The former Schocken department store by Erich Mendelsohn (1929 - 1930) in Chemnitz, Germany, has been converted into the State Museum of Archaeology SMAC. The building was brilliantly restored by architecture office Auer Weber together with Knerer…
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Exterior view from street. Schocken building by Mendelsohn in Chemnitz restored by Auer Weber + Knerer and Lang. Photography © Roland Halbe

Schocken building by Mendelsohn, restored in Chemnitz

If you don’t enjoy arriving in or departing from New York City through the squalid cavern known as Pennsylvania Station, you can blame — at least for a start — the desperate executives, short on public spirit, who tried to prop up the money-losing…
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The demolition of Penn Station in the early 1960s. In the background, the James A. Farley Post Office, also designed by McKim, Mead & White, is viewed as a successor, though plans have moved slowly. Photography © Norman McGrath

Ode to the Penn Station: A Place That Once Made Travelers Feel Important

On 19 December it was announced that the British Caruso St John Architects have won the competition to restore, restructure and add to…
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Asplund's Stockholm City Library. Photograph © Peter Guthrie

Asplund's Stockholm City Library will be "restructured" by Caruso St John

The new Israel's Square consists of a folded surface floating above the ground - like a flying carpet. The square, or surface, is a large public area in the center of Copenhagen, and hovers between two worlds: the city and the neighboring Ørsted…
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Israel's Square completed by COBE

The building reformed by Nieto and Sobejano, The Castillo de la Luz, is for the city of Las Palmas not only one of the…
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Reform and refurbishment of Castillo de la Luz BY Nieto Sobejano. Photography © Simón García

Reform and refurbishment of CASTILLO DE LA LUZ by Nieto Sobejano

Since the last transformation of the 1st floor 30 years ago, the Tower has welcomed more visitors than during its first century of existence! The pavilions and public spaces of the 1980s are obsolete and not adapted to the number of visitors, the…
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EIFFEL TOWER. New facilities on the 1st floor by Moatti-Rivière Agence.

Being in the center of Cartagena, being a small fast food shop and having a hyper-tight budget are basically the parameters of this interesting intervention by the architect Martin Lejarraga. The result is surprising and interesting, because it is a…
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Detail. MARINO take away by Martín Lejarraga. Photography @ David Frutos

MARINO take away. A tribute to the old taverns in a XXS space

Groundbreaking of Stockholm residential towers to take place in May 2015., full_html
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Overview of Stockholm 1868. Norra Tornen, housing buildings by OMA. Image courtesy OMA

Norra Tornen, Two towers of apartments by OMA

Max Dudler has completed his latest project about German fortress. This new project is a new entrance building for the historic Hambach Castle on the…
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Entrance building for Hambach Castle by Max Dudler. Photography @ Stefan Mueller

Entrance building to Hambach Castle, third and final phase by Max Dudler

Next Wednesday will start in Barcelona the seminar "La Manzana de la Discordia, el Modernismo como transgresión a la regularidad del Ensanche" in the Lleó Morera house, Barcelona. The seminar is organized by the research group of History,…
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Poster. La manzana de la discórdia

'La Mansana de la Discòrdia', modernism as transgression