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New Books
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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
texts placed side by side.
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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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Other publications
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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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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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This multifunctional module by H&P Architects is presented as a cheap solution – $2,500 – to the housing problem for populations affected by natural disasters, common in Vietnam. It can be assembled in 25 days and resists floods of up to...
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09/12/2013
The designs for the Bund Financial Centre, under construction in Shanghai, have been revealed. A project of Norman Foster and Thomas Heatherwick, the development on the banks of the Huangpi River is conceived as a point of connection...
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06/12/2013
The plan for the redevelopment of Miami’s downtown waterfront defines an area for a Museum Park on a privileged site facing Biscayne Bay. The master plan makes the most of the strategic location by a major freeway connecting...
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05/12/2013
A few kilometers from the Belgian border, in the port city of Dunkirk, stands the center that the FRAC (French Regional Contemporary Art Funds) recently opened in Nord-Pas de Calais, at the northern tip of France. The work of the Paris partners...
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04/12/2013
Ignacio Peydro and Isabel Collado of the Madrid studio Dosis (de) Arquitectura have renovated and enlarged a vacation home in the La Coruña municipality of Oleiros. The project has tried to adapt to the needs of a family...
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03/12/2013
Promoted by Anna Heringer and Andres Lepik, the Manifesto in Laufen emerges from a desire to “activate a general paradigm shift for the role of architecture in our society”, and has been launched with the support of dozens of professionals worldwide.
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29/11/2013
The commission involved designing for the extensive DPS (Delhi Public School) system a model school that could easily be adapted to the particular conditions of each location and to minor differences in program. Within the masterplan...
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02/12/2013
The firm Rogers Stirk Harbour has been selected to build the Global Centre for the Social Sciences as a new building for the London School of Economics and Political Science. In a competition where the entries were anonymous, the jury inclined towards...
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28/11/2013
Phase 1 of air terminal 3 in Shenzhen’s Bao’an district begins operations this week. Winner of a 2008 competition, the 500,000 square meter building is the first airport commission ever to be undertaken by the Italian partners Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas...
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27/11/2013
More than four decades after Louis I. Kahn built what many critics consider his masterwork, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, marks the officially opening of the extension carried out by Renzo Piano for the Texan institution...
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26/11/2013
A result of the international competition organized by Danish Architects’ Association, the project carried out by Eric Frijtersand and Olv Klijn – cofounders of the Dutch studio FABRIC – is a temporary pavilion for the the King’s Garden at Rosenborg...
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22/11/2013
The team headed by the Danish firm BIG – in collaboration with A+Architecture, Egis, Base, L'Ech, Celsius Environnement, and CCVH – has won the competition to build the Museum of the Human Body in Montpellier, part of the plan to develop...
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21/11/2013
Qatar will be hosting the World Cup of 2022 with history’s greatest concentration of stadiums, ten of them within a 30-kilometer range around Doha. The various new venues for the football event includes the Lusail Iconic...
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20/11/2013
Looking like two gently curving sheets of paper joined at their corners, the pavilion created by Ryue Nishizawa – cofounder with Kazuyo Sejima of the firm SANAA – is part of the project that the Tokyo architect has carried out in an old school...
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19/11/2013
Diller Scofidio + Renfro has won the competition to build Zaryadye Park in Moscow, close to Red Square and the Kremlin. The Russian firm TPO Reserve and the Dutch partnership MVRDV came in second and third...
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15/11/2013
In the central Indian region of Maharashtra, not far from the city of Satirje, and on what is practically barren land, rises this low house whose close contact with the ground seems to suggest the presence of an unknown telluric force...
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14/11/2013
Varying in height, seven houses with gabled roofs make up the Livsrum Cancer Counseling Center of the hospital of Næstved, a city Selandia, Denmark’s largest island. The 800-square-meter facility where the cancer-stricken can go for information...
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13/11/2013
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Guilherme Wisnik
On the later half of the 1960's, when the dictatorship took over power in Brazil, the works of artists and architects reached...
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10/12/2013
The Wall Street Journal
The Colosseum is one of Italy's most treasured landmarks, but it's been crumbling for centuries. Now the billionaire president...
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10/12/2013
Eduardo Prieto
Since its very beginnings, the concrete industry has always gone hand in hand with the production of chemical agents that have...
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06/12/2013
The New York Times
The Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei was one of the most famous prisoners in recent history. Now he’s taking on one...
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04/12/2013
In the Arcaid Awards of 2013, the jury – Zaha Hadid, Ivan Harbour, Catherine Slessor, Eva Jiricna, and Graham Stirk – has selected two images from sixteen finalists and four categoriers: by Ken Schluchtmann (Overall Winner) and Duccio Malagamba (Overall Runner-up).
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29/11/2013
Eduardo Prieto
Organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad and held in Madrid on 21 and 22 November, ‘Enclosures and Wood’...
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28/11/2013
Issue 60 of AV Proyectos features the competitions for Taichung’s City Cultural Center and Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station, with the winning entries of SANAA and Herzog & de Meuron taking the lead; four projects in bamboo; and a detailed analysis of OMA’s De Rotterdam.
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27/11/2013
The Telegraph
Paul Reichmann , the Canadian tycoon, who has died aged 83, transformed the skyline and economy of London’s Docklands...
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25/11/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Contemporary Art is a terra ignota for many, and even those of us who take it upon ourselves to follow it closely often suffer...
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22/11/2013
The Guardian
If you put the last 50 years of architecture in a blender, and spat it out in building-sized chunks across the skyline, you would...
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21/11/2013
The Guardian
A rambling pile of high Victoriana, with a cartoonish PoMo extension and other well-meaning insertions, Tate Britain has long...
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20/11/2013
The New York Times
A gleaming, monumental and unmistakable symbol of Orthodox Christianity would rise at the south end of the National September...
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20/11/2013
Luis Fernández-Galiano
India is not a country, but a continent. It is very hard to fully grasp its diversity, so here we attempt to explore its architecture through...
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19/11/2013
The Independent
It should come as no surprise that Iraqi-born Dame Zaha Hadid is to design the new £630 million home for the Iraqi Parliament...
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18/11/2013
The Telegraph
Anca Petrescu was the architect who designed the People's Palace - Nicolae Ceausescu’s monstrous monument to totalitarian kitsch...
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13/11/2013
The Atlantic
Officials are now estimating that as many as 10,000 deaths may have been caused in the Philippines by the landfall of one of...
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12/11/2013
CTBUH
As part of a nearly year-long selection process, the Awards Jury selected CCTV Headquarters as the Best Tall Building Worldwide...
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11/11/2013
The New York Times
The United Nations of voices we encounter on Manhattan’s streets is global but transient: Visitors from abroad come to town...
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08/11/2013
Los Angeles Times
Facebook is taking its friendship with Frank Gehry across the Atlantic, reportedly signing the Los Angeles architect to work on new...
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08/11/2013
The Guardian
Rooftop penthouses, luxury shopping, three cinemas and a hotel … the architects behind the London landmark's renaissance...
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08/11/2013
Eduardo Prieto
Not long ago, just a century, beauty was still unanimously considered the gauge for art. Today the art world considers it a fetish...
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05/11/2013
The prefabricated, light and transportable module has deserved a lot of attention and research in modern architecture, but today its presence is rather modest...
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01/11/2013
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