Kengo Kuma   Spain   To enrich the experience of visitors to the iconic building, an emergency staircase is walled with undulating aluminum link curtains, in what is a new take on sensual Modernisme lines. Paying tribute to the decoration of Gaudí’s light well, the insta

Tadao Ando   France   On 9 March 2020, the Japanese architect Tadao Ando finished renovating the interior of what was originally the wheat exchange of Paris, built by Nicolas La Camus de Mezières between 1763 and 1766, which in the 19th century was crowned with an iron do

KAAN Architecten   Belgium   The now controversial Leopold II personally backed an ambitious urbanistic program to improve the quality of life in Belgian cities and promote a cultural awakening, and a fruit of the efforts of the Roi bâtisseur is the monumental building that went

Marià Castelló Architecture   Spain   A rural plot in Formentera, one of the Balearic Islands, is the site of this project carried out by a team led by Marià Castelló and Lorena Ruzafa. With a built area of 94 square meters, the work is fragmented into three independent white volumes, re

Trazia   Spain   The Valencia-based firm Trazia, headed by Carlos Pardo and Lucía Hernández, has renovated Casa Ayora – on Calle Mayor in Almussafes, a municipality in the comarca Ribera Baja – for museum use. Set between party walls, the building was a Dominican c

Adjaye Associates   United States   “The acropolis of consumerism.” This was the media’s pronouncement on opening day, in 1982, of an eight-floor bulk raised on an entire block between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, and which has since provided Angelenos with high-end stores, popula

Studio Animal   Spain   Working from offices in Barcelona and Madrid, Studio Animal – with Javier Jiménez Iniesta at the helm – has designed this project for the Spanish shoe brand Munich. It is named ‘Tent,’ playing with the Spanish word tienda and its two meanings: store

Rem Koolhaas   Italy   In these times of pandemic and social distancing, technological tools have tried to address the restrictions imposed on in-person activities through digital alternatives that can help prevent our lives from stagnating altogether. In a locked-down Mil

GarciaGermanArquitectos   Spain   Working from offices in Madrid and Santander, the firm headed by Jacobo García-Germán has refurbished and partly reconstructed this listed baronial house, a 19th-century stone construction in the center of the Cantabrian town of Comillas, close to El

Héctor Fernández Elorza   Spain   “Our Lady of Communications”: that is how Leon Trotsky, when he visited the Spanish capital, christened with irony the monumental building erected by Antonio Palacios and Joaquín Otamendi in the year 1919, and which the people of Madrid have ever sin

Arquitectura-G   Sweden   A former banking office in the Swedish capital – an anonymous institutional building located in the city center – became world-famous in 1973 thanks to an armed heist and hostage crisis that triggered in the victims a psychological reaction later cal

Barcelona has officially opened the latest segment of line 9 of its metropolitan raiway system, to which the team formed by Jordi Garcés, Daria de Seta, and Anna Bonet has contributed three stations: Amadeu Torner, Parc Logístic, and Mercabarna. Each

Miguel Fernández-Galiano   In schools of architecture, students are not taught how to execute renovations. This kind of work, disdained for years in schools and by the great representatives of contemporary architecture who teach there, has become the bread and butter of a prof

Felix Burrichter   Milan  2017  
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