Bofill Taller de Arquitectura   Albania   This hotel and residential complex is located in a terrain of irregular contours in Dhërmi, a picturesque town in the Albanese Riviera that faces the Ionian Sea. The ground plan follows a grid to organize the premises, while the height variation of t

TEST   Spain   This prefabricated house presents a balloon-frame structure of eight modules, each measuring approximately 3x3x3 meters, and are clad in panels of texturized wood. It rises on pillars reinforced with sprayed concrete, joined by mechanical fixing elem

h3o architects   Spain   The renovation of an old barn puts in partitions of angular lines that result in a changing visual impression, an effect reinforced by a palette of finishes rendered in electric color tones. A family legend, according to which lightning slipped throu

barea pizarro   Spain   Split programA young couple has pooled two separate professions in a single street-level establishment in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, revamping the space to make it both a hair salon and a tattoo studio. Eager to avoid the usual associations with

Adrià Escolano David Steegmann   Spain   Having to subdivide to accommodate two families, a residence in La Floresta has been transformed in a way that maintains the original arrangement but assigns different uses to the rooms…

Studio Animal   Spain   In order to obtain a large, unobstructed main space, the more private rooms of an apartment in the Niño Jesús neighborhood are placed together in a compact block of chromatic contrasts. A volume with curved contours containing the bathrooms serves as

Beatriz Alés Atelier   Spain   Originally intended for use by a large family, a dwelling in Tercio y Terol – an old neighborhood of private homes – has eliminated its partitions to form larger, more freely flowing spaces.

AMOO   Spain   The renovation of a flat tries to get the most out of a limited space by organizing it around an irregular core, in effect alleviating the rigidity of the apartment’s scheme of loadbearing walls…

Coyote   Mexico   The playful configuration of intertwined volumes in reddish tones poses a pattern of hollows and solids between shadows in the Mexican city of Tulum, in the Yucatan Peninsula. Separated by an elongated garden of native plants, the arrangement of 39 d

Estudio DIIR   Spain   At Fortuny 47 in Madrid one finds an 80-square meter eatery called Greta Salad Bar. The objective of the project was to convey an identity linked to healthy values, through a design that floods the spaces with the color green. Different greenish tone

Studio Animal   Spain   The set design adapts to the constant changes taking place during the show. The lighting, the music, the contrast between colors, and the dynamism of the performers throughout the representation function as another element of the architecture...

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   In the Maxvorstadt district on the northeast corner of Munich’s museum quarter, the Brandhorst Museum houses a substantial private collection of late 20th-century and contemporary art. The building, designed specifically for this collection, consists

Padilla Nicás arquitectos   Spain   Through a project carried out by Francisco José Padilla and Juan Manuel Nicás on the initiative of Fundación Juegaterapia, the roof of Gregorio Marañón Hospital’s maternity and neonatal building – a 2003 work of the architect Rafael Moneo, in collabo

Evvo Retail   Spain   ‘Layers’ of industrial materials – aluminum and concrete – are added to the space that preserves the original walls, in contrast with the elegant and theatrical textures in an atmosphere of pastel colors that uses the curve as a sculptural element...

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   A residence located on gently sloping land in a narrow valley faces the landscape in the manner of a pedestal that stands out on account of its strict geometry and straw-like color tone.

Solar Marta Jarabo   Spain   Brando studies the relationship between visual perception and the phenomenology of color, and the objective is to develop a new commercial model where consumption is understood as an atmospheric experience. Located in Madrid’s historical center, at H

Anna & Eugeni Bach   The Catalan firm led by Anna Bach and Eugeni Bach was commissioned to design a stand for the EINA University School of Design and Art in the 31st Saló de l’Ensenyament – which promotes vocational training centers and services – at Fira de Barcelona.

EEESTUDIO Lys Villalba   Spain   Eva, carlos, two Belgian Malinois – Bicho and Bomba –, Harris the owl, five swift families, six kestrel families, and twenty sparrows, are all companion species. They live and learn together in this building, 30 kilometers west of Madrid. Sitting in

SLAS architects   Poland   Playgrounds emerged during modernity, and constitute small oases that separate children from a city for which they are still not prepared. Robert Moses saw them as symbols of democracy; Aldo van Eyck, as spaces that are fundamental for social integra

Amann-Cánovas-Maruri   United Arab Emirates   Expo 2020 Dubai, themed 'Connecting Minds, Creating the Future' and counting over 200 participants, kicked off with a ceremony almost a year after it was supposed to, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, and welcomes the public from 1 October to 31 March

Jean Nouvel   China   Split up by a covered central passageway connecting two streets – Ma Dang and Dan Shui – in Shanghai’s Huangpu district, this complex contains 25,000 square meters of office space and 15,000 of commercial units. The location is in what was part of th

Pareid   Thailand   The project addresses three principles: use of construction techniques and industrial materials that can be executed with traditional methods; flexibility in the program to provide functionality, play, and aesthetics; and climatic sensitivity.

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   The new brewery for Brussels Beer Project (BBP) is located along the Brussels canal within the rapidly redeveloping industrial zone of Port Sud. The building houses the complete beer production process, but is also open to the public. It is conceived

Two decades since their first collaboration, Louis Vuitton and artist Takashi Murakami have worked together again to design a pop-up store inspired by the modular capsule hotels of Tokyo, and which was on view in New York’s SoHo. The space was made u

A series of abstract compositions with the personal signature of British designer Paul Smith give shape to the new collection of rugs presented by The Rug Company during the latest edition of the Salone del Mobile in Milan. As much the pieces on dis

Luis Fernández-Galiano   On the mythical path of Goethe, Peter Sloterdijk tries out a theory of color. We have dealt with the German thinker time and again in Arquitectura Viva since 2003, examining his texts on ‘atmoterrorism,’ human domestication, and the rejection of mode

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Color choice is not innocent. Every tone and nuance of the chromatic range has a symbolic weight that overlaps with its aesthetic dimension, making it impossible to regard the decision to use one instead of another as an exclusively visual matter. Ar

The stage designs by the Galician artist break the molds of conventional realist theater and blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. The striking color combinations that compose her scenes seek to visually impact the spectator.

The Guardian   Joanna Partridge   Google has announced a $1bn (£871m) deal to buy the London development Central Saint Giles, calling the move a show of confidence in the return to more office working. The US tech firm currently rents space in the brightly coloured development design

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architecture has a difficult relationship with color. If heroic modernity embraced a clinical, hygienic white, subsequent revisions extended the palette to the natural tones of raw material, but without giving up on the ascetic ideal of chromatic rel

The Guardian   Gregory Robinson   Architect turned photographer Yener Torun started taking pictures of colourful buildings in Istanbul in 2014. For his latest series, he has travelled round Turkey, to the likes of Ankara, Izmir and Antalya. He looks for clean lines, bright colours an

Open Culture   Much of the Swiss-German Bauhaus-associated painter's work, which at its most distinctive defines its own category of abstraction, still exudes a vitality today. He left behind not just those 9,000 pieces of art (not counting the hand puppets he

Color had a bad reputation. In classical Greece, Plato condemned dyes because they were falsehoods and could be used by women to manipulate men; in classical Rome, Pliny and Seneca censured the florid colors of the Orient, in which they saw (in a new

It can hardly be said that Robert and Sonia Delaunay are unknown in Spain. Their work has been the theme of exhibitions here since the very first one organized by the Juan March Foundation, in Madrid, in 1982. What distinguishes the current show at t

Con la idea de revitalizar el casco histórico de L’Aquila —la ciudad italiana que en 2009 sufrió un devastador terremoto— acaba de inaugurarse un auditorio construido por Renzo Piano en colaboración con el milanés Alessandro Traldi. Situada cerca del

En Nørrebro, uno de los barrios con mayor densidad étnica de Copenhague (en él conviven hasta sesenta nacionalidades), el equipo formado por BIG, Topotek1 y el colectivo de artistas Superflex acaba de terminar una dotación llamada a ser un vehículo d

El estudio barcelonés Mestura acaba de terminar un edificio residencial en Castelldefels que servirá para cubrir la demanda de vivienda del Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia (PMT), un campus universitario de reciente creación situado en el área metro

Salpicado de bloques residenciales a medio habitar y paralizado por la crisis, el ensanche de Móstoles tiene un nuevo y singular vecino: el centro de servicios sociales construido por el estudio madrileño Dosmasuno (Ignacio Borrego, Néstor Montenegro

‘Naturalmente diversos’ es el lema de la instalación con la que España participa en la sexta edición de Floriade, la feria internacional de horticultura que, desde 1960, se viene celebrando cada diez años en Holanda, y que puede visitarse en la local

En Albolote, un pueblo de la Vega de Granada, se levantan los volúmenes blancos y abstractos de la nueva escuela infantil de la localidad (ver AV Monografías 147-148), un edificio diseñado por el granadino Alejandro Muñoz Miranda. El programa se dist

Eduardo Prieto   La exposición del conjunto de dibujos visionarios de la ‘Arquitectura alpina’, de Bruno Taut, ha coincidido en Madrid con una muestra sobre las estrategias cromáticas empleadas por el autor en sus viviendas sociales.

La nueva obra en Lyon del estudio parisino Jakob & Macfarlane demuestra que la rutinaria forma del cubo puede dar lugar todavía a propuestas estéticas insospechadas y sugerentes. El edificio, destinado a albergar las oficinas de la sede social de una

Ubicado en el barrio londinense de Camden, el último proyecto de Renzo Piano en Reino Unido se sitúa dentro de un heterogéneo entramado de calles medievales, edificios modernos y manzanas tradicionales que fueron determinantes en el diseño de la prop

Hasta el 2 de mayo, en el centro José Guerrero de Granada, se puede visitar ‘Cromocronías’, una muestra colectiva que reúne exploraciones diversas entorno al color y la imagen en movimiento. A través de una selección de obras de catorce artistas, se

En el nuevo barrio de Móstoles Sur, abrazando premonitoriamente la llamada plaza del Sol, se alza un bloque de viviendas de directriz curva, con tramos de policarbonato azul y magenta que alberga 92 viviendas en régimen de alquiler temporal, locales

En el municipio madrileño de Villanueva de la Cañada, Mª José Aranguren y José G. Gallegos han terminado una promoción de 255 viviendas de alquiler con opción a compra; de ellas, 194 están destinadas a jóvenes, 51 a mayores de 35 años y el resto, a f

Peter Sloterdijk   El color de la contemporaneidad

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