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New Books
AV Monografías 159-160 - ESPAÑA 2013 AV Monographs
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 texts placed side by side.
Arquitectura Viva 151 - LOCAL MATERIAL Arquitectura Viva
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.
AV Proyectos 056 - WINE & TECHNOLOGY AV Proyectos
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.
Other publications
Spain mon amour Spain mon amour
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.
Architecture: the Common Architecture: the Common
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.
More for Less More for Less
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.
Atlas: Europe Atlas: Europe
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.
Atlas: Africa and M. East Atlas: Africa and M. East
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.
Atlas: America Atlas: America
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.
Atlas: Asia and Pacífic Atlas: Asia and Pacífic
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.
Atlas. Circa 2000 Atlas. Circa 2000
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.
Spain Builds, 1975-2010 Spain Builds, 1975-2010
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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Witherford Watson Mann restore Astley Castle in Warwickshire (England)

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

Blavatnik School: Herzog & de Meuron
to build in Oxford

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

Studio Fuksas redesigns the area around the central station of Bari

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

Rumah Asuh reconstruct Mbaru Niang huts in Indonesia

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

Norman Foster opens
the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich

The Lenbechhaus Museum in Munich – the old house and studio of the German painter Franz von Lenbach (1836-1904) – reopened its doors after a renovation of its historic buildings and the construction of a new wing by the office of Norman Foster...

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10/05/2013

Toni Gironès, Roman site
Can Tacó (Barcelona)

Halfway between Montmeló and Montornès del Vallès, on the peak of Els Turons de las Tres Creus, is the Can Tacó Archaeology and Nature Park, a work of the Barcelona studio of Toni Gironès. It addressed three objectives: to inform about the heritage value...

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08/05/2013

Loop kindergarten by Sako Architects: colored curves in Tianjín (China)

Curved lines and bright colors striking a contrast with the surrounding blocks characterize Loop, the new preschool center built in Tianjin – a city of northern China which is one of the country’s most populated – by the Japanese architect Keiichiro Sako, who has offices...

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07/05/2013

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz: Solar Tower in Sociópolis (Valencia)

The Solar Tower in Sociópolis (Valencia) distances itself from the featureless iconographies of present-day public housing developments by exploring, through a curvilinear geometry and a unique crown, the formal possibilities offered by the tower...

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06/05/2013

Los Angeles: Peter Zumthor
to redesign LACMA

Los Angeles Times

LACMA draws up ambitious plans for a $650-million new look. Director Michael Govan turns to Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for a dramatic new building that would involve demolishing the main museum campus...

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06/05/2013

Immaterial waves, SANAA pavilion on the Vitra Campus

The Swiss firm Vitra continues entrusting the design of its buildings to prominent international architects. Along this line, to replace an old factory building Vitra commissioned the new building to the Japanese architects SANAA. Located within the Vitra Campus – the firm’s compound...

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03/05/2013

20 Projects Shortlisted for
US$ 1 million Aga Khan Award

AKDN

The shortlist of nominees for the 2013 cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture was announced at the Palacio das Necessidades (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). The 20 nominees for the US$ 1 million...

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02/05/2013

Retes Arquitectos, Science Park
in Espinardo (Murcia)

The objective of recovering buildings in disuse is a good starting point for public interventions, and the guideline for this specific project, which is minimal but still manages to produce a powerful and unitary image. Reusing as much of the existing as possible allows to save money...

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30/04/2013

Mies Award goes to Harpa in Reykjavik,
by Henning Larsen

The Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, designed by the Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson and with the local studio Batteríið Architects, is the winner of the Mies Award 2013. The Madrid-based team Langarita...

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29/04/2013

David Chipperfield enlarges the HEC School of Management in Paris

With a staggered facade 126 meters long, David Chipperfield has given the prestigious HEC School of Management in Paris a new gateway building. Located in the Jouy-en-Josa campus in the Versailles district, 16 kilometers from the center of the capital...

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26/04/2013

Herzog & de Meuron will build
the National Library of Israel

Herzog & de Meuron have been selected by the National Library Construction Company (NLCC) to build the library’s new home in Jerusalem. After the presentations before the selection committee...

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25/04/2013

Josef Stöger, a stroll among trees in Neuschönau (Germany)

Stunning views are offered by a 1,300 meter promenade built by Josef Stöger amid trees in the National Park of Neuschönau, in southeastern Germany. The wooden structure has a catwalk 750 meters long and from 1.5 to 2.5 wide, raised to a height varying between...

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25/04/2013

SOM: a tower of light
over Zhenzhou (China)

Prominent in the changing skyline of the city of Zhenghou, capital of Henan province in eastern China, the 280-meter-tall 40-floor tower built by the American firm SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) houses a mixed-use program with a 453-room hotel above and offices on the lower...

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24/04/2013

Farshid Moussavi wins competition for apartment block in Montpellier

A stack of eleven sinuously outlined floors forms a residential tower to be built by Farshid Moussavi in Jardins de la Lironde, in Montepellier’s Port-Marianne district. Of twelve buildings envisioned for this neighborhood of the French city, the one designed...

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22/04/2013

OMA for Coach in Tokyo: Glass
Spikes in Omotesando

A corner of Tokyo’s Omotesando neighborhood now features a new flagship store, designed by Rem Koolhaas, for the leather goods and accessories brand Coach. Inspired by the wooden display shelves in the New York company’s first establishments, in the...

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19/04/2013

Europa City: BIG to dig a sustainable
city in Paris

Bjarke Ingels has won the competition by invitation that the Auchan Group organized for the eventual construction of Europa City, an 800,000-square-meter sustainable city belonging to the municipality of Gonesse, 16 kilometers from the center of Paris. Spread beneath a huge...

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18/04/2013

Florentijn Hofman’s small Factory in Drachten (Netherlands)

Within an industrial zone in the Dutch town of Drachten, the Rotterdam artist Florentijn Hofman has built a factory measuring 5x12x14 meters. Made with three metal modules and a black envelope of corrugated steel, the miniature plant is crowned by a sawtooth-shaped roof and two...

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17/04/2013

Perforated vineyards in Florence:
Cantina Antinori by Archea

Nestled in the hills of Chianti, in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, halfway between Florence and Sienna, is the Cantina Antinori winery, a work of the Italian firm Archea Associati. The building is fused into the vineyards that coat its roofs and adapts to the irregularities of the terrain...

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13/04/2013

MAD completes the China Wood Sculpture Museum in Harbin

The Beijing studio led by Ma Yansong has in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin finished the China Wood Sculpture Museum, a sinuous building clad with polished steel plates whose structure is inspired by the crooked branches of trees. Stretching 200...

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11/04/2013

John Lautner houses
in movies

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 Prescient Vision
of a Gentle Revolutionist

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

Committee picks Libeskind design for Holocaust memorial

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

A Dream of Trees Aglow at Night

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

Batman vs. Koolhaas

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

Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine

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

To Raze or Not?
MoMA Rethinks Plan

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

Local Material

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

I WTC crowned with a spire making it the third tallest building in the world

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

Beyond the Prado and Thyssen

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

‘Moving. Norman Foster on Art’’ at the Carré d’Art in Nîmes

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

Sinking Nations

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

Airports in China Hew to an Unswerving Flight Path

The New York Times

For those frustrated with air travel in the United States, arriving at this city’s domestic airport can be a treat. New arrivals are whisked..

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29/04/2013

Scars of the Spanish crisis, landscapes by Luca Girardini

Luca Girardini (Vicenza, 1980) shows images depicting the consequences incurred on our territories by the bursting of Spain’s real estate bubble.

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26/04/2013

Iñaki Ábalos, Chair of the Department of Architecture in Harvard

Harvard University

The Harvard University Graduate School of Design has announced the appointment of Iñaki Ábalos as Chair of the Department of...

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26/04/2013

Wang Shu among the 100 Most Influential People of 2013

TIME

Wang Shu is the only architect on this year’s Time Magazine list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

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25/04/2013

Polish Museum Repairs
a Tie to a Jewish Past

The New York Times

The brick, an imaginative adaptation of the traditional mezuza case that Jews put on their doorways as a sign of their faith, came...

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24/04/2013

Partner Without the Prize

The New York Times

Twenty-two years after being passed by, the architect Denise Scott Brown, 81, said at an awards ceremony for women in...

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19/04/2013

Signatures to save New York's American Folk Art Museum

A signature-collecting campaign is underway to urge the MoMA to reconsider its decision to tear down the Folk Art Museum beside it, a work of Williams & Tsien.

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18/04/2013

Pedro Ramirez Vazquez dies
at 94; architect changed the
face of Mexico City

Los Angeles Times

Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, an architect who changed the face of Mexico City by...

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18/04/2013

New fears for Spain’s shoreline

El País

Amendments planned by the Popular Party government for legislation protecting coastal areas could pave the way for further...

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18/04/2013

Marina Abramovic and Ulay:
The Encounter

Marina Abramovic and Ulay had an intense love affair in the 1970s. When they felt that their relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China from opposite ends and meet in the middle for one last hug, never thereafter to see each other again. At the MoMA many years later she presented ‘The Artist is Present’, a minute of silence during which she sits at a table and looks into the eyes of whoever sits on the chair across her. The video shows what happened when he turned up.

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17/04/2013

Vaillo+Irigaray: Occidens Museum at Pamplona Cathedral

Within the grounds of Pamplona’s cathedral, the Occidents Museum built by Antonio Vaíllo and Juan Luis Irigaray contains 4,500 square meters in twelve rooms that tell us about...

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17/04/2013

Centenary Masters

Luis Fernández-Galiano

We begin to celebrate the centenaries of those who were our masters, and the many anniversaries in 2013 prompts a pixelated...

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17/04/2013

Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse rooftop gym transformed into art space

The Guardian

"Welcome to my place," says Ito Morabito, perched on the balustrade of the most famous rooftop of any 20th-century building...

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17/04/2013

Milan’s International Furniture Fair 2013

Milan’s International Furniture Fair last week showcased designs by some of the world’s leading architects. They include a bench...

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16/04/2013

Rafael Moneo: Lost in Translation

The New York Times

There’s something to be said for developing a signature style. In most areas of design it can be a great career move, but particularly...

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15/04/2013

12-Year-Old Building
at MoMA Is Doomed

The New York Times

When a new home for the American Folk Art Museum opened on West 53d Street in Manhattan in 2001 it was hailed as a...

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15/04/2013

Accelerated routes with 'Google Street View Hyperlapse'

The program developed by Teehan+Lax combines the photographic technique of timelapse with Google Street View tools to allow creating hyperlapses through a route.

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12/04/2013

Arquitect Clorindo Testa dies

Buenos Aires Herald

Arquitect and artist Clorindo Testa died today in Buenos Aires at 89 years old, his family reported. The... (Photo: Mariana Ruddock)

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11/04/2013

Paolo Soleri, who pioneered the futuristic Arcosanti in Arizona, dies at 93

Arizona Daily Star

Italian-born architect Paolo Soleri, who began building a futuristic community called Arcosanti north of Phoenix more than 40 years...

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10/04/2013
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