Régis Roudil    France   Commissioned by the Présidence de la République, this daycare for 24 children is located at the heart of the Palais de l’Alma in Paris, within the monumental complex. Built with timber and rammed earth, it stands in the garden behind the 19th-century

Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas AMM - Adelino Magalhaes   Luxembourg   - Two Madrid practices – the studio of Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, and Nicolás Maruri on the one hand, and AMM-Adelino Magalhaes on the other – have in collaboration with João Nunes and Carlos Ribas of the Lisbon-based landscape architecture firm PRO

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Italy   Museum Egizio founded in 1824 is the world’s oldest museum for Ancient Egyptian culture, housed in Collegio dei Nobili in Turin. A complex consisting of exhibition galleries, the Academy of Sciences, and an open courtyard, the museum’s architecture h

Arenas Basabe Palacios   Austria   The Madrid firm Arenas Basabe Palacios, in association with the engineers of Buschina & Partner, was commissioned to build 11 blocks for a total of 82 apartments in Wildgarten, a new neighborhood in Vienna’s Meidling district. The succession of build

Estudio Segui, arquitectura y planeamiento Pereira-Royo Arquitectos   Spain   The team formed by Pereira-Royo and Estudio Seguí, in collaboration with the consulting firm García Diéguez, has won the competition to enlarge the Bretón de los Herreros Theater in Logroño, capital of La Rioja region, giving it new staging facilitie

Vaillo + Irigaray    Spain   The firm Vaillo+Irigaray Architects has won the competition to give the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) a new building in San Sebastián. The research center wants a unique, immediately recognizable image that will also serve to organize

Lluís Jubert Ferran Pelegrina i Associats    Spain   Surrounded by trees and vineyards, the school has a porch that gives shelter and shade to the kindergarten and primary-level children enrolled. The outcome of a 2018 competition, the new school is located in El Montmell, the largest municipality of t

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos Luis Machuca DJ arquitectura   Spain   The team formed by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Luis Machica Arquitectos, and DJ Arquitectura has won the competition to design Málaga’s new Plaza de la Marina and connect Parque de Málaga to the seafront. This park and the palm-lined port promen

Belgium   Images of the project that has won the international competition, organized by the European Parliament, to renovate the Paul-Henri SPAAK Building in Brussels have been unveiled. Officially announced in July 2022, the winner is Europarc, a collective

Snøhetta   France   The Norwegian firm Snøhetta has been chosen to refurbish and enlarge the Natural History Museum of Lille in northern France, close to the Belgian border. The idea is to revitalize the 19th-century building through sustainable solutions while preservi

Cabrera Arqs   Mexico   Meant to be a place for reflection, silence, and prayer, and for a community whose members practice different religions, this underground chapel disappears in the landscape of San Antonio Baspul, a locality within the municipality of Chicxulub Pueblo

MMX   Mexico   This seaside cultural complex generates a new public space in Progreso, a city on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. The volumes varying in height are arranged in a grid on a square. The square presents a multi-level transitable roof that can be crosse

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Australia   The Chilean firm headed by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen built this stucture composed of 36 concrete columns and a circular ramp leading to a viewing deck. Named Less, the pavilion has a square plan and the columns are identical, arrange

Kleihues + Kleihues Klaus Schuwerk    Norway   With 54,600 square meters of floor space and a collection of over 400,000 works, this is the largest art museum in the Nordic region. Officially named National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, the building is a fruit of the fusion, in 2003, of

Wingårdhs    Sweden   On the island of Djurgården, close to Stockholm’s city center and Skeppsholmen Island (location of Rafael Moneo’s Moderna Museet and Arkitekturmuseet), Liljevalchs Konsthall has a new wing. A work of the Swedish practice of Gert Wingårdh, the rectang

Alcolea + Tárrago   Spain   With a scheme titled ‘Fragments of Nostalgia M02025’ Rubén Alcolea and Jorge Tárrago have won the bid to renovate the Nave de la Pulpa in La Azucarera, a park in the municipality of Monzón. The project transforms the old pulp warehouse into a congres

AGI Architects   Kuwait   In Salmiya, a city in Kuwait’s Hawalli Governorate, stands this 13-floor residential building. It contains 12 duplex apartments and a penthouse on the roof terrace. Working from offices in Madrid and Safat (Kuwait), AGI Architects – Joaquín Pérez-Goi

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The FLUGT Refugee Museum of Denmark has officially opened in the town of Oksboel, at the site of the largest refugee camp from World War II. The 1,600-square-meter complex seeks to give voice to displaced people worldwide. The intervention has preser

Foster + Partners   Spain   An old engine factory in the south of Madrid was abandoned for years, but has undergone a painstaking revamp to accommodate offices reflecting the firm’s commitment to sustainability.

Aires Mateus   Switzerland   The Pôle Museal, an urban regeneration plan that in scale and ambition has no precedent in Switzerland, mainly aims to transform the city of Lausanne into a world-class cultural-innovation hub and revive a degraded space next to the train tracks. Int

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,

ABLM arquitectos ATELIER62   Spain   ABLM arquitectos (Arturo Blanco, Laura Martínez) and ATELIER62 (Rodrigo Martínez, Arturo Menduiña H., Juan Pérez, Luis Ruiz) drew up a scheme that placed first in the competition to refurbish the 16th/17th-century Hospital de la Concepción in Burgos

Isla architects   Switzerland   The Mallorca firm isla architects (Marta Colón de Carvajal & Juan Palencia de Sarriá) won the bid to build the Basel Pavilion in the inaugural edition of Architekturwoche Basel, held from 9 to 15 May. It is located in the old Dreispitz industrial are

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 the Ma

José Ignacio Linazasoro   The architect Miguel Garay was born in 1936 in San Sebastián, where his career unfolded and whose architecture school he designed and taught in. Shortly after completing my studies I got a call from him, with the proposal for the creation of a Cultur

The architect Eugene Kohn passed away last 9 March at the ripe age of 92. He was one of the three pillars of Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, founded in the economically complicated 1970s to become a multinational enterprise running offices on three con

Born in Montevideo and raised in Buenos Aires, Rafael Viñoly was a New Yorker at heart, because the Big Apple is where he made it to international stardom as an architect. There, sadly, he ended his days on 2 March, at only 78 years of age. After a l

Shortly after a Pritzker sans surprises and sans risks came the announcement of another of architecture’s leading accolades, the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion, which for its part has opted to celebrate the ‘off-limits’ and hitherto ignored trajectory

Disembodied minds

Natural or artificial? The dialectic between the two concepts – which is probably one of the most fundamental in human history – unfolded in two directions. Through science and art, human beings aspired to imitate and surpass nature all around them.

The writer Elena Poniatowska did not need to take licenses when she fictionalized the life of Leonora Carrington, a woman whose artistic trajectory cannot be separated from her eventful biography. The Celtic legends she read as a child in her family’

On the heels of the Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Gallery in London, the Thyssen Museum in Madrid welcomes a selection of works by a painter who made the traditional sitting with a model – in famously protracted sessions – the cornerstone o

Unlike the Oíza who ignored the complaints of occupants of his Ruedo housing development, Renée Gailhoustet, firm in her conviction that we should build not only adequate dwellings but true spaces for living life to the full, preached through example

Chipperfield, Pritzker Prize

An unofficial compass needle for the discipline, the Pritzker Prize has in recent editions swerved towards more diverse and peripheral narratives, reminding us that architecture need not be radical to improve people’s lives, nor sensationalist to dra

In tune with the sixth Madrid Design Festival, the exhibition 'Pablo Palazuelo: The Line as a Dream of Architecture' is on view through 7 May at Museo ICO. Curated by Teresa Raventós-Viñas and Gonzalo Sotelo-Calvillo, it offers a walk through twelve

With the wit and bonhomie that characterized him, Arno Lederer would say that he tried to avoid “the pallor of the corpse from modernity.” Perhaps in the trail of Behrens, Poelzig, and Mendelsohn, the Swabian architect sought to confer a sensual mate

With deep gratitude I bid farewell to a longtime friend and companion. Behind us lie six decades of designing together – in our shared student pad and, since 1965, in our office. What started as a two-man enterprise with a small ad in the Hamburger A

He gave his practice a revealing name – Vastu-Shilpa, which in Sanskrit means ‘ability to create structures’ – that would harmonize the ancestral lyricism of the Mahabharata with the confident tone of Vers une architecture. And he strove for the same

“I do not seek. I find.” Picasso’s famous statement, sometimes seen as arrogant, in fact could not be more on-target an elucidation of the work of an artist in continuous metamorphosis. Never knowing what direction he wanted to go, the Málaga-born ma

A legacy

In obstinate resistance to real estate speculation, the small early 20th-century St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church stood in the vicinity of the World Trade Center like an anachronistic residue of 1920s Manhattan, but was completely destroyed in the

Neither the dictator Primo de Rivera nor the Republic saw the materialization of the dream of a hub in the north of the capital that would untangle the city’s rail network. This was not achieved until the years of Francoist developmentalism, when Cor

In line with the opening of the new Arquia headquarters at Tutor 16 in Madrid, a forum was held there on 30 November, titled ‘Sharing Experience,’ in which prominent architecture figures, with Luis Fernández-Galiano as moderator, voiced their reflect

Rallies in support of civil rights aroused in a young beatnik a keen awareness of the fight against the establishment, but they also soon made him see that more than direct actions, it was important to build a critical political thinking that would l

The firm that now styles itself as Ennead Architects lost its visible head, James Stewart Polshek, on 9 September, shortly before its sixtieth anniversary. After starting out working for I. M. Pei and others, this Ohioan set up his own practice, whic

In his adopted city, Seville, the architect Jaime López de Asiaín passed away on 12 September. He was born in Madrid but the setting of his influential teachings was the Andalusian capital, whose school he helped to get going, and stayed ever connect

Johan Norberg   La historia del progreso humano