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Facebook has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Oculus VR, for $2 billion. The Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has confirmed the operation and highlighted the potential of Oculus to "make possible, impossible…

The dutch practice Wiel Arets Architects has completed the mixed-use buildings ‘Allianz Headquarters’ at the edge of Zurich’s city center. The hybrid program project occupies two buildings, a high-rise, a 20-storey tower and a five-story building,…

Luxottica Group, a leader in the design, manufacture, distribution and sales of premium, luxury and sports eyewear and Google Inc., announce today they have agreed they will join forces to design, develop and distribute a new breed of eyewear for…

This morning has took place at the Museo del Traje in Madrid the press presentation of the new documentaries ‘arquia/maestros’ which bring us the thought of several spanish architecture masters. This is the case of Rafael Moneo, Juan Navarro…

A new lecture series "Foros Esarq 2014: Transformations", an exceptional guest Sami Rintala, with the lecture " Spaces for Transformative Learning." Rintala, is well known to METALOCUS readers, because we were the first to publish in Spain his work…

Using the name address, where the project is placed, 2217 Neutra Pl, Los Angeles CA 90039, this young architect shows us his final presentation as Postgraduate Program in the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He already graduated in 2010 in Alcalá…

The Pritzker speaks Japanese. Again an architect of the country of the Rising Sun, a Japanese won the Pritzker Prize for architecture. below, an extensive biography of Shigeru Ban. Rugby player and admirer of John Hejduk., full_html

Today the official announcement of the Pritzker Architecture Prize has been at Fundación Hyatt, in Chicago, at 5:00 pm (EDT New York), USA and 9:00 pm (CET) Spain, Europe. The award is granted each year to honor a living architect whose built work…

On Tuesday, April 1, YASHAR Hanstad member of the Norwegian group TYIN Tegnestue, will give a lecture about his interesting work, at School of Alcalá, at 12.30 h., full_html

“Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe” is an stunning exhibition curated by Vivien Greene for the Guggenheim in New York. The exhibition has the unquestionable bonus of being extremely informative and equally inclusive, to encourage the…