AAACube   Spain   Defending a model of sustainable urbanism, the project seeks revitalizing the local values in the touristic cities of the region, paying special attention to their landscape and their own identity. The connections between the poles run along the whol

Grimshaw Architects   Albania   The project aims to reactivate the Tirana River with a sequence of public spaces threaded along a boulevard that emphasizes the outdoor qualities of the Mediterranean culture in Albania’s capital city…

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   China   Jialu River is the project’s backbone, generating a large linear park protected by towers that organize all the programs in the city, the most important of which are education and research...

MVRDV   Netherlands   In contrast with urban plans where the structure is rigid and predictable, the proposal for the development of Almere Oosterwold is based on freedom of both individual and collective initiatives. The area of 43 square kilometers, located at the edge

Henning Larsen   Faroe Islands   The intervention scatters the buildings to break the dominant unidirectional winds to which the city is exposed due to its situation in between two opposite mountain ridges...

Julien De Smedt   China   Very close to Shanghai, the project consists of three parts; the Multipurpose Hall is seen as a hilly island with a flexible use, which also becomes a platform offering broad views of the complex. The Bike Museum is the flagship of the park. It will

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Finland   The proposal, ‘The Red Line’, generates a linear public promenade through Ratinanniemi’s peninsula, naturally divided into three distinct zones characterized by three different typologies. A new building with retail and cultural spaces also serves as

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   The present University Children’s Hospital, situated in Zurich’s city center, has already shown some limitations related with the lack of space and old infrastructure, thus calling for a new up-to-date expansion. The new hospital will be located near

gmp Architekten, Jean-Baptiste Ferrari   Switzerland   Three large arterial roads corner the new sports complex west of Lausanne. The urban harshness is conteracted by a rigourosly circular plan that is also used to soften the link between the diverse morphological structures of two adjacent neighborhood

Steven Holl   United States   Sited on a busy intersection, the building has a double front: one side opens from the city, the other from the sculpture garden. The 4,000 square meters are organized in four branching and superposed galleries that reference the parallel narratives

Jorge Mealha   Portugal   On the axis between Lisbon and Coimbra, the Technological Park in Obidos is planned with the aim of linking academic research with business production, especially in the field of creative industries. The project for the main building, by the Portugue

Boris Hoppek, Nicolás Montesano, Víctor Vila   Netherlands   Drawn up to connect the eastern end of Amstel Canal with the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam, the pedestrian bridge designed by the Spanish team formed by Nicolás Montesano, Victor Vila and Boris Hoppek explores a new experience in which the user decid

Núñez Ribot Arquitectos   Spain   The new student residence in León, designed by the Madrid-based architects Teodoro Núñez and Almudena Ribot, seeks maximum advantage of space using strategies to combine programs and optimize resources. The rooms are distributed on the perimeter of a

Ecoproyecta, Moho arquitectos, Antonio Abellán Alarcón   Spain   A metallic roof, landscaped and walkable, rests on the courtyards of the original Arab dwellings, maintaining the streets, facades and pavements that constitute the site exactly as they were...

Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas   Spain   The project makes the San Esteban site part of the public space. This is achieved thanks to a metallic walkable roof that performs as a large meeting square, and the rises over the ruins...

Clavel Arquitectos, Juan Carlos Cartagena   Spain   A large green carpet provides the museum with electricity thanks to the use of piezoelectric pavements that run on the kinetic energy produced by pedestrians when strolling by...

Martín Lejarraga   Spain   The scheme proposes a new urban landmark for the city through the creation of an elevated garden that will also be the roof below which the medieval remains will be sheltered...

Santatecla Arquitectos   Spain   A new interpretation center and an elevated square are articulated following the footprint of the old layout; the medieval city once again becomes part of the daily life and routines of citizens...

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Spain   Over the remains of the Islamic Murcia, a landscaped plaza covered by a wood latticework at different levels includes lightweight photovoltaic panels which are concealed...

Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas   Spain   Aiming to restructure, both functionally and formally, the access to the city through El Palmar Avenue, the City Council of Murcia and the city’s Institute of Architects called a competition for the design of an urban space around the three-kilometer

Retes Arquitectos   Spain   En el paisaje urbano propuesto se levantan torres circulares con una altura de 16 a 24 plantas, densificando así la trama sobre un manto geométrico, natural y discontinuo de huertas productivas...

San Juan Arquitectura   Spain   The historic ‘Real Camino Nuevo’, a promenade dating from the 18th century, is recovered to create a large green boulevard that branches out and brings the gardens into the project...

Jonatan Martínez, Martín Peña, Roberto Marín   Spain   In the project three systems overlap: circulation (replacing the straight line of the road with a zigzag), landscape (linking both sides of the avenue), and urban (with blocks in a sequence of loops)...

Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Metro Arquitetos   Brazil   Capital of the state of Espírito Santo, Vitória is located southeast of Brazil, 1,250 kilometers from Brasilia. Its strategic position on the Atlantic Coast has promoted an intense port and trade activity since its foundation, and it is currently the

Realism and Americanism are two of the main characteristic features of the paintings by Edward Hopper (Nyack, 1882 - New York, 1967), who is considered today one of the most representative figures of 20th century art. During his studies he followed t

AV Proyectos 51 includes the drawings of Nigel Peake, extracted from the meticulous publications in which the Irish artist organizes his illustrations by theme. Peake’s images show his interest in architecture, career from which he graduated at Edinb

Following the steps of the German couple Bernd and Hilla Becher (see AV Proyectos 01), Stéphane Couturier (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1957) began his artistic career analyzing the transformations that take place within the urban fabric. In his first work, Ur