The selfish giant of Oscar Wilde’s popular short story closed his garden to the children, and with them the spring went away. The technological titans of our days control ever more exclusive domains, but their reckless behavior can bring winter to th
Steered personally by Steve Jobs in tight collaboration with Norman Foster, Appes new headquarters, with its exact circular shape, evokes the perfection pursued by the Californian company.
The project for the new Google campus in Mountain View responds to the rapid expansion and constant diversification of the business activity of the technology company, which have ended up leading to an unsustainable organizational situation for its e
The director of the Design Museum in London examines aspects of the new urbanism of Silicon Valley, associated with the construction of headquarters for the giant technology companies.
Like an enormous anonymous garage, Facebooks new campus conceals its exact polish with the easygoing, almost slapdash air that characterizes the company.
Google promotes the integration of the private lives and the work lives of all its employees within a huge mixed-use complex that fosters leisure, health, and interaction.
Addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the vicinity of facebook headquarters, the project creates a new community where dwellings are interspersed with services.
El centenario de Utzon es una buena oportunidad para constatar la actualidad de su obra, inspirada en metáforas naturales y arquitectónicas.
The works and ideas of Van Eyck were a lesson for a whole generation that was looking for alternatives to the modernity of developmentalism.
The centenary of the Russian Revolution has brought on the inevitable deluge of publications, but perhaps none as exceptional as The House of Government. Written by Yuri Slezkine, a historian born and educated in Russia who emigrated to the United St
The piles of sketches, photographs, press cuttings, invoices, train/ship/airplane tickets, letters, telegrams, separatas, project texts, magazines, and books safeguarded at the Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris are the ultimate source of material for t
Architects studying another architect are tempted to have empathy: an emotion that makes them identity with their subject, as has happened to Ángel Verdasco in the course of his research, now presented in twin books. Of all those who opened our borde
Robert Stern is a recognized figure in the current architectural scene, but few successful architects are farther from the ‘starchitect’ image than he is. In the monumental book City Living, presenting residential buildings by Robert A.M. Stern Archi
The grain silo of Cape Town had since the 1920s been used to store and process corn coming from different parts of South Africa. Over twenty years after it closed down, it has undergone an overhaul to house the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
Since early in the 20th century, when August Perret referred to it as “the stone that we craft,” reinforced concrete and the industry associated with it have evolved to the point that we can raise buildings entirely with this material. Perret – who w
Built between two old industrial brick structures, the new headquarters of the School of Architecture of Tournai take up the interior of a block in the historic center of the city. The project is based on two complementary intervention strategies. Fi
Located in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Rennes, in northwestern France, the volumes of the new parish church strike up a dialogue with the housing blocks that surround them, while adapting to the existing codes. Organize
Inagawa Cemetery is located on a steep site in the Hokusetsu Mountain Range of Hyogo Prefecture, approximately 40 kilometers north of the city of Osaka. Adapted to the contour of the terrain, the cemetery is laid out across terraces. A monumental fli
The partial intervention at the Centro San Francisco Javier is part of a larger master plan, developed in several phases with the purpose of remodelling and updating this psychogeriatric center on the outskirts of Pamplona. The complex, built in the
Home to the Boca del Río Philharmonic Orchestra, the Foro Boca building is part of a masterplan to revitalize the deteriorated area around the river mouth that gives the city its name. The form of the bold volumes of poured-on-site concrte that make
Since its beginnings back in the year 1994, Amazon has deviated from the urban model followed by the world’s major technology corporations, that of implanting their headquarters in work environments which are distanced from the city center and suppos
A century has passed since the birth of Bruno Zevi, the critic and professor who upheld the social purpose of architecture and the organicism of Frank Lloyd Wright. Born in Rome in 2018, in 1938 he was forced by Mussolini’s anti-Semitic laws to leave
In the competition-winning design for a high-rise on the banks of the Elbe River in Hamburg, the 230-meter-tall Elbtower, as it will be called, acts as a counterpoint to Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie nearby. This forthcoming building by David
Together the firms Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Carlo Ratti Associati have started construction work, in the business district of Singapore, on a tower which is to rise all of 280 meters, interrupted every 100 meters by a four-level garden. Totaling
Designed by the Dutch firm MVRDV, this mixed-use office building distributing 6,500 square meters in twelve floors is located in Esslingen, a city of the Stuttgart region of Baden-Württemberg, in southern Germany. Its fragmented and interactive facad
The firm Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos – of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano – is the winner of the competition promoted by the German state of Saxony to design the Archive of the Avant-garde of the Marzona Collection in the historical center of Dre
There is a project that La Caixa Banking Foundation has unveiled for a Caixaforum space in the city of Valencia, occupying the so far vacant Agora in the City of Arts and Sciences. The project drawn up by the Catalan architect Enric Ruiz-Geli transfo
The Madrid firm Paredes Pedrosa – of Ignacio Pedrosa and Ángela García de Paredes – has won first prize in the competition to build a home for elderly people in Palma de Mallorca. Selected out of 45 entries, the project ensures accommodation for 120
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