Fernando Menis   Spain   Fernando Menis won the 2019 competition to restore a neo-Gothic building and fit it out for exhibitions in flexible spaces that can be easily adapted to use changes within the cultural typology. Named in honor of the botanist José Viera y Clavijo,

Rafael de La Hoz   Spain   Guided both by tradition and common sense, over the centuries the people of Los Pedroches Valley – a protected area between Extremadura, Andalucía, and Castille – have cherished the holm oaks that cover the valley’s meadows as if they were sacred tre

FRPO Walk Architecture & Landscape SD Partners Architettura e Ingegneria   Italy   The Italian-Spanish team formed by FRPO Rodríguez y Oriol Arquitectos (Pablo Oriol, Fernando Rodríguez), Walk Architecture & Landscape (Juan Tur Mc Glone), and SD Partners (Massimo, Giuliani, Alessandro Viganò, Beatrice Meroni) placed first in th

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   South Korea   The flood-resistant Oceanix Busan prototype was unveiled on 26 April 2022 in New York – at the second United Nations roundtable on Sustainable Floating Cities – as a follow-up to the Oceanix City concept presented in April 2019. A fruit of collaborat

El Fabricante de Espheras Grupo Aranea CEL-RAS Arquitectura   Spain   This intervention in the old quarter of Onda, a city in the Plana Baixa comarca of the Valencia region, seeks to showcase a series of archaeological finds, the oldest so far found that date back to Moorish times, and also to connect the different lev

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

Zaha Hadid Architects   Cyprus   Adjacent to the Venetian Walls of the Cypriot capital and taking up part of the dry moat surrounding the city’s old sector is Eleftheria Square, a public park that transforms the zone with tree-lined promenades, green spaces, fountains, and paved are

Tomas Ghisellini Architects   Italy   The heterogeneous stage proposed rests with systematic discipline on an orthogonal matrix of 2x2 meters, to establish rules and a ‘do it yourself’ philosophy that creates endless options for altering and extending the original plan...  

SLAS architects   Poland   Playgrounds emerged during modernity, and constitute small oases that separate children from a city for which they are still not prepared. Robert Moses saw them as symbols of democracy; Aldo van Eyck, as spaces that are fundamental for social integra

waa / we architech anonymous   China   Playgrounds emerged during modernity, and constitute small oases that separate children from a city for which they are still not prepared. Robert Moses saw them as symbols of democracy; Aldo van Eyck, as spaces that are fundamental for social integra

Flores & Prats   Sweden   Beyond the construction of the first residential buildings on the site, the commission involves establishing, together with a multidisciplinary team, the criteria to build a new community as part of the expansion plans for Råängen, an agricultural ar

Flores & Prats   Spain   With reuse urbanism as starting point, the proposal deepens in the sparse memories and traces of a neighborhood that the new developments were erasing, to establish in this way coherent strategies to help recover the ‘good life of the place’...

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Slovakia   In Patrónka, an area in the western part of Bratislava, rises the new ESET campus, all of 55,000 square meters. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, Inflow, Pantograph, BuroHappold, and ARUP, the tech neighborhood replaces an old military hospital. Drawi

El Equipo Mazzanti   Colombia   This project is part of an initiative to build new public recreational facilities in the city of Barrancabermeja, focussing specifically on those residential areas most affected by social conflict, safety issues, and lack of public services. The main

El Equipo Mazzanti   Colombia   Within the Masterplan for the Manzanares River developed by the municipality of Santa Marta – capital of the Magdalena department –, the Ciudadela 29 de Julio Park is one of the seven prototypes designed with the objective of improving the current co

El Equipo Mazzanti   Colombia   The project is located in altos de Cazucá, a neighborhood in the municipality of Soacha, a peripheral conurbation of the city of Bogotá. Socioeconomically it is a highly depressed area, lacking public infrastructure of any nature. It is notorious for

El Equipo Mazzanti   Colombia   The Marinilla Educational Park offers the community a space where its cultural identities can be expressed, acknowledged, promoted, and preserved. The building was conceived as a place where the typical activities of the Paisa culture – planting, pla

Fernando Romero   The Savior   President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has announced plans to create the world’s first Bitcoin City in Conchagua. Designed by Fernando Romero Enterprise, the ambitious development will provide spaces for technology companies dealing with cryptocurrenc

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Qatar   A tract of land measuring 1.3 million square meters, between Qatar University and the new city of Lusail, is the site of Doha’s Al Dayaan project, an opportunity to rethink hospital architecture in a context of exponentially advancing medical innovat

LOLA Landscape Architects Taller architects L+CC   China   Faced with the unrelenting growth of Shenzhen – half a century ago a simple fishing village but now a cutting-edge megalopolis – a rigorous environmental policy was implemented, unprecedented in the country, to regulate the proliferating industrial a

estudioHerreros   South Korea   This hub is located on a small vacant corner plot. The bloody demonstrations that brought democracy to Korea in 1980 had been forged in a now non-existent bookshop on the same corner, and this fact inspired the idea of building a simple manifesto of

estudioHerreros   Panama   Two interventions shape new urban spaces in two Panamanian cities. Firstly, the ‘Corredor Urbano’ (urban highway) threatened to isolate the more modest districts of the city of Colón, so the project occupies the leftover sites around the intersection

Foster + Partners   Chile   Foster+Partners’ first commission in Chile involves regenerating an existing mid-20th-century textile factory in the heart of Santiago. It will be part of a new mixed-use urban quarter. The masterplan extends onto an adjacent site, towards the plant’

Norman Foster   In October 2020, as UN Patron for Cities, I launched the Forum of Mayors in Geneva. Nineteen months later, the world’s population has increased by 151 million. Most have ended up in cities. Why? Because cities offer more opportunities, wealth, libera

Often referred to as the “Father of Landscape Architecture,” Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) —alongside Calvert Vaux (1824-1895)— designed Central Park in the 1850s to be a democratic greenspace in a growing metropolis. That “sense of enlarged free

For Thailand Biennale, Junya Ishigami proposed an architectural project, “Rainbow Carpet,” an arcshaped bridge crossing over the old moat of ancient Korat city. The bridge measures 77m wide and 30m long, with an area of 2,310 square meters. The “Carp

Eduardo Mangada   Como buen ciudadano, atento a la convocatoria del alcalde de Madrid, acudí a contemplar la renovada plaza de España. Con ojo atento exigible a un arquitecto, la recorrí en diagonal, desde la esquina de Bailén-Ferraz hasta la de Princesa-Gran Vía. Vi

Abel Fernández   “Fixity is always momentary.” The line from Octavio Paz’s The Monkey Grammarian, a poetic pilgrimage to Galta, in the heart of Rajasthan, could serve as an introduction to this book by the architect and Harvard GSD professor Rahul Mehrotra, a compila

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

As many as 300,000 people crossing the border between continental China and Hong Kong on a daily basis are served by Huanggang Port Area, a strategic enclave for which the London-based firm Zaha Hadid Architects has drawn up a highly ambitious regene

Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, has made public the kingdom’s plans to build a 170-kilometer linear city for a million inhabitants. Car-less and carbon-free, The Line – as it has been named – is part of a larger project called Neom

The New York Times   Mihir Zaveri   Daniel E. Slotnik   Gov. Andrew Cuomo will propose a 1,200-foot elevated pathway that will lead to the new Penn Station development, to be financed by public and private funds. For more than a decade, the High Line, an elevated park that stretches for nearly a mile and

El País   Ianko López   The name of five finalists in the competition to redevelop Madrid’s Azca business district have been made public: Diller Scofidio+Renfro with Porter+Bowman and b720; Heatherwick Studio with CLK; MVRDV with estudio GRAS; Rem Koolhaas-OMA with Battle i

The Guardian   Kim Willsher   Mayor Anne Hidalgo gives green light to £225m-scheme to transform French capital’s most famous avenue.  The mayor of Paris has said a €250m (£225m) makeover of the Champs-Élysées will go ahead, though the ambitious transformation will not happen befo

Ayuntamiento de Madrid   Madrid is undertaking an ambitious transformation of its urban perimeter with a forest crown connecting all the natural zones existing in the city. This involves a re-landscaping of 14,200 hectares, with native plant species sure to be instrumental i

Opening day is several months away and the London Design District is progressively taking shape. This is a conglomerate of sixteen emblem-buildings commissioned to a miscellaneous crew of architects among which British firms abound – including 6a Arc

The Guardian   Amy Fleming   High-tech smart cities promise efficiency by monitoring everything from bins to bridges. But what if we ditched the data and embraced ancient technology instead? Ever since smartphones hooked us with their limitless possibilities and dopamine hits, m

Justo Isasi   The Spanish translations of Housing by People and The Timeless Way of Building resurrects two 1970s takes on the political and philosophical aspects of housing, the city, and architecture. These against-the-grain testimonies deserve attention today,

The idea that architecture is a form of nature has become a maxim that the firm Junya Ishigami + Associates faithfully follows in its work, an oeuvre now enriched by the Botanical Garden Art Biotop: Water Garden in Tochigi, Japan. The singularity of

Metropolis   Jane Levere   Featuring landscapes by Raymond Jungles, Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx is the NYBG’s largest botanical exhibition ever. On display through September 29, the exhibition, which features lush gardens, is also the first to c

Architectural Digest   Samuel Cochran   After hundreds of trees were removed from a resort in Japan's Tochigi prefecture, the architect set about on a mission to rescue heritage in a new landscape. Relocating the endangered specimens to an adjacent meadow, he set about creating a breathtak

The huge technological multinationals wield power of the soft kind, not with violence but through a silent, albeit extremely profitable wheeling and dealing with our digital footprints. This power for the time being meets with little resistance, prot

The development of the highways in Norway left the vernacular routes that ran along national roads in disuse. This circumstance is common to the rest of Europe, but was especially dramatic in the Nordic country because of the extraordinary landscapes

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Eduardo Prieto   Beyond reviving classical Antiquity, the Renaissance bequeathed to the West the conviction that the city could be rethought and transformed, and the tool of architecture itself. The Baroque and the Enlightenment simply pursued the path paved by Brun

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