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
The new Princeton University Art Museum has opened its doors in the heart of the New Jersey campus. The building, which doubles the size of the original museum, is organised around nine interconnected pavilions, totalling 13,565 square metres spread
This student centre has recently been inaugurated at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Designed by Danish firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) in collaboration with New York-based Rockwell Group, which was responsible for the interior design, the compl
After more than three decades of waiting and numerous postponements, 1 November 2025 sees the long-awaited official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). The full opening of this colossal complex, located just two kilometres from the Pyramids o
After years of planning, redesigning, and construction work, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has for a few days opened the doors of its new David Geffen Galleries, a winding concrete-and-glass building by the Swiss architect Peter Zumtho
V&A East Storehouse has opened in London, offering an experience that breaks away from the traditional concept of a museum. Located in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, within the East Bank cultural quarter, this publicly accessible storage facility fuse
The team formed by the Spanish firm Baile Menduiña and two Portuguese practices – del medio atelier and Luis Manuel Pereira – has won the competition to refurbish and extend the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), in Lisbon’s Chaido district.
A falta de una fórmula mágica para hacer frente a la crisis habitacional, la construcción de viviendas de alquiler social se ha convertido en una de las claves de la intervención pública y ha producido algunos de los edificios más notables de los últ
A collaboration between the Catalonia-based firm RCR Arquitectes and the property developer Muraba, the Veil residential skyscraper – 380 meters tall – stands next to Dubai’s main transport artery, Shekh Zayed Road. The slender 73-story tower contain
The new University Children’s Hospital in Zürich-Lengg, Switzerland’s largest medical center for children and adolescents, comprises two buildings: a low-rise acute-care facility on the south plot, and a cylindrical construction for research and teac
The Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian has reopened after almost four years of renovation works. It is located on the campus of the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian. The main feature of the intervention carried out by Kengo Kuma – in collaboration with t
The design for the National Library of Israel juxtaposes the desire to react to the architectural traditions of the place with the ambition to make a building that is appropriate for our contemporary time – a library that is welcoming, accessible to
This is a 30-kilometer-long infrastracture that connects the towns of Huelva, Aljaraque, and Gibraleón, bringing them closer to the great environmental, scenic, botanical, zoological, and built wealth that encompasses the vast protected natural space
The capital of the island of Menorca, Mahón, boasts the Mediterranean’s largest natural harbor, a dynamic hub that day after day sees the coming and going of passengers and merchandise without ceasing to be a place of remarkable beauty. Antoni Barcel
San Blas is one of the historical towns of the Riviera Nayarita, which stretches along the coast of the Mexican state of Nayarit. The Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development (SEDATU) sponsored the project to adapt the San Blas Pier to se
The French studio of Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki, in collaboration with Mexican firm Frida Escobedo Studio and AIA Ingénierie, has won the competition to carry out an overhaul of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The steel-and-glass museum built b
The British firm David Kohn Architects has won the competition to redesign SMAK, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, in collaboration with the Belgian practices no Aarchitecten and Asli Cicek. The objective is to redefine the museum’s
The firm led by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga won the competition to build the Astoria Cultural Center in the historical core of Málaga. It will go up at Plaza de la Merced, on the site of the old Astoria y Victoria cinemas, integrating the arch
MO.CA is a prototype for a self-sufficient mobile dwelling, built using zero-kilometer laminated wood and digital construction techniques. It was developed in the Advanced Ecological Building & Biocities (MAEBB) masters program offered on the Valldau
Standing on the banks of the Chrudimka River, the Automatic Mills of the city of Pardubice, a work of the Czech architect Josef Gočár, were built in 1909. A grain silo was added in 1924. The mills ran uninterruptedly for over a century, until 2013, a
Le Magasin Électrique is part of a complex previously used for the construction and maintenance of trains, built in the mid-19th century, and now harboring the Luma Arles art center. The revamp begin in 2013 and gave rise to the Frank Gehry-designed
The Kunstsilo Art Gallery has opened in what was a grain silo raised in the 1930s, in the Norwegian city of Kristiansand. The transformation of the huge agricultural facility built with reinforced concrete to harbor a collection of over 5,500 Nordic
The Brooklyn firm SO-IL designed ‘Common Thread’ for the Bruges Triennial of 2024, ongoing until 1 September. Executed in collaboration with Mariana Popescu (TU Delft) and Summum Engineering, the pavilion meanders through the courtyard of a 19th-cent
The ‘San Carlos’ scheme submitted by Frade Arquitectos – Luca Poian Forms has been named overall winner of the preliminary-design competition for the Alicante City Congress Center. Selected from a pool of 121 entries, ‘San Carlos’ takes the defense f
With an extensive and varied trajectory of visual, conceptual, and performance art behind her, Esther Ferrer did not shrink away when in 2024 she received the unique assignment of designing a medallion that would accompany the Tomás Francisco Prieto
Swept away by wind and rough waters, the merchant ship Elorrio crashed into the cliffs of Langre a few days before Christmas in the year 1960, cutting short the lives of all but one of the members of the crew. The sirens, the alarms of people in the
“Where fantasy could reign supreme, creating furniture and decor of the most modern tendencies.” This is how José Yarnoz, visiting the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, described the Art Déco pavilions that w
That one of the great scandals of pre-revolutionary France involved a necklace of Marie Antoinette says much about her position in matters of state and society. Without being a political strategist or an intellectual, the foreign queen consort – init
To Western eyes, the three long decades that stretched from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the ‘reform and opening up’ of the 1980s were rather flat in architectural terms: with all the focus on heavy industry and collectiv
AI Pictures
Twenty editions after electing all of us as person of the year for our shared protagonism in the fabric of the World Wide Web, Time again turned the spotlight on the digital world in its always eagerly awaited December issue. But in 2025 it was no lo
They were born three decades apart but in places separated only by a hundred kilometers in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna plain; and although they never came to know each other in life, there palpitates in the oeuvres of Michelangelo Antonioni and Luigi Ghir
Ever since the legendary dispute that arose between Zeuxis and Parrhasius in ancient Greece, art history has seen notable rivalries unfold which, fortunately, have served as incentives for adversaries to pursue excellence and create authentic masterw
In 1973, Fundación Juan March awarded Cristina García Rodero an artistic creation scholarship, which she used to purchase her first 35 mm Pentax and spend a year traveling across the country to record customs, festivals, ceremonies, rites, traditions
Leaving aside the debate on whether some of his best-known photographs were faked, there is no question that the Hungarian-American Robert Capa had an exceedingly keen eye for capturing the rawest, but also most human, aspect of every instant. Always
Little is known about Charles Clifford until he appears, around 1850, running a photography studio close to the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, but in the decade or so between then and his demise in 1863, this Welshman became a master of the new techniques
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, that he immortalized with saturated tones and a good dose of iro
Lars Lerup has died at the age of 85. Born in 1940 in Växjö (Sweden), after completing his engineering studies in his native country in 1960, he moved to the United States, where he obtained a degree in architecture in 1968 from the University of Cal
While training as a painter at the Academia de Belas-Artes in Lisbon, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva decided to take anatomy classes at the school of medicine, keen as she was on studying in detail the complexion of the bodies she was made to draw; and
Although one of his canvases, The Jungle, hung for many years in a foyer, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City never gave Wilfredo Lam much protagonism until the complete retrospective that is currently on show, visitable until 11 April 2026. Hi
Eight years following his resolution to stop painting – but not drawing – the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris has filled its building there with three hundred works which, on display up to March, together are a good reflection of the German visual a
Two days after hosting the planet’s biggest marathon, New York elected a 34-year-old Muslim socialist as mayor. On that same day, 4 November, the country that is the cultural center of the Islamic world inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum, a contro
“The useful raised to the rank of symbol.” That is how Martin Chirino would define his own creations, sensual drawings in the air that nonetheless, just like humble farming implements, were born of the sweat of the forge and the clash of the hammer.
With the tallest tower nearing completion, the Sagrada Familia basilica faces the final stretch of its construction, and for the as yet undefined Gloria main facade, the contractors have asked Javier Marín, Miquel Barceló, and Cristina Iglesias for a
In September 2024, the artist JR began investigating the complex identity of Naples. Over the course of a week, he gathered stories and scenes from more than 600 residents across seven neighborhoods – Piazza Sanità, Piazza Dante, Fuorigrotta, Mergell
The Three Calders
What to expect from the grandson, son, brother, and brother-in-law of painters other than a life with a paintbrush in hand? Raimundo de Madrazo did not disappoint, but he set a distance with his family when he moved to Paris during the Second Empire
