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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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03/06/2018
Chelsea Football Club announces today that it has put its new stadium project on hold. No further pre-construction design and planning work will occur. The club does not have a time frame set for reconsideration of its decision...
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30/05/2018
The Japanese studio of Kengo Kuma has won the international competition to build a Maritime History Museum in the port city of Saint-Malo, in northwest France. The project is located on Duguay-Trouin quay, outside the city walls. The project proposed gives...
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22/05/2018
The Dutch firm MVRDV has unveild its initial design for a new technology education center in downtown Tirana, the capital of Albania. The location is the interior of a pyramidal monument, formerly a museum devoted to the Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha...
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18/05/2018
Uber has signed an agreement with NASA to develop its flying taxis. Besides, the transport company has unveiled six infrastructure prototypes that include landing platforms for the future aircrafts.
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16/05/2018
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Sir David Chipperfield’s £56m project includes a subterranean vault, which offers visitors an enticing glimpse of studios...
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14/05/2018
Currently under construction, the headquarters of the robotics firm DJI rises in the Chinese city of Shenzhen in the form of twin towers connected by a suspension bridge to display its latest drone technology. Combining glass and steel, the cantilevered volumes contain...
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10/05/2018
Amaravati is the new administrative capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Foster + Partners is designing the central focus of the 217-square-kilometre city, including the design of two key buildings: Legislature Assembly and High Court Complex...
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09/05/2018
Curbed
The bright red sculpture, named S25 for now, will be the new focal point on front yard of the River Point office building at 444 W...
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04/05/2018
Washingtonian
The Amazon founder's Kalorama mansion will have 25 bathrooms, 11 bedrooms, and two elevators. At 27,000 square feet, the mansion was already the biggest home in Washington...
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30/04/2018
The Seville firm Vázquez Consuegra, in collaboration with the Swiss office Frei Rezakhanlou, has won the competition to renovate Geneva’s main railway station, located on the edge of the city’s historical center. The jury chaired by the Portuguese architect...
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29/04/2018
The Guardian
Construction has begun on cluster of skyscrapers that will transform city over next decade with a record 510 tall towers....
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26/04/2018
The company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has unveiled details of its first commercial flight within the world it seeks to connect internally: the United Arab Emirates.
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23/04/2018
The Japanese firm of Sou Fujimoto and the French practices of Nicolas Laisné and Dimitri Roussel together drew up the project that has won the international competition for a mixed-use development in Rosny-sous-Bois, 18 kilometers from the center of Paris...
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20/04/2018
In a remote location, 160 kilometers northwest of Nanchang, capital of China’s Jiangxi Province, this primary school serves twelve villages with a total population of 1,800. Surrounded by mountains, rivers, and lakes, the school is in the middle of an agricultural region...
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17/04/2018
The spa in Pézenas designed by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto establishes a physicial and figurative link, through water and stone, with the heart of Pézenas, a commune in France’s Occitaine region. Conceived as a mineral space, with paths for contemplative walks...
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15/04/2018
The Guardian
A plan to reshape the Sydney region aims to capitalise on its rapid growth by breaking the pull of the harbour. But will it work?...
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12/04/2018
The Madrid practice of Emilio Tuñón has won first prize in the international competition to enlarge the School of Architecture and Construction on the Alfonso XIII campus of the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT). Carrying the day over sixty other entries...
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11/04/2018
The New York firm Steven Holl Architects has won the competition to build Le Musée des Collectionneurs and a hotel beside it in the center of the city of Angers, in the Pays de la Loire region of northwestern France. On the banks of the river Maine...
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05/04/2018
Los Angeles Times
The first rendering of the 55,000-square-foot Audrey Irmas Pavilion, which will stand east of the historic temple, reveals a trapezoidal form that leans away from the temple and toward...
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05/04/2018
Brazilian architect Carla Juaçaba has designed one of ten chapels for the first-ever Holy See Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Francesco Dal Co. The constructions are inspired in the chapel of the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm, a work of the...
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03/04/2018
For the first time in its history the Venice Architecture Biennale – open this year from 26 May to 25 November – will be counting Vatican City among the states participating in it. Curated by Francesco Dal Co, the Holy See Pavilion with take the form of eleven temporary...
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28/03/2018
The team formed by Sergison Bates Architects (London), noAarchitecten (Brussels), and EM2N (Zurich) has won the competition to convert an old Citroën car factory in the Belgian capital into the KANAL – Centre Pomdidou. Their design won over 92 other entries...
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27/03/2018
The Economist
Two giant engineering projects will alter the European landscape. They should improve links between Europe’s north and south...
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22/03/2018
The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has presented its project for a residential building on stilts that is part of the plan to redevelop the Badaevskiy Brewery, abandoned on the banks of the Moscow River. In the center of the Russian capital, the two apartment...
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20/03/2018
In time with the 61st anniversary of Ghana’s independence, David Adjaye has unveiled his design for a new cathedral in Accra, capital of the African country. Born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, Adjaye had in Accra up to now only carried out private residential projects...
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20/03/2018
Pop-Up City
With its newest project, the MINI Living building in Shanghai, the car brand is continuing its venture into the urban living sector...
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19/03/2018
The Danish firm BIG of Bjarke Ingels has presented its design for the new National Theatre of Albania, a replacement of the current one in the country’s capital. The 9,300-square-meter building, shaped like a bow tie, contains three auditoriums and an amphitheatre on the...
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09/03/2018
All over the world, we are observing the trend towards pedestrianising whole districts rather than individual streets. Zaha Hadid Architects proposes a full-scale network of pedestrian routes which will create corridors of activation across the capital...
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08/03/2018
Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture has won the competition to build a new courthouse for Lille, capital of the Hauts-de-France region, where in 1994 the Dutch firm completed the Congrexpo exhibition and conference center. The faceted volume...
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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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