British-American architect Noel Michael McKinnell died of pneumonia after testing positive for COVID-19...

The anomaly was biggest in Europe and Asia, where average temperatures from December to February were 3.2°C (5.8°F) and 3.1°C above the average from 1951-80...

The project involved converting old train tracks between Rosheim and Saint Nabor into a walkway equipped with open-air facilities and pavilions. Besides transporting commuters, the railway served industry. This duality was maintained in the conversion, which combines...

The coherent and committed trajectory of Grafton Architects, established in Dublin in 1978 by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, has been crowned with this year’s Pritzker Prize, the first ever to be conferred on a partnership of women. In observing this victory of theirs Arquitectura Viva publishes two recent works of the Irish practice (Kingston University in Surrey, near London, and the Toulouse School of Economics) and an interview conducted by the journalist and poet Antonio Lucas.

In 2009, worldwide CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement production dropped by 1.4%. A year later, however, they were growing faster than they had done since 2003. By the end of 2010, annual emissions were greater than they had ever been...

With its large undulating timber roof cantilevering 7,5 meters, this private house designed by Norman Foster’s firm is partly embedded into the terrain close to the Aegean Sea, in the southwestern Turkish province of Muğla. Carefully inserted into a rugged natural...

Mr. Sorkin, who died of the coronavirus, promoted social justice in his prodigious output of essays, lectures and designs...

Border officials told Elvis Liu to add their office’s number to his WhatsApp contacts and to fix the app’s location-sharing setting to “always on”, which would let them see where his phone was at all times...

The Japanese architect Tadao Ando has converted Paris’s historical Bourse de commerce building into a museum housing François Pinault’s contemporary art collection. It was to open this spring but the spread of COVID-19 has moved the inauguration to September.

Forced into confinement by COVID-19, members of the International Opera Choir of Rome put their voices together, from their respective homes, for the famous aria of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Nabucco.

With a petrous skin interrupted by a bulging loop of faceted glass, this department store stands at the heart of Gwanggyo, a new town close to Seoul. The building is by Rem Koolhaas's Rotterdam-based OMA, with Chris van Duijn leading the project. Surrounded...

Michael Sorkin, the noted architectural critic and intellectual powerhouse behind Michael Sorkin Studio and Terreform, has passed away due to complications resulting from COVID-19...

The measures taken to battle the coronavirus are already having an effect on global contamination, as this interactive map shows...

Companies the world over are directing their ingenuity at the fight against the coronavirus. Here are the front-runners, from sanitising robots to a 3D-printed hospital ward...

With its carefully spaced empty white beds laid across the dark floor, the pavilion of Madrid’s exhibition centre looked like an installation left over from last month’s contemporary art fair...

Dublin-based Grafton Architects will be building the Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation in the city of Fayetteville, having won the competition organized by the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas...

Savage Beauty, which would have drenched a five kilometre stretch of Connemara mountain in shimmering emerald green and sapphire blue light, was cancelled...

The Spanish practices Barrozi Veiga and Selgas Cano and the British firms 6a Architects, Adam Khan Architects, Architecture 00, David Kohn Architects, HNNA, and Mole Architects designed a total of sixteen buildings now under construction in London’s new Design District...

During the 1950s, New York’s Museum of Modern Art organized a famous photo exhibition called “The Family of Man.” In the wake of a world war, the show...

Confinement is easier to endure than uncertainty. Practicing il mestiere di vivere, private space takes on a different meaning, because the intimate shelter becomes a prison cell,

Sometimes people can be a bit of a disappointment to their politicians. On March 12th Emmanuel Macron, addressing the French nation on the fight against covid-19, appealed to their sense of “national solidarity”...

Planet earth is shutting down. In the struggle to get a grip on covid-19, one country after another is demanding that its citizens shun society...

This block by the Madrid practice Estudio Herreros in collaboration with the local firm MIM-A combines state-protected and free-market housing efficiently, pragmatically, and simply. A standard floor of twelve apartments puts the service core at the center, with two...

Situated next to Yoyogi Park in the Tokyo ward Shibuya, the Meiji Jingu Shrine is a Shinto temple dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji (1852-1912) and his consort, Emperor Shôken (1849-1914). Blending with the surrounding trees, the new museum...

Luis Fernández-Galiano converses with the Genoese master in his studio at Punta Nave shortly before his 80th birthday. We reproduce the interview published in Arquitectura Viva 198.

Earth View is a collection of the most striking and enigmatic landscapes available in Google Earth. The colors, shapes, textures and patterns all contribute to the strange beauty of our planet, reminding us of nature's uncanny geometry and bewildering simplicity...

Dezeen, the online architecture and design magazine working from offices in London and New York, is now accepting entries for the awards it gives annually to draw attention to the best professionals and projects in architecture, interiors, and design...

The Rotterdam firm MVRDV has turned a shopping mall built in the 1980s into a public space with a swimming pool in Tainan, a city in the south of the island of Taiwan. Tainan Spring, as the faciity is called, is part of a larger plan to regenerate the area. The bathing zone is...

The refurbishment of the Snowdon Aviary at the London Zoo provides a new walk-through home for the zoo’s troop of Colobus monkeys...

In the state of Jalisco, specifically within the municipality of Union de San Antonio, is Estación Pedrito, the small locality where we find this house built by the Mexican firm Cubo Rojo Arquitectura. In a play of solids and voids in dialogue with the rural surroundings, the design...