P + S Estudio de Arquitectura   France   The second Forêt Monumentale is being held in the Roumare woods, in the French region of Normandy. It is an open-air artistic promenade, featuring thirteen monumental installations in dialogue with the landscape. Prominent among them is Compluvium, a

ETH Zürich   Switzerland   Rising almost 30 meters, Tor Alva is the tallest 3D-printed tower in the world. Built by Nova Fundaziun Origen with ETH Zurich, it aimed to revitalize Mulegns (Switzerland), a small Alpine village with only eleven inhabitants at present. Tor Alva (Wh

Nikken Sekkei   Japan   Each panel is really a sandwich composed of two flat surfaces of four layers each, held up by an inner metal substructure onto which they are simply screwed to facilitate future dismantling and reuse...

Atelier Brückner   Japan   From the roof’s intricate structure to the signage, the building is based on the geometrical patterns of a technique of scratching plaster – ganch carving – used in Central Asia to decorate palaces and temples...

Kengo Kuma   Japan   A work of AMO, the exhibition design offers a journey through twelve locations along the Qatari coast, around a cinema lined with curtains that are an abstract recreation of the experience of taking shelter in a tent...

Lina Ghotmeh   Japan   Like the hull of a dhow – a type of boat of Arabian origin – the system of timber frames encloses a hold where a central atrium organizes the visitor and service areas, separated by semi-transparent textiles...

interplay   Japan   The snail-like geometry of the design allows a progression in the visitor’s experience of the interior, where a fluid public space culminates in an introspective concert hall located at the heart of the pavilion...

Foster + Partners   Japan   The cluttered mesh of streets characteristic of Arabian cities has been reproduced by means of a computer model in order to optimize bioclimatic protection...

Apropos Architects   Japan   While the central space for events is lit by a round skylight overhead, integrated into the passable roof, the uninterrupted gallery provides large surfaces for the display of Bohemian glass art...

AMDL CIRCLE   Japan   The timber used in the structure of portal frames came from cypress forests in the vicinity, treated with a kind of tar that mixes persimmon pulp with pine charcoal to protect the material and give it a distinctive grayish tone...

Manuel Herz   Japan   In front of an auxiliary block clad in wood is a cluster of globes formed by two-layered thermoplastic pillows, which are inflated to ensure normal pressure inside and avoid the need for airlocks...

RAU Architects   Japan   The dome-like hall is enclosed with a skin of undulating metal louvers, which together cover exactly 425 meters, in commemoration of the 425 years of trade relations between the Netherlands and Japan...

Coldefy Carlo Ratti   Japan   Like a grand opéra, the exhibition is divided into acts: the ceremonious entrance is followed by a sequence of thematic spaces that look over the ground floor, to which one returns after an interlude in the rear garden...

Extudio ENORME Studio Smart and Green Design   Japan   From the porticoed structure of red cedarwood to the colored ceramic pieces of the facade and interior finishes, all the materials are integrated into a circular system, collapsible and reusable. Like a dive into deep waters, a visitor ramp clad in d

Salazar Sequero Medina Leggett & Cahuas    Peru   The 13th Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU) was held in Lima (Perú) in 2024 and themed ‘Climates: Actions for Good Living.’ The installation Sobremesas (after-meal table talks) was created for this event. It is a table though

Itten + Brechbühl   Switzerland   With sustainability in mind, this timber building rose to be easily dismantled after ten years of use. The construction of Forum UZH, a Zurich training and research center designed by Herzog & de Meuron, required taking down four existing sports

José Rodríguez Lucena Carlos Montes González   Spain   On view through 14 October at Plaza del Rey in San Fernando is the pavilion La Sal, a work of the architects José Rodríguez Lucena and Carlos Montes González. After ¡Qué faena(r)!, the project carried out for the city of Vigo (Pontevedra), San Fernan

Manuel Bouzas   Italy   As part of the third Festival des Cabanes, held at Villa Medici in Rome, the temporary pavilion Cabane 7L gives visitors the chance to enjoy views of the Renaissance gardens through the treetops. Raised entirely with firwood boasting sustainability c

Óscar Cruz García Pablo Paradinas Sastre   Spain   Visitable through 14 July at Vigo’s Porta do Sol is the temporary pavilion ¡Qué faena(r)! (What a Task!), the design for which won the ideas competition for the third TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, organized under the auspices of Spain’s Housing a

Mass Studies   United Kingdom   The Serpentine Gallery’s 23rd summer pavilion at Kensington Gardens in London will be visitable from 7 June to 27 October. Designed by the Korean architect Minsuk Cho of the firm Mass Studies, it is inspired by vernacular wood architecture in his cou

Lys Villalba Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco   Spain   ‘Three Landscape Essays’ is a pilot project that tests strategies to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis in Southern Europe’s public spaces. They are on display in the main courtyard of the Conde Duque Center for Contemporary Culture in Madrid

TAKK   France   Plato imagined the cave as an allegory of a sensual world that is just appearance, and this feigned background seems to materialize in the dazzling mise-en-scène that during this fashion season dresses the storefronts of the Parisian house of luxury

SO-IL   Belgium   The Brooklyn firm SO-IL designed ‘Common Thread’ for the Bruges Triennial of 2024, ongoing until 1 September. Executed in collaboration with Mariana Popescu (TU Delft) and Summum Engineering, the pavilion meanders through the courtyard of a 19th-cent

From 19 to 24 June the city of Logroño is the scene of a special edition of Concéntrico, its International Festival of Architecture and Design, celebrating its now ten years of exploring public space. Since its founding in 2015, the event has for a f

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   If there is an urban model that nowadays shows clear symptoms of collapse, that’s Venice. The floating city has been sinking for decades under the weight of its own success, completely denatured and at the mercy of speculative policies. The ever more

The winners of the fourth edition of the TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, sponsored by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) in collaboration with the Arquia Foundation, have been announced. The pavilion Espartal will be shown at Casa Med

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   The sacred used to be clothed in the sublime. A vestige of this was seen in the conclave, a ritual that would awaken much less awe if it did not take place in one of the most beautiful enclaves on Earth, where popes tried to make every square centime

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   Waters rise, temperaturas increase, and natural catastrophies keep happening, laying bare our incapacity to take care of the environment and showing that inaction has consequences. In this context of cut-off lows, fires, and extreme droughts, it seem

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   In a city of Byzantine domes, Gothic arches, and Ottoman columns – a crossroads and a meeting point for millennia – stones have much to say. Anyone traversing Venice with sharpened eyes and ears – skirting gondoliers, pizzerie, and souvenirs – senses

The Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum designed this year’s temporary pavilion for the Serpentine, London, marking twenty-five years since the London gallery’s first Serpentine Pavilion, which Zaha Hadid designed. Titled ‘A Capsule in Time,’ this

The 10th edition of Concentric, the International Festival of Architecture and Design held yearly in Logroño, took place from 25 April to 1 May. Through installations temporarily scattered around the capital of La Rioja, the annual event triggers ref

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The 23rd annual Serpentine Gallery pavilion, due to open in June, is the work of South Korean architect Minsuk Cho, and his company Mass Studies. The first Korean architect to be selected for the prestigious commission, he plans to create a cluster o

In line with the restoration of the Palais Garnier, the Opéra National de Paris invited the artist JR to decorate the over-30-meter scaffolding that currently overs the facade. Two installations evoking Plato’s cave allegory were developed: Act I – L

The urban canopy that protects the whole plaza is built with two triangular timber porticoes from which hangs a huge Alicantina-type rolling shutter in a dark green tone which pays tribute to this symbol of Mediterranean culture.

TAC! Is an annual festival of urban architecture that holds is second edition in Valencia (14 September – 16 October) and Donostia-San Sebastián (10 October – 13 November). Organized by Spain’s Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA)

Ever since Napoleon took possession of the Villa Medici, it has been home to the French Academy in Rome, an institution that continues to take in gifted pensionnaires, and in addition to that, has set in motion a festival involving a competition for

With great success Logroño’s International Festival of Architecture and Design, aka Concéntrico, has for nine years now filled the northern Spanish city with imaginative ephemeral installations aimed at rethinking the urban environment and public spa

The 9th edition of Concentric, the International Festival of Architecture and Design held yearly in Logroño, took place from 27 April to 2 May. Through installations temporarily scattered around the capital of La Rioja, the annual event triggers refl

Tom Dixon, Marc Fornes, MAD architects, Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, and OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture presented their installations at Milan Design Week, part of the 61st Salone del Mobile, open from 18 to 23 April 2023.

By eating, we digest territories. At the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, due to open on 19 May, visitors to the Spanish Pavilion will have the opportunity to embark on a journey into architectures that feed us, fr

Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, has been selected to conceive the 22nd Pavilion. Ghotmeh’s Pavilion will be unveiled at Serpentine South in June 2023.  This pioneering and prestigious commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha

The Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta founded DRIFT in 2007. It is a studio that specializes in aerial installations, with a multi-disciplinary team working on experiential artistic creations. In collaboration with the companies Drone Sto

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The artist has built a space for quiet contemplation in homage to his roofer father, but the materials seem too clean-cut and corporate to fit the idea. A tolling church bell has joined the summer sounds of birdsong and tinkling fountains in Kensingt

Fed up perhaps with all the artsy airs that architects sometimes take on, the Serpentine Gallery in London has this year decided to assign its summer pavilion directly to a conceptual artist. Eclectically trained in urban planning and ceramics throug

Desert Sun   Brian Blueskye   Six artists have waited two years to feature their work at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and the installations feature themes of gathering, the local environment, immigration and a nod to historic design. This year's mix of artists a

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Inspired by the kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the Chicago artist’s Black Chapel will host bands, including his own, and also provide ‘a place of quietude’ where even the British weather is welcome. The Serpentine Gallery’s annual summer pavilion will take