Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   This compact volume of 38 square meters contains a room whose single-slope roof incorporates a skylight. Next to a food garden, it is annexed to a 17th-century house which is listed as a piece of heritage, with a porch in between, saving the vegetati

Sol89   Spain   Since pre-Roman times, the Gulf of Cádiz has been a center for Almadraba tuna fishing, in accordance with a technique that has barely changed since then. To oversee exploitation in the waters of the mouth of the river Piedras, from 1929 to 1963 there

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   A stately house dating back to the Late Middle Ages has been refurbished to fit in nine guest rooms to complement the offer of the well-known Atrio hotel and restaurant. The intervention defines a diagonal sequence that goes from the hallway to a rea

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   China   The project for the firm Pernod Ricard captures the dichotomy between two opposed but complementary elements, seeking a balance between architecture and landscape, industry and the visitor’s experience. Surrounded by a winding stream and the majestic

David Chipperfield   Italy   Built on the north side of Piazza de San Marco, one of the most recognizable squares in the world, the Procuratie Vecchie was designed by the architects Mauro Codussi, Bartolomeo Bon and Jacopo Sansovino in the first half of the 16th century, under t

Sergio Valadez   Spain   The archaeological enclave of Acinipo, within the municipality of Ronda in Málaga province, features one of the oldest theaters of Hispania, built in the 1st century BC. The objective of the project drawn up by Sergio Valadez was to facilitate readin

Santiago Varela Botella Santiago Varela Rizo   Spain   On a hill with craggy slopes in Xixona, a municipality in Alicante province, stands the medieval Castillo de la Torre Grossa (Castle of the Great Tower), called so in reference to one of its main keeps. The start of restoration work in 2019 drew atte

Pía Montero   Chile   It may seem that nothing ever happens in the craggy slopes of the Andes and that the cordillera is in the collective memory of Chileans little more than a political border or the poetic locus of Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Nicanor Parra. The

Sergio Sebastián   Spain   The refurbishment of this chapel, a project of Sebastián Arquitectos, is included in the second phase of a series of interventions on the French Way as it passes through Aragón. Facing the Leyre mountains, amid elms and oaks, the building once treasu

Stefano Boeri Architetti   Italy   The accidental fall of a young boy into an abyss of Rome’s Esquiline Hill in the 15th century revealed that cavities until then believed to be natural were partly buried vestiges of the Domus Aurea, Nero’s lavish villa, which his successors had hidde

Carquero arquitectura   Spain   The Cádiz firm Carquero arquitectura – led by Carlos Quevedo Rojas and Carlos Peinado Maduelo – consolidated and restored the space around the Sant Francesc y Pardala towers of the castle located in the capital of the comarca Los Puertos de Morella.

AGI Architects   Spain   Based in Madrid and (Safat) Kuwait, the firm headed by Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea and Nasser B. Abulhasan AGi Architects won a public competition organized by the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda to find designers for projects

Carme Pinós   Spain   Located at the foot of the Serra de Tramuntana, close to the town of Pollença, in the southernmost tip of Mallorca, Son Brull is a five-star hotel located in an old Jesuit monastery from the 18th century, and which was carefully restored in 2003 by i

Luis Vidal   Chile   With a built-up area of 5,500 square meters, the Matta Sur complex comprises two volumes. First is the former Metropolitan Lyceum of Santiago – built in 1891 and structurally gravely damaged by the 2010 earthquake – has been consolidated and renovate

Sergio Sebastián   Spain   Winner of the 2021 Hispania Nostra Award in the Intervention on Territory or Landscape section, the operations carried out in the core of the locality of Ruesta have made it possible to retrace a stretch of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route tha

Tatiana Bilbao   Spain   The complex borrows the density and scale from the old city, and the idea of filling the interstitial space of the old cloister upon discovering, in the historic description, that the layout of the Jesuit school-church (17th-18th centuries) is based

Dominique Perrault   France   The planning frenzy that Baron Haussman breathed into the Paris of 1850 led to an ambitious succession of urbanistic operations of an imperial grandeur that continued even after the establishment of the Third Republic twenty years later. It was in th

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   France   The competition-winning project set out to renovate and transform the Caserne de Reuilly, a former infantry quarter located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. Dating from the 19th century, during World War II the Caserne de Reuilly served as a mobi

Atelier-r   Czech Republic   The Czech studio Atelier-r, headed by Miroslav Pospíšil, has refurbished Helfštýn Castle. It is located in Týn nad Bečvou, a municipality in the Olomouc Region of the eastern part of the Czech Republic. Helfštýn dates back to the 14th century and t

Carles Enrich   Spain   Since its blasting during the First Carlist War, Jorba Castle has been little more than a hodgepodge of ruins high over a small town of the Catalonian comarca of Anoia. But the earth moving carried out in the course of what was to be a simple adjustm

Caruso St John Architects   Switzerland   The project to transform these old barracks in Zurich into two new schools offers an opportunity to give the monument, its open spaces, and its rooms a new use, and to see this major building in a different way: as if it were a house within a garden.

Carles Enrich   Spain   The old church of Santa Eulàlia in Gironella was built in the mid-14th century and since then it has been repurposed several times. In 1907 the building acquired a civil use and suffered a series of alterations derived from its different activities –

José María Sánchez García   Spain   The proposal is based on the understanding of the hospital building as an urban space, through the recovery and revaluation of its historic qualities, and the appropriate incorporation of the building in the city. The intervention allows the hospital

The Economist   Photogrammetry and 3D scanning will aid future rebuilding efforts. They will also help tell the story of the war. Outside the Dominican Church in Lviv’s historical centre, Yuriy Prepodobnyi carefully positions a laser scanner on a tripod, lining up i

Jean-Louis Cohen   A recent journey through the principal cities of the country was a stocktaking of Ukraine’s rich heritage, now under threat of Russian bombardments.

WMF   The 2022 World Monuments Watch, WMF's biennial selection of 25 of the world’s most irreplaceable heritage sites in need of immediate attention, has been revealed. Since 1996, WMF has issued a call to action for over 800 sites through the World Monume

The Art Newspaper   Vincent Noce   The Musée du quai Branly—Jacques Chirac in Paris is staging a farewell ceremony for the 26 objects about to be returned to Benin. An exhibition of the statues, thrones and ceremonial hatchets opens for five days only.  The restitution of the African

The Economist   One dam can flood hundreds of ancient sites. The fighters of Islamic State turned sledgehammers and drills on ancient temples after conquering north-western Iraq and north-eastern Syria in 2014. They raided the tombs of Assyrian kings in Nineveh, ble

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The chaotic exit from Afghanistan is a cultural drama, as well as a geopolitical failure that questions the leadership of the United States.

El País   Miguel Ezquiaga Fernández   Many sites in Spain have been recognized by UNESCO for their outstanding universal value, but up until now, not one of them was located in the Spanish capital. Madrid’s famous Retiro Park and Paseo del Prado boulevard have been added to UNESCO’s Worl

The Guardian   Josh Halliday   Liverpool has been stripped of its coveted world heritage status after Unesco blamed years of development for an “irreversible loss” to the historic value of its Victorian docks. The UN’s heritage body concluded at a meeting in China on Wednesday tha

Winners were announced for the 5th European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention, a biennial competition organized by COAC (Catalonia Institute of Architects) and AADIPA (Association of Architects for Defense and Intervention in Architectura

The Art Newspaper   William Summerfield   Archaeologists fear the structural changes aimed to improve access to the Unesco site will “dramatically” change its form. Plans for a major renovation project to the western entrance of the Acropolis have met with strong opposition from archaeologis

Finland is updating its tentative list in line with the World Heritage Agreement. In summer 2018, an open, online questionnaire survey was conducted for new nominations to be world heritage sites, which were considered in 2019 by a workgroup set up b

The News & Observer   Richard Stradling   The dismantling of The Elion-Hitchings Building, near where Cornwallis Road meets the Durham Freeway, has been underway internally for several months. But now the demolition has reached the point where workers are pulling the building apart and hauli

The youngest generations of architects have demonstrated that Catalan architecture can well pursue courses deviating from the cosmopolitanism of disseny and Barcelona. It is true that the teaching and practice of the profession in Catalonia has to a

The Guardian   Rowan Moore   From Aleppo to Palmyra, many of the country’s architectural treasures have been reduced to rubble, but restoration has begun...

The recipients of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards were announced on 21 May. These are among the most high-profile prizes in the profession, and the year 2019 has reaped a total of twenty-five recognitions in sixteen countries of t

The winners of the four categories of the fourth European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention (AADIPA), given in a ceremony held in June at the Catalonia Institute of Architects (COAC) in Barcelona, are: under Intervention in Built Heritage

Construir sobre lo construido es un problema moderno. Antes de que existiera la perspectiva histórica, los restos del pasado —incluso los más prestigiosos de la Antigüedad clásica— eran tratados como materia muerta que, una vez descompuesta merced al

Luis Fernández-Galiano   After many years of large interventions, Spain is now moving on to times of minor surgery. If not all ailments require open-heart surgery, not all social demands call for the construction of large buildings: the health of citizens is preserved and pr

The Unesco Commitee that gathered in Istanbul on 10 July only to cut short its stay because of the 16 July coup d’etat attempt has added five new enclaves to its Heritage of Humanity list, among them seventeen buildings by Le Corbusier and the batter

Pedro Moleón   La cornisa más hermosa de Madrid incorpora una nueva pieza, remate del conjunto formado por el Palacio de Oriente y la Catedral de la Almudena; un museo que es a la vez un murallón.

Víctor Pérez Escolano   De Escuela de Mareantes en el siglo XVII a sede de la Presidencia de la Junta de Andalucía en el XXI; el palacio sevillano ha cambiado de programa, manteniendo su sustancia. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If our only true homeland are the landscapes of childhood, our only heritage are the memories which serve as a support for our personal or collective identity. But our memory feeds not only on pale photographs, forgotten music or fading perfumes; it

El edificio modernista terminado en 1885 por Lluís Doménech Montaner para la editorial Montaner en el Ensanche de Barcelona renació en 1990 como Fundación Tàpies, rehabilitado por Roser Amadó y Lluís Doménech Girbau. Recientemente ha iniciado su terc