On 25 October, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain begins a new chapter with the public opening of its new location at 2 Place du Palais-Royal, in the heart of Paris, across the Musée du Louvre.Nouvel has created a dynamic architecture structured around five monumental mobile platforms...
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The Italian practice of Massimo Alvisi and Junko Kirimoto has designed a new exhibition pathway for the Basilica di Massenzio in Rome, commissioned by the Colosseum Archaeoogical Park...
Promoted by the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI), this project addresses the need for affordable housing through a sustainable and contextualized approach. It consists of 38 apartments distributed across...
In the small town of San Giacomo delle Segnate, nestled in the agrarian landscape of the Po Valley, stands this preschool which reinterprets local rural architecture through simple volumes and gentle colors...
The London practice of Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke has finished renovating Power Hall, the largest room within the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. This building of great heritage value was a warehouse...
In Manacor, on an elongated plot with a slight slope, surrounded by pine and carob trees, stands this single-level house. The project adapts to the terrain by putting it on the high part of the site...
The old Embassy of the United States in London, located in the historic Mayfair neighborhood and Eero Saarinen’s only built work in the United Kingdom, is now the Chancery Rosewood hotel, recently inaugurated...
The Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation, which recently opened in Fayetteville (Arkansas), is a facility for timber-construction research and training...
The project has turned the old auditorium of the Reina Sofía Museum and Art Center (MNCARS) in Madrid into a space for audiovisual screenings. Access to the new film theater and the audience seating...
The architect and photographer Iñaki Bergera (Vitoria, 1972) has for over a decade been documenting the ruins of the Panticosa spa facilities, in the heart of the Pyrenees of Huesca. Initiated in 2011, his Standstill Architecture photographic series...
The architect Henri Ciriani has passed away at the age of 88. Born in Peru, he built his professional career in Paris, where he settled in the 1960s. In 1968, he and Michel Corajoud set up the Atelier d’urbanisme et d’architecture (AUA)...
Miguel Arraiz and Milena Villalba. Raising the Temple of the Deep in Burning Man 2025 was a unique experience. Nothing is permanent in the Black Rock Desert...
A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended 45 feet above ground as part of a major City of London building project by Eric Parry Architects. The Grade I listed tower of All Hallows Staining Church was balanced on stilts...
The British architect Terry Farrell has died at 87 years of age. He is the author of some of London’s most iconic postmodern buildings, including the MI6 and TV-am headquarters and Charing Cross Station...
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 architecture, people, and stories intertwine...
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...
No architecture is more sustainable than that which withstands the passage of time well, and this is why Jordi Badia seeks to make a timeless gravitas take hold of his works, where everything is molded for the user yet nothing is superfluous. Arquitectura Viva presents five of his studio’s latest works, all of which try to fit into their locations, continuing that regularity whereby public space becomes comfortable and the city the most enduring scene of life. For its part, this issue’s dossier puts the spotlight on small pavilions built for temporary festivals, imaginative but above all thought out for quick execution and easy dismantling...
AV Proyectos 130 focuses on circular economy, a current topic addressed with works by Herzog & de Meuron, BeAr, and Harquitectes, among other offices, and with an essay by architect Mireia Luzárraga, from the studio TAKK. This theme of discussion also takes us to Venice for a conversation with Manuel Bouzas and Roi Salgueiro, curators of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The issue also covers the construction of new headquarters of Radio Télévision Suisse in Lausanne, by OFFICE Kersten Geers and David Van Several. The usual culture sections begin with the account of a summer trip to China...
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...
Museums are not dead, they multiply. After their central role in the economic euphoria of the 1990s, the Great Recession of 2008 and the pandemic of 2020, along with different military and environmental crises...
The protean personality of Salvador Rueda combines a scholar’s rigor, which impregnates both his theoretical mind and his professional practice, with a communicator’s power. Frequenters of his writings and works enjoy the spin...
Houston has 2,800 km² of asphalt, an area larger than metropolitan Madrid. And though a few North American cities try to curb private vehicular traffic and improve public transport, the sprawl keeps growing...
Satori has published the result of exhaustive, stimulating research conducted by Japan-based architect Jorge Almazán and Studiolab, his laboratory at Keio University. It combines explanatory texts with abundant original graphics...
The objective was to turn an 1898 building in Lisbon into an apartment complex. The 20th century had seen it modified a number of times to serve different uses. The new intervention would preserve...
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...
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 the city...
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 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...
Titlted ‘Memory Box,’ Tuñön y Albornoz’s proposal has landed first prize in the competition to turn the building located at Calle Argumoso 41 in Madrid, close to the Reina Sofía Museum...
Casa Battló in Barcelona is set to inaugurate a new exhibition space on its second floor on 31 January 2026. For the first time, this level – all of 230 m², closed for decades – will welcome the public, turned into a gallery...
The competition-winning design for the refurbishment of the Tabacalera building in Madrid’s Lavapiés neighborhood, drawn up by Arturo Blanco in collaboration with Paula Sánchez Nieves...
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...
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...
The Tenerife-born lawyer and writer Dulce Xerach, former deputy minister of culture of the Government of the Canary Islands, died unexpectedly in Madrid. Married to the architect Fernando Menis...
At 62 years of age, the Chinese architect was killed in a plane crash in Brazil, where he had traveled to be present at the International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo. Yu was a pioneer in developing the concept...
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 ETFE 'biomes')...
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...
