VTN Architects   Vietnam   The architecture firm’s own offices incorporate modular concrete planters that do much to create a comfortable microclimate and provide a laboratory for the testing of ecological seeds. The experimental character of the building showcases the practic

Kéré Architecture   Benin   In the wake of decolonization in Africa, Benin achieved full independence from France on 1 August 1960, then under the name of Dahomey. The building in which the declaration was signed at the time has until now served as the headquarters of the Parli

Barclay & Crousse Arquitectos   Peru   The main project strategy consisted in condensing the whole institutional program in a compact cylinder inspired by Cerro Baúl mountain, freeing up most of the plot to generate a large civic space for citizens.

Grafton Architects   Ireland   The Commissioners of Public Works developed this new building to house the Department of Finance. It is the first new Government Department Building completed in Dublin since 1939. The project incorporated a link into the adjacent Government Building

COBE Architects Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter   Belgium   The renovation wraps up the Rue du Luxembourg axis and establishes an essential connection between city and nature. The building breaks up into smaller scale elements, each with its own logic and appearance, that culminate in the public roof garden..

Belgium   Images of the project that has won the international competition, organized by the European Parliament, to renovate the Paul-Henri SPAAK Building in Brussels have been unveiled. Officially announced in July 2022, the winner is Europarc, a collective

ATELIER62 ABLM arquitectos   Spain   ABLM arquitectos (Arturo Blanco, Laura Martínez) and ATELIER62 (Rodrigo Martínez, Arturo Menduiña H., Juan Pérez, Luis Ruiz) drew up a scheme that placed first in the competition to refurbish the 16th/17th-century Hospital de la Concepción in Burgos

Tadao Ando   Italy   In spite of being an international fashion company, Benetton still preserves its original headquarters in Treviso, a small town in the northwest of Italy located little more than an hour by car from Venice. On this site the company commissioned the d

LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   In an artery opened in the 1950s to decongest the historic center, the extension of the local savings bank dialogues with the medieval fabric without sacrificing its contemporary essence. The use of recycled bricks echoes the solid walls of the build

Kéré Architecture   Benin   The scheme drawn up by the Berlin firm of Francis Kéré for Porto-Novo, the capital of Benin, takes inspiration from the ‘word tree,’ the western African tradition by which the community gathers under a tree to make collective decisions. Facing the

KAAN Architecten   France   This new complex acts as a transition between a motorway built over the historical Vauban fortification and the Eurartisanat Campus of Lille, which the same architects designed. Coexisting in the building are the emphatic boldness of its geometry, th

Sou Fujimoto Architects   France   The proposal for the New High Court of Lille, designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects with Coldefy, welcomes citizens beneath a tent-like, transparent canopy that fills the interior spaces with natural light... [+]

Undurraga Devés arquitectos   Chile   The project is inserted in the very center of the grid that brought the city of Santiago into being in 1541, a matrix that became the urban paradigm of the Laws of the Indies in America. A good portion of this grid still organizes the continuous and

Undurraga Devés arquitectos   Chile   The seismic nature of Chilean territory marks the country’s architecture, as this tower shows. The commission brought the opportunity to address this universal type from a local perspective, making the tactile prevail over the aluminum or glass walls

Jean Nouvel   Netherlands   Surrounded by an extraordinary landscape of polders, the building rises like a vertical sea vessel whose glass walls engage in a dialogue with the typical changing Dutch atmosphere.

COBE Architects   Denmark   The enlargement of the Red Cross’s Danish headquarters pursues two main objectives: to create a place for volunteers to meet and work in, and to give the city a new public space.

Jørn Utzon   Kuwait   Up to the 1930s, Kuwait was still a compact city with one and two-story buildings within the boundaries of the old city wall, but the discovery of oil spurred an explosive growth. When in 1961 it declared total independence from the British protector

Kéré Architecture   Burkina Faso   After 31 years of dictatorial rule, the people of Burkina Faso rose up and ousted their former president following a violent revolt in 2014. In protest of the old regime, the former National Assembly was attacked and destroyed by the citizens. Aside

Harquitectes   Spain   This public facility houses an adult education center, a language standardization consortium, and a hotel on a triangular plot in the Les Corts district. Two of the three sides of the site are defined by the heritage-listed frontage of the former Pla

Snøhetta WCIT Architecture   United States   Inspired in the forms of the coral reef, the center is organized around a central courtyard, creating a public space of access; the building is also a landscape, with a sloping roof emerging from the terrain and inviting visitors to go up to the rais

Snøhetta   Lebanon   In order to create an authentic community, and not only an office building, the volume is carved generating a series of terraces. These outdoor areas act as social hubs, and the workspaces of the headquarters are organized around them...

Dominique Perrault Architecture   France   The aim of the project is not to obtain a historical reproduction of the monumental Post Office Building of the19th century, but to revitalize it by introducing current uses that will be added to the old ones in a block open 24 hours a day. The block

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   The historic building dates from 1884, but was extended gradually in the 1920s and 1970s until Rafael Moneo ‘wrapped up’ the block in 2006. Paredes Pedrosa have intervened several times since 1986, when they converted the Cibeles corner into an exhib

In the Swiss city of Lausanne, and in collaboration with the local firm Atelier Cube, the Barcelona-based practice of Esteve Bonell and Josep Maria Gil recently completed the new parliament of the Canton of Vaud. Reinterpreting the typical volumes an

Conceived at the same time that the euro was born, and built in Frankfurt as a concession to a Germany fearful of losing the Deutschemark, the headquarters of the European Central Bank has been inaugurated at the worst possible time. The discrediting

Conseguir que, desde el principio, el edificio formase parte de la ciudad, culminando su proceso constructivo en una perfecta ‘cicatrización’, ha sido el reto que los madrileños Carmen Martínez Arroyo y Rodrigo Pemjean se han propuesto en su nueva se

El Palacio de la Diputación Provincial de Zamora será rehabilitado por el estudio dirigido por Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas y Nicolás Maruri para alojar un centro cultural y dependencias institucionales. La propuesta actúa mínimamente en el cuerpo hist

Ignacio García Pedrosa y Ángela García de Paredes han presentado su propuesta para la nueva Ciudad de la Justicia de Jaén, desarrollada en colaboración con Iberinsa y ganadora del concurso organizado por la Junta de Andalucía y la Consejería de Justi

Dominique Perrault ha finalizado la ampliación del Tribunal Europeo de Justicia en Luxemburgo. El proyecto, ganador de un concurso convocado en 1996, proponía la reforma de un conjunto de edificios construidos entre los años setenta, ochenta y novent

Emilio Tuñón   En las últimas décadas del siglo pasado, las diferentes administraciones de la Justicia de España no fueron conscientes del colapso judicial que se estaba gestando como consecuencia del crecimiento exponencial de los procesos derivados de la nueva si

Vicente Patón   El Gobierno Regional de Cantabria, cuyas oficinas en un discreto edificio de la calle San Emeterio necesitaban ampliación, convocó en 2001 un concurso de méritos para elegir el arquitecto capaz de dar forma a una nueva sede en el lugar ocupado por la

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Reconstructed by the British architect Norman Foster, the new Reichstag is the solemn, optimistic and amiable symbol of the Berlin Republic.