With the fast-paced growth of the city of Tulum, a well-known tourist destination on the Caribbean, and the threat this poses to the landscape, Jaguar Park emerges as an inter-institutional initiative whose main objective is to protect the ecosystems, establishing a symbolic and functional limit that allows learning and also the free transit of fauna...
There is no better architecture exhibition this summer than that of Veronese at the Prado. The great painter created the myth of rich and opulent Venice with his crowded compositions of exquisitely dressed characters participating in lavish dinners...
In Arklow, a town in the Irish province of Leinster, a new public infrastructure for treating sewage is the work of the firm Clancy Moore Architects, which won the invitational competition called for the purpose...
In celebration of its twentieth anniversary, in 2024 we presented the magazine with an updated graphic design. Enjoy the changes made in AV Proyectos by taking up this offer of six issues (121-126) of its new phase for 50% of the usual subscription price...
Outside Tokyo, in front of a majestic Buddhist temple surrounded by a park that stretches over several blocks, the practice of Elsa Escobedo and Shohei Kuma has built a one-family house that silently engages...
The scheme ‘Ágora Verde’ – by Magén Arquitectos – has won the competition for the vocational-training building of a digital campus integrated into the new Aragonese Technology District (DAT)...
The Rural Memory Museum in Fengwu has become a symbol of the revitalization of culture and community in an area marked by population exodus, demographic aging, and lack of public facilities...
Time has passed since 1980, when Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron built the small house painted in Klein blue, and also since 1999, year of their first AV issue. With almost fifty years of experience, the studio founded in their home town of Basel...
Eduardo Souto de Moura wraps up the triad that placed Porto in the circuits of global architecture by virtue of honoring vernacular tradition in combination with geometric rigor, constructive precision, and material solidity...
The office park City Nord in Hamburg presents an eclectic mix of historical and modern architecture, and a new building rises at Kaptstadtring 5. Its form integrates well with its neighbors...
In the new residential development of Wendelstrand, outside Mölnlycke and not far from Gotheburg, this 6,264 -square-meter community building has opened. The so-called Lakehouse seeks to foster community...
Nearly five years after a fire devastated the original Doris Duke Theatre in November 2020, the Jacob’s Pillow dance center in Becket, Massachusetts, inaugurates its replacement, connected to the place’s Native American heritage...
In Soa – near Yaundé, Cameroon’s capital – rises a new school designed by the architects Vicente Guallart and Danié Ibáñez, partners in the firm Urbanitree. An initiative of the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family of Nazareth...
José Manuel López Peláez has died at 80 years of age. Chair of Design at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), he was awarded Spain’s National Architecture Prize in 1971...
The Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named a new recipient of the Praemium Imperiale, a prestigious annual accolade given by the Japan Art Association in five artistic disciplines, Architecture included. It comes with 92,000 euros – per category...
Photographs by William Mulvihill offer a walk through the Spanish Pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, open until 13 October on the artificial island of Yumeshima. A ring-shaped avenue paved in wood, designed by Sou Fujimoto, surrounds the premises...
In September 2026, the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi will be the scene of the first Pan-African Architecture Biennale, an unprecedented event which aims to put Africa at the epicenter of global architectural discourse...
Granting that it is a statistical mirage, one possible characteristic of great architects is longevity, judging from the venerable age that many of them have reached, from Michelangelo and Wren to Wright or Niemeyer...
The escalation of the war in the Middle East opens Pandora’s Box, Israel bombarded Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities, killing nuclear scientists and military leaders, and Tehran responded...
Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein set up their own office in Basel in 1998, right upon completing their studies at ETH Zürich, and barely a year later they had already carried the day in one of the most important competitions in the country. However, this quick start has not prevented them from building a reflective and rigorous practice, based on the study of past types and on the understanding of contexts, be they historical or physical. In the past twenty-five years they have developed more than two hundred projects, a noteworthy achievement that AV’s new monograph synthesizes in a chronological tour of their key works...
Kersten Geers and David Van Severen draw buildings with bold shapes and precise spatial sequences, in an eagerness for the same conceptual clarity they demonstrate in their writings and lectures. In this ambiguous position between practice and theory, their free-spirited handling of history, types, and programs comes naturally, but never at the cost of the pragmatism that comes with the profession, as shown in the six recent works – three public and three private – featured in Arquitectura Viva. For its part, the new issue’s dossier presents the current architecture scene of Morocco, a land hovering between its rich building tradition and the innovation...
AV Proyectos 129 explores the architectural potential of color at different scales, and three exhibitions in Madrid – reviewed by Luis Fernández-Galiano – serve as the introductory frame for a series of projects that are examples of this versatility: the detailed domestic intervention of Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer, the unique housing by Wiki World, TEST and selgascano, and the large-scale works by Padilla Nicás and BIG. Along this line, the architect and interior designer Javier Jiménez Iniesta, of Studio Animal, talks with Arquitectura Viva about his defense of chromatism as a project tool and not just an aesthetic whim...
Arquitectura Viva presents —in Spanish-English and digital format only— the second compilation of buildings published in the ‘In Detail’ section of AV Proyectos. The volume, of over 200 pages, features twelve works covered with comprehensive sets of technical plans, details, and photographs documenting the different stages in the construction process of some of the most prominent buildings completed in recent years around the world. The new selection includes cultural infrastructures like the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron or the Contemporary Creation Center of Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano...
The philosopher Byung-Chul Han felt a strong need to be close to the earth, so for three years he worked in a garden which he called Bi-Won, Korean for ‘secret garden.’ ...
Architecture, like reading, is a matter of time. After more than forty years of work in the preservation and restoration of one of the most fascinating buildings in the history of architecture...
Many may have discovered the figure of Antonin Carême (1783-1833), “le chef des rois, le roi des chefs,” through the Apple TV+ series. But this chef whose specialty was making pastries inspired by architectures...
Centered on the ups and downs of three great architects (Wright, Loos, Le Corbusier), Fernando Carrascal’s thesis-turned-book could at first prompt a certain aversion. But soon you enter a familiar world...
A project of the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB), the Illa Glòries housing development of four blocks and 238 dwellings is located between Gran Via de las Corts Catalanas, Carrer dels Encants Vells...
Barcelona takes another step forward in its commitment to providing affordable housing with the construction of this building at Illa Glóries, which is part of a larger development...
Building C of Illa Glòries is part of an ambitious project instigated by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB) that offers a total of 238 apartments in four buildings (A, B, C and D)...
This residential complex is conceived as a permeable system, traversed by multiple openings that connect both facades of the building and link up with the inner courtyards. Such porosity not only takes advantage of the climate conditions...
With key private sector space executives in attendance for his Monday inauguration, President Donald Trump declared that the U.S. will prioritize space exploration during his second term...
It would be a nightmare lab leak: Synthetic bacteria escape the petri dish and unleash a global plague that life on Earth is incapable of defending itself against. That’s the concern raised by a group of eminent...
The launch was remarkable: a booster rocket with twice the power of the Apollo programme’s Saturn V lancing into the early-morning sky on a tight, bright column of blue-tinged flame. But that wonder has been seen four times before...
This landmark achievement has been conducted by the FlyWire Consortium, a large international collaboration including researchers from the University of Cambridge, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology...
The 500-square-meter SO House arose from a clear idea of interconnected spaces engaging with one another while remaining independent. The result is a single-family house that presents itself as flexible...
Until the time Eusebi Guëll moved his textile factory there and established a workers’ colony with the help of Gaudí, Santa Coloma de Cervelló was just a farming village on the banks of the Llobregat, and its modest...
Not far from the chimney chutes that embody the industrial memory of Sant Adrià de Besós, the offices of a technology firm – and also the residence of its founder – have settled in what was once a printing company...
This 56-square-meter apartment was renovated on a low budget, so the exercise in personalizing the space involved getting the best out of solutions and materials available in the market, such as standard tiles put...
Vaillo + Irigaray, in collaboration with interplay, has won the first prize in the competition to build the Health Tech Synergy Hub (HTSH) for the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology...
Norman Foster’s firm has won the competition to design the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park in London. The final design will be unveiled in April 2026 to coincide with the centenary of the monarch...
Ghana will be home to West Africa’s first facility specialized in children’s cancer. Commissioned by the Wish4Life Foundation, this ambitious project aims to transform children’s cancer treatment in the region...
The firms MGM Morales de Giles Arquitectos and Coll-Leclerc Arquitectos have together as a team won the competition to build the new Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)...
The war warning of European elites has feet of clay. Robert Kagan coined in 2003 a metaphor that stuck: “On major international questions today,...
Dear Luis Fernández-Galiano, By way of wishing you a happy New Year, I simply wanted to express how much I appreciate your faithful contribution to architectural culture...
The increase in the frequency and intensity of fires in different parts ofthe world has prompted experts to suggest that we may have entered a new epoch...
Ten people have perished in a conflagration which in a matter of minutes wrapped the facades of the fourteen-story building in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia...
Grupo Ayuso presents its Pérgola series for terraces and gardens. With mixed aluminum and canvas coverings, it is designed to provide spaces where one can enjoy the open air while being sheltered against adverse weather...
With over 80 years of experience behind it and headquartered in Ontinyent (Valencia), the Atenzza business group is dedicated to the production and marketing of textile products for interior and exterior...
The Galician company Comenza, which specializes in developing industrialized railing and handrail systems, presents the PVD Black Finish for its GlassFit CC-800 and GlassFit CC-775 glass railings, offering it as an...
Companies are increasingly aware that only through digital transformation can become more competitive. This is already mandatory in public companies, with the new BIM standard, and the trend is spreading in the...
The Luxembourg-born architect, writer, and draftsman Léon Krier, one of the key drivers of the postmodern movement, passed away on 17 June in Palma de Mallorca, where he had been living since 2013 with his partner Irene P. Stillman...
The German architecture curator, writer, and editor Kristin Feireiss has passed away at 82 years of age. She studied art history and philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. In 1980, she and Helga Retzer...
David M. Childs has died at the age of 83. A partner at SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) since 1971, the American architect designed One World Trade Center, the 541.3-meter (1,776-foot) tower that rose on the spot where the twin towers destroyed by 9/11 had stood...
Ricardo Scofidio has died at 89 years of age in Manhattan. In 1981 he and his wife, Elizabeth Diller, opened Diller Scofidio, which Charles Renfro joined as a partner in 2004. Works that the firm DS-R has built in New York City include the High Line...
