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Who Has Won the Pritzker Prize?

Nicolás Valencia — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:30:00 +0000

The Pritzker Prize is the most important award in the field of architecture, awarded to a living architect whose built work "has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity through the art of architecture." The Prize rewards individuals, not offices, as happened in 2000 (when the jury selected Rem Koolhaas instead of his firm OMA) or in 2016 (with Alejandro Aravena selected instead of ELEMENTAL); however, the Prize can also be awarded to multiple individuals working together, as was the case in 2001 (Herzog & de Meuron), 2010 (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa from SANAA), and 2017 (Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta from RCR Arquitectes).

RCR Arquitectes Unveils Muraba Veil Skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Nour Fakharany — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 05:30:00 +0000

Muraba and RCR Arquitectes, recipients of the 2017 Pritzker Prize, have collaborated on Muraba Veil, a modern architectural project in Dubai that aims to incorporate traditional elements alongside contemporary innovation. This 380-meter-high tower is the latest result of a decade-long partnership between Muraba, a Dubai-based developer, and RCR Arquitectes, a Spanish architectural firm. The project introduces a skyscraper designed to engage with the local environment and culture, seeking to combine modern architectural techniques with regional heritage.

Can Local Architecture Help Cure the Ills of Globalism?

Li Wen — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 03:30:00 +0000

The global pause of the COVID pandemic has provided an opportunity to assess present-day globalism and the architecture that has emerged alongside it. Stemming back to the broad expansion of free trade in the 90s at the end of the Cold War, globalism’s cultural promise was simple and aspirational: integrating markets globally would increase the interaction between and learning of different cultures. By normalizing such experiences in our daily lives, we would become global citizens liberated from our previous prejudices–all well-intentioned objectives.

RCR Arquitectes to Design Nature-Inspired Signature Residences at the Palmares Ocean Living & Golf Resort

Dima Stouhi — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 06:30:00 +0000

Inspired by the colors and textures of the surrounding environment, Pritzker Prize winners RCR Architectes have translated the Algarve's landscape into new residences and facilities at the Palmares Ocean Living & Golf Resort. A total of 37 new signature apartments and luxury villas are currently under construction, with completion due dates expected between summer 2021 and 2022.

Selected Projects of Pritzker Laureates’ in 2020

Scarlett Miao — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000

This year, architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Prize, has been granted to Grafton Architects, a Dublin-based architectural firm mainly ran by female partners Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara. For the first time ever in its 42-year history, due to the constraints set by Covid-19 global pandemic, the organizers of the Pritzker Prize decided to use Livestream the award ceremony. Having reached the end of 2020, ArchDaily has summed up what current and previous Pritzker Prize winners have accomplished during this turbulent year.

“We Try to Slow Things Down”: In Conversation with Carme Pigem of RCR Arquitectes

Vladimir Belogolovsky — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 07:35:00 +0000

I am fortunate to have seen numerous beautiful buildings and spaces, so when I recently went to Olot near Girona, Spain, to explore the works of 2017 Pritzker Prize Laureates, RCR Arquitectes, I thought I was all prepared. But even though I was familiar with their works through publications, what I encountered firsthand, moved me in the most surprising and delightful ways. The sheer ingenuity and brilliance of these structures, so integral to their places and consequential of their given programs, empower architecture and yield sensations that are truly special and unforgettable.

RCR Arquitectes Conference: Shared Creativity

Rene Submissions — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:20:00 +0000

Conference by Carme Pigem , principal and founder of RCR Arquitectes, on their work and their philosophy of shared creativity.

RCR offers an open architecture laboratory space to develop creative research and transversality and a foundation to socially stimulate the promotion of architecture, landscape, arts and culture in general.

RCR - XII International Workshop of Architecture and Landscape

Rene Submissions — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 15:03:00 +0000

The workshop focuses on the living of a direct experience of the participants, showing the territory where the work of RCR Arquitectes is rooted, with the aim of understanding their relationship with the site and the landscape, to share and pass on an attitude to life, architecture and creativity, putting into practice their working methods.

RCR - VII International Workshop of Audiovisual and Photography

Rene Submissions — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:59:00 +0000

The workshop has the aim of broadening knowledge of audiovisual and photography, centered in Architecture and Space. The course develops from the approach to the territory and architecture of RCR and combines reflection on Visual Arts and its implementation in practice through creative work. The exercises are raised around the awakening of the senses, stimulating the creation of images that make us experience wanting to touch, listen and be in this specific place.

RCR - IV International Workshop of Scenography

Rene Submissions — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:57:00 +0000

Creativity must be at the origin of the concept, present at the initial moment where we give answer to the question we are asked, and should be shared by all Scenography creates ephemeral spaces that due to their short life must express, without concessions to doubt, an intention, an idea. Space expresses, in short, a way of understanding a human story.

RCR I International Workshop of Dance

Rene Submissions — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 12:32:00 +0000

Mal Pelo, with the artistic co-direction of Pep Ramis and María Muñoz, is a creative group characterized by shared authorship. Since 1989, Mal Pelo has been developing its own artistic language through the movement, incorporating theatricality with the creation of dramaturgies that include the word, working with composers for the creation of original soundtracks, collaborating with video artists, among others.

Sheila O’Donnell and Xu Tiantian Win 2019 Women in Architecture Awards

Megan Schires — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 11:00:00 +0000

For this year's Women in Architecture Awards, The Architectural Review and the Architects’ Journal have selected Sheila O’Donnell as Architect of the Year and Xu Tiantian to win the Moira Gemill Prize for Emerging Architecture in the 2019 Women in Architecture awards. The Architect of the Year award recognizes excellence in design specifically in the context of a recently completed project and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture is awarded to women designers under the age of 45 who show design excellence indicative of a bright future.

a+u 18:01 Feature: Recent Projects

Rene Submissions — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 04:30:00 +0000

This edition of a+u introduces the 23 recent works of architecture and technology that emerged from their relationship with the urban structure or the development history. In this issue, we focus our attention on the process of conceiving and realizing the projects driven by various motivations and tactics. We invite readers to look beyond the confinement of a single building and examine the works on their possibilities to be in use for a long time.

10 Bathrooms To Match Your Favorite Bathbomb

María Francisca González — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000

With the right configuration of materials and shapes, small enclosure, such as bathrooms, have unending design potential. Progressively, architects and designers are striving to make washrooms more welcoming and attractive places for its users. Often times we will hear clients ask for their bathroom to be somewhat of a personal spa. This week we have compiled 10 compelling images of bathrooms from all over the world. Bathrooms whose materials, patterns, colors, shapes, and textures begin to tell a story. Below, photographs by Peter Clarke, José Hevia, and Erieta Attali.

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP RCR 2018: XI International Workshop of Architecture and Landscape

Rene Submissions — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:30:00 +0000

The International Workshop RCR is born of a way of understanding Architecture and Landscape from a humanistic spirit. The coexistence in a space and time of different creative disciplines creates synergies for mutual enrichment between the parties.

The workshop is designed following four main ideas that articulate the program:

- Competition Format: Closed exercises that condense a complex process within a specific time frame
- Transversality: An integrative interdisciplinary approach
- Sharing: Shared creativity fostering the capacity for dialogue
- Experience: Understanding derived from observation, participation and experience

The workshop focuses on the living of a direct experience of the participants, showing the territory where the

VI International Workshop of Audiovisual and Photography

Rene Submissions — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:00:00 +0000

The workshop is designed following four main ideas that articulate the program:

The workshop has the aim of broadening knowledge of audiovisual and photography, centered in Architecture and Space. The

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP RCR 2018: III International Workshop of Scenography

Rene Submissions — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:30:00 +0000

The workshop is designed following four main ideas that articulate the program:

The Program consists in

- Creative Atelier. The workshop offers a brief approach to the elements that surround scenography:

Fantastic Images of Architecture in the Fog: The Best Photos of the Week

María Francisca González — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Taking photographs in fog can be an experience as chaotic as it is enchanting. Although working with this phenomenon can be risky, since fog dramatically modifies the available light and the atmosphere of a scene, if you know how to take advantage of it, the result can lead to perfect photographs. Below is a selection of 10 images from prominent photographers such as Kevin Scott, Richard Barnes, and Koichi Torimura.