Roche Bobois   The French firm Roche Bobois devoted to furniture design and distribution, has launched its Pulp, series designed by Eugeni Quitllet (Ibiza, 1972). The result of this collaboration is a collection of biomorphic tables, chairs, and armchars, shunnin

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   “Testimony to the dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of the American Government.” So read the famous Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture that the Kennedy administration established for official buildings, a resolution which architects

Pachón–Paredes   Spain   In the Nueva España neighborhood of Madrid’s Chamartín district stands what is called Casa No. 1- ochentayseiscentímetros, a work of the practice of Luis G. Pachón and Inés García de Paredes. Their renovation of this attached house built in 1978 addr

S-AR   Mexico   In a hidden spot near Puerto Escondido, on the coast of Mexico’s state of Oaxaca, stands this single-family house. An external grid composed of concrete beams and columns surrounds a central nucleus, which contains a bedroom, a kitchen-dining room, a

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

Estudio CO–A   Spain   The Barcelona firm Estudio CO-A, founded by Clara Ocaña, has renovated this 1930s dwelling of long corridors, typical in the elongated morphology of the standard floor plan of apartments in the Eixample, where the buildings is located. The client req

Estudio DIIR   Spain   Vienna’s walls came down to the rhythm of Strauss waltzes. Valencia’s, to the beat of taurine fiestas. And like the Ringstrasse, even without its grandeur, the paseo de ronda that replaced the ramparts of the Mediterranean city became a vibrant trade

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

In the Swedish locality of Jukkasjärvi, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, one finds Icehotel 365, the rooms of which are and built with snow and ice, including the suite named A Midsummer Night’s Dream, designed by Carl Philip Bernadotte and Oscar L

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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