Begoña de Abajo Castrillo   Netherlands   Located in a small peninsula in the Dutch city of Almere, the project proposes – under the theoretical frame of the pedagogical system of the Italian educator Maria Montessori –, a program of opposites: a school and social club for the elderly. The d

Almudena Cano   India   The Indian city is suffering a fast process of modernization that has resulted in improvised urban development plans which have affected the main historic centers. The purpose of the project is thus to recover the urban planning and traditional domes

Elena González   Spain   The building rests on a rocky cliff far from the center of Cadaqués, an area where strong north winds blow. To endure these winds, the building finds protection in its shell shape: forty-five meters in diameter and twenty in height (ten of them under

Elena Larriba   Spain   Conceived as a ‘social condenser’, the tower proposed is placed at the foot of Madrid’s Royal Palace, in the recently recovered banks of the Manzanares River, aiming to become an intermediary element between the city and the park through a stacked, v

Bevk Perović arhitekti   Slovenia   The new National Library and University of Ljubljana (NUK2), a result of the competition for the enlargement of that built in the 1930s by Jože Plečnik, will rise over the remains of the ancient Roman city of Emona. By respecting the site’s original

FREAKS freearchitects, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   France   Located by the Garonne River as it flows through the city of Bordeaux, the new center for contemporary art MÉCA, which stands for Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en Aquitaine, unites in one single venue of more than 12,000 square meter

Atelier Thomas Pucher   Austria   Thomas Pucher envisions for Salzburg an 89,000 m2 complex where the fundamental concept of the enlargement is based on guaranteeing optimal connection between the different areas. Winner of an international competition, the project also makes the ope

David Chipperfield Architects   France   The Museum of Fine Arts of Reims is located between the historic center and the new city, its serrated profile rising up above the medieval fortresses, showing the long architectural history of the French city – from the Gallo-Roman gate to the moder

Benedict Tonon, Heike Hanada   Germany   According to the jury of the competition for the new Bauhaus Museum in Weimar, the design drawn up by Heike Hanada in collaboration with Benedict Tonon was selected as the winner on account of the constructive quality of the enclosure formed by strip

Vaillo + Irigaray    Spain   In front of a hospital building where hygiene principles of the 19th century can be identified, the project proposes the incorporation of built prostheses to complete the required program. In between the original pavilions, which are set in a fishbon

EBT studio   Spain   In the project, which was the winning entry in a competition organized by the land management bureau of Punta Umbría, a municipality in the province of Huelva, the architects Alessandro Tessari and Matteo Bandiera put great stock on the lightness and

Taller Abierto   United States   With this project – which won the ‘Living Aleutian Home Design’ international competition for an experimental house in Atka, one of the Aleutian Islands that are part of the state of Alaska – the Madrid-based Taller Abierto (Open Workshop) proposes a

Rambøll, Schønherr, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   One of the main premises behind the proposal of the Danish team formed by the architectural offices of Schønherr and BIG and the engineering firm Ramboll is the need to develop infrastructures for sustainable transportation. Not only are the resident

Tegnestuen Vandkunsten   Denmark   The landscape of Aalborg has materialized the changes taking place in history, evolving from an industrial city into a city of knowledge when the university was built. The ‘City in between’ competition is an endeavor to improve infrastructures, resha

Allies and Morrison   Denmark   The London-based studio proposes to bring a new public transport line to the university boulevard that will serve to stitch together the different neighborhoods of Aalborg, at present deficiently connected, along the city’s north-south axis, and will

Henning Larsen   Denmark   The practice set up in the year 1959 by the architect Henning Larsen, one of Denmark’s most established architects, has also been selected to participate in the competition with a proposal that focusses on treating the landscape and integrating it in

COBE Architects, MVRDV   Denmark   The Dutch architectural office MVRDV, based in Rotterdam, proposes an operation that, through the densification of the urban fabric only in some specific zones, manages to free up as much ground floor area as possible to in this way protect the surro

Langarita Navarro   Spain   Following the current strategy of recovering industrial architecture to harbor cultural buildings, the Área de las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid (arts department of the Madrid City Council), called a competition in 2005 to renovate the old Serrerí

Of the 6,300 handwritten pages preserved today of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), more than 600 are kept at the Spanish National Library. Under the name Códices Madrid I y II (Madrid Codices I-II), the volumes reflect the flow of thought of the Floren

On another notice, the Hamburger Kunsthalle has collected around 20 works around the concept of uninhabited space, interpreted in a different way by each one of the 19 photographers selected. While Andreas Gursky (see AVProyectos 022) reflects what t

In order to guarantee their continued existence, natural elements reduce their form to the essential, reaching their most efficient organization. This basic structure, which is repeated following the same pattern in each species, is present in a part