Zaha Hadid Architects   Saudi Arabia   The King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD), designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, is a centerpiece of Riyadh’s ambitious metropolitan railway system, which inaugurates its first lines on 1 December 2024. Able to accommodate 3.6 million commuters daily,

Zaha Hadid Architects   Uzbekistan   The firm Zaha Hadid Architects has been announced as the designers, in collaboration with the engineers of Buro Happold, of a research facility named in honor of the 15th-century poet Alisher Navoi and to go up in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

3XN CL MAP   Germany   A sports facility in Munich, close to the Olympic Stadium designed by Frei Otto and Günther Behnisch, was recently inaugurated. Named SAP Garden and located on the site of the old velodrome, it is the new home of the EHC Red Bull ice hockey team and

Kengo Kuma OODA architecture   Portugal   The Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian has reopened after almost four years of renovation works. It is located on the campus of the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian. The main feature of the intervention carried out by Kengo Kuma – in collaboration with t

Foster + Partners   Poland   Norman Foster’s firm – in collaboration with Buro Happold – has won the competition to design the new CPK (Centralny Port Komunikacyjny) airport between the Polish cities of Warsaw and Lodz. Their proposal seeks a balance between operational efficien

Foster + Partners   Kuwait   In Sharq, the financial district of the city of Kuwait, this 300-meter-tall skyscraper by Foster+Partners uses passive and active measures to keep its water and energy consumption low. Through a combination of structural innovation and energy efficie

Wilkinson+Eyre   Denmark   This 160-meter-long bridge for cyclists and pedestrians falls under a plan to revitalize part of the Danish capital’s harbor, which has been underused for decades. Built next to OMA’s BLOX building, it allows water traffic through two rotating sectio

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Slovakia   In Patrónka, an area in the western part of Bratislava, rises the new ESET campus, all of 55,000 square meters. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, Inflow, Pantograph, BuroHappold, and ARUP, the tech neighborhood replaces an old military hospital. Drawi

Page\ Park Architects West 8   Escocia   The scheme maintains the character of Princes Street Gardens as space for celebration and for leisure, and carves a grotto inspired in the Nymphaeum of classical tradition, marking the memory of the Nor Loch, the old lake occupied today by the garden

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Alhambra of Granada was the backdrop of the awarding of the Aga Khan architectural prizes, which throw an unexpected light on the Islamic world.