Assa Abloy   A high-resistance electromechanical solution for smart swing doors, Assa Abloy SW300 – executed in 70 mm – is thought out for particularly busy entrances, as in buildings containing healthcare centers and offices.

3XN BVN Architecture   Australia   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 four-story building contains a

LAUS architectes   France   Rising on a previously vacant lot, on slightly sloping ground, the new municipal market hall is a key piece in restructuring the urban fabric and revitalizing community life. The building takes on a clear, recognizable presence without imposing itsel

ZAO / Zhang Ke Architecture Office   China   A bookstore has opened amid the remains of a short-lived university founded during World War II by academics who had fled Beijing and Tianjin during the Japanese occupation. In a loop that encloses a courtyard with straight lines, a volume extends al

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

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

Baukunst Bruther   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

Flores & Prats   Spain   In the center of Barcelona, right on the border between Ciutat Vella and Eixample, the studio at 12 Trafalgar Street is where all the worlds of Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats converge, where schoolwork and meetings with friends have their place. But it

AAU Anastas   Palestine   The architects devised their own studio as an open-plan platform where different programs and countless activities can take place, making up for the West Bank’s lack of cultural spaces. A simple raw concrete grid structures the building’s three level

Studio Anne Holtrop   United Arab Emirates   Located across from Dubai’s Business Bay, this project presents an organic composition of office, hotel, retail, and cultural spaces on a waterfront site. Based on inkblot drawings, the proposal translates free forms into a dynamic language. The sele

Studio Anne Holtrop   Bahrain   In the center of Muharraq, the old Amarat Fakhro storehouse is one of the most important symbols of the pearling tradition. The property hosted coffee shops and businesses at street level where some of the pearl purchasing deals took place, while the

Heatherwick Studio   Czech Republic   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. Located in an area bounded by Wenceslas Square and the streets

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   A block which contains open-plan levels for offices and retail premises simultaneously provides a covered nexus between a railway platform and a bus shelter. With one of its bays jutting out in a cantilever, the monolithic ensemble of supports and sl

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The office buiding HORTUS has opened its doors in the technology campus Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area, in Allschwil. It offers approximately 10,000 m² of space for around 600 workplaces, in an open-plan layout ensuring flexibility and induci

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   Located between the Jura mountains and Basel, the town of Liestal is characterized by a strong productive activity that its good railway connections has favored. However, over the last decades, some industries in the area have started to close down.

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   These dwellings designed for Wohnwerk, a Basel-based foundation devoted to supporting disabled people, sought to reaffirm the institution’s importance in the neighborhood by replacing outdated facilities and offering a more visible image, open to the

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   A few kilometers from Lucerne, the town of Kriens is promoting sustainable and controlled development, applying policies to densify the urban fabric and create compact neighborhoods with highly diversified uses. Much of this growth is taking place so

Christ & Gantenbein   Germany   Located in the heart of Hamburg, the Willy-Brandt-Strasse is a road that was cut across the city after World War II, when a good part of the center was destroyed. The road was conceived as a fast way for vehicles crossing the city from east to west.

COR Architecture + Design   Spain   The refurbishment and expansion of Building Q at the Murcia Science Park, within the university’s Espinardo Complex, aims to combine energy efficiency, functionality, and comfort through a design focused on the well-being of its users. It includes ad

MVRDV   Albania   On its main facades, the tower is characterized by cantilevered offices and apartments. Each one of them represents a town or city of Albania, so the visual play they generate with the terraces, seen from afar, configures an abstract map of the count

CEBRA architecture   Albania   The impressive mountains that surround the capital of Albania inspire the design of this mixed-use skyscraper set to be the country’s tallest, and houses apartments, shops, boutique hotel, business area, offices, and parking as well as restaurants an

Bofill Taller de Arquitectura   Albania   Four concrete volumes with a circular floor plan – based on the silos where the Barcelona office is located – are organized symmetrically around a square-shaped core. The exaggerated proportion and the color palette of the interior create an almost t

EM2N Architekten   Switzerland   How do we want to work tomorrow? That is the question that EM2N set out to answer in designing the building located at Binzstrasse in Zurich. From the start of the project it was clear that the Swiss practice would itself take part of the rental spac

The Guardian   Joanna Partridge   Google has announced a $1bn (£871m) deal to buy the London development Central Saint Giles, calling the move a show of confidence in the return to more office working. The US tech firm currently rents space in the brightly coloured development design

Alberto Campo Baeza has for the property developers Sumaida + Khurana y Bizzi & Partners designed an office building to go up in Miami's South Beach neighborhood. Combining white concrete, glass, and marble, it will rise around a large central atrium

Changes in the world of work are generating new reflections, and with this, a redesigning of workplaces. Aspects like space, materials, lighting, colors, all play a part in determining work efficiency. Are all kinds of light good for the workplace? L

El País   It is to go up on what is currently a parking lot in front of the flagship store at Nuevos Ministerios. A property of the department store chain since 2014, this is one of the most coveted sites on Paseo de la Castellana. The building will have a tot

Facing the arcaded gallery at Nuevos Ministerios on Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, the firms totem arquitectos and BETA.Ø have together come up with an efficient alternative to the conventional office building. The faceted volume has been expressl

The practice headed by the architect Enrique Álvarez-Sala recently completed the renovation of the General Insurance Directorate headquarters, an intervention which has involved consolidating the administrative building’s structure of post-tensioned

Seattle will be crowning downtown with a 361-meter tower containing 1,080 residential units in the higher floors and coworking and retail spaces in the lower levels. Assigned to ODA, the New York architecture firm headed by Eran Chen, the project bea

Located in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, which was the German Breslau, the Concordia Design building highlights the Dutch firm MVRDV’s capacity to deal with all kinds of situations. In this case the situation could hardly have been more complic

The list of Madrid works by the British architect Norman Foster – Cepsa Tower, Axis at Plaza Colón, the Hall of Realms at the Prado Museum – will soon be including an office complex for the Spanish sustainable infrastucture and renewable energy cong

The partial liberalization of the market for architectural projects in China has in past years led to a hatching of young practices bent on exploring paths other than those of official corporativism or the ‘weird architecture’ of international stardo

After the enormously successful architectural and corporate adventure that Apple was, the British firm Foster + Partners has won the bid to raise headquarters for another giant of our globalized world, Alibaba, a China-based leader in online retail a

A proposal by the British architect David Chipperfield has won for him the competition to erect a high-rise replacing a building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street in New York City, a site that has been the US headquarters of the Swiss lux

The firm of Rem Koolhaas, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, will be building a Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) department store, cum hotel, in Vienna’s historic center, right in the Museumsquartier. The project – OMA’s first in the Austrian capital

Shortly after being hired by the Art Institute of Chicago to enlarge its campus and give it a major makeover, the Barcelona-based firm Barozzi Veiga has won the competition to build the mountain sports brand Dynafit’s new managerial and administravi

Digitalization takes command of the world, and its thinning effects are increasingly felt in architectural types that once upon a time were solid and stable. A case in point is the library, whose mission of being a container of books is steep in cris

The firm of Thomas Heatherwick, known for the artistic stamp he is so good at giving his buildings and installations, has in London’s King’s Cross neighborhood just completed the Coal Drops Yard shopping center. This place was a complex of 19th-centu

Carrying the day over more modest buildings, such as the Tate Gallery in Cornwall, the Bushey Jewish Cemetery, and the Storey’s Field Community Center and Nursery in Cambridge, Norman Foster has for the third time landed the RIBA Stirling Prize throu

Promoted by the late Antonino Fernández, one of the principal proprietors of the Mexican business group Modelo (distributor of ‘Coronita’), the Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (FCAYC) has dedicated its new headquarters in the brewer’s native tow

Jonathan Glancey   The new Bloomberg headquarters in London, built on a site over the hidden course of the river Walbrook, adapts its powerful volume to the preexistent traces of the historical heart of the City. 

Sometimes described as monotonous, the austere and elegant architecture of the British David Chipperfield invariably demonstrates a surprising capacity to adapt to very diverse contexts, from hypercivilized Berlin to the emerging globalized cities of

The Milanese firm Piuarch has transformed the final assembly plant of an abandoned Caproni aircraft factory in Milan into a new headquarters for the fashion brand Gucci. Exceeding 35,000 square meters in floor area, the complex restores the original

The Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has inaugurated the tower that wraps up the Fondazione Prada in Milan. Intended to house the institution’s permanent collection of contemporary works of art, this building rises 60 meters and nine stories, cutting a f

Extracto del libro: El lenguaje de las ciudades   Deyan Sudjic   The director of the Design Museum in London examines aspects of the new urbanism of Silicon Valley, associated with the construction of headquarters for the giant technology companies. 

Victor Gruen   Designing the City in Suburban America