The Firefighter's barracks match the CB1 Type program and are located in Quinta de Geão, at lot 28, of 4770 m². The building comprises a total gross area of 1173 m² and lodges the support functions to the fire brigade. Starting from the “Lobby –…
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Santo Tirso Fire Station by Álvaro Siza Veira. Photography © Joao Morgado
Not everyone knows that the ICO gallery-museum, in Madrid, was designed by Angel Fernandez Alba. Reto Ilari Halme was commissioned to document photographically the gallery to coincide with the exhibition, which is being held in Madrid, about the…
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 Ma Yansong exhibition. Photography © Reto Ilari Halme
Glypthoteque HAZU, an art institution in Zagreb, Croatia, wanted to explore the link between smoking, art, and the concept of taboo – a hazy relationship made even more complex by Croatia’s strict laws on the promotion of tobacco. The resulting…
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On February 13 we published the news about the death, at 69 years old, the Italian photographer, and trained architect, Gabriele Basilico, one of the highest notaries of urban landscape and transformations of the great cities of the last four…
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Architectures, cities and visions, by Gabriele Basilico [5 Books]
Continuing with New Generations, the series of video interviews authored by Itinerant Office, we present 05 AM. This architecture office from Catalonia regards contests not only as the main way of getting commissions, but also as a way of making…
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NEW GENERATIONS. 05 AM
VIDEOPOLEMIC. 32BNY, in collaboration with Spirit of Space, re-launches a website dedicated to the potential of cinematic architectural discourse. Current technology allows the possibility of “a revolution in architectural discourse.”

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32BNY: Lebbeus (Steven Holl)
The video is about some projects by Studio A4 architects, in Siófok, Hungary. , full_html
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) unveiled the details of its 21.832m² / 235,000 sqf building expansion that will double the museum's exhibition and education space while enhancing the visitor experience and more deeply weaving the…
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SFMOMA Expansion Aerial Southeast Façade; image courtesy MIR and Snøhetta. © Courtesy of SFMOMA.
Results have just been announced in the international architectural competition "Piraeus Cultural Coast - Museum of Underwater Antiquities" in Piraeus, the ancient Greek port city right outside of Athens. The design proposal byPiraeus Cultural Coast…
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Piraeus Cultural Coast contest by Sériès et Sériès, Studio Touraine Tajima, Open Design, Office ARUP
Dear readers, it is hard to talk about housing when many, many people are losing it by mortgages. This week, was accept a proposal to solve this problem in the Congress of Deputies. We'll see how our politicians respond (?).

Anyway,…
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House-commune Narkomfin. Interior. Photo: Richard Pare 1995. Source: "Construir la revolución". La Caixa /TURNER