In Manhattan SOM has finished restoring Lever House. seventy years after this American architecture firm designed the original offices of the soap manufacturer Lever Brothers. Completed in 1952, the 94-meter-tall, 22-floor building presents a rectang
After a careful restoration and refurbishment by the Rome-based firm Labics – Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori – the monumental Renaissance complex of Palazzo dei Diamanti in the Italian city of Ferrara reopens its exhibition spaces, duly
Standing through a key moment in history, the building of the Unió de Cooperadors came to being in 1934 with the initiative of workers in factories and different industries, which joined the cooperative movement and decided to hire Josep Lluís Sert a
After a meticulous work of fine tuning, several cultural uses will reactivate what now is the only surviving building of a lock manufacturing plant with deep roots in the memory of the place.
The christian conquest of the Alhambra in 1492 led to the transformation of some of its buildings into private houses. In the case of the Baño de la Mezquita (Bath of the Mosque), the Islamic construction was radically converted into a courtyard hous
After winning the international competition for the Fondation François Pinault pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, this project had to be abandoned due to a series of problems. Shortly after, the studio received a new commission from the client in Veni
In 1902, in Helensburgh, 30 kilometers west of Glasgow and facing the River Clyde estuary, the Swedish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh built the Hill House as a residence fot the publisher Walter Blackie. As part of a process to preserve the buil
The project gives a glass fifth facade to one of the few works that modern rationalism left in the city of Córdoba, the interiors of which have been renovated completely.
With a very limited palette of materials and using natural light, the intervention has involved eliminating additions and bringing out all the splendor of the interior sheds.
The project for the Cádiz fortress is fantastic. Cádiz is an incredible city, so prettily neoclassic, and which you Sevillian architects have always been fond of. —Diehard Sevillians only like Seville. It is generally Sevillians who are less Sevillia
The old ensemble of hospital and church next to the Pamplona city wall is rehabilitated with sharp language and smooth finishings of slate, tile, concrete and glass that distance it from the existing structure. The most significant decision is to ins
Built as a private residence near the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus, the Robie House epitomizes Wright’s Prairie School architectural style. The early 20th-century movement drew both its name and inspiration from the Midwest’s flat la
The words ‘resilience’ and ‘sustainability’ are clichés which dominate urbanism today. Everyone is for them, whatever they mean: the United Nations, the Rockefeller Foundation, the builders of Masdar, indeed most builders, tout the pair to legitimate
Buildings have many lives, because their functional erosion is often faster than their physical ruin. The stubborn persistence of their shells, where the materials, energy and knowledge used in their construction are deposited – what we now would cal
The second centenary of the birth of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc is an opportunity for us to find new relevance in his theories of restoration, and also in those of his ‘rival,’ John Ruskin.
The restoration of the Club Med estate in the Cap de Creus reveals the paradoxes inherent in human interventions on nature.
Después de la II Guerra Mundial, los arquitectos del Movimiento Moderno barrieron América usando el Estilo Internacional, sustituyendo lo que consideraban construcciones anticuadas por otras nuevas, funcionales y carentes de ornamento. Medio siglo de
En Bartleby el escribiente, ese corto relato de Herman Melville ahora reivindicado como hagiografía del santoral moderno, el protagonista es descrito de la siguiente manera : «Como la última columna de un templo en ruinas, permaneció erguido, callado
