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Beyond Human-Centered Architecture: Designing Spaces with Other Species

Daniela Andino — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000

As architecture moves beyond human-centered design, new practices are rethinking coexistence as an ethical and ecological framework. From political infrastructures to habitats, these approaches invite us to imagine architecture as a shared living system.

Concrete Wonders: 40 Impressive Details Using the Cement-Based Building Material

Fabian Dejtiar — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Due to its ability to mold and create different shapes, concrete is one of architecture's most popular materials. While one of its most common uses is as a humble foundation, its plasticity means that it is also used in almost all types of construction, from housing to museums, presenting a variety of details of work that deserves special attention.

Villa Papillon / WORKac

Andreas Luco — Thu, 04 May 2023 03:00:00 +0000

Villa Papillon rethinks the relationship between art, architecture, and landscape. Designed for a Lebanese art collector and his family, the house is comprised of a series of rooms organized around an open-air courtyard.

MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program Placed on Hiatus

Eric Baldwin — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:35:00 +0000

MoMA PS1 has announced that the Young Architects Program will be placed on a one-year hiatus. MoMA PS1, formerly P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit arts centers in the United States devoted to contemporary art. The Young Architects Program founded by MoMA and MoMA PS1 was made to offer emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design a temporary, outdoor installation in New York.

Cultural Center La Gota - Tobacco Museum / Losada García

Karen Valenzuela — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 17:00:00 +0000

Cultural Center La Gota is a hybrid building for exhibition spaces that aims to create a new focus of urban centrality in Navalmoral (Cáceres), showcasing the identity of the town. The etymology is rooted in an old building built in the same site, in the thirties, to solve the problems of child malnutrition through the "Drop of Milk".

House of Would / Elii

Javier Gaete — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 17:00:00 +0000

This house is located in a 1,316 m2 sloping plot of land in the district of Pedrezuela, 45 km north of Madrid. There is little to no vegetation in the section closest to the street, which nevertheless provides a good viewpoint on the surrounding lush natural landscape. The building is made up of seven wooden-structure modules symmetrically identical surrounding a central court. Each module is dedicated to a different domestic situation, according to its functional needs. The modular structure, as well as the scale of the rooms allows the alteration of this functional logic, serving as a support for possible future layouts.

House in Madrid / DL+A De Lapuerta Campo arquitectos asociados

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 31 May 2018 05:00:00 +0000

The boundary situation created by the project plot in a corner position, together with the plot orientation, makes the house to be located in its northern área, on the back of its two access streets adopting a kind of fortress structure shaped like ‘L’ pointing to that public space, but totally opened to its private garden, delimited by two glazed and really opened façades but protected with a porch and pergola from the direct solar gain where a climbing plant and deciduous tree grow.

Architecture City Guide: 20 Places Every Architect Should Visit in Madrid

Miguel Picado — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 07:00:00 +0000

Madrid is unfathomable. If the city itself is immense, it´s examples of interesting architecture are overwhelming. For over a half a century, Madrid has been an experimental laboratory for modern and contemporary architecture in Spain. With numerous examples of innovative and experimental architecture, as well as many failures, few of which are valued and recognized. This selection seeks to show archetypal examples of architecture that have transcended time; it does not intend to be an exhaustive list of the city´s architectural works. Many will think that the list lacks important buildings and personally, I couldn´t agree more. That is perhaps the beauty of Madrid: there is a diversity of opinion, there are thousands of sites to see, the city surprises you with every step you take.

160 East 22nd Street / S9 Architecture

Sabrina Leiva — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:00:00 +0000

Located in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan, 160 East 22nd Street is a 21-story, 84-unit condominium apartment building. In addition to luxury residences, the building includes ground floor retail space.

14 Shades of Red: Projects to Fall in Love With on Valentine's Day

Piedad Rojas — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:00:00 +0000

Happy Valentine's Day!

We've affectionately rounded up 14 projects that use the power of the color most associated to love, passion, joy, sexuality and intensity: red

The Architectural League Announces Emerging Voices of 2017

Osman Bari — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Each year, The Architectural League of New York awards its prestigious Emerging Voices award to eight practices across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, whose work “represents the best of its kind, and addresses larger issues within architecture, landscape, and the built environment."

Jolimont / Nomos

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 06:00:00 +0000

The building is located on the higher grounds of Geneva’s Mervelet neighbourhood. At the heart of a rapidly changing residential area, the site has the remains of a garden-city with scattered century-old houses and trees.

2016 Kiesler Architecture and Art Prize Awarded to Andrés Jaque

James Taylor-Foster — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:00:00 +0000

Spanish, New York-based architect Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation) has been awarded the 10th Kiesler Architecture and Art Prize by the Mayor of Vienna, citing Jaque’s "capacity to go beyond assumptions about traditional practice and urban life." In 2015 Jaque was declared the MoMA PS1 YAP (Young Architects Programme) winner for COSMO – a complex, and beautiful, water purifying prototype that has been installed in Brooklyn. He and his office are also collaborating with Mark Wigley and Beatriz Colomina on the design for the upcoming Istanbul Design Biennial, Are We Human?

Cultural Center 'El Soto' Renovation / José María de Lapuerta + Paloma Campo

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:00:00 +0000

In "El Soto" we had to reinvent the commission.

TMOLO House / PYO arquitectos

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:00:00 +0000

Before its conversion, the farmhouse was untouched for over five decades and needed a complete renovation to be adapted for contemporary needs. There were two construction sites: the main house and a stable. The main house was in a very bad condition, overgrown with vegetation, and numerous repairs had to be made to make it livable. The stone and timber structure of the stable was significantly deteriorated and most of the walls had to be replaced.

Industrial Tribeca / Studio Esnal

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 10:00:00 +0000

Originally built as a Worcestershire sauce warehouse, this apartment is contemporary living at its finest, while preserving a connection to the rich industrial and artistic history of the building and neighborhood, bordering the dynamic Hudson River Park.

Building for 21 Houses / Roman y Canivell

Karen Valenzuela — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:00:00 +0000

The plot is located in the city of Seville, in the scope of its historic centre and particularly in the sector of Murillo Gardens, in San Bernardo neighbourhood. The street facade has northeast orientation.

Single Family House in Molino de la Hoz / Mariano Molina Iniesta

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:00:00 +0000

On a sloping plot with privileged views, we were asked to build a house essentially on one level, in which the kitchen had to be an outstanding element.