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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
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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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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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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31/05/2017
The Catalan firm Miralles Tagliabue EMBT has won first place in the competition for the Artenoah center in Rehau, in the German state of Bavaria. Artenoah’s mission is to disseminate the wide range of animal and plants species in this area along the border between...
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30/05/2017
The Madrid practice of Begoña de Abajo (León, 1986) and Carlos García (Cangas del Narcea, Asturias, 1982) has built a social and cultural center over the remains of an old market, demolished after a fire, on Plaza Abastos in Reinosa, a city in the Cantabrian...
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29/05/2017
The Extremaduran architect José María Sánchez García (Don Benito, 1975), working from his practice in Madrid, is the author of a competition-winning project to renovate the old San Sebastián Hospital in the old quarter of Badajoz. It conceives the building...
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25/05/2017
The territory is horizontal and so is the architecture of this new school with accommodations for students. Around a central agora, the buildings stretch out like a fan in Makeneya, in Tanzania’s Tabora region...
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20/05/2017
ETH Zurich
Researchers at ETH Zurich’s Department of Architecture have developed a concrete floor system that does not require steel...
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16/05/2017
Elemental, the Chilean practice headed by Alejandro Aravena, has won the Art Mill International Design Competition, organized to transform Qatar’s largest flour factory into a complex dedicated to art. The 83,500-square-meter site is at the center...
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10/05/2017
The Sevillian studio MGM – José Morales and Sara – in collaboration with the French firm Beaudouin Architectes, has won the bid to build a new learning center in the university campus of Saclay, in the southwestern suburbs...
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09/05/2017
For the wood cabin manufacturer Rindalshytter the Oslo architectural firm Snøhetta has designed a house inspired in the gagahuk, an improvised shelter made of two or three walls and a ceiling, commonly built in Norway as a refuge from bad weather...
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08/05/2017
The proposal ‘Trees, books, fog, and memory’ by the Barcelona practice BCQ headed by David Baena and Toni Casamor – has been chosen for the construction of a library in Vic, on what was the site of an old Civil Guard barracks that was the object...
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04/05/2017
Peter Zumthor has unveiled his project for the extension of the Fondation Beyeler in the city of Riehen, in Switzerland’s canton of Basel-Stadt. The museum, which opened in 1997, was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano to house the modern and...
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03/05/2017
Apple Dubai Mall is reinventing the traditional introverted idea of mall-based retail as a more outward looking experience that engages with the spectacle of urban life. Its design is a highly innovative response to the culture and climate of the Emirates...
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01/05/2017
Ivanhoé Cambridge
The mixed use complex will be the first project in France with the Well Building Standard certification, whose purpose is to place the well-being of employees back at the heart...
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25/04/2017
The firm of the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has unveiled its design for a museum that will harbor a private collection of Turkish modern art in Odunpazari, an area of Eskishehr, in the Central Anatolia Region. Irregularly stacked volumes make up...
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18/04/2017
Designed by the practice headed by José Segui – which works from offices in Madrid and Málaga – in collaboration with the Barcelona firm Mendoza Partida, the project ‘Ecos Urbanos’ has been selected out of seventy entries to the competition for ideas for regenerating...
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12/04/2017
RSHP
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has been appointed to design an extension to the British Library, to be built on a 2.8 acre site...
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12/04/2017
The New York Times
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, for example — whose neo-Classical-style building dates to 1928 — is undergoing a transformation by Frank Gehry, creator of the Guggenheim Bilbao...
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11/04/2017
The Economist
Throughout Chinese history, the dawn of new dynasties often involved moving the entire capital, imperial palace and all...
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10/04/2017
The Madrid practice of Ángela García de Paredes and Ignacio García Pedrosa has won the competition to build the Spanish Education Center in the Agdal community of the Morrocan capital, on a 20,000-square-meter lot within the Mohammed V University campus...
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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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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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