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15/11/2017
Japan Times
He was selected for his activities as a “disaster relief” architect, including projects to quickly set up temporary structures in disaster-hit areas...
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07/11/2017
The Royal Institite of British Architects (RIBA) recently bestowed the Stirling Prize on Hastings Pier, a work by dRMM, the London practice headed by Alex de Rijke, Philip Marsh, and Sadie Morgan. Built in 1872 in Hastings, a town in East Sussex...
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02/11/2017
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Nicknamed the Plank, de Rijke Marsh Morgan’s stark wooden wonder – using timber reclaimed from previous fires – was praised for changing ‘the idea...
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02/11/2017
Memento Mori: A Peckham Hospice Care Home, by Jerome Xin Hao Ng, wins the inaugural Architecture Drawing Prize curated by Make Architects, Sir John Soane's Museum and the World Architecture Festival...
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17/10/2017
The winners of the LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for North America have been announced in Chicago. ‘Grassroots Microgrid in Michigan’, by studio[Ci], won the first prize. It reimagines empty lots as collective infrastructure for energy and food production for Detroit.
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16/10/2017
The Spanish Association of Architecture Institutes (CSCAE) has bestowed the 2017 National Award for Architecture on two buildings on equal footing: the Royal Collections Museum in Madrid by Mansilla and Tuñón, and the Convention Center and Hotel in Palma...
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06/10/2017
The winners for Latin America have been announced in San José (Costa Rica). ‘Hydropuncture in Mexico’, by Manuel Perló Cohen and Castro Reguera, won the first prize. It is a publicly-accessible water retention and treatment complex for Mexico City...
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03/10/2017
The winners of the LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 winners for Europe have been announced in Marseille, France. The first prize was shared by two projects in Brussels, designed by TETRA architecten and BC architects & studies...
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28/09/2017
RIBA
Neave Brown, the revered Modernist architect, is perhaps best known for his visionary 1970s Alexandra Road estate near Swiss Cottage built by Camden Council...
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19/09/2017
American architect Jeanne Gang has been awarded the seventh Marcus Prize, an architectural prize offered worldwide to recognize architects ‘on a trajectory to greatness.’ This $100,000 award, supported by the Marcus Corporation Foundation...
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13/09/2017
The Chinese architect Zhang Fe, founder of the firm ZAO/standardarchitecture, has been distinguished with the Alvar Aalto Medal, given by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA), the Architectural Society, the Alvar Aalto...
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12/09/2017
The new winners of the Praemium Imperiale have been announced. This arts prize has been awarded annually since 1989, by the Imperial House of Japan and the Japan Art Association, to five artists in the categories of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music...
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07/09/2017
Since 1997 the Dutch foundation called the Prince Claus Fund has annually honored individuals and organizations for groundbreaking work in the fields of culture and development, with emphasis on contributions in places where resources are limited...
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07/09/2017
The Chinese architect Wang Shu and the Brazilian critic André Corrêa do Lago now sit on the jury of the Pritzker Prize, which in its next round, in 2018, celebrates its fortieth anniversary. They join Glenn Murcutt (chairman), Stephen Breyer, Peter Palumbo...
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29/08/2017
The New York Times
Eritrea´s capital has been protected by Unesco in order to preserve its Art Decó treasures designed during the time it was an Italian...
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31/07/2017
UIA
The jury has attributed the International Union of Architects (UIA) Gold Medal, the highest honour awarded to a living architect by his fellow architects...
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26/07/2017
The Guardian / Rowan Moore
The Stirling prize 2017 shortlist displays a woeful lack of adventure – not least in its omission of Tate Modern’s Switch House...
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20/07/2017
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Hastings’ revived seaside pier will go head to head with a stealthy addition to the British Museum and a photographer’s concrete studio in west London in the race to win...
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18/07/2017
The inaugural Soane Annual Lecture will be delivered by Moneo. In addition to the lecture he will be awarded the Soane Medal, a copy of the medal presented in 1835 to Sir John Soane by ‘the Architects of England’, in recognition of his ‘essential services to Architecture’...
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13/07/2017
CNN
Each year, the World Architecture Festival (WAF) has showcased some of the most ambitious and impressive new building...
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05/07/2017
Currently under construction, the apartment building at 520 West 28th Street in New York, a design of Zaha Hadid Architects, has been named Project of the Year by the Society of American Registered Architects (SARA). (Video)
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29/06/2017
The FAD Award for Architecture in 2017 goes to the Royal Collections Museum in Madrid, a work of Mansilla + Tuñón. According to the jury, chaired by Belén Moneo, it “masterfully delivers an architecture which is timeless and sedate, executed with precision...
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13/06/2017
151 projects in the Architecture category and 75 projects in the Design category were the projects selected from among the 226 projects judged by the jury in this year’s competition. Three first-place prizes of €1,000...
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12/06/2017
Every year, the independent observation and reflection group Observatorio d’Achtal rewards excellence in different areas of Spanish and Ibero-American culture. In the 9th cycle, a jury including Jorge Eduardo Benavides, Esther Bendahan, Jean-Luc Bloüet...
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05/06/2017
Harvard GSD's $100,000 traveling fellowship to fund Bravo’s research proposalProjectless: Architecture of Informal Settlements. (Winner’s Portfolio)...
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30/05/2017
The Prize, which was established in 2014 by Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama along with the RAIC and the RAIC Foundation, consists of a monetary award of CAD $100,000...
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15/05/2017
Prix Pictet
His series Heat Maps documents refugee camps and staging sites using an extreme telephoto military grade thermal camera...
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12/05/2017
The project for the renovation of the deFlat Kleiburg residential complex in Amsterdam, by the Dutch firms NL Architects and XVW architectuur, has won the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, given every two years with a money...
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11/05/2017
Foster + Partners California, in collaboration with Branch Technology, has won first place in Phase 2 and Level 1 of the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge competition organized by NASA and Bradley University (Illinois). The competition calls for extra-terrestrial...
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18/04/2017
The Noguchi Museum
Each May The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York, hosts its annual benefit and Isamu Noguchi Award presentation...
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New Books
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AV Monographs
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analyzes in each issue a theme related to a city, a country, a tendency or an
architect, with articles by leading specialists complemented by commentary on works
and projects illustrated in detail. Published bilingually, with Spanish and English
texts placed side by side.
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Arquitectura Viva
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covers current topics, taking stock of recent trends in set sections: cover story,
works and projects, art and culture, books, technique and innovation. From 2013
on, monthly and bilingual, with Spanish and English texts printed side by side.
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AV Proyectos
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is the third member of the AV family: a bilingual publication essentially focussed
on design projects (with special attention on competitions and construction details),
heretofore only laterally dealt with in the other two magazines.
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Other publications
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The Age of Spectacle Time of Uncertainty
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Luis Fernández-Galiano portrays the development of architecture in the course of the turn of the century through 256 articles written for El País from 1993 to 2006, presented in 2 volumes containing close to 2,500 images and 2,000 references to the protagonists of projects and debates of the period in question.
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Time of Uncertainty
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Through a selection of essays written by Luis Fernández-Galiano for El País, Time of Uncertainty – volume 2 of Alexandrine Years – examines the beginnings of a 21st century marked by 9/11, wars, and climate change.
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The Age of Spectacle
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The Age of Spectacle, volume 1 of the book Alexandrine Years, offers a chronicle of the bonanza and optimism of the 20th century’s closing years through texts that Luis Fernández-Galiano wrote for the newspaper El País.
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RCR arquitectes
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Land architecture, but also architecture of the land. After three decades of work, Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have obtained universal recognition for a stubbornly local oeuvre.
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SANAA
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The 352-page volume, in hardcover and fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, which gathers the complete oeuvre of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa over almost three decades of work of the three studios they lead in Tokyo
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Francis Kéré
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The ICO Foundation has published a bilingual (Spanish and English) catalog of the exhibition ‘Francis Kéré: Primary Elements.’ Presenting a selection of 33 works, the book journeys through the professional trajectory of the Burkinabe architect.
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David Chipperfield
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The Fundación ICO presents the bilingual Spanish-English catalogue of the exhibition ‘Essentials. David Chipperfield Architects.’ Featuring thirty works and projects, the book covers thirty years in the career of the British architect.
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Juan Navarro Baldeweg
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The Fundación ICO publishes, in bilingual Spanish-English edition, the catalogue of the exhibition ‘One Zodiac. Juan Navarro Baldeweg,’ which covers the professional career of the Spanish architect, establishing connections between his works as if they formed a zodiac, a ring of constellations.
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The Architect is Present
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Published by the Fundación ICO in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book ‘The Architect is Present’ shows the work of five studios that work in underprivileged contexts, proving that scarcity of means can stimulate technical inventiveness and comunity participation.
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Spain mon amour
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Published by the Fundación ICO in a bilingual edition, Spanish and English, the book ‘Spain mon amour’ reviews recent Spanish architecture through fifteen works in fifteen different cities, completed by five studios and represented by five prominent photographers.
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Atlas: Europe
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Devoted to the most recent architecture of the European continent, it is the fourth volume in a series which develops and updates the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: Africa and M. East
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Devoted to the most recent architecture of Africa and the Middle East, is the third volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published in 2007 by the BBVA Foundation, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: America
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Devoted to the latest architecture of America, it is the second volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published by the BBVA Foundation in 2007, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas: Asia and Pacífic
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This Atlas, devoted to the latest architecture of Asia and the Pacific, is the first volume in a series of four which develop and update the work published by the BBVA Foundation in 2007, Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000. The current publication, of 320 pages, is also edited in Spanish.
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Atlas. Circa 2000
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The BBVA Foundation presents Atlas. Arquitectura global circa 2000, a volume of 312 pages published also in Spanish. Centered on the period opened by the Fall of the Berlin Wall, this work intends to be a critical assessment of world architecture in our global times.
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Spain Builds, 1975-2010
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Second edition of the work published in 2006 coinciding with the exhibition on architecture in Spain held at the MoMA. Now, to mark Spain's presence at Expo Shanghai, the oeuvre is extended, adding Chinese to the original languages.
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