"Ten year ago, with a friends team, we launched this project for the Cadiz Port and Bahia. Was a great proposal to develop any bahia or port and a great idea in summer, a new way to reform old industrial areas of Cadiz." These are the words of José…
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Floating platforms. Sur-realista. Proposal for Cadiz Bahia, by José Juan Barba
"We were aware cauldrons had been getting bigger, higher, fatter as each Olympics happened and we felt we shouldn't try to be even bigger than the last ones." These are the words of Thomas Heatherwick whose concept for the cauldron for the 2012…
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Detail. The Olimpics Cauldron by Thomas Heatherwick
One of the few copies of the House of Better Days is exposed until late September at the Galerie Patrick Seguin (Paris, 11th). Commissioned after the winter 54 by Father Pierre Jean Prouvé, it is revealed as a manifesto in favor of industrialization…
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Jean Prouvé (1949). Les Jours Meilleurs” house, 1956, 9 x 6,5  m. © Produced by Galerie Patrick Seguin
Explore a global timelapse of our planet, constructed from Landsat satellite imagery. This timelapse from 1999 to 2011 captures the rapid growth of Las Vegas, Nevada, the fastest growing city in the United States over the past two decades., full_html
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Las Vegas Urban Expansion, 2000. By Google Earth Outreach
Our favorite cartoonish, Klaus Toons, opened a small exhibition at the Architecture Foundation in London. For the latest event in the Three Little Worlds programme, Jimenez Lai's Cartoonish Metropolis host an exhibition of comic work by celebrated…
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Applied Works has created a web-based tool for energy supplier EDF, which will monitor and visualise energy use across key London 2012 Olympic sites. , full_html
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Located in the small Catalan town of Santpedor, the Sant Francesc convent has been rescued from the ruin with an interesting intervention by the architect…
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Auditorium in the church of Sant Francesc convent by David Closes arquitectes. Photograph by Jordi Surroca
It is not being a good year for architects in Madrid. With great sadness I report the death of Dario Gazapo, in Madrid, director of the Department of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture, UPM, where he also directed the Master of…
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Today, Fomento showed the Spanish Proposal in the International Architecture Biennale of Venice SPAIN LAB and ...I do not understand nothing, for I thought that Spain was involved in a Biennial titled "COMMON GROUND". , full_html
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SPAINLAB bogo design by Alberto Corazón
These days jumped the controversy over the article by William Curtis, probably motivated by the recent opening of the Shard skyscraper designed by Renzo Piano for London. In general and from Spain nothing to say about the text, although its…
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The VIAGRA URBANISM by WILLIAN JR CURTIS in AR