In the heart of the Yangtze River Delta, integrating existing water streets with new ones, this development mixes offices, dwellings, and retail spaces with a cultural center that provides a theater and exhibition galleries, under a roof that include
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
The project called Second Century Burbank, which celebrates the 200 years of Warner Bros., juxtaposes two different facade styles. The elevations facing the 134 Freeway seek to attract the attention of drivers with its curtain walls built with angled
The city’s strict building codes are the main conditioning factor of the project. In close dialogue with the property, the building is designed as a pattern of round pillars and reinforced slabs that reduce their section close to the edge with a meta
From an understanding of the facade as an element capable of transmitting messages, the enclosure of this Trajan skyscraper, with a squared floor plan, is completely wrapped in led screens, which turn the tower itself into a means of communication...
On the outskirts of Vinh city in Vietnam, next to the Vsip industrial park, stands this 160-square-meter café. The project was conditioned by a low budget and also by a 5-year land lease term, so the main materials were selected in accordance with th
Repetition through variation: both principles are implicit in programs characterized by the recurrence of the same type of space or architectural element. This impression was perhaps our first thought when reading the competition brief for the design
It is evident that the practice of architecture cannot encompass all the complex mechanisms that generate the city. However, it possesses a decisive power to transform the urban experience, both in its spatial aspect and in its construction, through
On West 34th Street, between Hudson Boulevard and 10th Avenue, the office tower called The Spiral stands 314 meters tall and is a vertical prolongation of High Line Park nearby, in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood. The Spiral gradually tapers of
This timber-framed building has a recessed ground level for commercial spaces and five floors for offices. The facade presents curving prefabricated pinewood elements treated with green paint. The eaves above them are straight, generating a play of s
This mixed-used skyscraper designed by OMA / David Gianotten contains 60,000 square meters of offices over a 40,000-square-meter podium mall. Built by the real estate developer China Merchants Shekou Holdings in Shenzhen’s Shekou economic zone, the 2
The imposing and mountainous backdrop of Inn River valley, on the border between Austria and Germany, inspires the geometry of the new Dynafit headquarters, consisting of two pyramidal forms visible from the main road that connects both countries.
The warehouse of an old cotton textile factory outside the Chinese capital has been refurbished to harbor the main office and the retail concept store of a historical pastry brand. In allusion to their baking-industry uses, the brick buildings were t
The Laherrère Center is part of an urban renewal program for the Saragosse district of Pau, the capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of France’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It rises on the site of an old hospice that was unoccupied and in ve
In Gothenburg’s new quayside district and with more than 37,000 square meters, Kaj16 is one of largest hybrid structures in the world: the modular timber crown rests on a permeable concrete base that becomes an interwoven part of the city…
One of China’s ancient imperial capitals and the eastern gateway of the Silk Road, Xian has in the past years become an important hub of new technologies. This includes semiconductor manufacturing, robotics, aerospace, and biopharmaceuticals. At th
Located at Carrer de Pallars 180, in Barcelona’s Poblenou neighborhood, the project sought to give the block a sense of continuity and engage with preexisting elements. A work of BAAS, a Catalan firm led by Jordi Badía, the office building presents a
This refurbishment project turns an 1850 industrial building in Barcelona’s Eixample district into offices for Fundació Bofill, a non-profit entity created in 1969 to promote social change. A work of GCA Architects, founded in 1986 by Josep Juanpere
Portugal was born in Guimarães. At least that is what the – modern – inscription on one of its walls says, in allusion to the fact that the first independent Portuguese king, Afonso Henriques, established his court in this town, after defeating the a
The transport Complex (CIT) is the result of a competition called by Metro de Madrid in 2016. The project has a double objective: on one side the urban regeneration through an existing plot, containing an obsolete Metro facility, and on the other ha
In the courtyard of a large old house in the Polanco neighborhood rises a slender mixed-use building that is considered the first ever to incorporate a high-rise timber structure. The framework of the upper levels rests on the party wall and a single
At ground level, the building follows the line of the street and is set back to relate to the lower scale of the building to the east. The roofline corners are chamfered to visually extend the public space around Hopfenmarkt...
The firm MVRDV, in collaboration with LLJ Architects, has built a fruit and vegetable market in the east part of the city of Tainan. Reinventing the typology of markets, the building gives views of the surrounding landscape from an undulating accessi
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
Alberto Campo Baeza has for the property developers Sumaida + Khurana y Bizzi & Partners designed an office building to go up in Miami's South Beach neighborhood. Combining white concrete, glass, and marble, it will rise around a large central atrium
Changes in the world of work are generating new reflections, and with this, a redesigning of workplaces. Aspects like space, materials, lighting, colors, all play a part in determining work efficiency. Are all kinds of light good for the workplace? L
It is to go up on what is currently a parking lot in front of the flagship store at Nuevos Ministerios. A property of the department store chain since 2014, this is one of the most coveted sites on Paseo de la Castellana. The building will have a tot
Facing the arcaded gallery at Nuevos Ministerios on Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, the firms totem arquitectos and BETA.Ø have together come up with an efficient alternative to the conventional office building. The faceted volume has been expressl
The practice headed by the architect Enrique Álvarez-Sala recently completed the renovation of the General Insurance Directorate headquarters, an intervention which has involved consolidating the administrative building’s structure of post-tensioned
Seattle will be crowning downtown with a 361-meter tower containing 1,080 residential units in the higher floors and coworking and retail spaces in the lower levels. Assigned to ODA, the New York architecture firm headed by Eran Chen, the project bea
Located in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, which was the German Breslau, the Concordia Design building highlights the Dutch firm MVRDV’s capacity to deal with all kinds of situations. In this case the situation could hardly have been more complic
The list of Madrid works by the British architect Norman Foster – Cepsa Tower, Axis at Plaza Colón, the Hall of Realms at the Prado Museum – will soon be including an office complex for the Spanish sustainable infrastucture and renewable energy cong
The partial liberalization of the market for architectural projects in China has in past years led to a hatching of young practices bent on exploring paths other than those of official corporativism or the ‘weird architecture’ of international stardo
After the enormously successful architectural and corporate adventure that Apple was, the British firm Foster + Partners has won the bid to raise headquarters for another giant of our globalized world, Alibaba, a China-based leader in online retail a
A proposal by the British architect David Chipperfield has won for him the competition to erect a high-rise replacing a building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street in New York City, a site that has been the US headquarters of the Swiss lux
The firm of Rem Koolhaas, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, will be building a Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) department store, cum hotel, in Vienna’s historic center, right in the Museumsquartier. The project – OMA’s first in the Austrian capital
Shortly after being hired by the Art Institute of Chicago to enlarge its campus and give it a major makeover, the Barcelona-based firm Barozzi Veiga has won the competition to build the mountain sports brand Dynafit’s new managerial and administravi
Digitalization takes command of the world, and its thinning effects are increasingly felt in architectural types that once upon a time were solid and stable. A case in point is the library, whose mission of being a container of books is steep in cris
The firm of Thomas Heatherwick, known for the artistic stamp he is so good at giving his buildings and installations, has in London’s King’s Cross neighborhood just completed the Coal Drops Yard shopping center. This place was a complex of 19th-centu
Carrying the day over more modest buildings, such as the Tate Gallery in Cornwall, the Bushey Jewish Cemetery, and the Storey’s Field Community Center and Nursery in Cambridge, Norman Foster has for the third time landed the RIBA Stirling Prize throu
Promoted by the late Antonino Fernández, one of the principal proprietors of the Mexican business group Modelo (distributor of ‘Coronita’), the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (FCAYC) has dedicated its new headquarters in the brewer’s native tow
The new Bloomberg headquarters in London, built on a site over the hidden course of the river Walbrook, adapts its powerful volume to the preexistent traces of the historical heart of the City.
Sometimes described as monotonous, the austere and elegant architecture of the British David Chipperfield invariably demonstrates a surprising capacity to adapt to very diverse contexts, from hypercivilized Berlin to the emerging globalized cities of
The Milanese firm Piuarch has transformed the final assembly plant of an abandoned Caproni aircraft factory in Milan into a new headquarters for the fashion brand Gucci. Exceeding 35,000 square meters in floor area, the complex restores the original
The Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has inaugurated the tower that wraps up the Fondazione Prada in Milan. Intended to house the institution’s permanent collection of contemporary works of art, this building rises 60 meters and nine stories, cutting a f
The director of the Design Museum in London examines aspects of the new urbanism of Silicon Valley, associated with the construction of headquarters for the giant technology companies.