After years of planning, redesigning, and construction work, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has for a few days opened the doors of its new David Geffen Galleries, a winding concrete-and-glass building by the Swiss architect Peter Zumtho
V&A East Storehouse has opened in London, offering an experience that breaks away from the traditional concept of a museum. Located in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, within the East Bank cultural quarter, this publicly accessible storage facility fuse
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
The Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named a new recipient of the Praemium Imperiale, a prestigious annual accolade given by the Japan Art Association in five artistic disciplines, Architecture included. It comes with a prize of 1
Granting that it is a statistical mirage, one possible characteristic of great architects is longevity, judging from the venerable age that many of them have reached, from Michelangelo and Wren to Wright or Niemeyer. Living in incessant creative stim
In the portraits on show until 26 October at the Menorca outpost of the Swiss contemporary and modern art gallery Hauser & Wirth, a pair of ice-blue eyes is the only giveaway of the fact that they are of one same person: Cindy Sherman. The American p
The organism formed by Spain’s regional associations of architects gave recognition to the best buildings completed in the country, in a celebration of the discipline that this year made sure to include the role of urbanism, with the already announce
H. M. King Charles Inaugurates a Monument
There was a time when the reappearance at night of Sirius – the main star of the constellation Canis Major and the brightest in the whole firmament – heralded the year’s warmest period: those ‘days of the dog star’ that in the classical world stretch
Ever since 2022, when the prestigious magazine Sight & Sound named her hypnotic Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles the greatest film of all time, interest in the filmography of Chantal Akerman has only grown. Besides this masterwork,
She is known mostly for her surrealist images as well as for her detailed documentation of her lover Pablo Picasso’s process of creating Guernica. But before all of that, the French artist Dora Maar had proven herself as a commercial and fashion phot
With the same ascetism of many of his other art centers, Tadao Ando in 2013 built the Museum SAN (Space Art Nature) in the mountains of the South Korean city of Wonju. In celebration of its tenth anniversary he added a meditation pavilion, and now he
The Vall d’Hebron Research Center by BAAS Arquitectura and Espinet / Ubach Arquitectes has won the 67th FAD Award for Architecture. The projects selected in the other categories are: La Nave in the Vía Trajano neighborhood of Barcelona, by Atienza Ma
After two years in operation, the Casa de la Arquitectura sets itself as a dissemination platform through prizes for helping to make society more equitable and sustainable, with sections focused on specific values. In the maiden edition, the accolade
Tras protagonizar la participación española en la última bienal veneciana de arte, hasta el 14 de septiembre se podrá ver en la Biblioteca Nacional la ‘Pinacoteca migrante’ de la hispano-peruana Sandra Gamarra: una revisión del concepto hegemónico de
Until July Versailles is hosting the third biennial organized by its two schools of higher education in architecture and landscaping. The theme this time around is ‘The Living City,’ and besides contributions of international participants including A
Although he disappeared at 23 years of age during an ethnographic expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Dutch New Guinea in 1961, Michael, the youngest of Nelson Rockefeller’s children, managed to build up a good treasure of non-Western arte
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For the first time, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk and Van Gogh museums have teamed up to organize a joint exhibition on a major contemporary artist: Anselm Kiefer. The retrospective features a selection of 25 works grouped under the German title ‘Sag mir wo
What is home? Is it a city? A building? A feeling? This question has for years chased Do Ho Suh. A simple – but not easy – question that has pushed the South Korea-born, London-based artist to look for an answer through his work, on view until 19 Oct
Printemps, the historic French luxury department store, opens its first US outpost. It is located in a landmark building, One Wall Street, one of the Art Deco jewels of New York. Designed by the Paris-based architect Laura Gonzalez, the new store rei
There were many reservations about his use of a black-and-white aesthetic for shoots on environmental and humanitarian crises. Sebastião Salgado, however, did not conceive of photography as ornament, but as document; a medium through which to clearly
Prior to now, in the list of recipients of the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, there was only one photographer, Sebastião Salgado, who earned it in a by now remote 1998 (Annie Leibovitz and James Nachtwey were awarded in the Communication an
In all the facets of his life, Miguel de Oriol sought the skies – framing it in his buildings, scrutinizing it in his passion for birds, and pursuing heaven with his deep faith. As an architect, he produced a copious oeuvre in forms and types, where
A decadent bourgeois for some, a transgressive libertine for others... no label can possibly encapsulate the overwhelming personality of Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre, or simply Néstor; a brilliant artist who – whether due to his defiance of al
Amid great anticipation, the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts – the first major event held in Paris since the Great War – opened on 28 April 1925, on a site between La Concorde and Les Invalides. Wanting to be among t
