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

Jesús Vassallo   The term 'style' has become outdated for contemporary practice, because it implies an approach that is already obsolete. But this doesn’t mean that internal coherence is unnecessary: every architectural practice must be consistent, because it forms p

Studio Muoto   France   Located in the emerging district of Cambarérès, the center is conceived as an active hub for companies, associations, and agents in the digital ecosystem. Its design promotes informal encounter through a grid arrangement of courtyards and spaces for

Bruther, Baukunst   Belgium   As a central piece in the transformation of the media district of Brussels, the building gathers studios, audiovisual platforms and emerging companies in a flexible spatial support, designed to house multiple configurations and adapt to future change

51N4E   Belgium   The project transforms the WTC towers in the Northern Quarter of Brussels into a hybrid complex that connects work, housing, hotel, and leisure spaces with the greenery. Its relationship with the city is materialized by an open plinth and multiple ac

Caruso St John Architects   Netherlands   With the conversion of the Veemgebouw, an old industrial warehouse on the former Philips industrial site becomes a mixed urban building with market, parking, offices, and apartments, within the new masterplan to regenerate Eindhoven’s Strijp S distri

b+   Germany   Two abandoned concrete towers are transformed into an experimental hub for architectural production. Without altering their structure, the project reactivates the site with minimum interventions, focusing on its adapation and on recovering its legal

Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekt*innen   Switzerland   This elongated apartment building has been developed by the studio as a prototype of the idea of sufficiency. With typologies of scale ranging from S to XL, the units are designed for one or two residents and organized as two-story lofts with minimum

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   Three turrets built with reinforced concrete rise as sculptural skylights on top of the roof of an old merchandise warehouse transformed into a hall for showcasing art. The base of the lanterns is used as a way to separate the spaces of the exhibitio

Alberto Ballesteros, Enrique Morillo   After a quarter of the 21st century, we are approaching a time in which most professionals will have been trained in purely digital environments, with increasingly powerful tools at the service of conceiving and communicating projects. In this whirlw

Foster + Partners   United Arab Emirates   Abu Dhabi is centralizing its architectural icons in the heart of Saadiyat Cultural District, where the new museum by Foster+Partners goes up. Not far from the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the upcoming Guggenheim, Zayed National Museum traces the identity of

Anna Bach   Between 1985 and 2002, British architects Alison and Peter Smithson transformed the Hexenhaus from a modest vernacular cottage into one of the most remarkable houses of the late twentieth century. Through more than twenty small additions, subtraction

Luis Fernández-Galiano   From November to March, the Prado Museum is using its two floors of temporary galleries to host monographic exhibitions on Antonio Raphael Mengs (1728–1779) and Juan Muñoz (1953–2001). The painter conventionally labelled Neoclassical is presented in

Dios lo ve (God Sees) is a documentary that invites viewers to explore the creative universe of Oscar Tusquets Blanca (Barcelona, 1941), a key figure in contemporary culture. Directed by Àlex Guimerà and Guillem Ventura, the film paints a portrait of

Until May 17, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (MUSAC) is hosting ‘Yoko Ono. Insound and Instructure’, an ambitious exhibition dedicated to the Japanese artist with more than seventy works, dating from 1961 to 2015. The exhibition hi

Pereda Pérez Arquitectos, Lignum   Spain   Pereda Pérez and Lignum’s proposal to reinterpret the Valley of Cuelgamuros is situated within a context fraught with symbolic dispute. Conceived by the Franco regime as a monumental burial place for its founder and a space to legitimize the National

Snøhetta   Germany   Snøhetta has unanimously been selected by the 25 members of the jury of the competition to build Düsseldorf’s new opera house, future home of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The building mass is divided into three asymmetrical trapezium-shaped segments,

Founded by siblings Amaia and Julen Rodríguez, Gravity Wave is a Spanish start-up that works with thousands of traditional fishers, collecting abandoned nets and marine debris in ports across Spain, Italy, Greece, and Egypt. The company sorts, recycl

Snøhetta and the Danish firm Ege Carpets have developed MATTER, a collection of recycled polyster rugs in two chromatic palettes and that integrates generative codes into textile manufacturing. The project uses an algorithm that controls variation an