The Conservation and Preservation Center has been built with the intention of bringing together the functions of the Spanish Film Library, scattered in different buildings. The neutral character of the environment – it goes up in the Ciudad de la Imagen campus in the municipality of Pozuelo de Alarcón, west of Madrid...
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19/06/2013
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AV Monographs
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analyzes in each issue a theme related to a city, a country, a tendency or an
architect, with articles by leading specialists complemented by commentary on works
and projects illustrated in detail. Published bilingually, with Spanish and English
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Arquitectura Viva
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covers current topics, taking stock of recent trends in set sections: cover story,
works and projects, art and culture, books, technique and innovation. From 2013
on, monthly and bilingual, with Spanish and English texts printed side by side.
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AV Proyectos
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is the third member of the AV family: a bilingual publication essentially focussed
on design projects (with special attention on competitions and construction details),
heretofore only laterally dealt with in the other two magazines.
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Spain mon amour
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Published by the Fundación ICO in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book ‘Spain mon amour’ reviews recent Spanish architecture through fifteen works in fifteen different cities, completed by five studios and represented by five prominent photographers.
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Architecture: the Common
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Organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, the congress (Pamplona, June 2012) appealed to civic solidarity as an instrument of architecture in facing the urgent economic and environmental challenges of today.
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More for Less
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Organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, the congress (Pamplona, June 2010) aimed to take stock of the change of mood in architecture. Published in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book presents the interviews with the participants.
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Atlas: Europe
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Devoted to the most recent architecture of the European continent, it is the fourth volume in a series which develops and updates the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: Africa and M. East
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Devoted to the most recent architecture of Africa and the Middle East, is the third volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: America
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Devoted to the latest architecture of America, it is the second volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published by the BBVA Foundation in 2007, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: Asia and Pacífic
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This Atlas, devoted to the latest architecture of Asia and the Pacific, is the first volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published by the BBVA Foundation in 2007, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas. Circa 2000
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The BBVA Foundation presents Atlas. Arquitectura global circa 2000, a volume of 312 pages published also in Spanish. Centered on the period opened by the Fall of the Berlin Wall, this work intends to be a critical assessment of world architecture in our global times.
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Spain Builds, 1975-2010
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Second edition of the work published in 2006 coinciding with the exhibition on architecture in Spain held at the MoMA. Now, to mark Spain's presence at Expo Shanghai, the oeuvre is extended, adding Chinese to the original languages.
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The Dutch firm MVRDV, in collaboration with InC Design, has given new life to an old building of Seoul’s Gangnam neighborhood by turning its facade into a geometric composition formed by eighteen shop windows. Built in the 1980s, the building...
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19/06/2013
A video by Paul Raftery and Dan Lowe shows how the Leadenhall Building of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners is going up in the City of London: a 224.5 meter tower whose uniquely tapered profile addresses requirements to keep views of St Paul’s Cathedral open.
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18/06/2013
Hubertus Adam
In June 2013, a further element will be introduced on the Vitra Campus. On a hill between the VitraHaus and the Dome, the Italian architect Renzo Piano and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop...
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17/06/2013
Outside Jaipur – the capital of Rajasthan, in northwest India –, Amber Fort is a tourist attraction reached by riding an elephant to the top of the hill from which to enjoy the majestic beauty of the citadel and impressive views over the city and Lake Maotha. Nearby...
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14/06/2013
Meant especially as a venue for wedding banquets, the marquee of the restaurant Les Cols brings to mind outdoor life, countryside meals with family and friends, and the careful preparation of dishes to relish for several hours...
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13/06/2013
An international competition among universities that promotes research on efficient housing, Solar Decathlon Europe has put together videos on the eighteen designs that were built for the latest edition, which took place in Madrid last summer.
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12/06/2013
Promoted by Fundación Agrícola Fundagro, which promotes ecological harvesting and the recovery of biodiversity in local seeds, the new complex is located in Aranzadi Park, after restoring a meander of the River Arga as it goes through Pamplona...
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12/06/2013
Laid out like tree branches in the Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou – in Zhejiang province, eastern China –, the Xixi Artist Clubhouse was designed as a small village community by Zhang Lei, of the Nanjing-based office AZL Architects. Comprising...
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11/06/2013
Mistrusting the supposed efficiency and flexibility of the neutral and universal container so often used nowadays, we devised a building closely linked to a place and to a faraway memory. A building in which each space is configured individually, in a time...
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10/06/2013
Los Angeles Times
Imagine you are heading east on Wilshire Boulevard, in a car or on foot. As you approach Wilshire and Fairfax Avenue, you see the rounded, gilded corner of the former May Co. building and...
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07/06/2013
The Teletón Children’s Rehabilitation Center has been around for thirty years, in the course of which its life has not been very different from that of the country it is located in, Paraguay, marked by abandonment, corruption and discouragement...
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07/06/2013
In the wake of the approval of Zaha Hadid’s winning proposal for the KAFD (King Abdullah Financial District) of Riyadh, it has been announced that Snøhetta’s project for the Qasr Al Hokm stop and Gerber Architekten’s for the Olaya depot complete the new trio of main hubs...
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06/06/2013
This Saturday, 8th June, marks the opening of the thirteenth summer pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery in London. Built by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, it will stand until 20th October. Inspired by clouds, irregularly shaped and varying in density, it is a structure...
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05/06/2013
A plot across from the Romanesque Cathedral of Zamora was the place chosen for the construction of the headquarters of the Advisory Board of the regional government of Castilla y León. The competition held produced a winning proposal that stems...
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04/06/2013
The Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) is inserted in the landscape of the Sierra Madre Oriental, and it was the force of this rugged natural environment that inspired the Japanese architect Tadao Ando in designing a new building on the premises: the Roberto Garza Sada Center of Art...
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03/06/2013
Affected by demolitions carried out at the start of the 20th century for the World’s Fair of 1913 and in the 1960s for an administrative center that was never built, a part of the historic heart of the Belgian city of Ghent ended up reduced to a parking lot...
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31/05/2013
Two years before he died of lung cancer at the age of 49, the German artist and film/theater director Christoph Schlingensief took the Burkina Faso architect Diébédo Francis Kéré on board his dream of building an opera house in the heart of Africa. The project Opera Village...
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30/05/2013
The Foreigner
A long-running battle of where to place the Scandinavian capital’s new Munch museum is now over following cross-Party agreement. Spanish architect Juan Herreros is understandably delighted (LAMBDA project)...
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29/05/2013
A dynamic composition of wooden panels of different sizes and tones, alternating strips of plans and openings in rhythmic sequences, forms the nursery school that Kengo Kuma has raised in Kanazawa, a city in the prefecture of Ishikawa, a building whose...
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27/05/2013
The El Greco Congress Center of Toledo is accessed through a small plaza located next to Armas Street, and which leads to Zocodover Square. This plaza offers broad, impressive views over Tavera Hospital and the river. The Congress Center takes up the site of...
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24/05/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
In the latest AV monograph on Herzog & de Meuron, Luis Fernández-Galiano examines the stage sets that the Swiss partners, to celebrate the Verdi and Wagner bicentennials, designed for operas by these composers (AV Monographs 158-159)...
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23/05/2013
There are only two finalists in the competition to redevelop the over 20 hectares of the Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC) district, Bjarke Ingels and Rem Koolhaas, whose firms, BIG and OMA, have presented their proposals for an overhaul of the convention premises, the...
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22/05/2013
The result of research carried out at the University of Hong Kong under the Hong Kong-based Taiwanese John Lin, the prototype for a ‘house for all seasons’ is conceived with the intention of preserving the materials and techniques of Chinese vernacular architecture and...
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21/05/2013
Waves in the walls and roof define Zaha Hadid’s competition-winning design for the new station of Riyadh’s KAFD (King Abdullah Financial District). This interchange of the Saudi Arabian capital connects three underground lines and gives access, through a bridge...
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20/05/2013
Astley Castle in Nuneaton – in Warwickshire County, England – was destroyed by fire and abandoned for three decades. It now reemerges from the state of ruin it was in, thanks to a reconstruction carried out by Stephen Witherford, Christopher Watson...
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16/05/2013
Herzog & de Meuron have obtained the go-ahead to build the new Blavatnik School of Government and Public Policy at Oxford University, a project that arose in 2010 on the initiative of the American philanthropist of Ukrainian roots, Leonard Blavatnik, who decided...
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15/05/2013
Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas have won the bid to refurbish and redevelop the area immediately surrounding the main railway station of Bari, in southern Italy. On 78 hectares divided into seven segments, the proposal drawn up in collaboration...
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14/05/2013
After visiting the remote village of Wae Rebo on Flores Island, in Indonesia, the collective Rumah Asuh – founded by Jakarta architect Yori Antar – set about to reconstruct two of four remaining huts, cone-shaped constructions called Mbaru Niang, owing to their advanced state...
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13/05/2013
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The Dutch company Philips, responsible for lighting in the new Rijksmuseum, shows the careful process it has undertaken for Rembrandt’s The Night Watch.
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19/06/2013
CaixaForum Madrid presents until 30th July, through photographs by José Manuel Ballester and on the occasion of Ferrovial’s 60th anniversary, some of the most significant projects that have over the years been undertaken by the infrastructural firm.
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18/06/2013
The Pritzker jury has decided against petitions for Denise Scott Brown to be recognized for her contribution to the work for which her partner Robert Venturi received the award in 1991...
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17/06/2013
The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the winners of its RIBA 2013 Awards. The Teulada Auditorium by Francisco Mangado is among the prizewinning works in the European category.
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14/06/2013
BIG has presented its project for the LEGO House in Billund, inspired by the interlocking plastic pieces manufactured by the Danish firm.
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14/06/2013
In its debut as a nation participant at the Venice Biennale, Angola wins the Golden Lion for its pavilion.
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14/06/2013
‘Knowing Kuma’, a low-budget video directed by Omar Kakar (OHM Studio Collaborative), looks at different facets of the Japanese architect’s personality.
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13/06/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
The surreal dwells among us. Far from just being an artistic and literary movement of the past century, surrealism is a dark pulse...
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12/06/2013
In celebration of the 200th year since the Palace of Mines in Mexico City was built, the National Autonomous University of Mexico...
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11/06/2013
Issue 57 of AV Proyectos presents the Arctic Food Network project and various experimental pavilions proposed for the EPFL campus, among other designs. Also featured is Carmen Pinós’s CaixaForum building in Zaragoza, which is analyzed in detail.
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11/06/2013
Reinforced concrete is the most commonly used material in contemporary construction. Its use adds up to 5% of the total emissions of greenhouse gas, so one of the main...
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07/06/2013
The Economist
IT IS useful stuff, concrete, but it does have drawbacks. One of the biggest is that it is not as weatherproof as the stone it often...
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06/06/2013
The Renzo Piano Foundation Award – for Italian architects under the age of forty – has on its second edition gone to DOSarchitects...
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05/06/2013
On view until 9th June in Madrid, at the Adolfo Domínguez Foundation’s Exit Art Gallery, is ‘Interspaces’, an exhibition on the work of the Madrid architect Mariasun...
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03/06/2013
arquinfad.org
The jury of the FAD Awards has shortlisted 27 works in the 2013 edition. The list of awardees will be made public on 11 July...
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31/05/2013
Last Wednesday, Toyo Ito accepted the 38th Pritzker Architecture Prize at Boston's John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum...
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31/05/2013
Marta Álvarez Tirado
Polymeric foams can be commercialized in a relatively large number of sectors – from architectural and naval construction...
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31/05/2013
The Guardian
Who will be the star of this year's Venice Biennale? Ai Weiwei. Not since Joseph Beuys created his sublime installation Tram Stop...
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29/05/2013
In collaboration with the Barcelona firm Ribas & Ribas, Jean Nouvel has built the Hotel Renaissance on the Plaça d’Europa at...
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28/05/2013
Because they grow quickly, and are evidently sustainable and furthermore easy to cultivate, microalgae are becoming an alternative to the use of fossil fuels in the field of construction (véase Arquitectura Viva 140)...
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24/05/2013
BBC
One of the world's top portrait photographers, the jury hailed her as a "driving force" in photojournalism. Her pictures, which...
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24/05/2013
Diamonds Are Forever and The Big Lebowski are some of the films with scenes shot in famous houses designed by John Lautner.
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17/05/2013
The New York Times
If you were an ambitious young architecture student, would you risk sacrificing your summer to attend a course taught by...
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17/05/2013
The Columbus Dispatch
A design by an internationally known architect and artist featuring a yellow Star of David was chosen yesterday for a $2 million...
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17/05/2013
The New York Times
Hoping to give new meaning to the term “natural light,” a small group of biotechnology hobbyists and entrepreneurs has started...
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16/05/2013
The New York Review of Books
One reason I’ve never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining...
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14/05/2013
TIME
Watch the world change over the course of nearly three decades of satellite photography in timelapse via Google Earth Engine...
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13/05/2013
The New York Times
After impassioned protests from prominent architects, preservationists and design critics, the Museum of Modern Art said on Thursday that it would reconsider..
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10/05/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Matter is today very spiritual. In a world swamped with digital images, the return to the physical, tactile humility of primary materials...
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09/05/2013
The Independent
Construction workers have hoisted the final spire piece to the top of the 1,776 feet tall One World Trade Center in New York's...
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09/05/2013
El País
The Prado, the Thyssen and the Reina Sofía make up Madrid's very own "museum mile," an internationally renowned part of the...
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08/05/2013
The Carré d’Art in Nîmes, built by Norman Foster, celebrates its 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, on 3 May 2013 the...
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02/05/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
In Why Nations Fail, the MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and the Harvard political scientist James Robinson explore the origins...
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30/04/2013
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