COBE Architects BRUT   Belgium   The plaza is designed as a series of concentric circles which, inspired by the European Parliament’s Hemicycle, continue in the surrounding paving. The iconic roof structure of the central pavilion reflects the square and the people below...  

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The plot that the City Council had reserved for its new hall was that of the former barracks of Alfonso XII, raised – in part at least – on the grounds of the old convent of the Carmelites. It would have been hard to find a more appropriate site in L

Lina Ghotmeh   Lebanon   The new building stands out in the complex urban fabric of Beirut for its striking form and materiality. Much of the floor area of the museum is occupied by a garden plaza that becomes an open gathering place by the inner facade...

Snøhetta   United States   On average, 330,000 people move through Times Square every day. Understanding the magnitude of these crowds and patterns of movement was fundamental to creating a new life for one of the most iconic public spaces in the world. The reconstruction radi

El Fabricante de Espheras Grupo Aranea CEL-RAS Arquitectura   Spain   This intervention in the old quarter of Onda, a city in the Plana Baixa comarca of the Valencia region, seeks to showcase a series of archaeological finds, the oldest so far found that date back to Moorish times, and also to connect the different lev

Zaha Hadid Architects   Cyprus   Adjacent to the Venetian Walls of the Cypriot capital and taking up part of the dry moat surrounding the city’s old sector is Eleftheria Square, a public park that transforms the zone with tree-lined promenades, green spaces, fountains, and paved are

Mendoza Partida Bax studio SPRB Arquitectos   Mexico   In 2015, the joint proposal presented under the choral signature MXSI – the Barcelona studio of Mara Partida and Héctor Mendoza (Mendoza Partida), and Boris Bezan (BAX Studio) – and the local office SPRB Arquitectos, led by Carlos Rodríguez and Laura

José María Sánchez García Krausbeck Santagostino Margarido   Switzerland   ‘Pivot’ is the motto that ties the proposal together, from the urban concept – the plaza becomes the new city center –, to the architectural concept – the tower will turn the two museums into one complex – or the refurbishment – the pavement unifies

estudioHerreros   United States   Between the consolidated city and its peripheral areas – in what is a crossroads of rivers, obsolete industries, airports, and logistical parks – lies this huge, almost 300,000-square-meter development containing residential, retail, and office uses.

estudioHerreros   Panama   Two interventions shape new urban spaces in two Panamanian cities. Firstly, the ‘Corredor Urbano’ (urban highway) threatened to isolate the more modest districts of the city of Colón, so the project occupies the leftover sites around the intersection

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   China   A carpet of green hills stretches on the south side of the square, and on it rest a caleidoscopic building that reflects the context and wooden bleachers for multiple uses. The blue pavement takes inspiration from the sea, recalling the meaning of ‘S

Ocamica Tudanca arquitectos   Spain   In this intervention, for which they have won the 2020 FAD Award for City and Landscape, Iñigo Ocamica and Iñigo Tudanca reinterpret the Castile-León landscape with different types of aggregate concrete for Plaza de la Fuente.

COBE Architects   Denmark   With an area of 20,000 square meters, Karen Blixen Plads is one of Copenhagen’s largest squares. Located within a strategic enclave between the city university’s South Campus and the Royal Danish Library, the new public space arose from adopting a co

Linazasoro & Sánchez Arquitectura   Spain   The Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, announced plans to recover the winning project in 2014 of the call for ideas ‘Piensa Sol’, convened by the Madrid Insitute of Architects (COAM), to renovate Madrid’s Puerta del Sol. The construction wo

Undurraga Devés arquitectos   Chile   The construction of the city is a permanent and by definition unfinished process, and always a reflection of the society that builds it. As a collective creation, the city is the depositary of multiple grids and flows that sum complex and sometimes c

Linazasoro & Sánchez Arquitectura   France   The Madrid practice of José Ignacio Linazasoro and Ricardo Sánchez has won the competition for the commission to refurbish of the area around the Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles, a Romanesque work in the historical quarter of Mauriac, in France’s Au

AZAB   Spain   Globalization also affects urban planning by imposing on it too a loss of the contextual and social values that are transferred to plans and buildings. In this way, the spaces let go of their referential qualities, traditions, landscapes or memory to

José María Sánchez García   Spain   A perimeter portico ties the edge of the site to the city, opens up the plaza, and creates a shaded space while respecting the buried archaeological elements and asserting the value of the Roman sewer. Three volumes house recreational and cultural pr

SUP Atelier   China   The remains of the courtyard of an old house are reused in the construction of a new multipurpose civic space that is constructed using local bamboo, in keeping with the buildings around it.

Eduardo Souto de Moura   Portugal   Built in the 13th century in front of the municipality of Tui, the Valença fortress is one of the most important defense systems on the frontier between Spain and Portugal. Over the course of time, the historic center has suffered several extensions

LAN Architecture   France   The redevelopment of the Brossette site completes the transformation of boulevard Vincent-Gâche, hosting the largest construction site ever opened on the Île de Nantes. Formerly occupied by the warehouses of a manufacturer of bathroom fixtures, this

LAN Architecture   France   Located between the Émile Fouchard Park of Remembrance, a secondary school, and a contemporary art museum, which occupy two former churches, the gymnasium is inserted into a both formally and functionally heterogeneous context. Being right in the cit

Bevk Perović arhitekti   Germany   The proposal is based on a hybrid structure, a compound of programmatic elements that favor urban complexity. The program is dissolved into several volumes unifying the whole through a square that functions as the city’s social and artistic platform.

Eduardo Mangada   Como buen ciudadano, atento a la convocatoria del alcalde de Madrid, acudí a contemplar la renovada plaza de España. Con ojo atento exigible a un arquitecto, la recorrí en diagonal, desde la esquina de Bailén-Ferraz hasta la de Princesa-Gran Vía. Vi

The Barcelona practice led by Benedetta Tagliabue has placed first in the international competition to redevelop Century Square on East Nanjing Road in the city of Shanghai, strategically located between People’s Square and The Bund.The scheme submit

With their proven grasp of the contexts of places, the husband-and-wife architecture team of Ignacio Pedrosa and Ángela García de Paredes has won the ideas competition for the refurbishment of Praza do Mar in Sanxenxo (Pontevedra) and its immediate s

Inspirándose en el rico pasado prehistórico del subsuelo de la provincia, el equipo formado por Mi5 Arquitectos y PKMN ha construido en la plaza de Domingo Gascón de Teruel una singular dotación de 5.000 metros cuadrados de superficie, Teruel-zilla,

Se ha inaugurado recientemente la plaza Pormetxeta, situada en el municipio vizcaíno de Barakaldo y proyectada por el equipo formado por Javier Peña —de Xpiral—, y Javier Fresneda con Javier Sanjuán —de MTM—. El nuevo espacio público proporciona un p

En pleno centro de Ceuta y lindante con el Paseo del Revellín (que toma su nombre de una de las fortificaciones de la ciudad), un nuevo complejo cultural, blanco y lacónico, diseñado por Álvaro Siza, brilla ya bajo el sol africano. Situado en una ext

Tras un largo proceso, después de que las obras se hayan desarrollado a lo largo de seis años en los que el presupuesto original ha sufrido desviaciones constantes —pasando de los 51 millones de euros originalmente presupuestados a un coste final est

Delimitado por el río Ter, dos medianeras con patios de ventilación y una estrecha calle del centro de Ripoll, el nuevo espacio urbano diseñado por el estudio RCR (Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem y Ramón Vilalta), junto al barcelonés Joan Puigcorbé, aúna

La propuesta ‘Sota Vila’, presentada por el estudio Alday y Jover junto con 05 AM arquitectura, ha resultado ganadora del concurso de ideas para la remodelación del Paseo de Vara del Rey, la plaza del Parque y su entorno en Ibiza. El jurado, del que

El estudio barcelonés BCQ —Baena y Casamor Arquitectes — ha resultado ganador del concurso restringido convocado por el Ayuntamiento de Cardona para la remodelación de la Plaza de la Fira, situada en el casco histórico de la localidad. La actuación

Rafael Moneo ha presentado su proyecto para transformar la Praza do Rei en Vigo. En ella se encuentra actualmente la torre del Ayuntamiento, de 1972, que será derribada para construir un nuevo edificio consistorial que integre la Gerencia de Urbanism