Luis Fernández-Galiano   There are closed-door and open-air architectures. But there should be no opposition between ‘huis clos’ and ‘plein air’ construction: building and landscape merge in seamlessly connected sequences of spaces. There is no gap either between architects

Fernando Rodríguez   Construction of public spaces is undergoing a process of renewal in Spain, where small-scale urban interventions adapted to current needs are being carried out.

Luis Machuca   Spain   Inaugurated in 1921 by King Alfonso XII of Spain, El Caminito del Rey is a narrow footbridge that was built as a service path for workers, who had to move from the Conde de Guadalhorce dam up to the hydroelectric dam of El Chorro. Little by little it

Eduardo de Miguel    Spain   The intervention on the Serra Grossa, which places artificial mirador rocks along the waterfront course, recycles inert material left over from the construction of the railway tunnel.

Grupo Aranea   Spain   Several snaking concrete footbridges crisscross to form the ‘Braided Valley,’ a network of paths that flow over the Vinalopó River and integrate it into urban life.

Pablo Gallego   Spain   The restoration of the river beach and fortress environment of Goián is executed with a continuous retaining wall that varies in height to adapt to different functions.

Zigzag Arquitectura   Spain   By creating a hybrid between a grandstand, a plaza, and a park, the project addresses a wide spectrum of functions while solving the local problem of topographical unevenness.

Héctor Fernández Elorza, Manuel Fernández Ramírez   Spain   The topographic difference, which reaches 14 meters, is solved with an armored ground wall that contains the land. The wall consists of four steps made of galvanized steel mesh and large boulders, set back 1.5 meters from each other... [+]

Abalo Alonso Arquitectos   Spain   The intervention is carried out over some ruins located in a degraded area of Santiago de Compostela, which is restored through a network of orchards and resting spots.

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   The castle of Garcimuñoz is located in the municipality of the same name, southwest of the province of Cuenca – some 70 kilometers from the capital, at kilometer 156 of the A-3 highway. It goes up on the southern side of a hill, which is not too tall

Cayetana de la Quadra-Salcedo, Churtichaga + Quadra-Salcedo arquitectos   Spain   Located up high at a vantage point and by a bend in the Duero River, the Plaza Mayor (main square) of Almazán is a clear example of ‘Castilian plaza’ in a historic center with a great landscape value. The Plaza Mayor is one of the town’s main heritag

Noemí Martínez García   Spain   The redevelopment of the Plaza Espanyola in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat uses the space freed up by the demolition of a building to enlarge the play zone and connect it to the terraces.

OOIIO   Spain   The reconversion of the blind party walls at the center of the square into a canvas for the new ceramic mosaics creates a new symbolic public space for the town of Talavera.

Cómo crear historias, Javier Rubio Montero   Spain   A strong snowfall in the 1950s destroyed a group of houses in the historic center of Cehegín, in Murcia, leaving a large empty space that interrupted the flow of the adjacent streets. When crossing this urban fracture – known as ‘El Coso’–, citizens

Richard Ingersoll   A pioneer in the fusion of architecture with parametrics and the first woman ever to win the Pritzker Prize on her own has passed away at the age of 65.

Throughout his career Claude Parent combined his artist and theorist facets; it was he who formulated, with Paul Virirlio, the theory of 'oblique function'. 

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Ancient beauty still shines. A series of exhibitions has refreshed the aura of classical sculpture, and their catalogs are depositories of the knowledge and emotion that made them possible. The Fondazione Prada opened its Milan center with a stimulat

David Sanz   Construction with stone, thanks to its thermal properties and its being easy to reuse, is a solid alternative for building architecture of a sustainable nature, as long as it is used close to where it is extracted.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Malt   The City Gate project is a complex operation to reconfigure the entrance to the city of Valletta. The project has four parts: the transformation of the Valletta City Gate and the square immediately outside the ramparts, the design of a new theater ‘m

David Chipperfield Architects   China   The apartments are placed on continuous plinths of stone which, along with a series of walls and balustrades, form the exterior spaces and give residents a command of the water garden around.

Max Dudler   Germany   The newly created Schwabinger Tor neighborhood in the city of Munich boasts a new icon, a freestanding block with a striking stone relief facade. The relief effect is achieved thanks to the recessed arrangement of the window frames – so that only the

David Chipperfield Architects   Italy   The west bank of Lake Garda is characterized by its mild climate and richly cultivated landscape, and these two villas sit on the hillside overlooking the town of Gardone Riviera. Both buildings are carefully inserted into the landscape, with its oli

The Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid passed away in Miami, Florida, at the age of 65, last 31 March, after suffering a heart attack. Born in Baghdad in 1950 into an affluent family, she enrolled at the Architectural Association in London after stud

Rafael Moneo now holds Spain’s National Award for Architecture, a yearly honor bestowed by its Public Works Ministry in admiration of professionals who have contributed in an extraordinary way to the enrichment of the social, technological, and susta

The famous fashion house Fendi, whose specialties include furs, ready-to-wear, shoes, other leather goods, fragances, and eyewear, has transferred its Rome headquarters to the iconic Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana. Inaugurated during Benito Mussolini

After the opening of the Fondazione Prada and Armani/Silos and also in the wake of Expo Milano 2015, Milan’s efforts to be the hub of world design has had no pause. The Lombard capital has now hosted Milan Design Week 2016 and the Milan International

A cornerstone laying ceremony was recently held at the site of the new National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, designed by the Swiss partnership Herzog & de Meuron in collaboration with the Tel Aviv firm Mann Shinar. The building stands on a slo

In time for summer every year, the Serpentine Gallery in London has a temporary pavilion designed by a leading architect who has not yet built in the United Kingdom, and raised on its grounds in Kensington Gardens. It recently unveiled the first imag

José María Ezquiaga   During times when urban planning often seems bound to arbitrary actions and scandals, it is common to uphold collective interests as a key icon upon which to base the recovery of a lost legitimacy. Certainly traditional planning has rested, over the