Formline   Canada   In the heart of the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver stands this institution that addresses the story of the indigenous children who for more…

Jesús Aparicio Donaire Milans Arquitectos   Italy   The proejct ‘Futuro Precedent’ (Future Precedent) – drawn up by the Spanish practices of Jesús Aparicio and Donaire Milans, in collaboration with the local architects and heritage experts Francesco Cellini and María Margarita Segarra with the restore

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos Ulargui Arquitectos   Spain   A scheme drawn up by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos in collaboration with Ulargui Arquitectos has won the competition organized by Spain’s Finance Ministry to raise a new institutional building at Padre Damián 52, in Madrid. With a rectangular courtyard in

AGI Architects   Spain   Founded by Joaquín Pérez-Goicoechea and Nasser B. Abulhasan, the firm AGI architects has won the competition to renovate and expand Castilfalé Palace, which harbors the Municipal Archive of Burgos. Adjacent to the palace, the enlarged archive depot w

NULA.STUDIO   Spain   Selected from a pool of 29 entries, the project Pati-Oh! – drawn up by NULA-STUDIO, the Madrid practice of Laia Cervelló and Miguel Fernández-Galiano, in collaboration with the A Coruña firm Fernández Carballada y Asociados (FCA) – won the public com

Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei   Germany   In an artery opened in the 1950s to decongest the historic center, the extension of the local savings bank dialogues with the medieval fabric without sacrificing its contemporary essence. The use of recycled bricks echoes the solid walls of the build

Kéré Architecture   Benin   The scheme drawn up by the Berlin firm of Francis Kéré for Porto-Novo, the capital of Benin, takes inspiration from the ‘word tree,’ the western African tradition by which the community gathers under a tree to make collective decisions. Facing the

Studio Lotus   India   In the capital of the Indian state of Odisha, the New Delhi-based firm Studio Lotus has built new offices for the Department of Agriculture. As a government building it was conceived at the outset strictly for official use, but the architects propose

KAAN Architecten   France   This new complex acts as a transition between a motorway built over the historical Vauban fortification and the Eurartisanat Campus of Lille, which the same architects designed. Coexisting in the building are the emphatic boldness of its geometry, th

Foster + Partners ArchitectsHafeez Contractor   India   Designed with the highest sustainability standards, the new administrative capital of Andhra Pradesh is organized by an urban grid with a green spine running through its length. The project includes the Legislature Assembly and the High Court complex

Atelier Lorentzen Langkilde   Norway   Located in the Arctic Circle, the project transforms and connects the two existing buildings, and dialogs with them through color and the pattern of the faceted facades of Jura Stone of the new volume, whose angles capture the changing northern light

Díaz y Díaz TAU   Spain   The practice of Gustavo Díaz and Lucas Díaz – working out of offices in A Coruña and Madrid – and that of Naiara Montero and Jon Montero (TAU) – A Coruña and Barcelona – together designed a new judiciary building for the city of Pontevedra. The 23,48

Mecanoo   Taiwan   A large bracket stretches horizontally, establishing a narrow connection with the environment; on top of it, the perfect cube that contains the archives is protected, like a precious object, by a facade of natural stone and thin aluminum slats... [+]

Kengo Kuma   Brazil   Opened in the year 2017, the Japan House in São Paulo is the first example developed within the ‘Japan House’ initiative, developed by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote various aspects of Japanese culture in the world. The building

Bonell & Gil   Switzerland   The new parliament of the Canton of Vaud melds into a complex historical context, replacing the old building destroyed by fire in 2002 and refurbishing the existing structures. 

Lux Architect   Germany   The German firm of Manfred Lux was commissioned to renovate the town hall building of Burtenbach, a Bavarian municipality first mentioned in a 1558 document. The building was subjected to modifications over time, and significantly renovated in 1972.

Undurraga Devés arquitectos   Chile   The project is inserted in the very center of the grid that brought the city of Santiago into being in 1541, a matrix that became the urban paradigm of the Laws of the Indies in America. A good portion of this grid still organizes the continuous and

Undurraga Devés arquitectos   Chile   The seismic nature of Chilean territory marks the country’s architecture, as this tower shows. The commission brought the opportunity to address this universal type from a local perspective, making the tactile prevail over the aluminum or glass walls

Jean Nouvel   Netherlands   Surrounded by an extraordinary landscape of polders, the building rises like a vertical sea vessel whose glass walls engage in a dialogue with the typical changing Dutch atmosphere.

COBE Architects   Denmark   The enlargement of the Red Cross’s Danish headquarters pursues two main objectives: to create a place for volunteers to meet and work in, and to give the city a new public space.

Aulets   Spain   Like just another house in the old quarter of Felanitx, a locality in the southeast of the island of Majorca, stands this construction that houses the municipal archives, a work of the Majorcan firm Aulets Arquitectes, led by Francisco Cifuentes, Seb

José María Sánchez García   Spain   To achieve maximum functional efficiency and a contemporary image with minimum cost, the proposal concentrates the program in a new building placed east of the site, freeing up the rest of the plot for circulation, gymnasium, and drill halls... [+]

Mendoza Partida OP Team Ramón Valls   Spain   The team formed by the firms Mendoza Partida (Héctor Mendoza and Mara Partida), Op Team (Santi Orteu, Gloria Piferrer, and Xavier Parré), and Ramón Valls Navascués has won the the competition to turn shed 8 of the Can Batlló premises into the new sit

JDS, Coldefy, NL Architects, Carlo Ratti, ENSAMBLE STUDIO, UTIL cvba, and Ramboll have together won the bid to revamp the Paul-Henri SPAAK Building, main home…

The municipal government house of Foios, located in the region of Valencia, will be renovated by Madrid-based NULA.STUDIO, in collaboration with A Coruña firm Fernández Carballada Arquitectos. Organized around an inner courtyard that serves as an ext

In the capital of the Indian state of Odisha, the New Delhi-based firm Studio Lotus has built new offices for the Department of Agriculture. As a government building it was conceived at the outset strictly for official use, but the architects propose

In the Swiss city of Lausanne, and in collaboration with the local firm Atelier Cube, the Barcelona-based practice of Esteve Bonell and Josep Maria Gil recently completed the new parliament of the Canton of Vaud. Reinterpreting the typical volumes an

Fulvio Irace   Inspired in the linear archetype of a house with a gable roof, the architecture of the Fondazione Feltrinelli becomes three-dimensional to address the topography and memory of the place. 

François Chaslin   The Cité Judiciaire serves to centralize a vast network of courthouses in a tiered tower that rises a hundred and sixty meters, and is already an icon of the new neighborhoods of Paris. 

Known for the formal freedom with which it tackles its projects, the Dutch firm Mecanoo has demonstrated more restraint in building the new Palace of Justice of the southern Spanish city of Córdoba. The Delft-based practice has distributed the comple

During the late 1980s, the German architect Hans Kollhoff designed and carried out works of great material force, among them Piraeus – a vast flexing brick apartment block located in one of the dockland sites of Amsterdam – and the ascetic mass housi

In the olden days, when bricks were brought out of the kiln where they were baked, the pieces closest to the focus of heat – and therefore overbaked – were discarded on account of their dark burnt tone and their rough volcanic texture. At the start o

Once ‘pétalos’ de diferentes formas y tamaños cubren el Public Service Hall (arriba), un edificio recién inaugurado por Massimiliano y Doriana Fuksas en Tiflis, la capital de Georgia. Sustentada por pilares de acero que hacen las veces de ramas de ár

La sala de los pasos perdidos del antiguo Palais de Justice en la parisina isla de la Cité ha sido el escenario de la presentación por Renzo Piano del anteproyecto para el nuevo Palais que se ubicará en el barrio de Batignolles. El edificio, que será

¿Cómo compatibilizar utilidad con representación, economía con significación, en un edificio destinado a la admistración de justicia? Tal es la pregunta planteada en la propuesta del equipo liderado por Jesús Ulargui y Eduardo Pesquera, que ha result

El estudio Ehrlich Architects, con sede en Los Ángeles, ha ganado el concurso internacional para diseñar el complejo donde se ubicará el futuro parlamento de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, que estará situado en uno de los mayores bulevares de Abu Dhábi.

La propuesta de Coop Himmelb(l)au ha resultado la ganadora del concurso para el diseño del nuevo parlamento albanés. El edificio será la pieza más emblemática de un campus que reunirá las instituciones gubernamentales más importantes del país, situán

Conseguir que, desde el principio, el edificio formase parte de la ciudad, culminando su proceso constructivo en una perfecta ‘cicatrización’, ha sido el reto que los madrileños Carmen Martínez Arroyo y Rodrigo Pemjean se han propuesto en su nueva se

El Palacio de Justicia de Luxemburgo, un edificio del siglo XVI ampliado sucesivamente en los siglos XVII y XIX, será rehabilitado por Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra —en colaboración con los estudios locales A T architecture y Kaell—, como Ministerio d

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. 

El Palacio de la Diputación Provincial de Zamora será rehabilitado por el estudio dirigido por Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas y Nicolás Maruri para alojar un centro cultural y dependencias institucionales. La propuesta actúa mínimamente en el cuerpo hist

Ignacio García Pedrosa y Ángela García de Paredes han presentado su propuesta para la nueva Ciudad de la Justicia de Jaén, desarrollada en colaboración con Iberinsa y ganadora del concurso organizado por la Junta de Andalucía y la Consejería de Justi

La capital polaca cuenta con una nueva embajada británica. El estudio de Tony Fretton, responsable del proyecto —y autor del reciente Museo de Arte Fuglsang en Dinamarca, publicado en Arquitectura Viva 127— ha concebido un edificio horizontal de form

OMA, con Rem Koolhaas y Reinier de Graaf a la cabeza, se ha alzado con la victoria en el concurso para la ampliación del Ayuntamiento de Rotterdam, en colaboración con Werner Sobek y los ingenieros ABT. Los ciudadanos fueron invitados a participar en

Dos vigas curvas de hormigón en T, dispuestas concéntricamente, definen la geometría circular de la nueva comisaría de la localidad madrileña de Villanueva de la Cañada, construida por Picado y De Blas. Los accesos se articulan alrededor del cilindro

El antiguo Colegio Convento de Dominicos de Santo Tomás, que forma parte del conjunto monumental de Alcalá de Henares, alberga el nuevo Parador de Turismo de la ciudad complutense, tras una profunda rehabilitación y ampliación llevada a cabo por el