Saint Gobain   The suspended acoustic ceilings that go by the name of PlacoSilence contain an inner plenum of mineral wool, can be easily installed and cleaned, and are good for use in schools, offices, stores, and homes.

Arias Garrido Arquitectos   Spain   Addressing two different programs, the complex breaks up into interconnected separate volumes on the banks of the Pisuerga River. The largest, at the site’s north end, harbors the auditorium seating 608. The smaller ones contain the music school’s cl

Estudio Arquitectura HAGO   Spain   The upshot of a competition organized by the Badajoz provincial government public works department, the complex designed by Madrid-based Estudio Arquitectura HAGO – Antonio Álvarez-Cienfuegos Rubio and Emilio Delgado Martos – rises in Los Monteros in

Bast   France   Winner of the 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award for Emerging Architecture, this school cafeteria designed by the Toulouse firm Bast is located in Montbrun-Bocage, a commune in France’s Haute-Garonne department, close to the Pyrenees. Named E26, the timber

Francisco Mangado   Spain   With the idea of creating a new sector for visitors for the thousands of tourists that travel to this Balearic island every year, in 2005 a competition was called to design the new Congress Center and Hotel on Palma’s waterfront, parallel to the beac

Jean-François Archieri   In 1947, Ateliers Jean Prouvé abandoned its outgrown workshops on Rue des Jardiniers, in the town center of Nancy, for larger space in an industrial area on the northern edges of the city. The need for expansion came hand in hand with a desire to tak