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The Plaza Mayor project of Autonoma University of Madrid by the architects Javier Fresneda and Javier Sanjuan (MTM) have recently been rewarded by Fundación ONCE (accessibility) or COAM (Awards of Colegio de Arquitectos in Madrid). In words of…
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Plaza Mayor Services Building by MTM Arquitectos. Photography © Roland Halbe
In this high school the Portuguese ARX are designed carefully as teaching areas as recreational areas, here everything is a room to learn. We all would have dreamed a school like that!, full_html
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Caneças High School by ARX Portugal. Courtesy of ARX Portugal
Reina Sofia Museum shows the photographs of British Chris Killip. His work portrays the British working class in the process of de-industrialization. His work has been rarely exhibited in Spain, so don't miss it!, full_html
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CHRIS KILLIP. Youth on Wall, Jarrow, Tyneside. Serie: North East, 1976. Copy bromide and silver gelatin. Vintage. 43,4 x 52,7 © Chris Killip
This new building creates an attractive sports and leisure centre along with two existing volumes, so that it improves the unit noticeably so in uses and circulations as its relationship with the urban context in which it is located. On the project…
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General Services Building in Helios Swimming Centre by Antonio Lorén, Eduardo Aragüés, Olatz Maestre. Photography © Iñaki Bergera. Courtesy of ACXT
This really original house by Studio Velocity is organized into two floors inside a cylindrical volume, but the architects break the hierarchy and the usual organization by placing the main entrance and the common areas on the second floor and the…
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Vista desde lo alto de la caja de escaleras. Fotografía © Kentaro Kurihara. Cortesía de Studio Velocity
Within the social and economic context in what nowadays we are living in Europe, we bring you today The Plundering, a documentary-film focused on how an excessive privatization of public resources could collapses the society. , full_html
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ArchiAid is a group of 300 members who work for the long-term reconstruction of areas affected by the disaster, among them many architects are doing an impressive job, in solidarity with their community tackling problems of the devastating disaster…
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A wooden staircase, designed by the architecture studio Onix, inserted inside a medieval Dutch church to provide access to the apex of the bell tower, has won the prestigious Dutch Design Award. , full_html
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Saturday's musical video. , full_html
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Cults "High Road"
It seems that boredom, lack of glamor, the necessity to be more than a pretty face or just too much adulation and a little critical environment, it makes that some famous tempted to call themrself architects. Exploiting the known tendency of actor…
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A Famous Person’s 5-Step Guide to Becoming an Architect