The proposal for the park shows a ‘romantic garden’ with a topography of undulating hills that offer visitors beautiful views across the water and the city beyond. A series of grottos underneath bring a rich diversity of atmospheres to the site. To a
The conversion of the Fenix warehouse into a museum of migration incorporates a public atrium and a theatrical stairway that will allow users to move throughout the space. It will be the first MAD-designed public cultural building in Europe...
A semi-transparent glass facade wraps the new volume, which contains a concert hall seating 1,600 spectators covered with a ceiling of white reflecting petals that allows lighting and visualizations be projected for musical performances...
The Catalan practice of Héctor Mendoza and Mara Partida has won the competition for ideas for the new Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria in Santander, The complex will encompass 18,441 square meters, 7,500 of which will go into an admi
The Chinese firm MAD Architects, headed by Ma Yansong, has unveiled its masterplan and architectural design for an ambitious cultural complex with a total built area of 182,000 square meters. Located within the Houhai area of Shenzhen’s Nanshan distr
New Slussen is one of the largest urban transformation projects in Sweden. The design seeks to create a dynamic urban quarter, responding to its historic context and transforming the labyrinth of traffic in the new city center. New public spaces and
With a form that is a pure expression of the function, the tower is divided into three stacked volumes, with the core placed to the rear. Standing alongside icons by Mies, Saarinen, and Johnson, it is the first office block to go up on Park Avenue in
The project reconsiders the original plan, the connection of the buildings and the presence of the museum in the city; a sculptural new volume with large glazed openings and crowned by a public events hall will become a new urban landmark...
The Madrid practice of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano have won first place in the competition to build a museum in San Felíu de Guíxols (Girona) to house part of Carmen Thyssen's art collection, joining those already existing in Madrid, Málaga,
The creation of a new circulation node seeks to increase the ecological flow by strengthening and connecting two green infrastructures promoting synergies between the industrial experience of the city and agricultural tradition...
With the purpose of giving landscape – natural, social, cultural, economic...– back its protagonism, the proposal is a sum of projects based on dialogue and participation, and which address a wide range of uses as well as contemporary and future form
The Barcelona practice led by Benedetta Tagliabue has placed first in the international competition to redevelop Century Square on East Nanjing Road in the city of Shanghai, strategically located between People’s Square and The Bund.The scheme submit
For a city planned ex novo as a paradigm of radical speculation, the firm AZPML has won the competition for the Korean Museum of Urbanism and Architecture (KMUA). Its scheme seeks to rethink the role of the discipline in this day and age, in the proc
The Barcelona studio Pinearq, which specializes in hospitals and other facilities for the health sciences all over the world, has in collaboration with the Romanian firm Dico si Tiganas won the contest to build a new integral transplant center in the
Albeit decimated during the Shoah and attacked on several occasions in recent times, the Jewish community of Belgium asserts its presence and importance in the country’s history by means of a small museum which in the wake of an international competi
Los navarros Antonio Vaíllo y Juan Luis Irigaray han ganado el concurso convocado para renovar el Museo Vasco de Bilbao. El proyecto actúa sobre los edificios históricos del museo y recupera el gran claustro como centro del espacio expositivo. El emp
The Madrid partners Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, in collaboration with the Parisian firm Marin+Trottin, finished first in the bid to design the Cité du Théâtre in Paris, carrying the day over the other two finalists, Foster+Partners and Fabr
The British partnership of Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke – in collaboration with the Belgian firm TRANS Architectuur and RE-ST – has won the bid to build an extension to Design Museum Gent (see AV Proyectos 99) that will improve circulation and the
The practice of Héctor Mendoza and Mara Partida has won the ideas competition for the Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria in the city of Santander. The jury, which included Fuensanta Nieto of the firm Nieto Sobejano, appreciated the uni
The dynamism that is associated with the use of horizontal bands in buildings, as well as with skating as a sport, is the gist of the scheme that has made Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano the winners of the competition to enlarge a high-performan
A screen-like building, seemingly trivial but with a scale and urban position that make it a monument, has given OMA / Reiner de Graaf the victory in the contest for the new headquarters of the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB), beside the B
The Barcelona practice headed by Boris Bežan and Mónica Juvera, Bax studio, won the invitational competition that was organized for the creation of the Dimnikcobau office complex in the industrial zone of Moste, located in the east-central part of th
