Saint Matthew left word in the Gospel that the gate to life is small. And that is how visitors may feel as they complete their rounds of the Medici chapels in Florence’s Basilica di San Lorenzo: a walk – separate from the actual temple’s – which used
Exuberant rooms are assembled between two antagonistic marble masks. Unorthodox everyday spaces are built in accordance with a clearly defined syntax and grammar...
A monumental marble volume is tucked into the terrain, adjusting to the stepped contours of the land to expand the access to the museum’s excavated galleries. This piece is also a walkable outdoor platform to contemplate the landscape...
With 54,600 square meters of floor space and a collection of over 400,000 works, this is the largest art museum in the Nordic region. Officially named National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture, the building is a fruit of the fusion, in 2003, of
The government Building is located at the Teatinos campus, west of the city of Málaga. It hosts the presidency of the University among several other services, which were scattered through the city until now. The project also includes an additional 80
The project ‘Between Cathedrals’ sought to carry out an intervention worthy of the most significant location in the history of Cadiz, the oldest city of the West: the empty space between the Old and New Cathedrals, facing the sea. The objectives were
A former banking office in the Swedish capital – an anonymous institutional building located in the city center – became world-famous in 1973 thanks to an armed heist and hostage crisis that triggered in the victims a psychological reaction later cal
The project is an obsessive play of grids and patterns. Stripes of white and green define the perimeter of all living spaces and dots of black marble appear in circulation areas. The back facade is carefully composed with thin lines and two marble st
Creating a virtual world through the poetic use of materials was Valerio Olgiati’s intention in designing this store in the design district of the city of Miami for the French high-end fashion brand Céline. Such virtuality has to do with the manipula
Eduardo Prieto The construction boom of countries like Qatar is but the offshoot of another boom, one begun almost a century ago: the oil boom. A trivial statement if thought of abstractly, but intuited firsthand from a plane flying over the Persian
Measuring 30 meters high and 30 in diameter, the temple forms a flower of nine petals made up of cast glass pieces on the outside and translucent marble on the inside; the pieces are framed with aluminum and installed with a crane on a steel superstr
The project recovers the original volume and space – built by Luis Gutiérrez Soto in 1950 –, unveils its columns, and builds a marble gazebo that organizes the uses; dichroic mirrors placed opposite to one another create disorientation... [+]
Elevated on a steel structure and wrapped in planes of glass, refrigerated panels, and polycarbonate skylights, the house is organized around an elliptical crown of tractioned marble that invites to observe domestic everyday life... [+]
Founded as cultural institution in 1933, the Archaeological Museum has changed site and name on several occasions in the course of the past century. Its final location in what used to be the Colegio Menor Santa María del Mar was followed by several e
Located in San Vicente, in the province of Buenos Aires, the Juan and Eva Perón Mausoleum is part of a heritage recovery plan which includes the refurbishment of the ‘Quinta 17 de Octubre’ – the summer house of the presidential couple –, turning it i
The project extends the structure of the pavilion, rebuilding two units like a Lioz marble block. The lower floors are toplit by apparently impossible skylights, and the upper floor through the reflection of the light that bathes the lower levels...
Las casas se sitúan en un área residencial de reciente trazado en la localidad portuguesa de Vila Real. La morfología del terreno, las condiciones de acceso, la forma del solar y las vistas han sido determinantes en la articulación de los espacios. L
There are very few countries where religious syncretism is so deeply rooted as it is in Japan. The practice of the original sintoism in the Japanese archipelago coexists with the Buddhism that was introduced through Korea in the year 539 a. C., and t
Una primera discusión de este proyecto residencial en el marco del plan general diseñado por Jo Coenen condujo a sugerir la fragmentación de lo que era una estructura lineal continua. De la aceptación de esa propuesta resultó la partición del proyect
La discreción es la divisa del proyecto, que traslada el centro de visitantes al nuevo puente de Miraflores por su cercanía al centro histórico. El resto del programa, salvo el aparcamiento, se aloja bajo una cubierta de cobre, donde aparecen las abe
El empresario hotelero Ian Schrager ha puesto en práctica un nuevo concepto de alojamiento, conocido como ‘hotel-boutique’ y concebido como parque de ocio urbano. Tras el éxito de sus hoteles en NuevaYork, Miami y Los Ángeles ha inaugurado el St Mart
Popular references are woven with others originating from classic funerary architecture in the extension of this necropolis in a small agricultural town of the Castilian plateau. An ordinary plaster wall surrounds the new graves, the order of which,
To make room for the Guggenheim Museum and Euskalduna Palace, the entire zone of obsolete industry called Abandoibarra was cleared. With the removal of old surface tracks in the area, a new railway scheme had to be drawn up for the city of Bilbao. Am
