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Lehrer Architects and Arquitectura y Diseño | 08.12.2025

Building of the Week

Just like with the living, space is at a premium for people housed in cemeteries in urban areas. One solution for cemeteries with limited site area is building up, as is being done at Hollywood Forever with its Gower Court Mausoleum. Michael B. Lehrer, founder and principal of Lehrer...


John Hill | 15.09.2020

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The Brazilian architect, who will turn 92 in October, has donated around 10,000 items spanning his 65-year career to the Casa da Arquitectura in Matosinhos, Porto.


John Hill | 06.12.2019

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Mexico City's Comunal Taller de Arquitectura won the £10,000 prize during the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Amsterdam this week for the practice's community-driven work in the rural village of Tepetzintán in Mexico.


BCQ arquitectura barcelona | 06.12.2017

Works

Landscape architecture must inspire comfortable feelings to the city. So the bridge will not only show a new image: the design proposes the inclusion of new materials and a new experience to users.


NOZ Arquitectura | 27.10.2017

Works

The project consisted in the refurbishment of the existing school building and extension with a new adjacent building to accommodate the new program. Exposed brick was applied in bands of different colors, recalling the idea of a bookshelf.


Mateo Arquitectura | 13.06.2017

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In the Garonne river port, Bassins à flot, Bordeaux. As though washed up here by nearby waters, rises the hulk of the World War II submarine base.


ROA Arquitectura | 22.08.2016

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The HUB TIC is a project designed, built and lived from the new social, economic and environmental paradigm shift that seeks a balanced symbiosis between people, nature and technology.


OOIIO Arquitectura | 27.07.2016

Works

House ARM is a game of extrusions and sections, catching the natural sunlight.


Mateo Arquitectura | 16.10.2015

Works

Bayonne Marinadour is the first intervention to be completed in a complex of actions marking the new entrance to the city of Bayonne.


John Hill | 31.08.2015

Insight

With last week's announcement of the international search for an architect to design the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, we take a look at 20 libraries designed by World-Architects member firms since 2004, the year of the striking Clinton Presidential Library designed by ennead architects.


John Hill | 13.07.2015

Products

At Expo Milano 2015, Spain's Zorrozua y Asociados's colorful box expresses the four geographical and culinary regions of Ecuador in the country's first pavilion at an international exposition.


PROD Arquitectura | 28.05.2015

Works

This holiday house for a family of four is located in the north of Portugal. It's shape is defined by the same number of individual volumes. They have similar dimensions but distinct orientations.


John Hill | 08.05.2015

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The Catalan studio of Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, and Igor Urdampilleta has won for the Luz House, a single-family house born from the transformation of an existing structure in Cilleros, Spain.


Valor-Llimós arquitectura | 16.04.2015

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32 dwellings for elderly people, Primary Care Center and parking – Cibeles.


Mateo Arquitectura | 18.03.2015

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Spain's Mateo Arquitectura has designed the 46,000-square-foot Cultural Center to float above the Praça Largo da Devesa in Castelo Branco, Portugal.


John Hill | 04.02.2015

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The Sant Gervasi-Joan Maragall Library, designed by BCQ arquitectura barcelona, has been awarded the 2014 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona of Architecture and Urbanism.


MANO Arquitectura | 26.11.2014

Works

Aiguablava is a small beach on the Catalonian Costa Brava, embraced by low mountains, where houses overlook the sea between the pine tree forests.