Luis Fernández-Galiano   We do not need senior housing only: we need cities for all ages. The population aging and hedonistic individualism of post-industrial society have fractured the links that guaranteed the cohesion of traditional structures through mutual help. ‘Parent

Paz Martín   From adapted homes to collective residences through senior or assisted housing, there are many living models that give a dignified response to the special needs of people in the twilight of life.

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   The conventional concept of home for the elderly is replaced here by that of a village protected from the harsh landscape of Castile by a wall of concrete blocks.

Bonell & Gil, Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   Distribuyéndose en tres cuerpos posados sobre un zócalo de usos mixtos, las viviendas organizan una parte de su programa en torno a un núcleo y abren el resto a una terraza. 

Guedes Cruz Arquitectos    Portugal   Laid out with a sober modulation and inserted in a labyrinthine pattern evocative of a kasbah, the houses and main support building address the needs of elderly couples. 

Dietger Wissounig Architekten   Austria   A large prefabricated volume built with larch wood  contains 104 rooms distributed in eight independent communities that share gardens and atriums, and open up to a shared plaza. 

Sergison Bates architects   Belgium   Using familiar materials and evoking the vernacular building types found in the area, the home constains a service center, a day care center, and 145 assisted-living apartments.

SUMA/ Issei Suma   Japan   Combining different functions and suggesting with its form the idea of a primitive hut or chapel, this small center for older people has been designed using innovative ergonomic strategies. 

Richard Ingersoll   With the motto Viva Arte Viva, the Biennale has opted to present low-profile figures who uphold art as a creative endeavor, not as mere business. 

Kosme de Barañano   The enlargement of the Museo dellOpera del Duomo and of the Ospedale degli Innocenti are fine models of heritage integration. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The American writer and activist Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) has been canonized as a theorist of urbanism, and her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) indeed transformed the theory and practice of city-making. For his part, the French

Li Xiangning, Zhang Xiaochun   Xitou Village, hidden in the green hills and clear waters of Baoxi Town, Longquan City (Zhejiang Province), is one of the birthplaces of the Celadon ceramic culture. Inconvenient transportation somewhat shields it from the influence of rapid urbaniza

Anna Heringer   China   Consisting of two hostels and a guest house, the complex built for the Longquan Bamboo Biennale typologically and constructively reinterprets local traditions. The floor plan is devised as a series of concentric rings of differing condition and mater

Keisuke Maeda   China   The structure houses the workshop and exhibition gallery of a local artist and expert in Celadon pottery (traditional in the place). The building goes up on a two-meter high stonework plinth, right across from the main bridge that leads to the site o

López & Rivera   Spain   The house goes up on a hillock in the coastal mountain range of Les Gavarres in Tarragona (Catalonia), surrounded by a typically Mediterranean landscape. This location and the features of the site determine both the organization of the program and th

On 1 June Madrid’s Royal Theater was the venue of ‘Future is Now,’ a forum that brought together leading personalities from the economic, technological, and artistic fields, from the former mayor of New York City and owner of the world’s largest fin

A reference for Canarian architects, Rubens Henríquez died in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 26 April. A 1951 graduate of the Barcelona school, he contributed like few others to renovating architecture in the Canary Islands, adapting the modern language t

The biennial European Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award has gone to the unique renovation of the deFlat Kleiburg residential complex in Amsterdam, built by the Dutch firms NL Architects and XVW architectuur. The other fina

The general media keeps saying that La Seine Musicale is the new architectural symbol of Paris, but it’s really no big deal. The French capital, quintessential city of architectural symbols, inaugurated Frank Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton two years

The excessive art complex that the Qatari authorities are raising in downtown Doha, with buildings like the Museum of Islamic Art by Ieoh Ming Pei and the National Museum of Qatar by Jean Nouvel already standing, will soon have a no less ambitious ad

The firm of the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, BIG, has won the competition for the new flagship factory of San Pellegrino, the Italian brand of sparkling natural mineral water and an assortment of real-fruit soda beverages. The location is a delic

The studio Nieto Sobejano, in collaboration with Novae Architectes, has won the bid to build a sports and culture center in Reignier-Esery, a commune located in the Haute-Savoie department of France’s Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. With a floor area to

Ties between Switzerland and José María Sánchez García, born in Badajoz, Spain, include his winning of the BSI Swiss Architectural Award in the year 2014, the invitation for him to teach at the prestigious Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, and

The firm Paredes Pedrosa – founded and headed by Ángela García de Paredes and Ignacio Pedrosa and based in Madrid – was announced the winner of the contest to build The Spanish Institute in the campus of Mohammed V University in Rabat. The project, c

The architects Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo of Ecosistema Urbano, who have been teaching for some years now at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), have capped first place in the competition for the redevelopment of the waterfr

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The transformation of human bodies by artificial means has a long history behind it, but recent technological development has given it a new dimension. From the lotus feet of young Chinese girls, obtained by binding, or the giraffe necks of African w