Post-war german architecture now enjoys recognition and protection today, which, with the exception of some unique works, it lacked for years, associated with the utilitarianism and pragmatism that prevailed in the reconstruction of the war-devastated country. Between 1945 and 1975, the so-called post-war modern architecture...
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The true master builders of the insect world, however, are the hundreds of species of stingless bee, native to the tropics and subtropics, which weave combs of unparalleled variety and intricacy inside hollow tree trunks or other cavities...
It has been forty years since the birth of the magazine AV Monographs, and thirty since the release of its first Yearbook, a publication that has endeavored to gather, year after year, the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock at the same time of the most important...
Madrid in March has staged the malaise of memory. The city’s Teatro Real has presented The Passenger, an opera whose characters travel on a ship that carries the remembrance of the horror of the Holocaust; the Royal Academy...
The 1914 sleepwalking elites are warmongers in 2024: Europe rearms in haste guided by leaders with no biographical experience of conflict. Those born after 1945 have lived on a continent that judged war on its grounds inconceivable...
The project transforms the area around Plaza Gomila, in Palma de Mallorca’s El Terreno neighborhood, The first phase has been completed, consisting of sixty dwellings varying in size and typology, plus commercial spaces...
A 20-square-kilometer site in Karapınar that is no longer suitable for agriculture but holds significant energy potential due to the region’s desert climate has been designated as an energy specialization area...
Arquitectura Viva gathers in one volume of 320 pages, with a special price of 60 euros, hardbound and in fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, 50 housing projects built in Spain since the year 2000. Always at the center of the architectural debate...
The Portuguese firm fala – founded in 2013 by Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, and Ahmed Belkhodja— has turned a warehouse and offices into a house of many faces. On a long narrow plot located in a largely...
The Mumbai-based firm founded in 1992 by Sanjay and Nina Puri has built this spiral-shaped community center, crowned with a green roof, that gives views of the surrounding desert in the Indian state of Rajasthan...
This house, with the appearance of a brick fortress, goes up in a quiet suburb northwest of Prague, within close proximity to Villa Müller by Adolf Loos. The construction – which can be divided into three apartments...
Located in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a warm dry region, this project involved renovating and enlarging a rural school built for the children of the workers of the Penna cement factory...
The Italian architect Italo Rota has died at 70 years of age. The author of the Museo del Novecento in Milan, the revamp of the urban center of Nantes, and the seaside promenade of the Foro Italico in Palermo, Rota worked with Franco Albini...
On view through 27 April at Michèle Schoonjans Gallery in Brussels is an exhibition that is simultaneously a game and a tribute to the great Milanese architect Gio Ponti (1891-1979). Bea Sarrias uses geometry as a compositional tool...
‘Out & About. Discovering Architecture. EUmies Awards 2024’ will take place from April onwards in over 30 European places in which the shortlisted works of the prize are located. Organised by Creative Europe, Fundació Mies van der Rohe...
The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme in Kandy was completed in 1958, and heralded a new form of social housing in Sri Lanka. Designed by architect Minnette De Silva (1918–1998), the Scheme was notably created with the participation of its users...
MMM did lots of things, but will be remembered as the engineer who executed the big urban projects that Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón launched as president of the Community of Madrid from 1995 to 2003 and as mayor of the city from 2003 to 2011...
Richard Serra, the American artist known for bending the boundaries of sculpture, has died at the age of 85. Serra died at home on Tuesday at his home in New York. The cause of death was pneumonia...
It has been forty years since the birth of the magazine AV Monographs, and thirty since the release of its first Yearbook, a publication that has endeavored to gather, year after year, the best architecture built in Spain, taking stock at the same time of the most important debates, trends, and events of the cultural, economic, and social panorama in each period. With its latest edition, the Yearbook begins a new phase, in which the transfer of the international summary to the recently launched Portfolio allows to devote more pages to the usual selection of twenty-four buildings, which acquire greater prominence and can be analyzed in more...
Lina Ghotmeh has lived an itinerant life between East and West, going from the Beirut of her birth and education to the Paris where she set up a practice characterized by an inevitable international profile but also a sensitivity to contexts and materials. Arquitectura Viva takes stock of this through four examples: the Estonian National Museum in Tartu, the Stone Garden residential tower in Beirut, the Hermés workshops in Louviers, and the Serpentine Gallery’s 2023 pavilion in London. For its part, this issue’s dossier presents three interventions carried out on the built heritage of a country with a particularly...
AV Proyectos joined the AV/Arquitectura Viva family twenty years ago. To mark the occasion, it is presented now with updated graphics and an approach adapted to the reality of architects, with more articles and works and a greater emphasis on construction. Issue 121 carries in ‘Portfolio’ a cover feature on robotics and an interview with two experts in prefabrication: Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa from Ensamble Studio; and its two new sections, ‘Pieces’ and ‘Products’, give an overviewof the technical scene. Our old ‘Competition’ and ‘Construction’ sections are revamped under the headings...
Arquitectura Viva presents —in Spanish-English and digital format only— the second compilation of buildings published in the ‘In Detail’ section of AV Proyectos. The volume, of over 200 pages, features twelve works covered with comprehensive sets of technical plans, details, and photographs documenting the different stages in the construction process of some of the most prominent buildings completed in recent years around the world. The new selection includes cultural infrastructures like the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron or the Contemporary Creation Center of Córdoba by Nieto Sobejano...
Liberal institutions, says Francis Fukuyama, act as the canaries in the coal mine, and warn about the threat of an authoritarian assault. John Gray is more pessimistic, believing that liberal civilization based on tolerance is history...
In the ruined Milan of the postwar, a distinguished group of architects committed itself in both theory and practice to the city’s physical and symbolic reconstruction. The likes of Gio Ponti, Luigi Moretti...
“It is at the same time a monograph on the architectural, urbanistic and landscape work of Philippe Rahm, a manifesto for a climatic architecture to face global warming, and a theoretical and practical treatise...
Both praised by Bill Gates, the Czech-Canadian scientist and political analyst Vaclav Smil and the Danish economist and political scientist Bjørn Lomborg propose a reality check: Smil’s How the World Really...
Since November 2023, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has been sending a steady radio signal to Earth, but the signal does not contain usable data. The source of the issue appears to be with one of three onboard computers, the flight data subsystem...
AutoFlight’s five-seater Prosperity eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft completed a significant milestone by autonomously flying the 50km (31 miles) route from Shenzhen to Zhuhai. The flight from Shenzhen to Zhuhai...
MareNostrum 5, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) supercomputer located in Spain was officially inaugurated in Barcelona by Pedro Sánchez...
Through partnerships and 3-D printing, NASA is plotting how to build houses on the moon by 2040. The moon is a magnet, and it is pulling us back. Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17 spent three days on that...
A young couple has pooled two separate professions in a single street-level establishment in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, revamping the space to make it both a hair salon and a tattoo studio. Eager to avoid the usual...
The architecture firm led by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, in collaboration with the designer Andreu Carulla, has transformed an industrial space built in the early 1950s into a restaurant. The building previously harbored...
Performing Pavilion is a revision of the home-workshop, proposing it as a new paradigm for the link between the work of art, the place where it is created, and contemporary lifestyles. Resulting from the enlargement...
The Cantabrian Maritime Museum (MMC) in Santander was built between 1975 and 1978, following a design by Vicente Roig Forner and Ángel Hernández Morales. The interior is distributed in three floors around a central...
The Spain-based practice of Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga – in collaboration with the Swedish architects Hermansson Hiller Lundberg and the landscape architect Peter Korn – has won the competition to revamp...
The first images of the office building designed by Foster + Partners for the real estate development firm The Star in Los Angeles have been made public. Located at 6061 West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, the tower...
Lushui, in the southwest of Zhejiang Province, China, is known for its lush greenery and valleys. Ma Yansong’s firm MAD Architects will be giving it its first airport for a predicted one million passengers a year...
The firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) – in collaboration with HNTB – has won the competition to build a baseball stadium in Las Vegas on a 3.6-hectare site on Las Vegas Boulevard, between Tropicana and Reno Boulevards...
In the cold Berlin morning, the tractors on the avenue leading to Brandenburg Gate line up with the discipline of an invading army. Norman Mailer wrote...
Ten people have perished in a conflagration which in a matter of minutes wrapped the facades of the fourteen-story building in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia...
Works of science fiction are more about the historical moment they are created in than about the uncertain future they are supposedly set in. Hence, whether or not...
The Greek writer Vassilis Vassilikos, author of the political novel Z (on which the Costa-Gavras film of the same title was based), tells of how a few days after...
Grupo Ayuso presents its Pérgola series for terraces and gardens. With mixed aluminum and canvas coverings, it is designed to provide spaces where one can enjoy the open air while being sheltered against adverse weather...
With over 80 years of experience behind it and headquartered in Ontinyent (Valencia), the Atenzza business group is dedicated to the production and marketing of textile products for interior and exterior...
The Galician company Comenza, which specializes in developing industrialized railing and handrail systems, presents the PVD Black Finish for its GlassFit CC-800 and GlassFit CC-775 glass railings, offering it as an...
Companies are increasingly aware that only through digital transformation can become more competitive. This is already mandatory in public companies, with the new BIM standard, and the trend is spreading in the...
French architect, professor, and scholar José Oubrerie died on March 10, age 91. Oubrerie was famously known as one of Le Corbusier’s closest protégés who completed Église Saint-Pierre in Firminy, France...
Roberto Ercilla was an energetic defender of good architecture in a world where the profession is undervalued. His works –oozing elegance, refinement, and precision – have done much to build the orderly...
The American architect Antoine Predock passed away on 2 March at the age of 87. Born in Lebanon (Missouri) in 1936, he earned his architecture degree from Columbia University in 1962. Five years later he set up his practice in Albuquerque (New Mexico)...
Balancing on the diving board of his pool while addressing Getty Center scholars during a farewell dinner in the summer of 1990. That is how I wish to remember Kurt Walter Forster, the great Swiss architectural...
