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16/08/2017
In Paris, the Central Post Office of the Louvre closed in May so that the refurbishment planned by Dominique Perrault could get underway. Far from attempting a restitution of history, the French architect has chosen to combine preservation with transformation...
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14/08/2017
The Madrid firm Ecosistema Urbano has been commissioned to revamp the oceanfront of West Palm Beach in Florida, having won the Shore to Core international competition with its ‘Open Shore’ project, which puts forward a new urban model, dynamic and inclusive...
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09/08/2017
José María Sánchez García has won the competition to revamp the Agricultural Institute of Mezzana with a design that involves designing the landscaping the exterior spaces, restoring Villa Cristina, and renovating and enlarging the canteen...
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03/08/2017
The Boundary
565 Broome SoHo will be constructed in one of New York’s most historic neighborhoods - Soho. Overhanging the Hudson River, the residential tower will offer... (Project)
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31/07/2017
The London practice George King Architects won the competition to build a large-scale artistic piece in Flintshire County, Wales. Their ‘Iron Ring’ proposal is a curved thirty-meter wide cor-ten steel ring rising up to seven meters and partially buried in the ground...
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27/07/2017
The Architects Newspaper
Ban has previously completed similar projects in Nepal, Turkey, Rwanda, and Italy to house displaced populations...
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25/07/2017
The Guardian / Rowan Moore
From California to London, the tech giants are employing top architects to build spectacular symbols of their immense global power. But they have their critics...
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24/07/2017
The team formed by the Catalan firms BAAS arquitectura and EspinetUbach Arquitectes has won the competition to refurbish the Vall d’Hebron hospital campus in Barcelona and add a research institute. The main objective is to make the complex more accessible...
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21/07/2017
Beijing’s new air terminal, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, rises in the Daxing district with intentions of becoming the world’s largest. The main building’s steel structure was recently completed. The complex is scheduled to be completed in 2019.
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19/07/2017
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
A land in Hounslow will be excaveted to create the UK’s biggest subterranean space, with a new public park on top, designed by Carmody Groarke...
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13/07/2017
The Dutch firm MVRDV has won the international competition for a mixed-use skyscraper, rising 51 floors, that is part of the plan to redevelop the area of Rotterdam’s Wilhelminapier. The building has two towers – close to 70 and 150 meters tall...
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10/07/2017
OMA
Facebook announced that it has engaged OMA to design the masterplan for Willow Campus, a mixed-use neighborhood adjacent to their existing headquarters in Menlo Park...
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06/07/2017
The team formed by Madrid-based Virseda Vila Arquitectos, José Jaraíz, and Arbau Arquitectos has won first place in the competition for ideas for a cultural center and accommodations for students in Vernier, a city of the Swiss canton of Geneva. Its design carried...
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04/07/2017
The design by the Japanese firm Kengo Kuma & Associates decomposes the facades of this Parisian luxury hotel on the west bank of the Seine into superposed wooden volumes that plant-covered openings...
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30/06/2017
The Guardian
François Pinault, the billionaire luxury brand owner, will convert the 19th century Bourse de commerce into art museum with Tadao Ando... (Images)
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29/06/2017
The Madrid practice of Pablo Gil and Jaime Bartolomé, in collaboration with the engineering firms Typsa of Spain and Asian Consulting of Pakistan, will be building a new passenger terminal at Allama Iqbal Airport. Construction is to begin during the second half of 2017.
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29/06/2017
Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten, who works with Koolhaas at OMA, have designed the fourth MPavilion. This is a temporary pavilion raised yearly by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. It includes an amphitheater...
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28/06/2017
Boston Globe
The next big Seaport office building won’t look quite like every other Seaport office building. WS Development is taking the wraps off of plans for an 18-story building at 88 Seaport Blvd...
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23/06/2017
The Sydney Morning Herald
Lendlease has started the process to construct a new $1.5 billion tower at Circular Quay, Sydney, with the appointment of architects...
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22/06/2017
New images of the Japanese firm SANAA’s design for the extension of this museum in Sydney have been unveiled. Additional funding recently obtained from the Australian government for the project ensures execution of the project. (Video)
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22/06/2017
Wired
The Moby Mart, created by Wheelys, Hefei University of Technology and tech firm Himalafy, has been dubbed 'the supermarket that comes to you'...
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20/06/2017
The plans for the refurbishment and extension of the railway station of Ourense, drawn up by the firm of Norman Foster and the local architect Juan Carlos Cabanelas, have been unveiled. The design that won a 2011 competition for the intermodal station...
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19/06/2017
Working from offices in Quito and Madrid, the firm TEC Taller EC – headed by Pablo Castro and Roberto Morales – has won the competition to enlarge the bus terminal of the city of Loja, known as Ecuador’s cultural capital, in the southern...
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15/06/2017
Seismic activity in Nepal has proven to be devastating, thus the need to think of destruction-minimizing solutions. Ignacio Borrego (Madrid, 1975) addresses this concern in a proposal for the new children’s wing of a hospital in Phaplu...
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13/06/2017
Miami Herald
David Beckham finally secured land to build a soccer stadium in Miami, after county commissioners approved selling him three...
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10/06/2017
Curbed New York
Russian architecture firm, Meganom has been brought on to design the 1,001 ft skyscraper, and this will be the firm’s first U.S. project to date...
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08/06/2017
Vancouver Sun
This hibrid glass-timber-concrete construction, Terrace House, will be built alongside Erickson´s Evergreen building in Vancouver, aiming to relate closely...
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06/06/2017
In the province of Valladolid, 20% of the population is over 65, and 38% is in the 50-65 age range. In the larger region of Castilla y León, these percentages rise to 23% and 46%, respectively. The clear rise in aging rates warrants an ambitious project...
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02/06/2017
Inhabitat
A local group of residents and architects plan to convert a WWII bunker into a mixed-use community space topped with rooftop garden...
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01/06/2017
The Guardian
Construction on building that is longer than the Shard is tall set to begin in King’s Cross in 2018...
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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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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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