Emilio Tuñón   Spain   Towards the exterior, the house is a simple prismatic volume with a square floor plan, with sides measuring 16 meters. Its walls are built with local quartzite stone. Inside, nine cubic spaces with 4.20-meter-sides accommodate the different uses of t

Emilio Tuñón   Spain   On a steep slope overlooking Los Alemanes beach, the house, of 400 square meters, aims to adapt itself to the terrain through a series of horizontal platforms, protected from the wind by thick concrete pillars that frame Mediterranean-like atmosphere

Emilio Tuñón   Italy   Evoking the vernacular architecture of Tyrol, the structure above grade consists of two volumes flanking a courtyard which organizes the building with the public space and gives way to the underground world of excavated wineries in the area. 

Emilio Tuñón   Switzerland   Conceived as a prism that serves as an architectural filter between the campus and the landscape, the pavilion is a meeting point for teachers, visitors, workers and students, aside from serving as a reception place for international guests.  Op

Emilio Tuñón   United Arab Emirates   Resting on a platform with an uneven perimeter that accommodates a parking lot, shops, services and a high-rise garden, the towers, of 240 meters in height, house 447 luxury apartments for western businesspeople living in Dubai.  The slenderness

Emilio Tuñón   Norway   Aiming to blend with the existing constructions, the proposal completes the urban block with a large crystal cube, and articulates the whole complex around a covered public square that presents the Town Hall as a place open to citizens. 

Emilio Tuñón   Spain   The new Benjamin Rothschild & Vega Sicilia winery proposes an architecture of ‘terroir,’ foreign to current trends and styles, where the location, climate, the land and its vegetation define the building’s form and the type of construction. 

Emilio Tuñón   Afghanistan   The museum takes inspiration from Islamic architecture. In this way, the articulation of the halls is based on the system of cells of Qala Iktyaruddin Citadel in Kabul, where the vaulted brick spaces follow an elementary spatial matrix.  The pro

Rafael de La Hoz   Saudi Arabia   The oasis functions as the central element of the project and is covered, to generate a comfortable environment, with a curved layer in a golden finish as a metaphor of the Qur’an, resting on four buildings that house the indoor programs. 

Arata Isozaki, Hiroshi Aoki   Saudi Arabia   The proposal consists of a plaza with a central water crater, covered by a huge torus that ensures the lower open space has adequate comfort conditions through shading, which will change throughout the day thus making the space dynamic.

Zaha Hadid Architects   Saudi Arabia   The proposal consists of a library surrounded by five plazas symbolizing the five pillars of Islam; the main floor and the accesses are burrowed five meters below street level, aiming to keep the complex sheltered from the busy activity of the city.&

Mauro Galantino Architetto   Saudi Arabia   The complex includes two gardens – that of access at street level and the interior one on level -5; four ‘tents’ located at the angles, whose geometric repetition gives the whole an overall image; and a bridge pointing towards Madinah. 

gmp Architekten   Saudi Arabia   Aiming to produce different atmospheres, the proposal is a tapestry constituted by a series of volumes and landscapes that converge at the Gold Spiral. Underneath it, the imposing dome of the Acoustic Center is a space to read the Qur’an. 

Gerber Architekten   Saudi Arabia   The design focusses on the idea of oasis as landscape and proposes a land art approach: the large three-dimensional roof rests on five columns that contain the vertical communications; their tesselated surfaces evoke the traditional architecture.  

Ricardo Bofill   Saudi Arabia   With a circular geometry, the project proposed fulfills the objective of buffering noise from the nearby airport by means of elevated roofs and terraced walls with vegetation, which make reference to the Islamic city and to the gardens of Babylon. 

gmp Architekten   Germany   In the nature reserve of the peninsula of Graswarder, the birdwatching tower is a structure constructed with Siberian larch wood, rising 15 meters high. In the upper part of the tower, a glazed observation station welcomes the groups of visitors. 

Gion Antoni Caminada   Switzerland   To blend the tower into the landscape, on the shores of Urnersee Lake, and to ensure its local identity, the project cares not only about the material palette – spruce and willow wood and river gravel for the concrete – but also about the building pr

baumraum   Germany   The stairs that rise from the shores of the pond give access to the tower, which is also a two-story house. Elevated as it is on thin pillars at a distance of 4.20 meters from the water, the house becomes an observatory of plant and animal life.

modulorbeat   Germany   On an abandoned industrial area in the Rhur, this 7.5-meter-high tower is built with superposed prefabricated concrete elements of different sizes that accommodate three functional layers: swimming pool, sauna and relaxation room.

Grüntuch Ernst Architects   Spain   In 2009, the Berlin studio Grüntuch Ernst won the competition to design the new German School in Madrid. Located in the recently developed neighborhood of Montecarmelo, to the north of the city, and taking up a plot of 34,000 square meters, the compl

Ecosistema urbano   Paraguay   Winner of the competition to revitalize the historic center of the capital of Paraguay, the Madrid team Ecosistema Urbano proposes a new way to improve the city and create new spaces. Backed by international and local experiences, the project combine

Born in France in 1987, this young visual artists’ passion for photography arose after his arrival in Hong Kong in 2008. Fascinated by the density and effervescence of the district of Kowloon, where he lives since 2009, Jacquet-Lagrèze started to por