Nestled in the mountainous environs of Varano dei Marchesi, in the Italian province of Parma, a new winery designed by Paolo Zermani and Eugenio Tessoni blends with sobriety and sensitivity into the region’s rural landscape. Carried out by the Villa Fontana Agricultural Society, it addresses the need for architecture...
West of Havana, Cuba, in the municipality of Artemisa, this residence is located on a cliff. It maintains the dimensions and essential elements of a preexisting house: a perimeter of 14 x 14 meters and a gable roof...
A multipurpose venue that has transformed the urban landscape of Valencia’s Quatre Carreres neighborhood. Intended to be much more than a new home for Valencia Basket Club, the arena was created with the aim...
The house is a fertile ground for architectural experimentation: a space for innovation where technical solutions, aesthetic alternatives, and new ways of dwelling are tried out. AV Monographs 276 gathers sixteen projects built...
In some cases, the architect begins to design with a sequential series of views and perspectives in mind, while in others, they rely on plans, elevations, and sections to bring their work to life...
Located in Palma’s old town quarter, Can Gabriel is a house built on traces of the past with no attempts to erase them. The projects starts with a bare 164-square-meter apartment of the 1960s, the only legacy of which is purely constructional...
In celebration of its twentieth anniversary, in 2024 we presented the magazine with an updated graphic design. Enjoy the changes made in AV Proyectos by taking up this offer of six issues (121-126) of its new phase for 50% of the usual subscription price...
The project involved thoroughly renovating a 660-square-meter space in the city of Santander, turning it into a multipurpose home for a private art collection. Intended as something more than an exhibition gallery...
This walking and cycling path is a major piece of infrastructure for sustainable mobility on the banks of the Loures, stretching across 100 hectares of ecologically valuable marshland that is a strategic point...
The architecture studio Summary, founded by Samiel Gonçalces in Porto, is the author of this group of five single-family homes built with prefabricated reinforced concrete...
In a forgotten corner of Bucharest’s urban fabric, a small architectural intervention has garnered attention for its daring and precision. Named ‘The Chapel,’ the Rumanian firm Vinklu’s project for the local chain Boiler Coffee...
Seven works have been announced the winner of the2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and will share a total money prize of a million US dollars. Founded in 1977, this prestigious accolade given every three years...
President Trump signed an executive order that requires federal buildings in Washington to maintain a classical style of Greco-Roman architecture associated with the marble columns...
Manuel Gausa has died at 66 years of age. The founder of Actar Architecture, the Catalan architect and professor directed the magazine Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme from 1991 to 2000 and collaborated...
François Chaslin has died at the age of 76. A regular contributor to Arquitectura Viva and media outlets such as Le Monde, Libération, or El País, the French architect, critic, and professor was editor-in-chief of...
A professor at the Madrid School of Architecture and an aficionado of music, poetry, photography, and nature, the Madrid architect ran a practice with Luis González Sterling and Joaquín Aramburu Maqua...
The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, in collaboration with TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, presents ‘Terraphilia: Beyond the Human in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections,’ an exhibition that radically rethinks...
The house is a fertile ground for architectural experimentation: a space for innovation where technical solutions, aesthetic alternatives, and new ways of dwelling are tried out. AV Monographs 276 gathers sixteen projects built in diverse geographical and cultural contexts, organized around for key materials – wood, earth, concrete, and metal – which, when combined, expand the expressive and constructive possibilities of each one of them.From the vernacular to the experimental, from the Alpine cabin to the urban dwelling, these houses show how material becomes an expressive tool, capable of linking up with the context...
With a grasp of context exceeding the hackneyed deference, the Swiss architects Daniel Buchner and Andreas Bründler address it in all its complexity. Their buildings may look autonomous but all of them remedy fragments of the respective place and provide a solid identity, helped by an exquisite and atmospheric treatment of concrete: perhaps the only leitmotiv to be discerned in the selection of six works – two public buildings, two residential developmens, and two houses – that Arquitectura Viva features. The issue’s dossier, for its part, presents recent public initiatives taken in four Spanish regions to consolidate pieces...
AV Proyectos 129 explores the architectural potential of color at different scales, and three exhibitions in Madrid – reviewed by Luis Fernández-Galiano – serve as the introductory frame for a series of projects that are examples of this versatility: the detailed domestic intervention of Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer, the unique housing by Wiki World, TEST and selgascano, and the large-scale works by Padilla Nicás and BIG. Along this line, the architect and interior designer Javier Jiménez Iniesta, of Studio Animal, talks with Arquitectura Viva about his defense of chromatism as a project tool and not just an aesthetic whim...
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...
The ancient world nurtures us with histories and myths, and two recent books offer this spiritual food in easily digestible bites. David Hernández de la Fuente...
Discussions on neoliberalism nowadays pose two problems. The first comes from the vagueness of the term, turned as it is into a non-concept, devoid of content...
Here is a compilation of conversations that took place at O Instituto, an independent space in Porto for sharing experiences of colonial processes, founded by Paulo Moreira..
The production of renewable sources has transformed territories, and now also the buildscapes of cities. Advances in solar capture technologies, their reduced costs...
In Viladecans, a Barcelona municipality in the comarca of Bajo Llobregat, this residential complex containing 22 officially subsidized dwellings blends organically with the surroundings...
The project ‘Gardens for an Acrobat’ has won the competition organized by the Madrid Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS Madrid) for the construction of 166 affordable rental apartments in the Mahou-Calderón area of the Arganzuela district...
Just 40 meters from Calle Estafeta in Pamplona, known for the San Fermín bull runs, stands this block of four homes, a renovation project led by Josean Ruiz Esquíroz in collaboration with Enrique Morillo, Marta Muñoz, Roberto Romero, and Sandra Ojea...
This residential block is located in the heart of Raval, a neighborhood within Barcelona’s old town. Its cultural diversity is among its main assets. In this context, the refurbishment project launched by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona...
The 500-square-meter SO House arose from a clear idea of interconnected spaces engaging with one another while remaining independent. The result is a single-family house that presents itself as flexible...
Until the time Eusebi Guëll moved his textile factory there and established a workers’ colony with the help of Gaudí, Santa Coloma de Cervelló was just a farming village on the banks of the Llobregat, and its modest...
Not far from the chimney chutes that embody the industrial memory of Sant Adrià de Besós, the offices of a technology firm – and also the residence of its founder – have settled in what was once a printing company...
This 56-square-meter apartment was renovated on a low budget, so the exercise in personalizing the space involved getting the best out of solutions and materials available in the market, such as standard tiles put...
The Savarin development has obtained the necessary permits to transform an inner block in Prague’s historic center, in accordance with a design by the British firm of Thomas Heatherwick...
The scheme ‘Ágora Verde’ – by Magén Arquitectos – has won the competition for the vocational-training building of a digital campus integrated into the new Aragonese Technology District (DAT)...
The firms Snøhetta and Benthem Crouwel Architects have unveiled their idea for the House of Culture and Administration, to be located at Plein Molenberg, the central square Delfzijl...
Vaillo + Irigaray, in collaboration with interplay, has won the first prize in the competition to build the Health Tech Synergy Hub (HTSH) for the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology...
China’s transformation in the 21st century can be felt on a visit there, as chronicled in ‘Six Watercolors’ (AV Proyectos 130), but is also documented through...
Dear Luis Fernández-Galiano, By way of wishing you a happy New Year, I simply wanted to express how much I appreciate your faithful contribution to architectural culture...
The increase in the frequency and intensity of fires in different parts ofthe world has prompted experts to suggest that we may have entered a new epoch...
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...
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...
José Manuel López Peláez has died at 80 years of age. Chair of Design at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), he was awarded Spain’s National Architecture Prize in 1971...
The Luxembourg-born architect, writer, and draftsman Léon Krier, one of the key drivers of the postmodern movement, passed away on 17 June in Palma de Mallorca, where he had been living since 2013 with his partner Irene P. Stillman...
The German architecture curator, writer, and editor Kristin Feireiss has passed away at 82 years of age. She studied art history and philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. In 1980, she and Helga Retzer...
David M. Childs has died at the age of 83. A partner at SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) since 1971, the American architect designed One World Trade Center, the 541.3-meter (1,776-foot) tower that rose on the spot where the twin towers destroyed by 9/11 had stood...
