Although Portugal is mainly a maritime country, its inland is traversed by mighty mountains, largely unknown of but whose beauty will not be unfamiliar to those who have read authors like Eça de Queirós or Miguel Torga. In one of those ranges, on a m
Stretching 67.5 meters, what is now the longest cantilever in the world cuts a figure between two skyscrapers of the One Za’abeel mixed-use development in Dubai. This horizontal structure weighing approximately 9,580 tons floats 100 meters above grou
With a built area of 232 square meters, this residence is formally inspired by the farmhouses located a few meters away: country houses with farmland, composed of a main two-sloped volume to which other constructions of different geometries are attac
The Heinrich Böll Foundation is closely linked to the political party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and is committed to promoting democratic decision-making, socio-political engagement, and international understanding around the globe. The Foundation headqua
An undertaking of the foundation that sees to the care of Castilla y León region's natural heritage, the new Peñas Llanas viewing point replaces one which was already much deteriorated. Perched on a high rock overlooking a valley, within the recreati
In dialogue with the grand courthouse building next to it, the new seat of the law bar association completes the judicial complex that has activated the peripheral Batignolles district. A metro station under the site made it necessary to dispense wit
At the center of the observance of the 500th anniversary of the Fuggerei social housing complex in Augsburg rises this pavilion built with cross-laminated timber (CLT), a work of MVRDV. It harbors the exhibition ‘Fuggerei of the Future,’ which propos
The complex comprises a small community of eight dwellings in a quiet residential area of Peñagrande, in the north of Madrid, configured under the typology of duplexes stacked on two levels, all of which have two corner orientations. The four lower d
On an elongated plot parallel to the Avenida de las Universidades, in Dos Hermanas, Seville, the new campus is, along with that of Córdoba, the second largest of Loyola University in Seville. Because of very extreme temperatures in the region, the p
Seeing the need to modernize the city courts, the regional government of Andalusia called a competition for the construction of the new City of Justice of Córdoba. On a plot of 12,000 square meters, in a new urban area, the project would give the nei
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
The house sits on a site with a deep slope covered with trees and undergrowth. The project is set out to build without harming the place, so the house sits on a rock platform which is also used as an exit and garden. Both architects and developers ag
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence, the National Park of Mali, located in Bamako, the capital, reopened. Several new accesses were built, aside from a restaurant and a sports center. Clad in locally sourced stone, the
The shape of this concrete residence designed by Shinsuke Fujii Architects, known as the Oriel Window House, meets two objectives which are contradictory to a certain extent. On the one hand, to make the most of the 42-square-meter area of the plot o
Abandoned for many decades, to the point of extreme disrepair, the Kulm Eispavilion in the Alpine resort village of St. Moritz – built in 1905 and used as venue of the Olympic Winter Games held in 1928 and 1948 – has been refurbished with two princi
Posed on the site of one of the bloodiest battles waged during the Great War, the huge ring lists on its inside the names of the 579,606 of different nationalities who perished.
Located between Roskilde city center and the site where the music festival of the same name takes place yearly, the Rockmagneten is an art and culture center that takes up an old factory. The brief demanded preserving the existing building – already
Balancing Barn is situated in the English countryside near Thorington in Suffolk. It is a summer residence built for Living Architecture, a company that offers temporary rentals of signature houses, under the motto “Holidays in modern architecture.”
Located in the Western Garden Cities of Amsterdam built midway through the past century, the block is part of a densification plan set forth in the 1990s. The increased density threatened the parks and open green spaces, one of the main qualities of
Winners of the international competition called in 2006, the Dutch studio Mecanoo – together with the Spanish engineering firm Ayesa – is building the City of Justice of Córdoba since 2014. The new complex of 50,000 square meters is designed to gathe
Configured as an 8.5- meter structure of concrete whose core holds up ten cantilevers with stairs and platforms, the tower lures people into the activity and exchange it is meant for; its tangle of intersecting routes recalls Escher’s labyrinthian sp
In Aztec culture, the Dovela – stone of air or sun – is a basalt monolith that is offered to divinity, and sometimes placed in a complex with a topography of terraces. It addresses the four elements, and with its powerful symbolism expresses the inta
Pese a que el fuerte crecimiento de los últimos años ha hecho de la economía brasileña una de las más importantes del mundo, el país sigue teniendo carencias que resultan particularmente evidentes en el ámbito de la cultura y la educación, y afectan
Como un barco varado sobre bolos graníticos: así es la casa que Francisco Burgos, Ginés Garrido, Justo F. Isasi y Alberto Pieltáin han diseñado en la sierra madrileña, con vistas magníficas sobre el valle del Lozoya y las cercanas cumbres de Guadarra
Having built many distinguished office buildings, Foster Associates were considered specialists in the type, and the booming eighties brought several commissions. After the cancellation of the BBC project, the Mexican Televisa headquarters would have
