Torn down since the end of the 19th century in order to let the city grow, the walls surrounding Palma de Mallorca have preserved to this day a few stretches – those located closer to the sea, towards which the city could not extend further. The fifth phase of a project which began in 1983 and that has developed over the course of three decades...
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29/07/2014
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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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The Architect is Present
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Published by the Fundación ICO in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book ‘The Architect is Present’ shows the work of five studios that work in underprivileged contexts, proving that scarcity of means can stimulate technical inventiveness and comunity participation.
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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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A series of ring-shaped ramps emerge with a gentle transition from the platform of the Beton Hala to define a spiralling structure nicknamed ‘the floating cloud,’ from which one can enjoy panoramic views over the city of Belgrade. The spiral consists of a unified...
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28/07/2014
The Church of Saint Mary is located on the Atlantic coast in Wangerland, not far from the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park. Its typological simplicity is evident from a bird’s eye view, the building’s apparently intricate formal game...
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25/07/2014
News - Arquitectura Viva 164
Neither the outcry in public opinion nor the support expressed by local architects, nor even an eventual apparent willingness on the part of Mayor Ana Botella to adjust has made Norman Foster...
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24/07/2014
A design of Junya Ishigami of Japan in collaboration with Johnny Svendborg of Denmark is the winner of a competition launched by the HOPE Foundation to build a ‘House of Peace’ in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn harbor...
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22/07/2014
The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has unveiled Herzog & de Meuron’s design for the complex including its new corporate headquarters and an R&D center. The project is part of phase one of the Swiss firm’s masterplan for the Cambridge...
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21/07/2014
Luna was developed for the 6th edition of the St. Prex Classics festival, which is held annually in a small municipality by Lake Leman. This ephemeral structure accommodates a flexible auditorium with a modular capacity of 500 or 700 spectators...
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18/07/2014
In Montecarlo, forming the centerpiece of Monaco’s remodeled harbor, the Yacht Club built by Foster + Partners recently opened its doors. Raised on reclaimed land, the new social and sporting facilities are organized in terraced floors and closed...
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17/07/2014
Conceived as an infinite stone block facing the Atlantic, the house built by Alberto Campo Baeza is located on the coast of Cádiz. The material chosen for the construction is Roman travertine marble, evoking the past of the zone...
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16/07/2014
In 2007, as head of OMA in Asia, Ole Scheeren received the commission to build a 1,040-unit apartment complex, called ‘The Interlace’, in the city-state of Singapore. The German architect completed construction work in 2013...
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15/07/2014
Besides the new seat of the National Library of Israel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, and the campus for the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, by SANAA, the plans to redevelop the city of Jerusalem include projects like the Courthouse...
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14/07/2014
Located on the plains of the upper part of the Mandeo River basin, in the Galician municipality of Curtis – some 40 kilometers from A Coruña –, the new Ethnographic Center has a double role: an educational one, with courses and workshops...
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11/07/2014
On view up to 11 September at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. is the huge labyrinth designed by the Danish office of Bjarke Ingels. Within a square with 18-meter sides, the installation built with birch wood offers visitors...
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10/07/2014
Outside Dialakoroba, a village located 50 kilometers from Bamaki, the capital of Mali, the Falatow Jigiyaso Orphanage is home to about fifty infants, children and young people up to 18 years of age. The design of the Parisian office F8 Architecture...
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08/07/2014
Striking a contrast with the other constructions making up the University of Tokyo, which present conventional campus materials like concrete, stone, or metal, the facades of the Daiwa Building are clad with wood and earth. Designed as a place...
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07/07/2014
In the Italian province of Parma, immersed in the mountainous landscape of the village of Varano dei Marchesi, an open-air chapel is an invitation to prayer in the vicinity of the old Casa Faggi hospital and the pilgrimate route between...
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03/07/2014
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Despite their lack of mechanical and energy efficiency, high-rise buildings continue to proliferate in the financial and service-sector centers of cities all over the world...
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25/07/2014
The Telegraph
London can now be explored in greater detail, and without the need to actually visit, after Google launched 3D mapping...
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25/07/2014
The Guardian
As Airbus files a patent for a new space-saving design to jam many more economy class passengers in. If you thought low-cost...
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25/07/2014
The Wall Street Journal
The Museum of Modern Art named Martino Stierli, a professor at the University of Zurich, its new chief curator of architecture...
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24/07/2014
The Paris Administrative Court has revoked the permit for SANAA to carry out its project for the renovation of the department store La Samaritaine.
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23/07/2014
Luis Fernández-Galiano
We commemorate 1914 at the heart of the conflict. A century after the Great War began, we Europeans watch the economic...
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22/07/2014
As Álvaro Siza has informed the newspaper Público, the Canadien Centre for Architecture (CCA) may incorporate into its collections the Portuguese architect’s professional archives, consisting of drawings, models, photographs, and other documents
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22/07/2014
From the 24th to the 27th of September, the Italian city of Verona will host the 49th edition of Marmomacc, the international trade fair for marble, natural stone, and the associated...
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22/07/2014
Fireplace is one of fifteen books, edited by Rem Koolhaas as the catalog of his exhibition at the Venice Architecure Biennale, which individually study that same number of fundamental ‘elements’ of the discipline. In it, Sébastien Marot analyzes the historiographic milestones in the study of thermal spaces, from Semper, Mumford or Giedion to Banham or Fernández-Galiano.
Sébastien Marot, Hearthbreaking, in Elements of Architecture, vol. Fireplace, Venezia, Marsilio, 2014, pp. 106-123 Credits: © la Biennale di Venezia / Rem Koolhaas.
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21/07/2014
For the third edition of the biennial competition Solar Decathlon Europe (SDE), twenty houses presented by universities in Europe, Asia, and America were displayed in the French...
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21/07/2014
The Guardian
Other contenders for architecture award include Birmingham library, Everyman theatre in Liverpool and LSE student centre...
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17/07/2014
Coming with an endowment of 15 million yen (almost 109,000 euros), the Praemium Imperiale of the Japan Art Association has since 1989 been given yearly...
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16/07/2014
Open until 21 August at the Aedes Gallery in Berlin is ‘Matter and Light’, which showcases the career of Josep Ferrando through drawings, models, and photographs...
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14/07/2014
The Guardian
Dubai's Mall of the World will have its very own Oxford Street and Broadway. It will also have galleons, waterfalls, a giant retractable...
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11/07/2014
Vicente Sarrablo y Nuria Prieto
Inflatable structures had their heyday in the 1970s, but today they are back with new applications...
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10/07/2014
A work of the Sevillian studio Sol89, with María González and Juan López de la Cruz at the helm, a cooking school in Medina Sidonia – a municipality in the Spanish province...
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09/07/2014
The New York Times
Scholars are completing an online database of buildings by the Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, just as restorers...
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09/07/2014
The events being held to commemorate the Tricentenary of Barcelona includes BCN RE.SET, a circuit of seven installations set up on the streets of the Catalonian capital which invite reflection on concepts like identity, freedom, and democracy.
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08/07/2014
Luis Fernández-Galiano
The architecture of Kengo Kuma is an exemplary exercise in relinquishment. Though in his work material is particularly important...
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02/07/2014
The Moscow Times
If cell phone-wielding Muscovites so will it, a landmark of Soviet modernist architecture faces destruction, possibly to clear...
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02/07/2014
Laura Martínez de Guereñu
It was no easy matter. A recognition of Le Corbusier’s work that was as late in coming required the MoMA to offer something...
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25/06/2014
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