Sergio Sebastián   Spain   Winner of the 2021 Hispania Nostra Award in the Intervention on Territory or Landscape section, the operations carried out in the core of the locality of Ruesta have made it possible to retrace a stretch of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route tha

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   United Arab Emirates   This set of gardens was designed and built for the 11th Sharjah Biennial, directed by the Japanese curator Yuko Hasegawa. After developing a strategy to urbanize the existing heritage area of Sharjah, the design proposed a set of pavilions that compl

Carles Enrich   Spain   Since its blasting during the First Carlist War, Jorba Castle has been little more than a hodgepodge of ruins high over a small town of the Catalonian comarca of Anoia. But the earth moving carried out in the course of what was to be a simple adjustm

Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes   France   At the foot of the fortress built by the Genoese in the 14th century – and which gave the city its name – a sinuous walk is set into the rock, giving access to 450 meters of coastline beside the mighty walls that in the past resisted the squadrons of

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   A semi-exterior void forms a public square for the enjoyment of students of the Kanagawa Institute of Technology, a university center which had no hesitations assigning this new project to the architect who had completed some dazzling workshops on th

eslava y tejada arquitectos eaaestudio Uxama ingeniería   Spain   Studying the resilience of specific natural species, using agricultural techniques, and highlighting the topography or archaeological remains of the area are a few of the strategies applied to repair the territory damaged by the discontinuitites of t

Luis Climent Rosillo María Navascues Abad Luis Climent Soto   Spain   With the objective of generating a powerful green infrastructure that integrates the existing parks and the new ones, the project foresees planting five different types of forests, a new system of eco-bridges, and the creation of natural barriers aro

Burgos & Garrido Volterra Ecosystems LOLA Landscape Architects   Spain   The sustainable agenda of the city and the conditions of the site translate into a colorful mosaic of different forests planned, planted, and maintained aided by new technologies, and which function as programmatic ‘bubbles.’...

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

Francesc Xavier Ventura   La arquitectura de los desplazamientos

Barcelona (2002-2006)  
Gustavo Gili