La Cacaotera Regional Museum is located in Villahermosa, in the state of Tabasco, Mexico’s leading producer of cocoa. Its purpose is to promote learning about cocoa and to disseminate cocoa culture, highlighting its historical, productive, and cultural importance...
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The studio of Alice Cecchini and Roman Joliy, Atelier Poem, has designed this open shelter for Foresta Collective. The group operates between Germany and Spain and promotes education based on direct experience with nature...
The stadium is located on the site of a 1930s football field. The facilities were much deteriorated. The decision was made to build anew on the same site and densify the urban area...
Drawn up by the local practice of Anja Vidic and Jure Grohar, the scheme adapted former industrial buildings – built in the 1960s in Litostroj, on the outskirts of Ljubljana – as a temporary home for the Slovenian Theatre...
With a length of 50 meters and a built area of 320 m², the house stands at the foot of Mount Macedon, on a plot located about an hour north of Melbourne. The site was an opportunity to design a long narrow dwelling...
In my hands, the books by Luis Fernández-Galiano – ‘A Tremor in the System’ and ‘Territories of Risk’ – which bring together texts published from 2007 to 2020 and follow on from the previously published volumes ‘The Age of Spectacle’...
With a built area of 3,570 m², the building is designed as a coherent and functional unit, reinforcing the unified image of an industrial complex located in Montebelluna, in the Italian province of Treviso...
The new salon of the Japanese cosmetics brand Pola is in Tokyo’s Ginza neighborhood. Designed by the architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of SANAA, it redefines the beauty flagship as a space of perception...
Sydney's new fish market has opened to the public as a key element in the urban renewal of Blackwattle Bay in the harbor area. Designed by Danish firm 3XN, in collaboration with BVN Architecture and Aspect Studios...
The firm Thomas Phifer and Partners has built a red concrete pavilion for the recently completed Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park in Battery Park, at the southern tip of Lower Manhattan...
The installation Divided is part of SpY's research into the relationship between body, space, and perception. Through large-scale interventions in the urban fabric, the Spanish artist explores how monumentality and light can transform...
O Primeiro Siza is a documentary about the Four Houses, the first built work of Álvaro Siza (Matosinhos, Portugal, 1933), who designed while still a student. It is a reflection on architecture’s impact on people’s lives. Directed by Sara Nunes...
Following its restoration, the original stretch of the tunnel designed by Juan de Villanueva, in Madrid’s Campo del Moro gardens, has been reopened to the public by Patrimonio Nacional, Spain’s National Heritage organism. It is a unique construction...
Norman Foster has designed a time capsule to commemorate the 250th anniversary of US independence. The piece was officially presented in Washington, D.C., by UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy...
In the blink of an eye, the attention of a world on edge has shifted from Venezuela to Greenland. On 3 January, in a military operation, the United States captured dictator Nicolás Maduro in his stronghold in Caracas...
Two films that premiered in December are fusions of silence and sentiment. Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, winner of the Golden Lion of Venice, explores family ties almost wordlessly...
For the past three years, the Spain Yearbook has been complemented by a special edition of AV Monographs that is an invitation to travel the world through twelve foreign works presented by Luis Fernández-Galiano, who reflects on the uncertain contemporary landscape. The year has been marked by Donald Trump’s prominence, but there have been other relevant issues on the international level, such as the unstoppable rise of China and the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and on the national one, with the massive blackout and the summer fires. The buildings of the year include long-awaited landmarks such as Heneghan Peng's...
At ninety years of age, Norman Foster still steers his firm at the speed of a cruise liner, without letting its corporate structure blur the signature stamp that makes any of his works unmistakable, however disparate their locations, scales, or programs. Now joining this big family of forms and spaces are a skyscraper in Manhattan for JPMorgan Chase and the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi: two icons which materialize the British architect’s grand ambitions. For its part, this issue’s dossier looks at the work of ten young Portuguese practices that verify a change of attitude in the country’s solid tradition, as the members of fala explain...
Architecture today must not relinquish either criticism or context. AV Proyectos 132 features seven examples in Northern Europe, such as Studio Muoto's Innovation Hall, Baukunst and Bruther's FRAME building, and Buchner Bründler's Kunsthaus Baselland, which follow this ethic. The article by Jesús Vassallo, architect and professor at Rice University, advocates negotiating with the resources available and maintaining ambitious agendas without the built work losing relevance, andanalyzes the relationship between this new architecture and photography. The latter is also the main theme of our conversation...
Eduardo Souto de Moura wraps up the triad that placed Porto in the circuits of global architecture by virtue of honoring vernacular tradition in combination with geometric rigor, constructive precision, and material solidity. Such a sublayer has enabled him to handle types, scales, and strategies with agility, while still stamping an unmistakable mark on his projects. Celebrating his forty-five years of work, Arquitectura Viva presents that same number of projects of his in a 344-page book, hardbound and bilingual (Spanish and English), testimony of a brilliant practice that has been both intensely local and resolutely open to the world...
Vicente Moreno García-Mansilla has completed an exceptional feat, the interpretation of Paleolithic symbols in cave art as maps of the territory or plans of the caverns they are found in...
Architectural photography, especially of the kind that contextualizes architecture in the complexity and heterodoxy of its urban and territorial dimensions, wanted its own internal competition...
This book perfectly presents the situation of the coastal district of El Cabanyal in Valencia, in both its physical and social dimensions. A hinge between the city, Cap i Casal, and the sea, this urban slice attached to El Grau...
‘Desiderata’ refers to the things we need or want. How can one possibly write on a guide to modern and contemporary architecture in Burgos without mentioning its cathedral? When there...
Taking up a city block on Boulevard Poniatowski in Paris, this social housing development is clearly inserted into its homogenous urban context. The immediate surroundings are characterized by a uniform system...
The Ibaté building is located on a corner lot in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood of São Paulo, an area that acts as a transition zone between a high-density urban hub and a lower-density, quieter residential neighborhood...
Foxos is a beach located south of A Lanzada, in the municipality of Sanxenxo, Pontevedra. It is an enclave of great environmental and scenic value, defined by a cliff-lined coastline crowned by gentle hills...
De peus a terra is a residential project promoted by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB). The building, located in the Bon Pastor neighborhood, offers 50 social housing units...
DZR is the transformation of an industrial facility in Madrid's Carabanchel district into a 174 m² home that explores new ways of living. The project began with a former car wash, creating a hybrid space...
In Rome's Esquilino neighborhood, within a basement characterized by the spatial complexity typical of the urban fabric, the Thermae residential project offers a contemporary reinterpretation of ancient thermal baths...
The renovation of this 60 m² apartment, located on the outskirts of San Sebastián and built in 1966, is tackled as an architectural experiment that challenges established lines of domestic logic. The project investigates new ways...
The Espacio D project involved turning a 33 m² space in Madrid’s Prosperidad neighborhood into a studio, workshop, and store for the jeweller Deassín. What was a dry cleaner’s is now a multipurpose space...
Pedro Pitarch and Meii, in collaboration with Socotec, have won first prize in the competition organized by Cartagena’s city council for the renovation of its circus theater. Their scheme is structured around a key intervention...
The project for the new home of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm has gone through a long transformation process that reflects both the institution’s cultural ambition and the complexity of the city’s urban fabric...
The Japanese firm of Kengo Kuma has been selected to enlarge and relocate the French manufacturer Michelin’s museum in Clermont-Ferrand. L’Aventure Michelin, which opened in 2009, will be transferring to a former tire-production site...
The architecture firm LANZA atelier, founded in Mexico City in 2015 by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, has been selected to design the 25th temporary pavilion for London's Serpentine Gallery...
American cinema examines the state of the nation through two fables that combine farce with grand guignol. Both produced in 2025...
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...
At the age of 96, Frank Owen Gehry died at home in Santa Monica on Friday 5 December. The most popular American architect since Frank Lloyd Wright, who marked a turning point in the art of building with his Guggenheim Bilbao...
What makes Benidorm so different, so appealing? For Martin Parr, who died on 6 December, this middle-class paradise was an inexhaustible source of subjects, equally everyday and kitsch...
Holding a vodka martini and playing the gracious host in his loft on Chapel Street during his eighteen years as dean of the Yale School of Architecture: this is the best possible portrait...
Lars Lerup has died at the age of 85. Dean emeritus at Rice and formerly a professor at Berkeley, the Swedish architect is the author of After the City (2001), which explores the boundaries between nature and culture, and The Life and Death of Objects (2022)...
