Vescom    The company Vescom has launched four new vinyl wallcoverings: Watson, with a rugged concrete finish; Lismore, with the irregularity of linen; Jarvis, with a metallic look; and Puccini, with a matte silkiness.

Vertisol   Distributed by the firm Vertisol, a manufacturer of technical fabrics, Fitnice is a vinyl cladding for floors and walls, made with PVC-coated polyester threads that are free of phthalate and antimony.

Iaso   Known for participating in building projects like Allianz Riviera or San Mamés Stadium, IASO designs, manufactures, and installs tautened structures, ETFE facades and roofs, and textile facades.

G.T. Design   Set up in 1977 in Bologna by Deanna Comellini, G.T.Design is an Italian rug maker that combines craftsmanship with modern technology and is known for its special attention to details. For over forty years the company has explored the creative process

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   The cross shape that cuts the sober white volume of undulating forms creates the access to a free-flowing room where the congregation space and the side chapels are fused together under a cloudlike, textile ceiling that enhances sunlight as it flows

Yuko Nagayama & Associates   United Arab Emirates   With simultaneous references to Japanese Asanoha and Islamic arabesque patterns, a three-dimensional openwork represents the meeting of two ancient decorative traditions.

MMBB Ben-Avid JPG.ARQ   United Arab Emirates   A basin of water and a membrane of stretched textile in a powerful metal framework manage to create an atmosphere that draws attention to the Amazon jungle’s water resources.

AGI Architects   United Arab Emirates   The pavilion’s premises flank a large void that serves to give continuity to the public circulation route, conceived as a meeting place under the protection of an ethereal roof structure.

Ecosistema urbano   United States   The main element is an inflatable ‘cloud’ placed on a wood structure, which together create a space for learning and for raising environmental awareness. The installation includes lighting and color to represent climate change and air purification s

Héctor Fernández Elorza   Spain   “Our Lady of Communications”: that is how Leon Trotsky, when he visited the Spanish capital, christened with irony the monumental building erected by Antonio Palacios and Joaquín Otamendi in the year 1919, and which the people of Madrid have ever sin

Kengo Kuma   Japan   The Japanese textile manufacturer Komatsu Matere has developed an innovative carbon-fiber based product for seismic reinforcement. This element consists of several interwoven carbon-fiber strands (with an outer layer of synthetic fiber and inorganic

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   In Barcelona, at Calle Bretón de los Herreros 9, this coworking office building opens out southward to a courtyard presided by a tree whose fruit, the clementine, gives the facility its name. For the design, the Madrid practice of Izaskun Chinchilla

GA estudio   This light building is easy to assemble and disassemble, and is also transportable, flexible, and unstable. The pavilion depends on weather forecasts, which determine its position and use, such as sailing or flying in a hot air balloon... [+]

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   The new stadium of the Atlético de Madrid extends the old Athletics Stadium of the Community of Madrid - nicknamed ‘La Peineta’ -, completed in 1994 by the same architects and with capacity for 19.000 spectators, a building whose distinctive image be

Oualalou + Choi   Morocco   Una estructura central, de 680x18 metros, une todos los espacios y pabellones del complejo, construido para la cumbre climática COP 22; un colosal toldo de membrana pretensada, de 12.400 metros cuadrados, protege del fuerte sol el eje principal en to

MAYU architects De Architekten Cie   Taiwan   A series of membranes are arranged between the four main volumes of the art center, generating a sequence of covered public spaces that offer shelter to visitors. Their shape has been designed to deal with situations of extreme rainfall such as typho

DUS Architects   Netherlands   3D-printed bioplastic and a tense textile structure are combined in the design of a sculptural and distinctive facade, inspired in traditional sailboats, for this temporary construction built to host meetings of the European Union’s Presidential Coun

Claudio Nardi Architects   Italy   The installation is inspired by the pontoons that used to occupy the Arno River with small cafes. The facility has 9 floating pavilions with a superstructure of steel bars, wrapped in tulle, and covered by PVC sheets that protect in case of rain... [

LHRC Colectivo de Arquitectura Ligera   France Spain   Designed as a versatile low-cost module for long-term refugee camps, very easily transported and assembled, the prototype combines a tensioned textile membrane with a simple compressed structure of wood bars... [+]

Espacio La Nube   Denmark   This pressostatic structure of 240m² departs from the typical shape of inflatables to generate a polygonal volume with four fronts that conceal the 20 accesses. Inside, 25 tensors in different colors create a grid of inhabitable cells... [+]

Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture   United States   Inspired by Philadelphia’s rich textile tradition, this installation shows how one single material can produce an extraordinary structure with the power to unite the community. This installation, in the Perelman atrium of the Philadelphia Museum of A

PKMN (pac-man) ISAD-Instituto de Arquitectura y Diseño Memela   Mexico   The ephemeral infrastructure reactivates an old fountain which is surrounded by a wooden base – broken up to generate a ramp, sunbeds, and stands –, and nine scaffolding towers that are protected by colored canvasses... [+]

Selgascano   United Kingdom   The four arms that form the layout of the pavilion each present a different entrance, but they all converge in a central space, a larger hall where visitors can come together.

Izaskun Chinchilla   United States   Put together in the factory, the bars that form the tree-like lattice were taken from recycled camera tripods, and they hold up a dense canopy of bicycle rims and umbrellas of different colors.

Wilk - Salinas Architekten Thomas Freiwald   Germany   Surrounded by the city of Berlin, a summer swim at the Arena Badeschiff on the Spree is a unique experience. Thanks to this temporary structure, a winter swim is now also possible, maybe even more unique: inside, warm water and naked bodies; outside,

Snøhetta   Norway   The pavilion is to rise over the roofs of the historical quarter of the city of Kongsberg as a main venue, for three summer months, of a prestigious international jazz festival, then completely dismantled and stored for the rest of the year. This tem

Soriano y Asociados Arquitectos   Spain   Far from being an aggressive presence in its neighbordood of the district of Vallecas, in the city of Madrid, the e-chimneys of this factory for the production of energy by cogeneration tries to give shape to what is a public space in every sense, so

With an old loom she purchased from one of the many textile mills that were dying out in the Barcelona of the 1970s, the artist Teresa Lanceta learned to weave and immersed herself in a world of warps and woofs that since then has for her been a sort

A sicilian architect based in the city of Bologna, Mario Cucinella has designed a church devoted to St. Maria Goretti in Mormanno, a Calabrian town in the very heart of Pollino National Park. A cross is cut onto the surface of a sober white volume of

Ángel Martínez García-Posada   This summer has brought us the much awaited coincidence of temporary constructions by three Spanish architectural practices in prestigious international forums: the Organic Growth Pavilion by Izaskun Chinchilla on Governors Island in New York, one of

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Buildings are articulated, but also woven; they are raised with structure and enclosed with cladding; they combine or contrast their tectonic and textile condition. The 19th-century debate between constructive logic and ornamental enclosure is still

Javier Tejera Parra   How much does your building weigh? A quick calculation suffices to see that in general, buildings weigh too much. Lightness is no trivial matter if resources are limited, and a very efficient strategy from the viewpoint of sustainability is to design

Vicente Sarrablo   Nuria Prieto González   Inflatable architectures (coined ‘inflatoestructuras’ in Spanish by architect Prada Poole) invite us to look for the means, the way to build space forms that provide alternatives to the strict architectural paths that we found so disappointing when w