Saint Matthew left word in the Gospel that the gate to life is small. And that is how visitors may feel as they complete their rounds of the Medici chapels in Florence’s Basilica di San Lorenzo: a walk – separate from the actual temple’s – which used
Amid the tourist boom that the region is undergoing, a young art center has endeavored to relieve its tight installations with an urban landmark that will give it more visibility.
For an impressive spot along the Hudson River we established a plane, a platform facing the landscape spread out before us which would have the effect of enhancing it. A large box – 122 feet long, 54 wide, 12 high – was built with sturdy concrete wal
In a marvelous place, a piece of earthly paradise, we have built an infinte plane facing the infinite sea, the most radical house we have ever made. Facing the Atlantic Ocean, on the very water’s edge on a beach of Cádiz, not far from the ruins of Bo
The Jumex Museum by David Chipperfield in Mexico City rises as an icon amid complex circumstannces. The British architect’s first work in Latin America solves three paradoxes: how to insert a building into a tight plot with fragmented surroundings; h
Owner of one of the world’s largest private sculpture collections, the Texas entrepreneur Ray Nasher rejected the proposals of several institutions to exhibit his works and decided to build his own museum. Located in the center of the city of Dallas,
Con la integración de las bibliotecas Regional de Sajonia y de la Universidad Técnica de Dresde se ha establecido una institución de gran importancia a escala europea. Aquí permanecerán archivados más de siete millones de libros y documentos. La imag
With a typical nineteenth century scheme of squares of tombs separated by crossshaped paths, the cemetery of Oliveira do Douro is surrounded by irregular parcels upon which the houses have been raised in a discontinuous manner. Only the poplar grove
On the south periphery of Granada, the new headquarters of the Savings Bank will finally gather the offices of this financial institution that were scattered all over the city. As against the variety of shapes that make up the museum of science and t
In the year 1986, the architects Rafael Moneo and Manuel de Solà-Morales won an invitational competition for a complex urban program on a wide trapezoidal site located between Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Déu i Mata, on the one hand, and Numància and
The otherwise regular scheme of the University of Alicante’s new campus becomes problematic along the highway that skirts it. Placing the University Museum on a parcel bordered by the thoroughfare, between the Business School and a peripheral parking
A corridor of offices runs round the triangular border of the site to create a travertine-paved garden with orange trees. This Project is the result of a competition that was held as part of the BIT (Balearic Information and Techn
Plaza Belluga, which includes the palace of the cardinal of the same name and the monumental facade of the cathedral, is framed by buildings that the local bourgeoisie erected in times gone by to enjoy this vantage location. The razing of one of thes
This rock-life center for high-competition athletes rises south of the Complutense University campus, on a prolongation of the artificial topography of its sports fields, and is conceived as a closing for the parcel occupied by the state sports counc
The freestanding volume that houses the civic center is situated in a new expansion area of Alcobendas that is mainly reserved for use by the service sector, between the old N-I highway and the borderline of El Soto de la Moraleja. The parcel is a tr
The ‘Diagonal Block’ - between Diagonal, Deu i Mata, Numancia and Entenza avenues - is a vacant lot within the city that remains true, on one hand, to the Cerdá Plan and its idea of continuity and closed edifications, and on the other hand, to that o
