SMAR Architecture Studio   United States   SMAR Architecture Studio – headed by Fernando Jerez and Belén Pérez de Juan and based in Australia, Spain, and Lithuania – has won the Urban Confluence ideas competition for a Silicon Valley icon in San José’s Guadalupe Park. Selected from a pool of

SMAR Architecture Studio   Peru   The extension is designed as a continuation of the park and as a topographic intervention that functions as a podium for the original building. Above ground, three circular plazas outline three public spaces that citizens can make their own... [+]

SMAR Architecture Studio   Finland   Departing from the idea of the museum as a curatorial controlled space, here public space is brought inside via an interior street that goes through the building and which citizens can make their own, functioning as an impromptu street lab...

The competition for the Guggenheim Museum of Helsinki has been one of the most talked about here in recent years, at least because of the number of entries that were submitted in phase one (a total of 1,715 coming from all over the world) and because