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25/06/2018
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
From a washing-up scourer to a pile of crisps, the Japanese architect draws on the most unlikely everyday objects – while testing the idea of privacy with a glass-walled public toilet...
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25/06/2018
The Economist
Co-opt the competition from Uber and other app-base firms. Passenger numbers are flat or falling in almost every American metropolis, and in some Canadian and European...
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24/06/2018
The New York Review of Books
William Eggleston has imagined that he shoots photographs from the vantage point of an insect, a baby, or a rifle—anything to avoid...
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23/06/2018
The Economist
Materials scientists find new ways to use natural fibres. Using carrots to create concrete, turning wood into plastic, or even compressing it into a “super wood” that is as light...
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22/06/2018
TLS / Arkady Ostrovsky
To grasp the place of sport in Russian history, visitors to the World Cup need look no further than the arched walls of Moscow’s opulent Dinamo metro station – constructed in 1938...
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22/06/2018
The Economist
Blame remote working, Uber, cheap car loans and the internet. Juana, who came to America from Guatemala, used to take the bus to and from cleaning jobs...
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21/06/2018
Norman Foster will turn the old Madrid headquarters of Barclays Bank into Axis, to be called so because of its strategic location on Madrid's Plaza de Colón. With a diagrid facade and an increase in height, the CBRE Global Investors building could contain offices and retail spaces.
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21/06/2018
The Guardian
During Thursday’s solstice, stone circles and ancient monuments will be the focus of attention. Should we be looking to Milton Keynes or New York instead?...
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20/06/2018
becoming, the motto chosen for the Spanish Pavilion in this edition of the Venice Biennale 2018, presents Spanish architecture as seen from learning environments, by means of actions, discourses and pieces of work developed by a wonderful...
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20/06/2018
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Architects at odds over future of Glasgow School of Art. Ideas about what to do with the charred remains of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s range...
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20/06/2018
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Madrid’s recovery is a bittersweet one. Ten years after the real estate bubble burst, the city is experiencing a vibrant growth, but the return of the cranes has not brought...
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20/06/2018
The 216,000-square-meter new headquarters of South Korea’s largest beauty and cosmetics company, Amorepacific, stands in downtown Seoul. The outcome of a 2010 competition, the recently completed construction started to go up in 2014 on the site occupied...
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19/06/2018
The Barcelona practice of Jaime Coll and Judith Leclerc was commissioned to build three vertical blocks combining two usually separated programs: 47 social housing units for rent, and 20 temporary accommodations directed at the most vulnerable groups...
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19/06/2018
Prada collaborates once again with Rem Koolhaas's research and design studio AMO. Its space on Via Fogazzaro in Milan is filled with inflatable stools designed in the 1960s by the Danish firm Verpan Panton, positioned in grids indicating the positions of the guests.
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18/06/2018
The Guardian
Hopes have been raised that Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building, which was gutted by fire on Friday, can be saved as it emerged a new sprinkler system...
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18/06/2018
The Art Newspaper
Eliasson and Ikea are teaming up to produce accessible and affordable tools that function without mains electricity and use renewable energy...
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18/06/2018
In China’s Special Administrative Region of Macau, the Hotel Morpheus opened on 15 June, a 150,000-square-meter project of Zaha Hadid Architects offering 770 rooms on 40 floor levels.
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18/06/2018
The London Mastaba is a 20-metre-high temporary sculpture in Hyde Park comprised of 7,506 horizontally stacked barrels on a floating platform in Serpentine Lake. It will float on the Serpentine Lake from June 18 to September 23, 2018...
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15/06/2018
The New York Times
The technology world’s most bruising battle for supremacy is taking place in China. And it could point to Big Tech’s...
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15/06/2018
Eduardo Prieto
The ‘Less Architecture, More City’ international congress came to an end at Pamplona’s Baluarte convention center on Thursday, It was the fifth biennial encounter organized...
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15/06/2018
The opening match of the football World Cup of 2018, played between Saudi Arabia and the host country, took place in Russia’s national stadium, which was renovated by the Moscow firm Speech. Built in 1956, Luzhniki Stadium was the main venue of the 1980 Olympic...
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15/06/2018
Organized by Arquideas, the Bay Book House (BaBH) San Francisco international competition for students and recent graduates of architecture brought in 78 entries from 25 countries. It involved designing a space for cultural exchange that would serve to activate...
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14/06/2018
The Spaces
Kannangara has created a concrete idyll beside Colombo’s waterways as his home and studio. One of the RIBA Awards for International Excellence 2018...
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14/06/2018
AD
After unveiling the fifth-tallest building in NYC, AD spoke with architect Richard Rogers about the mixed-use tower near the site of the 9/11 attacks...
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13/06/2018
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Only the second solo woman and the youngest architect to win the annual commission, Mexico’s Frida Escobedo has made a rough, tough backdrop for summer frolics...
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13/06/2018
The firm of Richard Rogers has completed Three World Trade Center (3WTC) in Lower Manhattan and it is now New York’s fifth tallest building. Rising 80 floors and 329 meters, it is also the second tallest in the neighborhood. The new skyscraper is designed...
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12/06/2018
Visitable from 15 June to 7 October in Kensington Gardens, London, the Serpentine Gallery’s pavilion this year is designed by the firm of Frida Escobedo (Mexico City, 1979). Formed by two lattice-wrapped rectangular volumes, it fuses typical Mexican architectural...
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11/06/2018
The historic meeting of US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will took place on 12 June at the sinuous Capella Hotel in Singapore, designed by Norman Foster, on Sentosa Island.
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11/06/2018
Traditionally, and to mark her official birthday, Queen Elizabeth II presents the annual Birthday Honours List, which this year includes architect Farshid Moussavi, distinguished with an OBE (Officer of the British Empire).
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09/06/2018
The Guardian
Developers say project will cut costs and environmental damage and offer solution to shortage of bricklayers...
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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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RCR arquitectes
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Land architecture, but also architecture of the land. After three decades of work, Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have obtained universal recognition for a stubbornly local oeuvre.
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SANAA
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The 352-page volume, in hardcover and fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, which gathers the complete oeuvre of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa over almost three decades of work of the three studios they lead in Tokyo
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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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