An international competition held in 2008 was won by the Barcelona firms Mendoza Partida and BAX, thanks to a scheme that transformed a building of great historical value into a cultural facility while reactivating the banks of the river Ljubljanica
Liknon is a new space dedicated to Metaxa, a Greek liquor made since 1888 in the distillery founded by Spyros Metaxas. The center is located in a 100-year-old vineyard on the island of Samos. The Muscat grapevines spread beneath the town of Vourliote
Plans to build the Las Vegas Museum of Art in the heart of the largest city of the state of Nevada have been approved. The new institution, with 8,360 square meters, will be located in the area of Symphony Park, close to the Discovery Children’s Muse
Located in the area of Vijayanagar, in the Indian city of Toranagallu, the Hampi Art Labs complex evokes the forms of the neaby Tungabhadra River and the surrounding hills. Using stone, clay, brick, and cement, the project’s spaces flow between curvi
The rectangular volumes that remain by Floralia Hall are drastically altered, making the original neoclassical appearance disappear. This huge central nave functions as an interior extension of the public space surrounding it, now transformed into a
A bold structure of steel and wood, resting on new foundations at independent points, stretches over the existing building like a bridge. Not only does it extend the area of the museum, but it also increases the headroom for the upper floor galleries
Two barrel-shaped volumes are integrated into the layout of the park to free up more green space, preserving the autonomy of the Floralia Hall both in form and in function. The two buildings reinterpret the historic structures flanking this central r
The cores and facades of the extension are joined to form the main structure. The slabs and standardized roofs favor natural lighting through a continuous window that offers the option of controlling how much light is used in each room...
A local company took the initiative of developing this cultural project as a coworking space and cafeteria. The structure and finishes are completed with cross-laminated timber panels, of which Okayama Prefecture is the largest producer in the countr
The Audeum (Audio Museum) is located in Seoul’s Gangnam district. The exterior skin presents hanging aluminum louvers that overlap vertically to create a play of changing shadows. The random and sculptural cascade arrangement makes it possible to em
The design for the National Library of Israel juxtaposes the desire to react to the architectural traditions of the place with the ambition to make a building that is appropriate for our contemporary time – a library that is welcoming, accessible to
The Royal Shipyards of Seville are the city’s most impressive civil construction. They are located in a privileged spot: in the Arenal neighborhood, midway between the river and the monumental site of the Cathedral, the Archive of the Indies, and the
On a difficult plot in the historic quarter of the city of Grasse in southern France, the Charles Nègre media library absorbs some preexisting dwellings and an old water reservoir. The 3,600-square-meter building is inserted into the urban fabric of
Declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 2014, the La Calderona cistern in Porcuna (Jaén) was a water tank of the Roman city of Obulco, believed to have been connected to a hydraulic infrastructure of the municipium, possibly public thermal baths. Dur
Wrapped with a corrugated skin of punched aluminum, Daminghu 100 in Jinan is the result of transforming an old office and hotel building into a culture and arts center. Located on the south shore of DaMing Lake, it blends into the natural and histori
The firm 3XN has won the competition to build a visitor hub on the port in Assens, a city on the Danish island of Funen. An oval-shaped building will accommodate exhibitions and activities throwing light on the impact of human beings and climate chan
The firm 3XN has won the invitation-only competition to build an art center in the South Korean city of Chungnam. The scheme draws inspiration from the movement of an orchestra conductor’s baton and from the arc that a ballet dancer’s pointed toe mak
Apple The Exchange TRX, the first Apple retail location in Malaysia, has opened in the capital. Crowned with a dome, the store rises three levels with a viewing deck above, connected to a park. From the base to the top, the 26.5 x 26.5-meter roof tra
The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University (UAD) has built a series of public spaces for Wanghu Village, in the mountainous zone of Zhejiang Province in China. In the context of rural revitalization, the objective was to pre
The French studio of Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki, in collaboration with Mexican firm Frida Escobedo Studio and AIA Ingénierie, has won the competition to carry out an overhaul of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The steel-and-glass museum built b
The British firm David Kohn Architects has won the competition to redesign SMAK, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, in collaboration with the Belgian practices no Aarchitecten and Asli Cicek. The objective is to redefine the museum’s
This is the permanent venue of the ZGC Forum, an annual conference, in the Zhongguancun area of Beijing’s Haidian district. Known as China’s Silicon Valley, Zhongguancun is a major technology center inhabited by many firms and institutions devoted to
The historical customs building of San Blas, a port city in the Mexican state of Nayarit, preserved its ground level and an old corridor. Commissioned by the Secretariat for Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development (SEDATU), the project aimed to
The British Museum has announced which teams will be competing in the next stage of the international competition to renovate its Western Range galleries, an ambitious project of reimagining over a third of the London institution’s gallery space. The
Amidst the tide of challenges faced by the fashion industry under pandemic restrictions, OMA’s laboratory of ideas (AMO) took on the complex task of rethinking Bershka’s retail strategy. The first contact took place with the Bershka Flagship Milano,
The brutalist Grieg Hall with which the Norwegian city of Bergen honored its most universal musician will soon have another auditorium to show for, designed by the Danish firm Henning Larsen as a sinuous building next to the original. In addition to
Roy Nachum (1979, Jerusalem) works across disciplines and is known especially for paintings that go from surrealism to hyperrealism. Nachum rose to fame with the cover design for Rihanna’s Anti album of 2016, a work that included a fragment in Braill
On the campus of Brown University, the New York studio REX – with Joshua Ramus, a former partner at OMA, at the helm – has completed a versatile performing arts center that addresses the requirements of a renowned full student symphony orchestra and
If there is something we are still learning from Las Vegas, it is the fact that there are no limits to creativity in the search for publicity ploys and gimmicks. To its kitch imitation of Italy’s City of Canals, the casino and hotel The Venetian has
Architecture has had so many ties to the hard power of politics and religion that we can easily forget how it has also always, from the very beginning, served the soft power of science. Weren’t the Babylon ziggurats towers from which to observe the s
The German National Theater, the residences of the likes of Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, or Liszt, the Bauhaus Museum... Classical Weimar boasts a wealth of places to visit that tell of the city’s rich history, for not in vain is it on the UNESCO Wor
Part of an agritourism project located in the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains, a Nordic horticulture farm has on its premises added four micro-refuges designed by the Quebec-based architecture firm Atelier L’Abri. Shaped like isosceles triangle
Like a jewelry box, a treasure chest, or a Wunderkammer, the Royal Collections Gallery opened its doors in the city of Madrid last 28 June to showcase its extraordinary architecture, in addition to its no less extraordinary collection of objects whic
Ptolemy, the Greek pharaoh of Egypt, ordered the building of the Mouseion of Alexandria in the year 280 BC, and in doing this, what he was inventing was not so much a place where erudites could come to study under the sponsorship of the State, but ra
Palace matters take time. That is why two decades – practically the same as Philip II with his Escorial – have been necessary to complete the great center called to collect the treasures of the Spanish crown. The project was already considered during
The new museum, one of the largest cultural complexes built in decades, showcases its collections along the two main levels, each devoted to one of the reigning dynasties.
A linear volume is attached to the slope that historically marked the border of the city, establishing with its rigorous granite facade a formal and material dialogue with the Royal Palace.
The physical and symbolic magnitude of the work by Mansilla+Tuñón brings to life a long-held yearning of showing an art collection treasured for centuries by the kings of Spain.
The firm 6a architects has publicized the first images of its ‘reimagining’ of Tate Liverpool, which was founded in 1988. The intervention on the 180-year-old building includes double-height exhibition galleries and an events venue on the ground flo
The Centre Georges Pompidou will be opening a museum in Seoul in 2025, expanding its network of outposts that currently includes branches in Metz, Shanghai, and Málaga. The Paris-based institution has signed an agreement with the Hanwha Culture Found
Libraries are perhaps the most famous buildings in the West. They have probably also been the most useful. Certainly no one will question their worth as symbols of an entire culture, if not an entire civilization. For our civilization – or at least f
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Published at the same time, the books that the art historian Estrella de Diego and the writer Antonio Muñoz Molina have devoted to the Prado may seem like parallel endeavors, but could not be more different. Both arose from invitations to give semina
Without shadow there is no light, and in full knowledge of this, the Sorolla Museum has put together an exhibition that showcases a less usual version of Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), painter of a dazzling Mediterranean Sea, who at many points in the
With the intention of bringing together under one same roof the entire collection of the extinct Museum of Artistic Reproductions, the National Sculpture Museum made a call for competition that would result in a project to fit out the Renaissance pal
In spite of the exceptional reception the public has always given him, Santiago Calatrava’s L’Àgora is regarded with suspicion by critics. Not only because of the visual populism the construction flaunts, but also, and above all, because this skeleto
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