AV62 Arquitectos   Spain   On the outskirts of the town of Derio, near Bilbao, the Barcelona firm AV62 – led by Toño Foraster – was commissioned by APNABI (Association of families of people with autism spectrum disorders) to design this day center for young persons diagnosed w

Calderon-Folch Arquitectes AV62 Arquitectos   Spain   The proposal reassesses the program to transform it into a coherent complex with an educational and informative potential, through a key action: giving the Monastery the Cloister Garden it is missing, a gallery around a courtyard...

AV62 Arquitectos   Afghanistan   The area’s conflictivity urges to protect the museum with a huge boundary wall, impassable from the exterior and internally lined with vegetation, visually becoming part of the garden. The longitudinal evenness generated by the vaults is interrupted

AV62 Arquitectos Pedro García del Barrio Pedro Azara   Irak   After the devastation the district suffered in the fall of 2007, the current efforts of the administration now focus on reestablishing life in this neighborhood located on the shores of the Tigris in the center of Baghdad. The complete refurbishment

La vegetación, el agua y la geometría serán los protagonistas del edificio para el Museo Nacional de Afganistán, según la propuesta vencedora en el concurso convocado por el Ministerio de Cultura afgano y la Embajada de EE UU, que ha sido diseñada po

Adela García-Herrera   Almost ten years after its first issue on young Spanish architecture, Arquitectura Viva takes a new look at what the latest generation of professionals are thinking and building. The cover of that issue, which was titled ‘Fresh Blood,’ was a poetic i