The team formed by the Spanish firm Baile Menduiña and two Portuguese practices – del medio atelier and Luis Manuel Pereira – has won the competition to refurbish and extend the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), in Lisbon’s Chaido district.
A falta de una fórmula mágica para hacer frente a la crisis habitacional, la construcción de viviendas de alquiler social se ha convertido en una de las claves de la intervención pública y ha producido algunos de los edificios más notables de los últ
A collaboration between the Catalonia-based firm RCR Arquitectes and the property developer Muraba, the Veil residential skyscraper – 380 meters tall – stands next to Dubai’s main transport artery, Shekh Zayed Road. The slender 73-story tower contain
The new University Children’s Hospital in Zürich-Lengg, Switzerland’s largest medical center for children and adolescents, comprises two buildings: a low-rise acute-care facility on the south plot, and a cylindrical construction for research and teac
The Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian has reopened after almost four years of renovation works. It is located on the campus of the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian. The main feature of the intervention carried out by Kengo Kuma – in collaboration with t
The design for the National Library of Israel juxtaposes the desire to react to the architectural traditions of the place with the ambition to make a building that is appropriate for our contemporary time – a library that is welcoming, accessible to
This is a 30-kilometer-long infrastracture that connects the towns of Huelva, Aljaraque, and Gibraleón, bringing them closer to the great environmental, scenic, botanical, zoological, and built wealth that encompasses the vast protected natural space
The capital of the island of Menorca, Mahón, boasts the Mediterranean’s largest natural harbor, a dynamic hub that day after day sees the coming and going of passengers and merchandise without ceasing to be a place of remarkable beauty. Antoni Barcel
San Blas is one of the historical towns of the Riviera Nayarita, which stretches along the coast of the Mexican state of Nayarit. The Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development (SEDATU) sponsored the project to adapt the San Blas Pier to se
The French studio of Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki, in collaboration with Mexican firm Frida Escobedo Studio and AIA Ingénierie, has won the competition to carry out an overhaul of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The steel-and-glass museum built b
The British firm David Kohn Architects has won the competition to redesign SMAK, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, in collaboration with the Belgian practices no Aarchitecten and Asli Cicek. The objective is to redefine the museum’s
The firm led by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga won the competition to build the Astoria Cultural Center in the historical core of Málaga. It will go up at Plaza de la Merced, on the site of the old Astoria y Victoria cinemas, integrating the arch
MO.CA is a prototype for a self-sufficient mobile dwelling, built using zero-kilometer laminated wood and digital construction techniques. It was developed in the Advanced Ecological Building & Biocities (MAEBB) masters program offered on the Valldau
Standing on the banks of the Chrudimka River, the Automatic Mills of the city of Pardubice, a work of the Czech architect Josef Gočár, were built in 1909. A grain silo was added in 1924. The mills ran uninterruptedly for over a century, until 2013, a
Le Magasin Électrique is part of a complex previously used for the construction and maintenance of trains, built in the mid-19th century, and now harboring the Luma Arles art center. The revamp begin in 2013 and gave rise to the Frank Gehry-designed
The Kunstsilo Art Gallery has opened in what was a grain silo raised in the 1930s, in the Norwegian city of Kristiansand. The transformation of the huge agricultural facility built with reinforced concrete to harbor a collection of over 5,500 Nordic
The Brooklyn firm SO-IL designed ‘Common Thread’ for the Bruges Triennial of 2024, ongoing until 1 September. Executed in collaboration with Mariana Popescu (TU Delft) and Summum Engineering, the pavilion meanders through the courtyard of a 19th-cent
The ‘San Carlos’ scheme submitted by Frade Arquitectos – Luca Poian Forms has been named overall winner of the preliminary-design competition for the Alicante City Congress Center. Selected from a pool of 121 entries, ‘San Carlos’ takes the defense f
The Czech city of Aš – close to the bank of the Ohře, a tributary of the Elbe River, and to the German border – has a Park of Memories that harnesses the area’s geographical and symbolic potential. The objective of the project was to honor the past a
Fundación Casa Wabi, an organization that fosters collaboration and social commitment through contemporary art, runs from three locations: in Puerto Escondido, Mexico City, and Tokyo. The initiative of the artist Bosco Sodi is based on the Japanese p
The Government of Extremadura has announced that a scheme titled ‘Music and the Earth,’ submitted by the architecture firm Mangado y Asociados, has won the ideas competition for the construction, in the historical quarter of Cáceres, of a museum to h
The renovation to be carrried out by the Ma Yansong’s firm focuses on the Wanmicang warehouse on the south side of the Shanghai Zhangjiang Cement Factory, which was built in 1971 and ceased operations in 2013. Through the juxtaposing of old and new s
Built in 1988 as a museum dedicated to the communist dictator Enver Hoxha, the Pyramid of Tirana has been converted by the Rotterdam firm MVRDV into a cultural center. Located in the heart of the Albanian capital, it has reopened with the original co
The Madrid practice Nieto Sobejano has won the Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition, carrying the day over five other finalists: David Chipperfield Architects (London); Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York); Johnston Ma
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When a judge’s daughter, a painter in the making, saw Jackson Pollock in action at one of his ‘drippings’ in a New York gallery, she knew that her approach to the canvas would never be the same again. With that experience she gave up the easel, knelt
“Young Caipira dressed by Poiret.” These words of her second husband, the modernist poet Oswald de Andrade, sums up the contradictions that surround Tarsila do Amaral: a woman of the world, born into a wealthy family of landowners and brought up with
The Arabia Felix that supplied the ancient world with frankincense, myrrh, and cinnamon – in present-day Yemen – has moved to the northeast of the peninsula, towards what in the greater part of history was simply Arabia Deserta. In the 1930s, under t
Little-known today, Arnold William Brunner was a New York architect who was very active professionally, and especially institutionally, between the Gilded Age and the Roaring Twenties. To honor him, in 1955 the American Academy of Arts and Letters cr
Compared with musicians or painters, who can show their talent from a tender age, architects are altricial creatures that need time to mature before producing their first fruits. But, Manuel Bouzas is impressively precocious: barely in this thirties,
Ricardo Scofidio has died at 89 years of age in Manhattan. In 1981 he and his wife, Elizabeth Diller, opened Diller Scofidio, which Charles Renfro joined as a partner in 2004. Works that the firm DS-R has built in New York City include the High Line,
Returned to power, Donald Trump has made a point of taking swift measures to put the country back on track after a disastrous interregnum, as he sees it. In this he hastens to halt wars and crises, but also rename gulfs and forbid paper straws. On th
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In the cold Madrid winter we lost Helga de Alvear, whose life revolved around love and generosity, words not much appreciated in these materialistic times. From her first collection of stones that she would pick up in the River Nahe as a child in Ger
On view through 27 April at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, ‘Dimitris Pikionis: An Aesthetic Topography’ presents the life and work of the architect, painter, sculptor, and editor of the magazine To Trito Mati (The Third Eye), a central figure
The Japanese studio SANAA, led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, has been awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The annual prize is recognition for people who have significantly influenced and transforme
Two decades since their first collaboration, Louis Vuitton and artist Takashi Murakami have worked together again to design a pop-up store inspired by the modular capsule hotels of Tokyo, and which was on view in New York’s SoHo. The space was made u
In 1929, Le Corbusier imagined an architectural manifesto that would become one of the masterpieces of the Modern Movement. Today, almost a century later, and in a clear declaration of intentions from the Madrid-based luxury brand, the Villa Savoye h
On view through 1 September at the César Manrique Foundation in Tahíche (Lanzarote) is an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lanzarote. Arquitectura inédita, a book the Canarian artist published in 1974. It has been reprinted many times
The Ecuadoran practice Al Borde, founded in Quito by David Barragán, Esteban Benavides, María Luisa Borja, and Pascual Gangotena, has won the 2024 BancaStato Swiss Architectural Award 2024. Promoted by Fondazione Teatro dell’architettura in collabora
Unlike Gregorio Fernández or Juan Martínez Montañés with their large works, Luisa Roldán was more known for small pieces and the exquisite crafting of her clay figurines, which some considered “more suitable to her station and sex.” The National Muse
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It happens with the finest of masters that the footprint they leave is silent but indelible. Hence, in the very different trajectories of Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto, one can track the teachings of Hiroshi Hara, who understood practice, reflection,
If, as one of Carlos Gardel’s tangos says, twenty years is nothing, forty is even less. So the spirit in which this publishing adventure began in January 1985 is intact, and our magazines – stubbornly maintaining their modular layouts, the regular co
Yoshio Taniguchi has passed away at 87 years of age. The Japanese master completed post-graduate studies at Harvard, and worked with Walter Gropius and Kenzo Tange before founding his own studio in 1975. He is the author of the emblematic expansion o
Until Hittorff discovered the bright colors of Greek temples, we imagined ancient times with the washed appearance of marble. Time erased the coats of paint that had covered buildings and statues, and the aesthetic values that embraced the elegant ne
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has awarded its 2025 Gold Medal to Deborah Berke, in acknowledgment of a professional career of over four decades that “exemplifies innovation, inclusivity, and sustainability.” She opened Deborah Berke Part
