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11/02/2019
Curbed
International architecture and design studio Snøhetta bolsters the cause with the S-1500 chair, a simple plastic chair that’s a thing of beauty...
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27/12/2018
Since 2001 the firm Andreu World has held an annual competition in which students and yougn designers can present ideas for chairs and tables. The jury of the latest edition – among whose members were Luis Fernández-Galiano, Giulio Ridolfo, Ej Lee, Ana Domínguez...
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13/12/2018
The 6th International LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction will be hosted by the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and take place from April 4 to 6, 2019...
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27/11/2018
The Economist
InSight, an American craft, is intended to examine the planet’s interior. It will use a robotic arm to deploy a seismometer and a probe designed to measure the heat beneath Mars’s surface...
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23/11/2018
Dexigner
Conceived as an 'urban curtain,' Photo.Synth.Etica captures CO2 from the atmosphere - approximately one kilo of CO2 per day, equivalent to that of 20 large trees...
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04/11/2018
University of Cape Town
The bio-bricks are created through a natural process called microbial carbonate precipitation. It’s not unlike the way seashells are formed...
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25/10/2018
Interesting Engineering
The companies announced that it is working with Intel to develop a full fleet of autonomous cargo vessels that require no humans onboard by 2025...
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12/10/2018
GCR
Research carried out by the University of Bath in the UK, and India’s Goa Engineering College, has found that concrete made with an admixture of ground-up plastic bottles...
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29/09/2018
El País
The Zaragoza firm Arpa has made a niche for itself in the world market for mobile equipment for military and civilian use...
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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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14/09/2018
The Verge
The 360c driving office makes it viable for people to live at greater distances from crowded cities...
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14/09/2018
The Economist
On September 11th in Zwolle, a town in the Netherlands, a 30-metre bicycle track made from 70% recycled plastic and the rest from polypropylene was opened...
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11/09/2018
The New York Times
A multimillion-dollar floating boom designed to corral plastic debris littering the Pacific Ocean deployed from San Francisco Bay...
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11/09/2018
The Guardian
The new windfarm in the Irish Sea spans an area the size of 20,000 football pitches and has a capacity of 659 megawatts...
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05/09/2018
The Valencian firm Ramón Esteve Estudio built this house in Moraira, within the municipality of Teulada (Alicante), on a long narrow plot of land surrounded by vegetation and benefiting from distant sea views...
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18/08/2018
The Friends of the High Line recently hosted the High Line’s first Hat Party, occasion for which Zaha Hadid Architects designed a hat using 3D technology and inspired by the studio’s own 520 West 28th Street tower by the elevated park. The party is organized to raised...
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03/08/2018
The Economist
Lest anyone doubt the speed with which a brush fire can strike, consider how rapidly flames engulfed Mati, a seaside resort near Athens, on July 23rd...
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25/07/2018
Interesting Engineering
A new no-chain no-derailleur bicycle won this year's prestigious Eurobike Award beating 365 competitors...
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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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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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21/05/2018
CityLab
A pair of digital developers just invented an app that will definitely (and accurately) answer that question. “Here is the rule of thumb: one cigarette per day is the rough equivalent...
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15/05/2018
University of Exeter
A new greener, stronger and more durable concrete that is made using the wonder-material graphene could revolutionise the construction industry...
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29/04/2018
The Economist
Oldhands at some water companies still on occasion whip out a pair of dousing rods or find a Y-shaped twig to search for a leak in an underground pipe. Dousing...
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13/04/2018
Outer Places
Last fall, it was announced that a company called Astro Live Experiences (ALE) would be creating a fake meteor shower over the skies of Hiroshima, Japan in 2019...
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02/04/2018
ETH Zurich
Researchers from ETH Zurich are using a new method for digital timber construction in a real project for the first time...
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01/04/2018
Green Matters
XEV, an Italian car company, and Polymaker, a Shanghai-based 3D printing material company, have joined forces to create LSEV...
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31/03/2018
It is smaller than a grain of salt, and it will cost less than ten cents to manufacture and can monitor, analyze, communicate, and even act on data .The tiny devices will be ‘cryptographic anchors’ embedded in everyday objects...
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21/03/2018
The Slovenian firm OFIS – headed by Rok Oman and Spela Videcnik— designed this glazed pavilion in collaboration with experts of the manufacturer Guardian Glass. The purpose was to demonstrate the technical capacity of its highly insulated Guardian SunGuard...
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09/03/2018
The Economist
Travellers have long envied the birds. In 1842 William Henson, a British lacemaker, somewhat optimistically filed a patent for an “aerial steam carriage”. It took another 60 years...
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25/02/2018
All3DP
The Thai cement manufacturer SCG has developed a special concrete material to 3D print structures with a unique weaving pattern. The 3D printed concrete technique offers...
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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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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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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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