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25/06/2017
Wired
The wealthy never run out of ways to amuse themselves in Dubai, where you can party aboard a house floating...
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24/06/2017
The Economist
With proper enforcement, fire regulations can keep tower-dwellers safe. A little after midnight on June 14th, London’s fire brigade...
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23/06/2017
Luis Fernández-Galiano
We do not need senior housing only: we need cities for all ages. The population aging and hedonistic individualism of post-industrial society have fractured...
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23/06/2017
The Guardian
In return for a cheap rent, Finnish 18- to 25-year-olds are befriending older people in a state-run care home while providing social activities...
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23/06/2017
The Sydney Morning Herald
Lendlease has started the process to construct a new $1.5 billion tower at Circular Quay, Sydney, with the appointment of architects...
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22/06/2017
The Centro Botín, a space for art, culture and education, projecting into the Bay of Santander, was strongly supported by Emilio Botín (1934-2014), president of Banco Santander and financed by the Botín Foundation, one of the most important private...
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22/06/2017
New images of the Japanese firm SANAA’s design for the extension of this museum in Sydney have been unveiled. Additional funding recently obtained from the Australian government for the project ensures execution of the project. (Video)
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22/06/2017
Wired
The Moby Mart, created by Wheelys, Hefei University of Technology and tech firm Himalafy, has been dubbed 'the supermarket that comes to you'...
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21/06/2017
Seattle Pi
Finally, thanks to years of environmental clean-up efforts, algae and zooplankton have multiplied, giving good food for the menhaden and, therefore, food for whales...
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21/06/2017
The New York Times
A rapidly advancing crack in Antarctica’s fourth-largest ice shelf is getting close to a full break, according to scientists. It has accelerated this year in an area already...
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20/06/2017
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Inspired by a tree used as a meeting place in his native village of Gando, architect Francis Kéré has brought a piece of Burkina Faso to London – a deceptively simple roof that seems to float above the greenery... (Photos)
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20/06/2017
Ecocapsule is a self-sustainable smart house powered solely by solar and wind energy. It allows you to live off-the-grid, with the luxury of a hotel room. It can serve as a cottage, pop-up hotel or even as a charging station...
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19/06/2017
The Guardian
Philip Hammond said that the material used in the Grenfell Tower refurbishment, containing flammable polyethylene, was “banned” in the UK...
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19/06/2017
La Tallera Siqueiros is a museum, workshop, and artists’ residence built on and around a 1965 construction that was the home and studio of the muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros in the final years of his life. A space for art production and criticism...
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19/06/2017
Working from offices in Quito and Madrid, the firm TEC Taller EC – headed by Pablo Castro and Roberto Morales – has won the competition to enlarge the bus terminal of the city of Loja, known as Ecuador’s cultural capital, in the southern...
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17/06/2017
World Resources Institute
The largest emitters contribute a majority of global emissions. The top 10 emitters1 contribute 72 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions...
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16/06/2017
Guggenheim
The New Yorker captured this hot-button cultural moment with wit and style—and did so in a multi-page cartoon...
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16/06/2017
In front of the train station of Tenri, a city in Japan’s Nara prefecture, is this 6,000-square-meter plaza designed by Nendo, a Tokyo studio founded by Oki Sato (Toronto, 1977). This is one of the first architectural projects of Sato, who graduated from Waseda University...
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16/06/2017
The historical quarter of Santiago de Compostela was designated a World Heritage Site in 1985, but degraded areas remain in the city, and Caramoniña is one of these places. It is located between the green belt that surrounds the old town and the alley...
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15/06/2017
Seismic activity in Nepal has proven to be devastating, thus the need to think of destruction-minimizing solutions. Ignacio Borrego (Madrid, 1975) addresses this concern in a proposal for the new children’s wing of a hospital in Phaplu...
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15/06/2017
The British firms of Norman Foster and Thomas Heatherwick are building the Bund Finance Center in Shanghai, a 420,000-square-meter complex that includes two 180-meter towers and the recently finished Fosun Foundation cultural cente...
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15/06/2017
The Guardian
A photography project in which photographers from Damascus to Aleppo show different points of view of their situation. Some choose to focus on war and others on hope...
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14/06/2017
The Autobahn Motors building in Singapore features a multi-storey window facade with 15 levels and 4 columns of exotic and luxury cars on display. With over 27 years in the business, Autobahn Motors specializes in pre-owned Luxury, Sports, Convertibles...
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14/06/2017
Artsy
This space, a white cube gallery and international research center, designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), might seem a surreal construction for Lusanga...
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14/06/2017
The Economist
There is a striking disparity between the commercial applications drone companies are pursuing in fields like construction, inspection or agriculture and the public perception...
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14/06/2017
BAB 2017
Urban mobility, with its various modes, is an invisible hand shaping buildings and cities. Consider how, before machines of transportation arose, housing in cities...
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14/06/2017
The winners of this year’s Pritzker Prize – Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta of RCR arquitectes – and Pau Llimona designed this restaurant for the prestigious chef Albert Adrià, and it has been built in collaboration with the studio Sánchez Guiisado...
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13/06/2017
The New York Times / Michael Kimmelman
A fine exhibition, the first show to occupy the smartly renovated galleries on the third floor of the old Goodwin and Stone building at the Museum of Modern Art...
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13/06/2017
Miami Herald
David Beckham finally secured land to build a soccer stadium in Miami, after county commissioners approved selling him three...
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13/06/2017
151 projects in the Architecture category and 75 projects in the Design category were the projects selected from among the 226 projects judged by the jury in this year’s competition. Three first-place prizes of €1,000...
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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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David Chipperfield
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The Fundación ICO presents the bilingual Spanish-English catalogue of the exhibition ‘Essentials. David Chipperfield Architects.’ Featuring thirty works and projects, the book covers thirty years in the career of the British architect.
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Juan Navarro Baldeweg
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The Fundación ICO publishes, in bilingual Spanish-English edition, the catalogue of the exhibition ‘One Zodiac. Juan Navarro Baldeweg,’ which covers the professional career of the Spanish architect, establishing connections between his works as if they formed a zodiac, a ring of constellations.
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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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Change of Climate
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Following the editions of 2010, 2012, and 2014 – ‘More for Less,’ ‘The Common,’ and ‘The Necessary,’ the 4th international congress organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad set out to examine ‘Change of Climate’ in architecture, now undergoing deep change.
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Necessary Architecture
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Following the editions of 2010 and 2012, ‘More for Less’ and ‘The Common,’ the third international congress organized by the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad came with the heading of ‘Necessary Architecture’, centering upon values of austerity but also on cultural aspects of architecture.
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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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