In the middle of Porto, Rem Koolhaas built this concert hall in 2005 in the shape of a concrete and glass meteorite. An exciting building that is essential for architecture lovers, who stirred up their surroundings and sanctioned the new modernity of the Portuguese city. © Casa da Musica In 2001, Porto [...]
One of the most emblematic festivals, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival or better known as Coachella Festival, took place for the twentieth time in Indio, California, United States, the two previous weekends this April. The more than 100.000 people who attended to the festival, were participants of the work of artists, designers [...]
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners revealed in 2016 its new home inside the so-called Cheesegrater tower, featuring brightly coloured furnishings, exposed steelwork and a big central meeting space. Intended to foster a more collaborative working style, the London studio brings together the studio's 200 staff on one floor of the Leadenhall Building, completed by the Richard Rogers-led firm at the end [...]
Barcelona b720 studio Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos has won the award for the best skyscraper of less than 100 meters awarded by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The award-winning project is the Itaim Tower in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, a building of 123 small-format apartments -30 square meters- and [...]
'COMPLEXITY AND CONTRADICTION' OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AS BACKGROUND OF THE HOLY WEEK (Photo: ABC) Seville is above all a city of contrasts, of mixture, of hybridization, where the tradition merges constantly with a contradiction and a disconcerting contemporaneity, sometimes interpreted as opposition, sometimes understood as a complement. This dialectic remains alive since late nineteenth [...]
Architecture and Conservation in Cities and Monumental Complexes Source: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía The growing tourist flow in the main cities of patrimonial interest directly affects the exponential growth of visits to the patrimonial urban environments but above all to its main monuments. At an urban scale, this has an important impact on the [...]
COAS ARCHITECTURE & SOCIETY AWARDS (source: www.coasevilla.org) The COAS announces the COAS ARQUITECTURA & SOCIEDAD 2019 AWARDS (III Architecture Awards of the Official College of Architects of Seville) whose objective is to show the architecture of Seville, assess the professional quality of our collective and promote architecture as a tool to improve life of [...]
Located in the Twin Peaks neighbourhood of San Francisco, this house originally designed in 1964 by architect Albert Lanier was remodeled by Feldman Architecture to suit its new residents' tastes. Overlooking the Mount Sutro Open Reserve, the renovation was Inspired by the sloping hill and garden, valorized by opening up the original compartmentalized main floor, thus [...]
WTTC WORLD SUMMIT- World Travel & Tourism Council. Global Summit 2019. Seville, April 2 to 4, 2019 (Source: WTTC) The annual WTTC Global Summit is the preeminent event in the World Travel and Tourism calendar, and brings together public and private sector personalities to discuss and debate issues that affect the sector in an [...]
Seville is always full of cultural events and a lot of times they are architectural events. On this occasion we present you the exhibition about the architect José Miguel de Prada Poole. The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) hosts in the city, from Mars 29 to the 1rst of September 2019 an exhibition [...]
