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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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30/03/2017
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize to Diébédo Francis Kéré. Since 1955 the prestigious U.S. institution has annually given it in recognition of significant contributions to...
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17/03/2017
RAIC
D’Arcy Jones Architecture (DJA), a Vancouver firm known for thoughtful, efficient and modern design, in both renovations and new buildings, is the recipient of the 2017...
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13/03/2017
Washington University in St. Louis
The $50,000 award, which is granted on the basis of applicants’ proposals, supports international travel for research. It is one of the largest such fellowships...
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10/03/2017
Curbed
Each year, the AIA New York Design Awards celebrates some of the country’s most notable and ambitious projects in architecture, interior design, and urban planning...
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08/03/2017
University of Virginia
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara are the directors of Grafton Architects, established in 1978. Both are graduates of University College Dublin, fellows of the Royal Institute...
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06/03/2017
In the context of the Cevisama fair held in Valencia from 20 to 24 February, the winners of the 15th ASCER (Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association) awards were handed their prizes. The jury, presided by Gonçalo Byrne and including Iñaqui Carnicero...
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01/03/2017
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta are the winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the Hyatt Foundation announced today. The award is presented yearly since 1979; it is the second time in its history that it goes to Spanish architects...
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15/02/2017
Fundación Mies van der Rohe
The European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation have announced the five works -- selected out of 356 – that are vying for the Mies 2017.
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30/01/2017
The Guardian / Oliver Wainwright
Ikea’s solar-powered Better Shelter has just been crowned Beazley design of the year 2016 by London’s Design Museum...
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30/01/2017
Fundación Mies van der Rohe
The works selected to vie for the Mies Award of 2017 have been announced. Three of them are located in Spain. The awarding ceremony will be held on 26 May.
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23/12/2016
Among 356 works vying for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award are 38 built in Spain and another 3 carried out in Montpellier and Torún by Spanish practices.
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15/12/2016
The national arts fund (FNA) of Argentina’s culture ministry has honored Mario Corea (Rosario, 1939) with its architectural career award for 2016, citing his intellectual and creative work and its part in enriching the country’s cultural heritage. He was handed...
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12/12/2016
AIA
With a client list that reads like a who’s who of Hollywood history, Paul Revere Williams developed an incredible portfolio of nearly 3,000 beautiful buildings...
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24/11/2016
A work of the Dublin firm Grafton Architects, headed by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, the University of Technology and Engineering campus in the Peruvian capital has won the first RIBA International Prize, given by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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22/11/2016
Curbed
The country’s highest civilian award, it recognizes “individuals who have made especially...
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21/11/2016
Matt Emmett had the highest scoring image overall with this photo of the East London Water Works Company covered reservoir in Finsbury Park...
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21/11/2016
The National Museum in Szczecin (Poland), an underground building by Robert Konieczny / KWK Promes, was named the ‘World Building of the Year’ in the latest WAF (World Architecture Festival), held from 16 to 18 November in Berlin...
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16/11/2016
The Redbaal – network of Latin American architecture biennials – has announced the winner of the first Oscar Niemeyer Award, which every two years will acknowledge the exemplary quality of a built work in one of the participating countries (Argentina, Bolivia...
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16/11/2016
Meinhard von Gerkan and Volkwin Marg, founding members of gmp, have been honored with the Baukulturpreis, given since 1994 by the Association of German Architects (BDA) of Hamburg. The award is a recognition of their career...
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09/11/2016
CTBUH
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Awards Jury has named Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China the “Best Tall Building Worldwide” at the 15th...
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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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Francisco Mangado
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This 208-page, hardback and clothbound, bilingual (Spanish-English) book presents fifteen works carried out from 2000 to 2020 by the firm of Francisco Mangado, who explains them in terms of the concepts that have driven each one of them.
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H&deM (1978-2019)
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The tireless creative pulse of the Swiss office, which over the course of four decades has produced some of the most emblematic examples of contemporary architecture, is illustrated here in a bilingual Spanish-English edition, made up of two volumes of 352 pages each, presented in hard-bound cloth.
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H&deM (2003-2019)
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The volume includes 41 prominent works started between 2003 and 2019, such as Elphilharmonie Hamburg, buildings like Helsinki Dreispitz and Feltrinelli Porta Volta, Vitra Schaudepot, and the proposal for the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
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H&deM (1978-2002)
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The volume covers 43 of the main buildings initiated between 1978 and 2002, showing the formal transformations and material tests carried out during the first years of career in Basel up to the studio’s worldwide recognition.
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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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