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11/03/2020
Carmelo Zappulla of External Reference Architects and Chu Uroz renovated this liquor store in a 700-square-meter space located at kilometer 1187 along the N-340 road leading from Vendrell to Comarruga, in the Lower Penedes region. With verbal information...
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10/03/2020
Occupying what used to be a store, with direct access from the street, this dwelling is conceived as a mix between the Mediterranean house – introverted and spilling out into a courtyard – and the phenomenological house as described by Gaston Bachelard: a space...
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04/10/2019
Located in Hackney, one of the most popular neighborhoods in London today, Second Home’s new coworking and innovation branch addresses its context and its program in two ways: through the facade and through the work atmosphere, respectively. Inspired by...
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22/08/2019
Creating a virtual world through the poetic use of materials was Valerio Olgiati’s intention in designing this store in the design district of the city of Miami for the French high-end fashion brand Céline. Such virtuality has to do with the manipulation of the space...
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16/08/2019
Located in the city of Bordeaux, the project renovates an old warehouse with vaulted spaces that were once cellars for storing fish and supplies. The intervention seeks to reactivate the area by making the most of its central location and the existence of a cozy garden...
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08/03/2019
The Spaces
Damien Hirst has designed an immersive art hotel room at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, complete with a pair of formaldehyde sharks...
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26/09/2018
The British David Chipperfield has renovated and enlarged the central London department store Selfridges, giving it a new entrance on the east facade and a large space for the sale of luxury accessories. The extension connects the historic edifice on Oxford Street...
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24/09/2018
The collection of carpets consists of 22 designs, inspired by four themes that feature prominently in Zaha Hadid’s work: striated lines, ribbonlike projections, pixelated landscapes and organic cellular shapes...
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10/05/2018
The Global Interior Design Standards, designed by Studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), facilitate the creation of a highly performative workplace for BBVA. The standards convey the company’s core brand ideas while bolstering client services...
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13/12/2017
The firm of María Langarita and Víctor Navarra renovated Daruan Group’s office in Madrid’s Aravaca ward, adapting it to new needs: a stronger corporate identity and more work stations. With budget and time limits, without interrupting the company’s...
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06/06/2017
Inhabitat
The nearly three-meter-tall Thallus was 3D printed from premium polylactide plastic. Six-axis robotics technology was used...
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04/06/2017
The Spaces
Colossal arches, columns and domes built with wire mesh manage to create a Classical courtyard as the setting for a royal event in Abu Dhabi. After the event the...
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20/06/2016
The Guardian
The museum, housed on the site of the chain’s first store in Älmhult, in southern Sweden, is a celebration of everything Ikea...
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04/02/2016
Within the Stanford campus, at the heart of Silicon Valley, this gallery shelters the Windhover series by the American artist Nathan Oliveira (1928–2010), who taught in this university for over three decades. Conceived as a place for calm and contemplation...
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29/12/2015
The London firm Jump Studios (a Populous company) – in collaboration with the Madrid office CBRE – has transformed an old industrial building in the Spanish capital into Google’s sixth campus for entrepreneurs.
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18/08/2015
The architect Zaha Hadid has added a range of tables and stools and a bowl to her collection of designs. Resembling ice formations that melt, the pieces are made of acrylic and present transparent finishes in color.
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10/07/2015
Fritz Hansen
Seven international architects have made their interpretation of the iconic Series 7™ chair designed by Arne Jacobsen...
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03/07/2015
The Bastida House (Girona) by Ramón Bosch & Elisabeth Capdeferro and the Ozadi Tavira Hotel in Tavira (Portugal) by Pedro Campos Costa shared first prize in the 57th FAD Architecture Awards. The jury presided by Víctor López Cotelo praised...
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16/09/2014
The new flagship store of the fashion house Valentino has opened on Fifth Avenue in New York. Occupying an old building raised by John Burgee and Philip Johnson for Takashimaya Department Store, the new shop – designed by David Chipperfield –...
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27/05/2014
The first Foster-designed Apple store has opened in Istanbul, Turkey. The British firm was commissioned in 2013 to design retail spaces for the computer technology, electronics, and digital distribution company, extending a collaboration begun with...
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19/04/2013
A corner of Tokyo’s Omotesando neighborhood now features a new flagship store, designed by Rem Koolhaas, for the leather goods and accessories brand Coach. Inspired by the wooden display shelves in the New York...
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19/03/2013
A symbolic giant heart on a suspended structure of cardboard boxes was the main feature of the launching – on 7th March at Medialab-Prado, recently renovated close to the Caixaforum in the center of Madrid – of the sportwear brand...
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28/02/2013
Javier de Andrés, Fernando Garví and Miguel Rivilla of the Segovian firm Q:NØ designed the VIP room at ARCO, Madrid’s annual international contemporary art fair, which took place last week. Winner
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23/10/2012
Un antiguo edificio industrial situado en el corazón del barrio de Salamanca alberga la nueva sede de la Fundación Botín en Madrid. Se trata de un edificio catalogado, construido en 1920 por Gonzalo Aguado...
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27/08/2012
Láminas onduladas de madera cubren el techo, las paredes y las estanterías de una panadería en Melbourne diseñada por los australianos de March Studio. A modo de gran tabla para cortar el pan, el mostrador de la tienda integra en sus huecos balanza...
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22/03/2012
Carlos Gómez y Eva Álvarez son los autores del nuevo auditorio de la localidad valenciana de Massanassa. Con una capacidad para 365 personas, en el edificio se intentan aplicar todos los medios pasivos que mejoren...
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19/03/2012
En el camino principal que lleva a uno de los más importantes templos sintoístas de Japón, el Dazaifu Tenmangu, construido en el año 919 en la ciudad de Dazaifu —prefectura...
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28/12/2011
Kengo Kuma es el autor de la intervención en una antigua casa de labranza para Casalgrande Padana, la compañía italiana especializada en gres porcelánico. Situado en la provincia de Reggio Emilia, al norte del país...
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27/07/2011
Después de casi 140 años, la Ópera de París de Charles Garnier ha inaugurado su restaurante, diseñado por Odile Decq, quien ganó el concurso hace dos años. Ubicado en la rotonda de la fachada este, el proyecto cierra la arquería...
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13/01/2011
En el décimo aniversario de su fundación, la firma de arquitectos suiza Group8 ha diseñado su nueva sede en Ginebra, un lugar de trabajo atípico llamado Cargo. Situado muy cerca del centro de la ciudad, Cargo propone habitar un espacio industrial,...
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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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Francisco Mangado
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This 208-page, hardback and clothbound, bilingual (Spanish-English) book presents fifteen works carried out from 2000 to 2020 by the firm of Francisco Mangado, who explains them in terms of the concepts that have driven each one of them.
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H&deM (1978-2019)
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The tireless creative pulse of the Swiss office, which over the course of four decades has produced some of the most emblematic examples of contemporary architecture, is illustrated here in a bilingual Spanish-English edition, made up of two volumes of 352 pages each, presented in hard-bound cloth.
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H&deM (2003-2019)
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The volume includes 41 prominent works started between 2003 and 2019, such as Elphilharmonie Hamburg, buildings like Helsinki Dreispitz and Feltrinelli Porta Volta, Vitra Schaudepot, and the proposal for the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
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H&deM (1978-2002)
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The volume covers 43 of the main buildings initiated between 1978 and 2002, showing the formal transformations and material tests carried out during the first years of career in Basel up to the studio’s worldwide recognition.
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The Age of Spectacle Time of Uncertainty
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Luis Fernández-Galiano portrays the development of architecture in the course of the turn of the century through 256 articles written for El País from 1993 to 2006, presented in 2 volumes containing close to 2,500 images and 2,000 references to the protagonists of projects and debates of the period in question.
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Time of Uncertainty
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Through a selection of essays written by Luis Fernández-Galiano for El País, Time of Uncertainty – volume 2 of Alexandrine Years – examines the beginnings of a 21st century marked by 9/11, wars, and climate change.
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The Age of Spectacle
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The Age of Spectacle, volume 1 of the book Alexandrine Years, offers a chronicle of the bonanza and optimism of the 20th century’s closing years through texts that Luis Fernández-Galiano wrote for the newspaper El País.
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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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Francis Kéré
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The ICO Foundation has published a bilingual (Spanish and English) catalog of the exhibition ‘Francis Kéré: Primary Elements.’ Presenting a selection of 33 works, the book journeys through the professional trajectory of the Burkinabe architect.
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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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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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