The Ses Veles public development offering living units to be rented out at affordable prices – located in Puigpunyent, in the Majorcan comarca of Sierra de Tramontana – is a project of the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) that vouches for architecture rooted in local culture. Thought up with a focus on circular and...
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Located in the heart of Hamburg, the Willy-Brandt-Strasse is a road that was cut across the city after World War II, when a good part of the center was destroyed. The road was conceived as a fast way for vehicles crossing...
Three turrets built with reinforced concrete rise as sculptural skylights on top of the roof of an old merchandise warehouse transformed into a hall for showcasing art. The base of the lanterns is used as a way to separate...
The house is located in the small town of San José de Gracia, Michoacán de Ocampo, in the center of the country. The project seeks as its main objectives to be economically and environmentally feasible, to blend into the...
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The house is a fertile ground for architectural experimentation: a space for innovation where technical solutions, aesthetic alternatives, and new ways of dwelling are tried out. AV Monographs 276 gathers sixteen projects built...
At the end of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck breaks the fourth wall to remind the audience that what it has just seen is but a piece of fiction. The installation that this year has won the International FAD...
The Mortuary House of the municipality of Barrancos is located close to the Spanish border, in Portugal’s Alentejo region. The Lisbon-based Mesa Atelier – Ana Isabel Santos, João Tavares, João Varela, Paulo Dias – drew up...
A coach house survived the demolition of the ‘fin-de-siècle’ villa that it served, and after fulfilling different purposes in the course of the 20th century, it has become home to a family. That there could only be windows...
In the heart of Philadelphia, a new cultural space devoted to the sculptor Alexander Calder – born in the Pennsylanian city – opened on 21 September. Far from being a conventional museum, it provides an encounter with his...
Directed by Juan Cavestany with soundtrack by Guille Galván (composer and guitar player of Vetusta Morla), Madrid, Ext. is a ‘symphonic’ film on the city and its contradictions; a close-up of the Spanish capital where its...
Nicholas Grimshaw has died at the age of 85. A pioneer of high-tech architecture, the British architect built the Waterloo International Terminal in London and the iconic Eden Project of Cornwall (a botanical garden with...
On view through 11 January 2025 at Sala Alcalá 31 in Madrid, ‘Alfredo Alcain: A Retrospective’ is a walk through the over sixty years of creativity of a prominent Madrid artist born in 1936. Curated by Mariano Navarro, the...
The Helsinki firm JKMM Architects has been named the winner of the international competition to design Finland’s new Museum of Architecture and Design, to go up at the old docksite of the Nordic capital’s South Harbor. The...
The six finalists for the latest Stirling Prize, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), are located in England, four of them in London. These include the restoration of Elizabeth Tower by Purcell and...
The same Cuenca where he was born, which awakened his early aesthetic inclinations and saw his most important projects go up, also saw him take his last breath on 7 September. Gustavo Torner was headed to be a forest...
The house is a fertile ground for architectural experimentation: a space for innovation where technical solutions, aesthetic alternatives, and new ways of dwelling are tried out. AV Monographs 276 gathers sixteen projects built in diverse geographical and cultural contexts, organized around for key materials – wood, earth, concrete, and metal – which, when combined, expand the expressive and constructive possibilities of each one of them.From the vernacular to the experimental, from the Alpine cabin to the urban dwelling, these houses show how material becomes an expressive tool, capable of linking up with the context...
With a grasp of context exceeding the hackneyed deference, the Swiss architects Daniel Buchner and Andreas Bründler address it in all its complexity. Their buildings may look autonomous but all of them remedy fragments of the respective place and provide a solid identity, helped by an exquisite and atmospheric treatment of concrete: perhaps the only leitmotiv to be discerned in the selection of six works – two public buildings, two residential developmens, and two houses – that Arquitectura Viva features. The issue’s dossier, for its part, presents recent public initiatives taken in four Spanish regions to consolidate pieces...
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...
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. Such a sublayer has enabled him to handle types, scales, and strategies with agility, while still stamping an unmistakable mark on his projects. Celebrating his forty-five years of work, Arquitectura Viva presents that same number of projects of his in a 344-page book, hardbound and bilingual (Spanish and English), testimony of a brilliant practice that has been both intensely local and resolutely open to the world...
The ancient world nurtures us with histories and myths, and two recent books offer this spiritual food in easily digestible bites. David Hernández de la Fuente...
Discussions on neoliberalism nowadays pose two problems. The first comes from the vagueness of the term, turned as it is into a non-concept, devoid of content...
Compiling families of carpentry joints has always been an arduous, practically unmanageable task. In a huge effort, Sascha Bauer and Daniel Pauli have not only collected a myriad...
The production of renewable sources has transformed territories, and now also the buildscapes of cities. Advances in solar capture technologies, their reduced costs...
In Viladecans, a Barcelona municipality in the comarca of Bajo Llobregat, this residential complex containing 22 officially subsidized dwellings blends organically with the surroundings...
The project ‘Gardens for an Acrobat’ has won the competition organized by the Madrid Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS Madrid) for the construction of 166 affordable rental apartments in the Mahou-Calderón area of the Arganzuela district...
Just 40 meters from Calle Estafeta in Pamplona, known for the San Fermín bull runs, stands this block of four homes, a renovation project led by Josean Ruiz Esquíroz in collaboration with Enrique Morillo, Marta Muñoz, Roberto Romero, and Sandra Ojea...
This residential block is located in the heart of Raval, a neighborhood within Barcelona’s old town. Its cultural diversity is among its main assets. In this context, the refurbishment project launched by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona...
The project involved thoroughly renovating a 660-square-meter space in the city of Santander, turning it into a multipurpose home for a private art collection. Intended as something more than an exhibition gallery...
Located in Palma’s old town quarter, Can Gabriel is a house built on traces of the past with no attempts to erase them. The projects starts with a bare 164-square-meter apartment of the 1960s, the only legacy of which is purely constructional...
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...
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...
The Savarin development has obtained the necessary permits to transform an inner block in Prague’s historic center, in accordance with a design by the British firm of Thomas Heatherwick...
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 firms Snøhetta and Benthem Crouwel Architects have unveiled their idea for the House of Culture and Administration, to be located at Plein Molenberg, the central square Delfzijl...
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...
China’s transformation in the 21st century can be felt on a visit there, as chronicled in ‘Six Watercolors’ (AV Proyectos 130), but is also documented through...
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...
François Chaslin has died at the age of 76. A regular contributor to Arquitectura Viva and media outlets such as Le Monde, Libération, or El País, the French architect, critic, and professor was editor-in-chief of...
A professor at the Madrid School of Architecture and an aficionado of music, poetry, photography, and nature, the Madrid architect ran a practice with Luis González Sterling and Joaquín Aramburu Maqua...
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 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...
