Pedro Pitarch Meii   Spain   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 full transformati

Kengo Kuma   France   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 of the company,

Cayuelas Arquitectos Desarrollo Urbano   Spain   This project, undertaken on a reduced budget, aims to upgrade the Pilar Factory in Motril as an industrial museum of sugar. The intervention is being executed in different phases, understood as steps in a process of long duration, in such a way that

ba-rro   Spain   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 where domestic uses coexist with activities th

estudio veintidós    Spain   Located in the mountains of Riaza in Segovia, the Soto de Sepúlveda house stands on the remains of an old stable built with rough stone masonry and rammed earth. The original roofs and interior partitions were in an advanced state of ruin, which call

Francisco Reina (Reina & Asociados) Eduardo Martínez Moya (Edartec)   Spain   The western section of the Royal Artillery Factory in Seville has been transformed to house the Magallanes Center for entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries. The project resulted from a 2019 competition and covered an area of approx

Corpo Atelier   Portugal   The intervention maintains almost everything as it was, adding only a false pillar that gives rise to a series of geometric dynamics with the effect of cropping the wooden walls and ceilings...

DOXA bistan architekti   Slovakia   A story that cannot be verified tells of how, as a young boy, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav read aloud some of his verses in Hungarian to his mother, a simple peasant woman, who, not understanding a single word, burst into tears. Whereupon the writer, de

Lucas y Hernández-Gil - Kresta Design   Spain   At Piamonte 21 in Madrid, Laconicum has opened its first permanent physical store. The project, carried out by Cristina Domínguez Lucas and Fernando Hernández-Gil Ruano, takes personal grooming as a form of culture with roots in the classical world.

Pachón–Paredes   Spain   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, but preserving memories of the original use.

ZAO / Zhang Ke Architecture Office   China   In one of the traditional neighborhoods that surround the Forbidden City, a residential complex has undergone renovation in accordance with a cautious strategy to curb gentrification. As in another siheyuan in the same alley, only about two-thirds of

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Spain   When Clotilde García del Castillo decided to open up what had been her home to preserve the memory of her husband, little could she have imagined that a century later it would be crowded with people eager to see where Joaquín Sorolla had lived and wo

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

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

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

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron – in collaboration with the New York studio PBDW Architects – has turned the Breuer Building in Manhattan into the new global headquarters of the auction house Sotheby’s, which officially opened recently. Located at

Lava Architecten   Belgium   A former monastery dating back to 1937 located in the Belgian city of Leuven, which served as a school for decades, has been transformed into a cultural center dedicated to the poet Paul van Ostaijen. The renovation of this heritage site, which was i

De Rungs Arquitectos firmaa   Mexico   In the Polanco neighbourhood of Mexico City, the building located at 359 Edgar Allan Poe Street was constructed in 1957 as an office building. Over time, the building showed signs of deterioration. However, its structure remained solid, which allowed

Flores & Prats   Spain   Less than ten kilometers from the center of Barcelona, Badalona was one of the region’s main industrial hubs, with an urban fabric in which factory buildings and workers’ housing always coexisted. Since the end of the 20th century, Badalona has been

Spain   On the ledge of Es Jonquet ravine, bordering the Bay of Palma, stands a chain of old flour mills. At the end of this group, the project converts the old Molí d’en Garleta into a museum that explains both the building’s unique history and the Balearic

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

Flores & Prats   Spain   As part of the extensive restoration process of Fabra&Coats – a former textile factory that drove the growth of the Sant Andreu neighborhood in northern Barcelona – the project transforms an abandoned site into a park, giving it a second life. In add

The early museums, as we know these places to be today, were in homes: the residences of kings, noblemen, cardinals, and bourgeois citizens who, impelled by an at once didactic and acquisitive restiveness, liked to flaunt treasures that helped them u

Although he disappeared at 23 years of age during an ethnographic expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Dutch New Guinea in 1961, Michael, the youngest of Nelson Rockefeller’s children, managed to build up a good treasure of non-Western arte

Can we blame the Venetians for blowing up the Parthenon in 1687, when it was a Turkish arsenal? Or the popes for seeing the marbles of imperial forums as perfect quarries for building works of Baroque Rome? Like any other cultural concept, architectu

The winner of the bid to refurbish the estate A Panda da Dá, located in in As Pontes (A Coruña), has been announced. Launched by the firm Finsa with the backing of David Chipperfield’s Fundación RIA, the project aims to revamp a 410-hectare property

The British Museum has announced which teams will be competing in the next stage of the international competition to renovate its Western Range galleries, an ambitious project of reimagining over a third of the London institution’s gallery space. The

The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has been commissioned to transform the Breuer Building in New York into global headquarters for Sotheby’s. Located at 945 Madison Avenue, the edifice by the Hungarian architect Marcel Breuer, completed in 1966,

Enrique Morillo   Where most saw nothing but old industrial warehouses, Elena Fuertes, Ramón Martínez, Álvaro Molins, and Jorge Sobejano discovered a field of opportunities to develop their syncretic imaginary. After coinciding at Taller de Casquería, they set up BURR

Ricardo Flores   Eva Prats   The new occupation of industrial ruins places us before gigantic structures, of very generous dimensions, where it seems anything can fit, anything can be, and in a total silence. Large volumes of air and amounts of natural light come in through skyl

We are living in interesting times, and the vanishing into thin air of previously solid certainties applies also to architecture. The situation of architects proliferating and in precarious employment conditions, of competition systems dying out, and

To think of monasteries and Portugal is to think of the novel Memorial do Convento (published in English as Baltasar and Blimunda), where in Baroque prose José Saramago intertwined the pursuits of a group of heterodox characters with the construction

After three years of renovations, the Grand Palais will host the fencing and taekwondo competitions during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Built for the 1900 Universal Exposition, the Grand Palais has been closed since March 2021 for renovations, led b

The Spreeinsel, or 'Spree Island', became the representative seat of power of the German Empire on its southern side, and throughout the 19th century its northern end was transformed into a privileged cultural site: the Altes Museum by Karl Friedrich

One of the first decisions taken by the new Federal Republic of Germany on June 20, 1991, after reunification, was the re-establishment of Berlin as the capital of the entire nation, which implied the relocation of all central government offices from

Architects are taught to materialize what springs up from blank paper, but the challenge we face nowadays is not so much to build, as to build on the already built. In light of the visual thinking that comes with the craft, combined with the training

A Jean Nouvel work which opened in 1996 on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, what was the first branch abroad of the iconic Galeries Lafayette of Paris could now become a large library. In spite of huge investments, Friedrichstrasse has not managed to cons

In the large-scale handbook of restoration that Berlin is, amid everything that in the period following World War II was reconstructed exactly like before and everything that on the other hand was demolished to make room for modern structures, a buil

The German National Theater, the residences of the likes of Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, or Liszt, the Bauhaus Museum... Classical Weimar boasts a wealth of places to visit that tell of the city’s rich history, for not in vain is it on the UNESCO Wor

The names of the finalists in the international competition to revitalize the Dallas Museum of Art have been unveiled. The six teams are: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Madrid); David Chipperfield Architects (London); Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York)

Architects are generally trained in the modern idea that their job is to build a new world, so they try to raise new buildings or even design entire parts of cities. But the profession today is more and more about building on what is already built, a

Neither the dictator Primo de Rivera nor the Republic saw the materialization of the dream of a hub in the north of the capital that would untangle the city’s rail network. This was not achieved until the years of Francoist developmentalism, when Cor

When in 1977 the English rock band Pink Floyd flew its famous inflatable pigs amid the chimneys of Battersea, part of the power station – built in two phases under the direction of Sir George Gilbert Scott, author too of the plant that is now Tate Mo

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   In 1983, the year Battersea Power Station was decommissioned, the radical architect Cedric Price drew up a provocative proposal for what to do with the gargantuan brick hulk. The London building’s silhouette of four slender white chimneys rising from

Modernity has had a curious destiny: to devour itself like the god Saturn his offspring. Conceived as demands of a present that wanted to be the future, the modern tenets have suffered the passage of time like few things are able to do, to such a deg

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