Skeppsholmen island used to be the headquarters of the Swedish navy, and, as such, it was a parallel city, autonomous, with all the resources necessary to carry out its mission: shipyards, barracks, munitions dumps, hospitals, churches, workshops, gy
Following a long selection process, the Davis Museum was Moneo’s first commission outside Spain. It was received with great joy because, having decided to return to Madrid after five years as chairman of architecture at Harvard, Moneo would be able t
Mérida, the old colony of Emerita Augusta, is an inexhaustible quarry of remains from its glorious past, and even more so since the Renaissance, when the interest in classical antiquity bloomed. The purpose of the first Roman Museum in the city, set
The plot that the City Council had reserved for its new hall was that of the former barracks of Alfonso XII, raised – in part at least – on the grounds of the old convent of the Carmelites. It would have been hard to find a more appropriate site in L
The bankinter headquarters go up by the palace of the Marquis of Mudela, a work of the architect Álvarez Capra, and it is the first case, in the process of transformation of the Paseo de la Castellana, where the building volume permitted by regulatio
Javier Marquet, Javier Unzurrunzaga, and Luis María Zulaica invited the architect to join their team in working on the project for an apartment building within a closed block to go up on the plot of the Urumea jai alai court in San Sebastián. This me
The commission involved designing a public centerpiece for Hudson Yards, a new 11-hectare development on Manhattan’s west side being constructed above a huge rail yard. To create something memorable, the studio decided to build a structure that visit
Hermético desde la distancia pero translúcido en la cercanía, el edificio abriga bajo una envolvente tejida de madera seis galerías expositivas y un jardín de esculturas.
Located in the eastern end of Long Island, in the state of New York, this house is in a forty-hectare residential community (Houses at Sagaponac), promoted by The Brown Companies together with Richard Meier to build thirty-two houses designed by prom
Made of shipping containers and paper tubes, the Nomadic Museum takes the concept of itinerant exhibition to the limit, because not only the works are moved from place to place, but also the building. In the year 2000, the Canadian photographer Grego
The Sean O’Casey Community Centre goes up over the roofs of the East Wall area of Dublin. The main program – including a kindergarten, a daycare center for the elderly, sports halls, and a theater – is organized in four volumes that are hinged by fou
The Guggenheim Las Vegas and the Guggenheim Hermitage, at The Venetian Hotel-Casino of Las Vegas, opened in 2001 and closed in 2003 and 2008, respectively. The first one, a ‘large box’ of 6,000 square meters, with a stately central staircase in a lim
The New York Prada Epicenter is a conversion of a space in SoHo previously belonging to the Guggenheim. The Wave – a curving space scooped out of the ground floor and opening it up to the basement – is the main element facilitating experimentation in
The complex comprises interconnected spaces for neuroscience and psychology. A solution might have been to break up the complex into pavilions. Instead, the program presents two sections sharing a large entrance foyer, which encourages contact and co
The 650 square meter house in the town of Garrison, New York, is planned around the contrasting spatial experiences of landscape walls and horizontal decks and roofs. Two parallel walls extend in the direction of the access path and separate the two
One Western Avenue crosses Charles River connecting downtown Boston with the Harvard Business School campus. In this area the five-story, brick-clad, U-shaped neo-Georgian courtyard houses and the mid-twentieth-century, twenty-story, concrete paneled
El sistema de bibliotecas públicas de la ciudad de Boston cuenta con 27 sucursales, cuya característica común es la de funcionar como centros comunitarios de barrio además de como lugares de consulta y lectura. A diferencia de otros edificios institu
Planning to give Los Angeles a new Catholic cathedral, Cardinal Roger Mahoney asked Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown, and Rafael Moneo to present ideas for a garden/sanctuary in memory of Friar Junípero S
Martin Filler Al final de un año sombrío para los Estados Unidos en general y para su mayor ciudad en particular, la inauguración en Nueva York del American Folk Art Museum (Museo de Arte Popular Americano), obra de Tod Williams y Billie Tsien, resul
El reto de diseñar un restaurante originalmente proyectado por Philip Johnson y que había desaparecido a causa de un incendio sólo podía ser superado por el mayor de los desafíos que pueda planteársele a un arquitecto en Nueva York: que ese local est
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston was built in 1924, a Neoclassical construction by William Ward Watkin. Mies van der Rohe extended it for the first time in 1958 and again in 1974. Mies’s architecture has prevailed and the modest, dignified architec
In a marginal area of Barcelona, where the Eixample (19th century urban extension) begins to fray, a large, imprecisely shaped plot of land reduced a possible dialogue with the place to a succinct soliloquy. The parcel was the result of the fusion of
In the year 1986, the architects Rafael Moneo and Manuel de Solà-Morales won an invitational competition for a complex urban program on a wide trapezoidal site located between Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Déu i Mata, on the one hand, and Numància and
San sebastián has always been dominated by the extraordinary features of its geography, but in many ways owes its current physiognomy to the coast wall that led to the construction of the Zurriola quarter in 1919. An exceptional spot in this new are
Por encima de los tejados inclinados del barrio de East Wall en Dublín, se alza un hito de chapa ondulada con perforaciones circulares a modo de ventanas. Se trata del Centro Comunitario Sean O’Casey, último edificio de los irlandeses O’Donnell y Tuo
El consumo somos nosotros. Eso sostiene la Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, un libro de 800 páginas recién publicado por Taschen. Se trata del resultado de una serie de seminarios de investigación conocidos como Project on the City e impartid
Abro el dominical del Times y encuentro a la crítica de arquitectura nuevamente trastornada por el favorito del momento. Esta vez, un efusivo repaso a la boutique de Prada diseñada por Koolhaas en Broadway, e inaugurada al más puro estilo Hollywood:
Sentados en un bar del centro de ocio y casino de la Isla del Tesoro en Las Vegas, y mientras fuera se libraba una batalla entre dos galeones de tamaño natural, un grupo de artistas neoyorquinos debatían sobre el último añadido al strip: el Guggenhei
