Barozzi Veiga Tab Architects Koplamp Architecten   Belgium   The Groeninge Abbey complex in Kortrijk, a city in the Belgian province of West Flanders, is being enlarged and transformed into an artistic studio for temporary exhibitions and public events. The project consolidates the chapel and the convent rooms

Jakob + MacFarlane   France   One aspiration of the avant-gardes was to break the box, but the Nouvelle-Aquitaine regional center of contemporary art only had to open it: a simple two-level volume was inserted into the central void of a disused printing press to expand the exhibi

CEBRA architecture   Albania   The impressive mountains that surround the capital of Albania inspire the design of this mixed-use skyscraper set to be the country’s tallest, and houses apartments, shops, boutique hotel, business area, offices, and parking as well as restaurants an

KAAN Architecten   Brazil   The Sueli Pontes ecomuseum of the Orla Piratininga park is located on the shores of the Piratininga lagoon in Niterói, near the bay of Rio de Janeiro. The project, a collaboration between the Dutch firm KAAN Architecten and the local studios UrbSP an

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   France   The new Pathé complex proposes Paris as European capital of cinema, bringing together production and distribution under one roof. The project involves a complete renovation of the historic Paramount complex – built in 1929 by Auguste Bluysen in art d

Liu Jiakun   China   Located at the foot of some old caverns used for the storage of liquors, a new facility makes it possible to immerse oneself in the mountainous site and get close to them. Thought out to establish a connection with both the slope and the views of the

Liu Jiakun   China   The declining environs of two temples have been revitalized through the insertion of new community programs, which punctuate a picturesque succession of courtyards and covered galleries. A museum, a hotel, a café, and a bookstore fit themselves into

Liu Jiakun   China   The paving stones that were used in the Forbidden City in Beijing came from a manufacturing plant whose centenary history is presented by premises that explore the poetics of baked brick. The museum features a marshy park, fenced in like traditional

Liu Jiakun   China   The facilities of the oldest Chinese distillery still in operation are surrounded by new production buildings with pitched roofs, where traditional fermenting and liquor-making practices are perpetuated. A courtyard connects the various volumes, whos

Liu Jiakun   China   New additions to the Jianchuan museums, which house the country’s largest private collection, are three interconnected pavilions harboring the memory of the Cultural Revolution. Like temples in bustling areas, the galleries showing historical items a

Lina Ghotmeh   United Kingdom   The British Museum has announced that Lina Ghotmeh Architecture has by unanimous vote won the bid to redesign its Western Range galleries. The scheme drawn up by the Paris-based firm led by the Lebanese-born architect carried the day over the other f

Delugan Meissl   China   The Austrian firm Delugan Meissl has transformed an old industrial facility in disuse, located in Shanghai’s Pudong district, into a greenhouse with curving glass pavilions reaching a height of 35 meters. This unique space, the Expo Cultural Park Gre

Al Borde   Ecuador   Yuyarina Pacha means ‘space-time to think’ in Kichwa, one of Ecuador’s official native languages. This library is located in the community of Huaticocha, in the buffer zone of the Sumaco Biosphere Reserve, in the Ecuardorian Amazon. In 2019, the Sara

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group ALB-Architect   Kosovo   Designed by BIG in collaboration with the local firm ALB-Architect, the project for the new Opera & Ballet Theatre in Prishtina – the capital of Kosovo, in the Balkans, southeastern Europe – features four performance halls and a public plaza. It

Boltshauser Architekten   Switzerland   The tower, measuring eight meters tall, functions as viewing deck, exhibition space, and furnace. Timber boards are added to the pre-stressed pieces of adobe and steel that form the walls to make their transportation easier in case of disassembly...

Snøhetta   China   If in the impressive Bibliotheca Alexandrina Snøhetta proved that roofs can become facades, in the symbolic Norwegian National Opera and Ballet they demonstrated that roofs can also be plazas, and almost twenty-five years later the echoes of both des

Kerstin Thompson Architects   Australia   The Melbourne-based firm Kerstin Thompson Architects has made additions to the landscape of Bundanon, a 1,000-hectare property gifted to the Australian people by the artists Arthur and Yvonne Boyd in 1993, overlooking the Shoalhaven River, near Nowra

ARW Associates   Italy   A work of ARW Associates in collaboration with Brescia Infrastrutture, the new theater in Brescia, in Italy’s Lombardy region, falls under ‘Oltre la strada,’ a larger operation to reurbanize the industrial area around Via Milano. In this project, red

Zaha Hadid Architects Bureau Cube Partners   Serbia   Zaha Hadid Architects – in collaboration with Bureau Cube Partners – has won the anonymous competition to transform the old Milan Vapa paper factory in Belgrade into the new Nikola Tesla Museum. Encompassing 13,400 square meters, the project helps to

Finland   In the international competition for the new Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design, five of the 624 anonymously submitted schemes have been shortlisted for the second phase. They are: 96 Tyrsky, 351 Kumma, 486 Moby, 545 Tau, and 616 City, Sky and

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Spain   Built in the 13th century, the listed ensemble of the Reales Atarazanas (Royal Shipyards) is in a privileged spot in the center of Seville: the Arenal quarter, halfway between the Guadalquivir and the monumental complex of the Cathedral, between the

Metro Arquitetos   Brazil   The project to expand the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) – a work of the architect Lina Bo Bardi – is part of an overall renovation that began in 2014, in which the Brazilian firm Metro has participated from the start. Besides diverse actions carr

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Situated between the Münsterhügel and the former outer city wall, the area known as St. Alban-Vorstadt represents one of Basel’s first early medieval expansions and has largely retained its historic character. In 2017, the Christoph Merian Foundation

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

The community center called Las Tejedoras (the weavers) in Chongón (Ecuador), a work of Natura Futura Arquitectura and Juan Carlos Bamba, has earned for them the Emerging Practice Award of 2024. Given by the Illinois Institute of Technoogy College of

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

The Spreeinsel, or 'Spree Island', became the representative seat of power of the German Empire on its southern side, and throughout the 19th century its northern end was transformed into a privileged cultural site: the Altes Museum by Karl Friedrich

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

Manuel Blanco   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. 

Emilio Tuñón   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. 

Pedro Moleón   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 Art Newspaper    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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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

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