On its way to the 3rd edition in 2013, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale organizes during the triannual programme 2011 – 2013 conferences, debates, exhibitions and competitions. A cycle of 4 conferences with international architects and critics to…
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CLOSE, CLOSER: invites to present proposals
World Architecture Festival 2012: the Cooled Conservatories designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects at the Gardens by the Bay tropical garden in Singapore have been awarded the World Building of the Year prize at the World Architecture Festival in…
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The countdown to the event is starting, and is going to be next October 25th at Bellas Artes Museum in A Coruña. You can vote for your favourite project while it starts. , full_html
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The Spanish architect Fernando Menis wins WAF´s award in Singapore with his work for the Plaza de Adeje in Tenerife. The jury highlighted the transformative nature of the project and its significance as a new way to appreciate the city's identity.,…
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Museo Sagrado and Plaza de España in Adeje. Photography © Simona Rota
(Spijkenisse, October 4th, 2012): Today Spijkenisse Book Mountain and the adjacent residential neighbourhood will be opened by Prinses Laurentien of the Netherlands. Manifesting itself clearly as a mountain of books on the towns market square, it is…
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View from street. Photography by Jeroen Musch and Jonas Klok (MVRDV). Courtesy of MVRDV
Another contribution to the Venice Biennale 2012, is the Sanaa's project located at the arsenale in venice, an expansive site model shows the topography of the island of Miyato-jima. The project involves the reconstruction and recovery of the land…
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Contribution to the Venice Biennale 2012."Miyato-jima reconstruction project" by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/ Sanaa
A First Glimpse of a Future Underground. The Lowline aims to convert a historic trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street into an extraordinary subterranean public park. Two weeks ago it was exhibited the first peek at the technology required to…
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OMA has won the competition for the new École Centrale engineering school and its surrounding urban development in the research and innovation zone of Saclay, southwest of Paris. With the concept of a "lab city," OMA was selected from four competing…
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Entrance from the metro station. École Centrale engineering school by OMA
Something that begins to characterize Spanish architecture, (forgetting past and present tears), is his wit and brilliant realization of a low budget proposals. Today we present the first award won by the team led by Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule…
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Amposta suspension bridge Proposal by "Ana Morcillo and Jonathan Rule" Study. Photography courtesy from the authors