gmp Architekten OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   China   The firms Rem Koolhaas – OMA and gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner are the winners of the competition to draw up the masterplan and architectural design for Chengdu Future Science and Technology City, located 50 kilometers from Chengdu and

b720 Fermín Vázquez Diller Scofidio + Renfro   Spain   The proposal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos and Gustafson Porter + Bowman is the winner in the invited competition to revamp the AZCA area in Madrid, a private initiative promoted by Renazca, an association formed by com

Burgos & Garrido TYPSA   Spain   With a project titled ‘El jardín en movimiento’ (‘The Garden in Motion’), the practice of Francisco Burgos and Ginés Garrido (BGA) – in collaboration with Typsa Ingenieros Consultores y Arquitectos, GEA 21 and Laura Jeschke – has placed first in the

Junya Ishigami   Japan   In 2008, the Japanese practice headed by Junya Ishigami finished the workshops for KAIT (Kanagawa Institute of Technology) in Atsugi, in city in Kanagawa Prefecture. That same year, for the grounds beside the workshops building, the firm was commissi

Ensamble Studio   Saudi Arabia   The AlUla territory gathers a unique collection of landscapes. The inland desert plateau, the mountain ranges, and the valleys offer extreme geological conditions and diverse habitats that coexist. The architecture of the place is defined by the acti

Ensamble Studio Steven Holl Ryue Nishizawa Transsolar Guy Nordenson   China   Yuzi Paradise is envisioned as a vacation resort in the midst of twenty-two mountains that make up the singular landscape of Guilin. The site extends over 540 hectares of undeveloped land which already has the ideal natural features to become a parad

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   China   The firm headed by Benedetta Tagliabue has won the competition for the renovation of Century Square in Shanghai, carrying the day over teams including David Chipperfield Architects. The scheme includes green spaces, a building for holding events that

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz   Spain   The result of a competition won in 2006, the intermodal station of Logroño was part of a much larger urban plan to bury the railway line as it traversed the capital of La Rioja region, and which also involved creating a large linear park and five res

Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos   Spain   This project encompasses 5,484 square meters on the seafront of Las Palmas – capital of Gran Canaria island – in the area of the naval base and the Santa Catalina dock. Carried out by the local practice of Pedro Romera García and Ángela Ruiz Martínez

AB Chvoya Karavan   Russia   The abundant vegetation and overlapping layers of meadows, bridges, and paths configure a variety of natural spaces that provide a gradual transition from the city, maximizing the site’s contemporary potential and bringing together the history and th

West 8 Studio 44    Russia   The proposal for the park shows a ‘romantic garden’ with a topography of undulating hills that offer visitors beautiful views across the water and the city beyond. A series of grottos underneath bring a rich diversity of atmospheres to the site. To a

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

John F. C. Turner   Por una autonomía del habitar. Escritos sobre vivienda, urbanismo, autogestión y holismo

Philipp Rode Ricky Burdett   Londres  2018  
Phaidon   - 672 Pages 

Richard Ingersoll Arian Heidari   A critique of graphic methods of urban analysis

Reinhold Martin   Mediapolitics and the City

Simon Kretz David Chipperfield   A Thought Experiment

Umberto Napolitano Benoît Jallon   Modèle de Ville

Markus Tubbesing Harald R. Stühlinger Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani   Zurich  2018  
Hirmer   - 398 Pages 

Markus Tubbesing Harald R. Stühlinger Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani   Zúrich  2018  
Hirmer   - 330 Pages 

Carmen Díez Medina Javier Monclús   De la cultura del plan al urbanismo paisajístico

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