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

Flores & Prats   Spain   In the northeast of Barcelona, on the edge of the Besòs neighborhood, this small urban corner – formerly known as Plaça de Pius XII – is the result of a street redesign aimed at bringing together all the public space in front of the residential build

Balkrishna Doshi Studio Sangath    Germany   The Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany) has inaugurated Doshi Retreat, a space thought up by the Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, winner of the 2018 Pritzker Prize, who died in 2023. The project was carried out in collaboration with his grandda

Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners   Italy   The Italian practice of Massimo Alvisi and Junko Kirimoto has designed a new exhibition pathway for the Basilica di Massenzio in Rome, commissioned by the Colosseum Archaeoogical Park. The purpose is to bring out all the historical value of the monum

ELSE   Italy   Ever since romanticism dispelled fears of the rough, difficult-to-cross Alps, in the collective imagination their slopes have been the setting – from William Tell and Heidi to The Sound of Music and Le otto montagne – for free and simple lives in clo

Takween   Egypt   Through a precise urban acupuncture program, the historic center of a city on shores of the Nile River reemerges after a long period of decay that had placed it under threat of demolition. The project first foresaw the heritage preservation of around

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   In the heart of Philadelphia, a new cultural space devoted to the sculptor Alexander Calder – born in the Pennsylanian city – opened on 21 September. Far from being a conventional museum, it provides an encounter with his work through an interplay of

Studio Anne Holtrop   Bahrain   For centuries, the pearling economy structured the economic and social life of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Several gathering places sprang up around this activity, like the coffee shops where some of the pearl purchasing deals took place, as well as the

Topiaris   Portugal   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 for migratory birds. Located in the Port

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

Batlleiroig   Spain   The AWA project, drawn up by Batlleiroig, MPC Arquitectos, Lain, and IC3 Ingenieros, has won the bid to redevelop the Guiniguada promenade in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The scheme revolves around water, making it its cultural and conceptual axis whi

Foster + Partners   United Kingdom   Norman Foster’s firm has won the competition to design the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park in London. The final design will be unveiled in April 2026 to coincide with the centenary of the monarch, who died in 2022 following

Associates Architecture   Italy   Brescia marble may not be as famous as the Carrara that sculptors like Pisano and Michelangelo used, but the basin around the city is one of the largest producers of ornamental stone in Italy. In celebration of both its geological diversity and its t

Flexoarquitectura   Spain   The Majorcan city of Inca boasts a new public space in the heart of its old town, thanks to a project carried out by Flexo arquitectura – a Catalonia-based practice led by Tomeu Ramis and Aixa del Rey – that was part of a municipal strategy to improv

Estudio Acta   Spain   For decades the bank of the river Guadalete as it passes through the municipality of El Puerto de Santa María, in the province of Cádiz, was a chaotic degrading space. But an ambitious urban and landscaping project sought to reverse the situation and

Colectivo C733    Mexico   With the fast-paced growth of the city of Tulum, a well-known tourist destination on the Caribbean, and the threat this poses to the landscape, Jaguar Park emerges as an inter-institutional initiative whose main objective is to protect the ecosystems

Colectivo C733    Mexico   The site assigned for the center was occupied by an old movie theater: an enclosed gray concrete structure, detached from the context and with its back to the river, next to a half-empty plaza and quiet streets. The answer to these conditions was a h

Colectivo C733    Mexico   Integral part of a set of five urban projects oriented towards dignifying the public spaces, the plaza is conceived as a large green sponge capable of capturing and filtering water runoff. Through a network of rain gardens and wetlands arranged by gr

Trahan Architects   United States   Luther George Park – in the heart of Springdale, beside Spring Creek – is a new public space created by the New Orleans architecture office of Trey Trahan, in collaboration with Landscape Architects Spackman Mossop Michaels. Along the park’s central

h3o architects   Spain   Barcelona-based h3o architects – headed by Adrià Orriols, Joan Gener, and Miquel Ruiz – has transformed an abandoned parking lot in Castell d’Aro, in Girona province, into a public plaza. Covering 1,700 square meters, the intervention sought to revit

Heatherwick Studio   China   A new district, designed by Heatherwick Studio, has opened in Xi’an, honoring the Chinese city’s legacy of craftsmanship and ceramics. The Xi’an Centre Culture Business District (CCBD) is south of the historic core, between the ruins of the Temple of

3ME Arquitectura   Mexico   Located on the outskirts of the city, on the banks of the Lerma River, this project revitalizes a natural recreational space in Salvatierra, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, and brings out the 17th-century Batanes Bridge in all its glory. This bri

Liu Jiakun   China   The declining environs of two temples have been revitalized through the insertion of new community programs, which punctuate a picturesque succession of courtyards and covered galleries. A museum, a hotel, a café, and a bookstore fit themselves into

Eduardo Mangada   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 was saved from develop

Ginés Garrido   This book proposes a blurring of the limits between architecture, landscape, and urban planning in a bid for flexibility between different scales, spaces, and categories, between public and private, living and mineral, human and non-human. It prompts

José María Ezquiaga   The protean personality of Salvador Rueda combines a scholar’s rigor, which impregnates both his theoretical mind and his professional practice, with a communicator’s power. Frequenters of his writings and works enjoy the spin of unexplored perspect

Carlos Verdaguer   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; a mantra which has embodied everything malign about the capitalism. On the other hand, at

Léon Krier   During his long career Le Corbusier (1887-1965) worked in several distinct architectural styles: - vernacular and classical, from 1910;- nautical, 1920 onwards;- steel and glass, 1930 onwards;- béton brut, 1944 onwards. The specific nautical style w

Enrique Morillo   With the debates on the importance of preserving heritage over and done with, disputes on what was worthy of that pedigree status began. Grand monuments easily made the cut as historical treasures, and then with more effort industrial, modern, and la

Alberto Ballesteros   The past is destroyed, not transformed. Despite efforts to manicure the changes it is undergoing, downtown Madrid is becoming generic, a neighborhood sans neighbors where the only memory worth keeping is that which attracts tourists: walking its stre

Juan Miró Sardá   The encounter of Europe and America since 1492 can be considered one of the most significant events in universal history. Europeans perceived it as a ‘discovery’ and claimed authority to colonize the vast territories, but the colonists were immediate

Iñaki Alday   The relationship between cities and their rivers has been tense and conflictive since time inmemorial. Rivers – access to fresh water to drink or to irrigate the fields with – are the primary raison d’être of human settlements. But while an essential

Edoardo Narne   “You cannot change the world, but you can do small things that can change someone’s life.” This is one of Renzo Piano’s maxims, so when in 2013 he was appointed Senator for Life by the then Italian president Giorgio Napolitano, he did not hesitate t

The international jury, chaired by the architect, urban planner, and landscape designer Beth Galí, has given the 2024 European Prize for Urban Public Space, in the General Category, to ‘Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound,’ a work of the firms topoScap

The French architect Dominique Perrault drew up the masterplan for the complex where the athletes competing in the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be billeted. Located in Seine-Saint-Denis, north of the center of Paris, it provides 2,400 lodgi

Carlos Sambricio   Unlike texts penned from the plane of erudition, this book is testimony of wisdom acquired over decades of practical experience. Urban legend has it that in the late 1960s, Terán tried to publish maps and plans he had been collecting for years, but t

Alejandro Bernabeu   At his induction into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in January, Miguel Aguiló gave a discourse titled ‘Caring for Earth, Recreating the World,’ in which he tackled heritage, the landscape, and the planet. Three spheres of civil engineering that expl

The Economist   In northern Egypt sits a city that officials expect to one day house 6.5m people. For now, though, it is mostly empty—like the desert that came before it. Egypt’s “New Administrative Capital” is part of a rush of city-building. Firms and governments

La Cultural Landscape Foundation has bestowed the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize (Oberlander Prize), which comes with a US$100,000 award, to the Chinese architect Kongjian Yu, founder of the firm Turenscape.

Eduardo Prieto   Lumpen people wander the streets of the Quartiere Tuscolano; bicycles wheel from the borgate to the new working-class districts; a helicopter flies over the empty grounds of the Aqua Claudia transporting a Christ statue to St. Peter’s… Such scenes fr

Enrique Morillo   “Our cities are ill.” From Mesopotamian settlements to the medieval city, and especially after the Industrial Revolution, urban cores have altered to accommodate demographic growth and adapt to social advances. But with the exacerbated neoliberal mod

Pablo Canga   Spain takes an ugly turn. The systemic corruption and intellectual anemia of the Franco dictatorship sowed the seed of a story of ambition and abandon that was only reinforced, when the regime ended, by a mediocre political class, and which has led t

The fitting out of a space for holding events has transformed El Jaral de la Mira, a peaceful estate located up in the sierra of Madrid, once upon a time used by King Philip II as a hunting ground. Although a large part of the property is still taken

The French philosopher Michel de Montaigne wished death to find him planting his cabbages, and it is a similar devotion to gardening that we find in Íñigo Segurola, a Basque agricultural engineer and landscapist who for a time was also the presenter

Set to open on 29 April, the exhibition ‘Parque del Drago, 1998-2023: 25 years around the thousand-year-old dragon tree,’ curated by Fernando Menis, will be presented by Luis Fernández-Galiano at the Visitor Center of Dragon Tree Park, in the Tenerif

The 14th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to the Grand Paris Express, a large-scale transit project currently being built in and around the Paris metropolitan area. With 68 new stations and 200 kilometers of additional trac

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