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 - Temperaturas Extremas   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

Adjaye Associates   United States   “The acropolis of consumerism.” This was the media’s pronouncement on opening day, in 1982, of an eight-floor bulk raised on an entire block between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, and which has since provided Angelenos with high-end stores, popula

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   We were told that when resources are scarce, intensity compensates for high performance (because there seems to be a deep gap between ingeniousness and intelligence). Any project is a reaction to its circumstances. This is an apparently simple and re

Studio Animal Studio Animal   Spain   The design of this tent-like shop combines emphatic geometries in bright colors with a humorous language, a strategy that is also used in the rest of their collaborations, and that aims to create an aesthetic image distinctive of the brand.

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The underlying strategy of this operation is to merge the three programmes – a terminal building, a control tower, and two workshops – with a single formal gesture that manages to avoid appearing as a strange artefact landed on the fields and maintai

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The radical transformation of this 1950’s office building is primarily aimed at improving its usage and thoroughly updating its features. The original anodyne building – set between party walls, with serious structural issues – is renovated by means

Sarquella + Torres Arquitectes   Thailand   A modular structure that draws inspiration from traditional constructions in the Thai countryside harbors a preschool which the community at large participated in raising. Crowned with solar chimneys to guarantee natural ventilation and ensure a high

MAD Architects   China   A chromatic roof is the highlight in the conversion of a traditional siheyuan courtyard into a preschool center that is remarkable, too, in its openness to daylight and vegetation. The principal strategy of the project involved wrapping the preexisti

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Spain   The Germina Foundation is a non-profit institution dedicated to integration and complementary learning experiences for children at risk of social exclusion. Since its creation in the year 2004, the institution has grown and extended its activity, and

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

En la avenida de la Peseta, eje del nuevo ensanche del barrio madrileño de Carabanchel se alza un bloque semejante a un apilamiento de contenedores metálicos de colores brillantes. Se trata de las 82 viviendas de protección pública construidas por el

Inspirado en la naturaleza y en el entorno, y con formas sinuosas y vivos colores que remiten a la obra de Gaudí o de Burle Marx, el nuevo Paseo Marítimo de la Playa de Poniente, en Benidorm, del estudio barcelonés de Carlos Ferrater, es un lugar de

El mercado mayorista de flores y plantas de Barcelona ha inaugurado nuevas instalaciones: una atípica nave de 15.000 metros cuadrados, firmada por el argentino Willy Müller. Dividida en tres áreas (flor cortada, plantas, y flores secas y complementos

En la zona conocida como Kunst­areal de la capital bávara —un conjunto de museos de arte entre los que se encuentran la Pinacoteca Antigua, la Nueva y la de Arte Moderno— se ha inaugurado el Museo Brandhorst, obra del estudio berlinés Sauerburch Hut

A las afueras de la capital danesa, en un entorno sin referentes salpicado por anónimos edificios de viviendas y oficinas, se eleva el nuevo Auditorio de Copenhague, un misterioso cubo de 43 metros de lado, envuelto en una llamativa piel translúcida

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