The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present their highest honors, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in architecture, law and citizen leadership, during Founder's Day activities on April 13.,…
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Rafael Moneo
Years ago when Actar pubished the fourth issue of Verb talking about the design of new atmospheres, effects and experiences in the age of real artificiality show us the impact of this area in USA. Deep in the desert of southern California sits one…
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The silence of the world, like a quotation, is suddenly endowed with an oppressive eloquence. A few days ago someone said that the new architects architects are differ from previous generations because in photographs of their projects appear people…
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Silent world. Times Square, C-Print, 200x256 cm, 2009
Our readers already know that we do not publish all projects, and no always we are the first, the important thing is to publish and comment on good projects, and today we bring one good project, of course. The "b" is the new Congress Centre and…
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Hall. Images courtesy by SelgasCano. Photography © Iwan Baan
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, our Spanish and internationally renowned architect and scholar, has been selected as the next dean of Princeton University's School of Architecture., full_html
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Alejandro Zaera-Polo
This video and project is about Umimirai Library, a public library in the western part of Kanazawa, a slow 20-minute drive from the city center. Designed by Coelacanth, an architecture firm based in Tokyo, and opened in June 2011, the three-story…
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Leopold Banchini is a good architect and a great friend and sends us a new project with his new office and with Noura Al Sayeh. From their new studio "Bureau A" show us this project about public space in Bahrain. As many places in large cities,…
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BAB AL BAHRAIN PAVILLION by Noura Al Sayeh + Leopold Banchini. Photography © Eman Ali
Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes, Swiss team, have suspended a special cover with 170 tons of stones to demonstrate their particular interpretation of history. With this idea, they express the everlasting hazard the site had been exposed to. The “stone-…
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 Abbey of St Maurice. Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes. Photography © Thomas Jantscher
Make a container for the "sculptures" of Easter Week, it not seems a simple matter. To design basically a container, that has identity, that to recover some part of the ruins of earlier buildings and that it is a contemporary building, is the result…
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Easter Sculpture Museum by EXIT Architects. Photography © Fernando Guerra
Vídeo about new building for the head offices of PGGM insurance company in the municipality of Zeist (Utrecht, Holland). , full_html
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PGGM Mateo's office building. Josep Lluis Mateo. Photography © Adrià Goula Sardà