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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
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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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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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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01/03/2018
The Guardian
The Madison Square Garden Company (MSG) confirmed that it wants to build the Sphere in London and unveiled designs for Las Vegas build...
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23/02/2018
The Telegraph
The Japanese wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co is proposing to build a 350 metre, 70-floor tower, designed by Nikken Sekkei, to commemorate its 350th anniversary in 2041...
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21/02/2018
Designed by the Dutch firm MVRDV, this mixed-use office building distributing 6,500 square meter in twelve floors is located in Esslingen, a city of the Stuttgart region of Baden-Württemberg, in southern Germany. Its fragmented and interactive facade of sintered glass...
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18/02/2018
Eden Project International is currently working on three projects in China and others in Australia and New Zealand. The new centre will be built in Qingdao, a coastal city of nearly nine million people in Shandong Province...
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15/02/2018
Bjarke Ingels Group and Carlo Ratti Associati have together in the financial center of Singapore started to build a 280-meter tower interrupted at meter 100 by a four-level garden. Containing 51 stories and 93,000 square meters, the building mixes apartments...
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15/02/2018
The firm Cloud 9 of the architect Enric Ruiz-Geli has designed a 6,500-square-meter cultural center within the Ágora of Santiago Calatrava’s City of Arts and Sciences. It is to open in 2020.
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14/02/2018
Carrying the day over practices like Fuksas Architecture and Zaha Hadid Architects, the firm of Steven Holl has won the competition to build a residential quarter in Moscow’s Tushino district. With an area of 200,000 square meters, the district is occupied by an abandoned...
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13/02/2018
The Berlin office of David Chipperfield has designed a 230-meter-tall mixed-use building on the banks of the Elbe River, in Hafencity, the neighborhood that has risen out of German city’s old harbor area. The result of a competition win, the Elbtower – as it will be called – ...
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12/02/2018
Designed by Gorproject and RMJM, the Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg reached its ultimate height of 462 metres, in which Gazprom Neft will have its headquarters. Construction of the skyscraper aboveground has taken two and a half years...
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12/02/2018
Selected out of 28 finalists, the Madrid firm of Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano has won First Prize in the competition promoted by the German state of Saxony to refurbish and extend the Baroque building of the Blockhaus, which dates back to 1732...
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12/02/2018
At the foot of the Svartisen glacier, in northern Norway, is the municipality of Meløy, the location of this hotel designed by Snøhetta. Compared with equivalent hotels in Norway raised in accordance with modern construction standards, the Svart consumes energy...
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08/02/2018
Harnessing a subtle interplay of light, water and geometry, her atmospheric courtyard-based design draws on both the domestic architecture of Mexico and British materials and history, specifically the Prime Meridian line at London’s Royal Observatory in Greenwich...
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06/02/2018
The Serpentine Galleries and WF Central (Beijing) announce a new architecture Pavilion, designed by JIAKUN Architects, at the WF Central development in Beijing. It will launch in May 2018...
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01/02/2018
The Royal College of Art’s flagship new building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, has been granted planning permission by Wandsworth Council. The building is part of a £108m investment programme in the RCA – the most radical transformation of the institution’s...
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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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