Zaha Hadid Architects Bureau Cube Partners   Serbia   Zaha Hadid Architects – in collaboration with Bureau Cube Partners – has won the anonymous competition to transform the old Milan Vapa paper factory in Belgrade into the new Nikola Tesla Museum. Encompassing 13,400 square meters, the project helps to

PLP Atelier   Spain   The Galician practice of Pablo López Pril and Diego Rodríguez Val – PLP Atelier – was commissioned to turn some old constructions in the municipality of Parada de Sil into five homes of one or two levels, including a unit designed entirely at ground

OOIIO   Spain   This 56-square-meter apartment was renovated on a low budget, so the exercise in personalizing the space involved getting the best out of solutions and materials available in the market, such as standard tiles put in place in creative new ways, altog

Metro Arquitetos   Brazil   The project to expand the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) – a work of the architect Lina Bo Bardi – is part of an overall renovation that began in 2014, in which the Brazilian firm Metro has participated from the start. Besides diverse actions carr

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Situated between the Münsterhügel and the former outer city wall, the area known as St. Alban-Vorstadt represents one of Basel’s first early medieval expansions and has largely retained its historic character. In 2017, the Christoph Merian Foundation

Frida Escobedo   United States   The galleries devoted to the growing holdings of modern and contemporary artworks at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) will be undergoing a revamp, following a scheme, selected in 2022, by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo. The first ima

NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira   Portugal   Trofa is Portugal’s youngest municipality, belonging to the district of Porto, in the north. For more than 25 years, the City Council occupied spaces scattered across the city. A 2016 competition to turn some old industrial facilities into a single T

NP2F CENTRAL   Belgium   In the vibrant Molenbeek district, an art space linked to a laboratory for computer-aided manufacturing has been renovated with the idea of opening up to the city and bringing in the public. The state-of-the-art facilities of the workshops are preced

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The city of Berlin is characterized by the overlapping of layers of its history, and the different periods are clearly legible in its built fabric, still marked by the scars of World War II, the postwar, and its division into two. Because of all that

Carme Pinós Carles Enrich   Spain   The Catalan team formed by the practices of Carme Pinós and Carles Enrich won the competition to remodel the Lourizán, a parish of the Galician municipality of Pontevedra. The premises are currently home to the Center for Forest Research, and will co

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios   United Kingdom   Shrewsburg Flaxmill Maltings was originally built in 1797 and served different purposes in the course of time, including as military barracks during World War II. The site closed in 1987. A work of Charles Bage, the listed building is known as the ‘g

Baile Menduiña del medio atelier Luis Manuel Pereira   Portugal   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.

Jorge Almazán Architects Keio University Studiolab   Japan   An abandoned complex comprising two houses and three warehouses – where rice was once sold and stored – has been converted into an art center for the Japanese city of Ota, in Gunma Prefecture. Exhibition galleries, studios, and workshops are inserted

labaula cooperativa   Spain   Until the time Eusebi Guëll moved his textile factory there and established a workers’ colony with the help of Gaudí, Santa Coloma de Cervelló was just a farming village on the banks of the Llobregat, and its modest past is still evidenced by the old

Sergison Bates architects EM2N Architekten noA architecten   Belgium   In January 1924, industrial designer André Citroën opened the brand’s first foreign branch on Place Sainctelette in Brussels. Years later, in 1933, and following the original sketches drawn by Citroën himself, plans were carried out to include a larg

ATAMA   Belgium   This industrial-like building, built in 1940 and formerly a fire station, has been transformed into a meeting point for the community. At the base of the tower, now home for a climbing club, the central plaza forms a market hall space that opens up t

COBE Architects   Estonia   The Danish architecture firm Cobe has been tasked to turn the historic Krulli steelworks into a mixed-use district – with housing and offices – in the Estonian capital. The masterplan is based on transforming, reusing (from materials and components t

Olson Kundig   Canada   Located in Jagged Rock Vineyard in Oliver, British Columbia, the heart of Canada’s winemaking region, the Red Barn Winery stands out amid rows of vines and rock formations because of its distinctive red tone, which serves as a beacon. The object was

Tomás Montis Lluc Darder Aldeguer (DRDR Arquitectura)   Spain   More than a hundred years old, this two-apartment building set between party walls in the old quarter of Artá has been renovated and enlarged in the wake of a painstaking detailed study focused on reusing existing elements. The project came to fruiti

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   More than any other building type, the architect’s home is a faithful reflection of their language, desires, and concerns; in sum, of their style. The house the authors designed to become their family residence is a true laboratory of experimentation

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   Bjarke Ingels Group will be turning what was a supermarket building into a museum for paper crafts and design in Hune, in Denmark’s North Jutland region. The existing construction of about 900 meters will be renovated and expanded to create a 2,300-s

Kengo Kuma OODA architecture   Portugal   This project involved turning an old slaughterhouse into a cultural, social, and business center for the northern Portuguese city of Porto. Comprising 22,000 square meters, the intervention sought to revitalize a degraded place in disuse, respecting

L35 Architects gmp Architekten Ribas & Ribas   Spain   The main objective of the renovation was to give Real Madrid’s stadium more flexible and dynamic, readjusting its massive form to the scale of the city around it. The asymmetrical envelope flows with curved surfaces to reflect the diffused light in a

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

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

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

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

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