, which has been a constant in his oeuvre, and has two simultaneous venues.

The exhibition ‘Art and Nature in Prehistory’ treats the public – for the first time – to the rock art tracings owned by the National Museum of Natural History (MNCN) in Madrid. Inaugurated in November, it will remain on view until 19 May. Set up in

Ricardo Aroca   Late in the 1960s we submitted a design for stamping at the Murcia Institute of Architects, which was beginning to worry about the liabilities that could befall it if any project it approved was found not to comply with building codes then in force,