Jacobo García-Germán   Spain   The project involved the thorough restoration of a house built between 1933 and 1936 and located in Madrid’s El Viso neighborhood, an example of Spanish rationalism. The main architect of El Viso was Rafael Bergamín, with the collaboration of Luis Bl

Ecoproyecta   Spain   Like firewood and pasture, snow and ice have since time immemorial been economic resources of humankind, whether for the conservation of food and medicines or for the luxury of making sherbets and ice-creams. Pliny the Elder mentioned an active trade

Dorte Mandrup   Germany   An old bunker from World War II acts as the foundation for a new maritime management hub. While a steel frame surrounds and heightens the primary construction, the bunker will be used as an exhibition space with its roof reinvented as an internal cou

Dorte Mandrup   Sweden   The station has been renovated several times on the basis of the same element: the vault. The new design respects this geometry and is inspired by the city’s yellow brick facades to rebuild a large double-height hall in the three-story building…

Dorte Mandrup   United Kingdom   The aesthetic of the school dialogs with the buildings on the sides, and the facade folds from the street forming vegetal terraces. Though half of the monolithic structure is preserved, a timber framework reinforces and lightens it visually…

Dorte Mandrup   United States   The itinerary proposed crosses the park, and the new range of community spaces complement its current activity. In the center of the composition, the main building of La Brea, which is elevated off the ground, concentrates the cultural programs…

Dorte Mandrup   Germany   The remains of Anhalter Bahnhof Station are exposed thanks to the museum’s curved facade, which functions as a backdrop. The new vaulted space does not intend to rebuild the original hall, but to unveil the history of this symbol of Jewish exile…

IDOM BIG Bjarke Ingels Group AREP   Spain   The roof of solar panels will protect both travelers waiting in the station itself and the terraces of the blocks of offices, and adopts the form of a series of catenary arches that evoke that profile of the city with the sierra of Madrid in the back

Foster + Partners Junquera arquitectos Arup Associates   Spain   This flexible system organizes the ensemble by means of a geometric grid inspired by the current domes. The proposal consists of a modular terminal, a system of raised platforms, and a minimum intervention on the old passenger terminal…

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture Nexo arquitectura Porras Guadiana Arquitectos   Spain   The perimeter blocks enclose the central space, in a manner similar to that of the typical plazas of the historic centers in Spanish cities. In contrast, a technological aesthetic prevails in the metallic forest of canopies that protects the platform

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) Luis Vidal Meta Engineering Fhecor Carlos González Casado   Spain   The solar roof, formed by a simple structure of individual pitched modules, protects more than 130,000 square meters of station, and adopts a dynamic parallelogram shape that softens its encounter with the city along its four orientations…

AECOM Spain   Spain   The station, covered by a textile canopy, constitutes two referential urban spaces: the platforms and the inner streets. The perimeter paths connect the four sides of the complex and generate different atmospheres for public use…

Grimshaw Architects TYPSA Rubio Arquitectura   Spain   The proposal’s main aim is to improve the connection between Chamartín and the city, turning the plaza into a destination in its own right. Modular and prefabricated construction is used both on the roof and on the short-distance train platforms…

Eduardo Souto de Moura Ezquiaga Arquitectura Francisco Mangado Saitec Engineering WSP Spain   Spain   A series of large chimneys designed to bring in light and ventilation gather the structural elements of the urban park planned to cover the platforms of the intermodal station, and whose distribution is inspired by the form of the tracks themselves…

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos ESTEYCO UNStudio   Spain   The railway complex is transformed into a large courtyard that generates several internal itineraries around the platforms and the tracks, guaranteeing connectivity and improving pedestrian circulation between the accesses from each side. The archite

Snøhetta Alfonso Penela   Spain   The new roof, inspired by the gracefulness of a veil in the wind, connects the volumes on both sides of the cloister and oversails the ruins to shelter them from the weather. The inner courtyard had a residual role, but now it distributes the spaces

Kengo Kuma   Spain   Taking advantage of its strategic position on the border of old town and the new city, the project seeks to become the green heart of Pontevedra. The light roof, inspired by the original one, articulates the whole complex and shelters the public area

David Chipperfield Architects Carlos Seoane   Spain   Part of Santa Clara street is integrated into the proposal to open the museum to the city without forgetting the cloistered nature of the convent. New construction work is minimal, because most of the intervention reorganizes and highlights the old b

KAAN Architecten   Spain   The east wing is expanded and containedly renovated with the aim of preserving the convent’s typology as much as possible. The west gallery for its part is more noticeably transformed into a two-story climate-controlled archaeological center...

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   United States   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

Barclay & Crousse Arquitectos   France   Aside from renewing the captaincy and the services of the marina, the project recovers the continuity of the old customs officers’ trail, which had been interrupted by the construction of the port infrastructure.

GCA Architects   Spain   This refurbishment project turns an 1850 industrial building in Barcelona’s Eixample district into offices for Fundació Bofill, a non-profit entity created in 1969 to promote social change. A work of GCA Architects, founded in 1986 by Josep Juanpere

fala   Portugal   Two curved walls run smoothly through both levels, gently dissociating private and public. A longitudinal axis is highlighted by two metallic masks. Users become actors and spectators...

The names of the finalists in the international competition to revitalize the Dallas Museum of Art have been unveiled. The six teams are: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Madrid); David Chipperfield Architects (London); Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York)

Architects are generally trained in the modern idea that their job is to build a new world, so they try to raise new buildings or even design entire parts of cities. But the profession today is more and more about building on what is already built, a

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

When in 1977 the English rock band Pink Floyd flew its famous inflatable pigs amid the chimneys of Battersea, part of the power station – built in two phases under the direction of Sir George Gilbert Scott, author too of the plant that is now Tate Mo

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   In 1983, the year Battersea Power Station was decommissioned, the radical architect Cedric Price drew up a provocative proposal for what to do with the gargantuan brick hulk. The London building’s silhouette of four slender white chimneys rising from

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JDS, Coldefy, NL Architects, Carlo Ratti, ENSAMBLE STUDIO, UTIL cvba, and Ramboll have together won the bid to revamp the Paul-Henri SPAAK Building, main home…

Nave Fabra & Coats With Fabrizio Barozzi at the helm and joined by Agnès Blanch, Daria de Seta, Manel Marín, Pedro Matos Gameiro, and Rosa Rull, the jury of the 2021 FAD Awards bestowed the Architecture prize on the 46-unit social housing development

With the same expansionist strategy that led it to open branches in Málaga, Brussels, and Shanghai, the Centre Pompidou will soon be making a landing in America with the help of Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture, which is refurbish

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Berlin’s six-year, £120m fight to fix his dysfunctional, puddle-strewn gallery. The modernist maestro had carte blanche to build a great museum. The result? A breathtaking icon hopeless for displaying art. British architect David Chipperfield relives

The New York Times   Christopher F. Schuetz   After a $165 million renovation, the Neue Nationalgalerie looks like it did when it first opened in 1968. That’s exactly the point. “Carrying out such a task, in a building that leaves no place to hide, is daunting,” said David Chipperfield, the Brit

The Art Newspaper   Hilarie M. Sheets   Enlisting the creativity of Frank Gehry, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has completed a $233m renovation and reorganisation of the lower interior spaces at the heart of its landmarked 1928 Beaux-Arts building. The latest phase of a master plan for im

The Guardian   Angela Giuffrida   Retractable floor will allow visitors to see the ‘majesty of the monument’ from its centre, says culture minister. The floor of Rome’s Colosseum, where gladiators once fought against each other and wild animals, is set to be restored to its former gl

The Guardian   Sam Jones   Campaigners call for historic sports venue in Madrid to become a world heritage site after its €38m restoration. Since its inauguration 127 years ago, the Frontón Beti-Jai, built at the height of the Spanish capital’s love affair with the Basque game

The Australian architecture firm Hassell has in collaboration with the Dutch studio OMA finished renovating the Museum for Western Australia in the heart of the city of Perth’s cultural precinct. Its new aboriginal nickname, ‘Boola Bardip’ (many stor

After twelve years of planning and building, the office of David Chipperfield has completed the new Kunsthaus Zurich extension, the fourth in the history of the neo-Greek building raised in 1910 by Karl Moser, who would be the first CIAM president. U

The Guardian   Kim Willsher   The Pompidou Centre, one of Paris’s top cultural attractions and home to Europe’s biggest modern art collection, is to close from 2023 for four years of renovations, France’s culture minister has said. Designed by architects Renzo Piano and Richard R

The youngest generations of architects have demonstrated that Catalan architecture can well pursue courses deviating from the cosmopolitanism of disseny and Barcelona. It is true that the teaching and practice of the profession in Catalonia has to a

The practice headed by the architect Enrique Álvarez-Sala recently completed the renovation of the General Insurance Directorate headquarters, an intervention which has involved consolidating the administrative building’s structure of post-tensioned

The Cádiz architect Francisco Reina has been slated to refurbish the 18th-century Royal Artillery Factory in Seville, for it to harbor 9,500 square meters of exhibition spaces, laboratories, and offices serving the Magellan Center for Ventures in Cul

The Navarre architects Antonio Vaillo and Juan Luis Irigaray have won the competition organized by the Basque Museum in Bilbao, through a proposal that acts upon the institution’s historical buildings and reinstates the large cloister as the heart o

A barn in the German municipality of Kressbronn, near Lake Constance, has been turned by Thomas and Christine Steimle into a library and community center. In deference to the building’s history, the project balances past and present. The renovation i

The British partnership of Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke – in collaboration with the Belgian firm TRANS Architectuur and RE-ST – has won the bid to build an extension to Design Museum Gent (see AV Proyectos 99) that will improve circulation and the

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