This interdepartmental building of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), on its campus in Palma de Mallorca, is conceived as an efficient container of teaching spaces, with classrooms and laboratories. A compact floor plan, a systematized envelope, and energy efficiency are key elements of the environmental plan...
Antonio Fernández Alba would have deserved a poet to be present in this sad ceremony of farewells, because his biographical and intellectual journey was a lyrical and artistic adventure. In a different century he would have perhaps been known...
A couple bought an old building that stood on a small plot of land in Berlin’s Heiligensee neighborhood, close to the lake of the same name. Combining artificial stone and concrete colored with anthracite pigments...
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The Japanese firm Hiroyuki Ito Architects was commissioned to build this apartment building in the Tokyo ward ot Bunkyo. The zone of its location has undergone significant change in recent years...
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...
Foster + Partners’ third office tower in Park Avenue will stand at number 350, halfway between the recently completed one at 425 and the current headquarters of JPMorgan Chase at 270. Counting 139,354 square meters...
Situated within a picturesque fjord and protected against the Atlantic’s harsh winds while offering views of the neighboring islands, Klaksvík is the second-largest town in the Faroe Islands. The firm Henning Larsen...
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...
This shelter in Barcelona’s Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district can take in a hundred homeless women. A work of the firm VIVAS Arquitectos (César Vivas and Cristian Vivas), it has a day center and a night center seeking to assist...
The idea was to refurbish and enlarge a small apartment block, containing 2 units, in the Barcelona municipality of Sant Cugat de Vallès. The family that owns it wanted to complete what had been left unfinished in 2006...
The Brooklyn firm SO-IL designed ‘Common Thread’ for the Bruges Triennial of 2024, ongoing until 1 September. Executed in collaboration with Mariana Popescu (TU Delft) and Summum Engineering, the pavilion meanders...
The elevator tower Halo Vigo is crowned with a ring that can be seen from different parts of Vigo. Located on Calle Serafín Avendaño, the new urban lift connects the Galician city’s...
Antonio Fernández Alba has died at 96 years of age. An architect, a professor at the Madrid School of Architecture, and a member of both Spain's Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Spanish Academy,...
The winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2024 have been announced in Brussels. The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany)...
The 10th edition of Concentric, the International Festival of Architecture and Design held yearly in Logroño, took place from 25 April to 1 May. Through installations temporarily scattered around the capital of La Rioja...
Joan Manuel Serrat has been named the recipient of the Princess of Asturias Award for 2024. On the occasion of this announcement, we reproduce the article that Carlos Jiménez wrote on the Catalan singer, who gave his farewell concert in 2022...
The latest photography series of Manuel Álvarez Diestro (Santander, 1972) is inspired by the monolith that appears in the Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. These vertical structures dominate landscapes in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East...
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...
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...
Against market fevers, housing in Barcelona has in recent years found the protection of public policies whose effectivity is partly due to the know-how of its architects. Marta Peris and José Toral have contributed to this promising panorama through their two decades of experience, demonstrating that quality is not at odds with the affordable and that the field is still full of programmatic, spatial, and material potential, as seen in the five public housing development featured in Arquitectura Viva. The issue’s dossier presents two parking-garage projects that reimagine the conventional scheme for these facilities: the Kronenrain area...
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...
Outdoor museums of vernacular architecture, initiated in Scandinavia in the late 1800s, proliferated in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s, and the Ballenberg Open-Air Museum in Switzerland was inaugurated in 1978...
At his induction into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in January, Miguel Aguiló gave a discourse titled ‘Caring for Earth, Recreating the World,’ in which he tackled heritage, the landscape, and the planet...
The fact that Le Corbusier, peintre à Cap-Martin (Éditions du Patrimoine, 2015) has now been published in English is a further step in the reexamination of Le Corbusier that we have been seeing for some time now...
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...
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...
A team led by the firm a-fact (Andrea Rossi, Giovanni Sanna, Pierluigi Turco) has won the international competition to build a Museum of Contemporary Art, a Natural History Museum, and a Park of Arts & Culture...
Construction has begun at the site of a new daycare center for children of employees of Munich’s Technical University (TUM), with completion programmed for the end of 2025. Located at Gabelsbergerstrasse 41...
A scheme titled ‘The Ages of Water,’ drawn up by the firm of Francisco Burgos and Ginés Garrido, has placed first in the Burgos River competition to improve the environs of the Arlanzón River as it passes through Burgos...
The ‘San Carlos’ scheme submitted by Frade Arquitectos – Luca Poian Forms has been named overall winner of the preliminary-design competition for the Alicante City Congress Center. Selected from a pool of 121 entries...
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...
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...
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...
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...
