gmp Architekten   Germany   After more than two decades of abandonment, the Hyparschale in Magdeburg has been renovated and transformed into a multifunctional space, following plans drawn up by gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. Originally designed in 1969 by the eng

Sebastián Arquitectos Pemán y Franco Arquitectos Zaragoza   Spain   The Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sijena, founded in 1188, has undergone a thorough transformation, one which has restored all the dignity of its historic spaces. The latest intervention, completed recently, has fitted out the old dormitory hall

Martin Varga Martin Kvitkovský Pavol Pauliny   Slovakia   High in the Strážov Mountains, Uhrovec Castle comes back to life after years of abandonment. The renovation of what is considered one of Slovakia’s best-preserved castles sets new standards for restoring monuments in the region. The most recent miles

Flexoarquitectura   Spain   The Majorcan city of Inca boasts a new public space in the heart of its old town, thanks to a project carried out by Flexo arquitectura – a Catalonia-based practice led by Tomeu Ramis and Aixa del Rey – that was part of a municipal strategy to improv

Estudio ods   Portugal   The Portuguese firm Estudio ods – Bruno Oliveira and Marlene dos Santos – undertook the project of transforming an old fish-canning factory in Olhão, a municipality it the Algarve region, into a dwelling. The plant was part of a group of five buildin

MAD Architects   Netherlands   Rotterdam has opened Fenix, a new international art museum devoted to migration, in a 16,000-square-meter old warehouse on the Katendrecht peninsula. Built in 1923 and known as the San Francisco Warehouse, this space was originally used by the Hollan

COR Architecture + Design   Spain   The refurbishment and expansion of Building Q at the Murcia Science Park, within the university’s Espinardo Complex, aims to combine energy efficiency, functionality, and comfort through a design focused on the well-being of its users. It includes ad

Annabelle Selldorf   United Kingdom   The National Gallery in London reopens the Sainsbury Wing to the public in 10 May, after a revamp led by the New York firm of Annabelle Selldorf, in collaboration with Purcell, a British collective of heritage experts. The project was part of NG200,

vaumm   Spain   The refurbishment of Zarautz Palace, which was in a ruinous state, constitutes another stage of its history. While preserving the heritage value of its walls, the project turns it into a new cultural facility for Getaria. The design worked out by Vau

Annabelle Selldorf   United States   The New York firm Selldorf Architects, in collaboration with Beyer Blinder Belle, has completed the renovation of the mansion on Fifth Avenue that houses the Frick Collection. The project has remodeled 5,574 square meters of museum space, and added 2

Oval Estudio Luis Arredondo   Spain   This residential project, directed by the architect Luis Arrendondo of Oval Estudio, involved revamping a house between party walls within the historical core of Montuïri (Majorca). The plot was distinctive, presenting 5 meters of frontage to the nor

Santamaria Arquitectes   Spain   The Church of Sant Esteve, located at the eastern end of the Barcelona municipality of Marganell, sharing its grounds with a cemetery, retains much of its Romanesque structure despite all the looting, fires, and revamps it has undergone over the cent

MVRDV Zecc Architecten    Netherlands   MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have won the competition to turn St. Francis of Assissi Church in Heerlen, built over a hundred years ago and offering religious services until 2023, into a public swimming pool for the Dutch city. A key feature of the proj

Barozzi Veiga Tab Architects Koplamp Architecten   Belgium   The Groeninge Abbey complex in Kortrijk, a city in the Belgian province of West Flanders, is being enlarged and transformed into an artistic studio for temporary exhibitions and public events. The project consolidates the chapel and the convent rooms

Ramón Esteve   Spain   The project to transform the San Juan Bautista Asylum in Valencia into the European University’s new campus in the city combined heritage preservation with a modern functional design. The former hospice, raised in neoclassical style in 1873, stands o

Arno Brandlhuber Manfred Pernice   Poland   Instead of reconstructing the fallen roof, the project of converting an animal shed into a studio inserts a free-standing structure so as not to overburden the fragile existing walls. Unshackled of loads to bear, the brickwork and a gable-end kept up

Garcés - de Seta - Bonet | arquitectes Marvel   Spain   Catalunya Media City is emerging as a hub for production, research, and training in the audiovisual, digital, and video-game sectors. This ambitious initiative is articulated in two principal operations: renovation of the historic Sant Adrià del Besó

Elias Khuri    The town of Jaljulia – close to the historic Sea Road, which connected Egypt and Syria in the Middle Ages – features the remains of a khan or caravasar built in the 14th century. This building, once was a hub for travelers and merchants, now presents

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   France   The new Pathé complex proposes Paris as European capital of cinema, bringing together production and distribution under one roof. The project involves a complete renovation of the historic Paramount complex – built in 1929 by Auguste Bluysen in art d

Liu Jiakun   China   Located at the foot of some old caverns used for the storage of liquors, a new facility makes it possible to immerse oneself in the mountainous site and get close to them. Thought out to establish a connection with both the slope and the views of the

Liu Jiakun   China   The facilities of the oldest Chinese distillery still in operation are surrounded by new production buildings with pitched roofs, where traditional fermenting and liquor-making practices are perpetuated. A courtyard connects the various volumes, whos

Studio Mumbai Studio Médtierranée   France   The new extension is built using earth excavated from the site, compressed and repositioned to create spaces that are large enough to accommodate the winery program, as well as a reservoir, carved into the ground, where rainwater is stored. Archetypa

Firm Arquitectura   Spain   The old City Hall of Fonsagrada, erected in 1845 and in disuse since 2015, has been turned by the Galician practice Firm Arquitectura —Daniel Gómez Magide and Adrián López Rancaño— into a museum for works of the cartoonist Fraguas, known as Forges, t

Can we blame the Venetians for blowing up the Parthenon in 1687, when it was a Turkish arsenal? Or the popes for seeing the marbles of imperial forums as perfect quarries for building works of Baroque Rome? Like any other cultural concept, architectu

The British Museum has announced which teams will be competing in the next stage of the international competition to renovate its Western Range galleries, an ambitious project of reimagining over a third of the London institution’s gallery space. The

The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has been commissioned to transform the Breuer Building in New York into global headquarters for Sotheby’s. Located at 945 Madison Avenue, the edifice by the Hungarian architect Marcel Breuer, completed in 1966,

Enrique Morillo   Where most saw nothing but old industrial warehouses, Elena Fuertes, Ramón Martínez, Álvaro Molins, and Jorge Sobejano discovered a field of opportunities to develop their syncretic imaginary. After coinciding at Taller de Casquería, they set up BURR

Ricardo Flores   Eva Prats   The new occupation of industrial ruins places us before gigantic structures, of very generous dimensions, where it seems anything can fit, anything can be, and in a total silence. Large volumes of air and amounts of natural light come in through skyl

We are living in interesting times, and the vanishing into thin air of previously solid certainties applies also to architecture. The situation of architects proliferating and in precarious employment conditions, of competition systems dying out, and

To think of monasteries and Portugal is to think of the novel Memorial do Convento (published in English as Baltasar and Blimunda), where in Baroque prose José Saramago intertwined the pursuits of a group of heterodox characters with the construction

After three years of renovations, the Grand Palais will host the fencing and taekwondo competitions during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Built for the 1900 Universal Exposition, the Grand Palais has been closed since March 2021 for renovations, led b

The Spreeinsel, or 'Spree Island', became the representative seat of power of the German Empire on its southern side, and throughout the 19th century its northern end was transformed into a privileged cultural site: the Altes Museum by Karl Friedrich

One of the first decisions taken by the new Federal Republic of Germany on June 20, 1991, after reunification, was the re-establishment of Berlin as the capital of the entire nation, which implied the relocation of all central government offices from

Architects are taught to materialize what springs up from blank paper, but the challenge we face nowadays is not so much to build, as to build on the already built. In light of the visual thinking that comes with the craft, combined with the training

A Jean Nouvel work which opened in 1996 on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, what was the first branch abroad of the iconic Galeries Lafayette of Paris could now become a large library. In spite of huge investments, Friedrichstrasse has not managed to cons

In the large-scale handbook of restoration that Berlin is, amid everything that in the period following World War II was reconstructed exactly like before and everything that on the other hand was demolished to make room for modern structures, a buil

The German National Theater, the residences of the likes of Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, or Liszt, the Bauhaus Museum... Classical Weimar boasts a wealth of places to visit that tell of the city’s rich history, for not in vain is it on the UNESCO Wor

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

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Modernity has had a curious destiny: to devour itself like the god Saturn his offspring. Conceived as demands of a present that wanted to be the future, the modern tenets have suffered the passage of time like few things are able to do, to such a deg

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

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