Av 189-190: MVRDV
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Visionary and magical, the oeuvre of MVRDV is a collection of works, projects, and publications that amaze with their abundance and diversity. Since the studio was set up in 1993, Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and Nathalie de Vries have shown a dazzling creativity that has placed them in the Dutch avant-garde of 21st century. AV Monographs devotes a double issue to their(...)
Av 189-190: MVRDV
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Visionary and magical, the oeuvre of MVRDV is a collection of works, projects, and publications that amaze with their abundance and diversity. Since the studio was set up in 1993, Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and Nathalie de Vries have shown a dazzling creativity that has placed them in the Dutch avant-garde of 21st century. AV Monographs devotes a double issue to their career with a selection of 30 works grouped into six chapters describing the most characteristic themes in their architecture: ‘Compact Puzzles’ (density), ‘Illusory Walls’ (form and skins), ‘Colorful Worlds’ (use of color), ‘Leisure Land’ (entertainment), ‘Green Fantasies’ (ecology and sustainability), and ‘Visionary Cities’ (analysis and utopias).
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Devoted to Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), the dossier of AV Proyectos covers the latest international projects by the Tokyo-based studio. From the polemical refurbishment of the Paris department stores La Samaritaine to the extension of the NSW Art Gallery in Sydney, via their proposals in Jerusalem and Budapest and the more recent ones developed in their(...)
AV Proyectos 077: Dossier Sanaa
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Devoted to Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), the dossier of AV Proyectos covers the latest international projects by the Tokyo-based studio. From the polemical refurbishment of the Paris department stores La Samaritaine to the extension of the NSW Art Gallery in Sydney, via their proposals in Jerusalem and Budapest and the more recent ones developed in their country, all their designs maintain the subtle and immaterial character that defines their oeuvre. The competitions section features the projects shortlisted in the call to design the new MALI (Museo de Arte de Lima), won by the Spanish team Burgos & Garrido with the local firm Llama Urban Design.
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Since the turn of the 21st century, Diller Scofidio + Renfro has undergone a process of formidable growth. Based in New York, the firm recently completed the last stretch of the High Line, the impressive centre The Shed, and a large extension to the Museum of Modern Art. Their practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, digital media, installation art, and(...)
AV Monographs 221 : Diller Scofido + Renfro
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Since the turn of the 21st century, Diller Scofidio + Renfro has undergone a process of formidable growth. Based in New York, the firm recently completed the last stretch of the High Line, the impressive centre The Shed, and a large extension to the Museum of Modern Art. Their practice spans the fields of architecture, urban design, digital media, installation art, and multimedia performance, often focusing on civic and cultural projects on various scales. This instalment surveys the past two decades of prolific work by the design studio, divided across three main themes: Revised Landscapes, Shared Knowledge, and Accessible Culture. Includes an essay by Edwin Heathcote.
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'AV Proyectos 096' covers recent projects by the Dutch studio Mecanoo, a multidisciplinary team of professionals with offices in Delft, New York, and Kaohsiung. Their work focusses on aspects like consultation, context, process, and urban scale to develop specific strategies integrated in sustainable design, as their latest proposals show. The next chapter is devoted to(...)
AV Proyectos 096 : Dossier Mecanoo
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'AV Proyectos 096' covers recent projects by the Dutch studio Mecanoo, a multidisciplinary team of professionals with offices in Delft, New York, and Kaohsiung. Their work focusses on aspects like consultation, context, process, and urban scale to develop specific strategies integrated in sustainable design, as their latest proposals show. The next chapter is devoted to The Whale competition to design an observation center on the Norwegian coast, and presents the winning proposal, by Dorte Mandrup, and the three shortlisted projects by BIG, Snøhetta, and Reiulf Ramstad Architects.
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Thomas Heatherwick is a designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio, which was started in the late 1990s. Considered one of Britain’s most significant designers, Heatherwick is known for his work on all scales. This instalment is divided across four themes – Reuse, Nurture, Connect, Gather – and takes stock of the last 20 years of the(...)
AV Monographs 222 : Heatherwick Studio 2000-2020
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Thomas Heatherwick is a designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio, which was started in the late 1990s. Considered one of Britain’s most significant designers, Heatherwick is known for his work on all scales. This instalment is divided across four themes – Reuse, Nurture, Connect, Gather – and takes stock of the last 20 years of the studio’s practice through a detailed look at no less than 20 exemplary projects. Among these are Eden Residential Tower in Singapore, Google’s Mountain View Campus, New York’s Pier 55, and Rolling Bridge in London. Deyan Sudjic, former director of the Design Museum, London, contributes the opening essay.
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No less than 24 recent buildings are featured in this overview of the architectural discipline in Spain over the past year. The projects are divided among six themes – cultural context, health spaces, education, children’s play, exercise and leisure, and plural housing – and are representative of a globalised world undergoing massive shifts. The yearbook presents a(...)
AV Monographs 223-224 : Spain 2020
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No less than 24 recent buildings are featured in this overview of the architectural discipline in Spain over the past year. The projects are divided among six themes – cultural context, health spaces, education, children’s play, exercise and leisure, and plural housing – and are representative of a globalised world undergoing massive shifts. The yearbook presents a selection of works scattered throughout the Spanish territory, including the Climate Museum in Lérida by Toni Gironès, Vallehermoso Stadium in Madrid by Estudio Cano Lasso, Germina Foundation in Barcelona by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Loyola Campus by Luis Vidal + Arquitectos, and more.
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Since the turn of the century, the brothers of Lisbon-based practice Aires Mateus have expanded their formal and material repertoire, blurring the limits of the building with the exterior, the topography, or the existing. Such an enrichment of the architectural vocabulary combines the abstraction of their beginnings with many figurative references extracted from the(...)
AV Monographs 225 : Aires Mateus
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Since the turn of the century, the brothers of Lisbon-based practice Aires Mateus have expanded their formal and material repertoire, blurring the limits of the building with the exterior, the topography, or the existing. Such an enrichment of the architectural vocabulary combines the abstraction of their beginnings with many figurative references extracted from the historic and the vernacular. This issue celebrates their innovation with 20 works completed since 2000. The selection features numerous private homes but also the School of Architecture in Tournai (Belgium), the EDP Headquarters in Lisbon, and the Furnas Monitoring and Research Centre, located in the Azores.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has put the vital importance of domestic space on the forefront, and the latest double issue of the magazine AV Monographs presents a selection of 24 residences – 12 in Spain, 12 in other countries – designed by internationally prestigious architectural practices, including those headed by Emilio Tuñón, Harquitectes, OFFICE, Ryue Nishizawa, Aires(...)
AV Monographs 227-228 : Casas en detalle, 24 world houses
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The Covid-19 pandemic has put the vital importance of domestic space on the forefront, and the latest double issue of the magazine AV Monographs presents a selection of 24 residences – 12 in Spain, 12 in other countries – designed by internationally prestigious architectural practices, including those headed by Emilio Tuñón, Harquitectes, OFFICE, Ryue Nishizawa, Aires Mateus, Alejandro Aravena, and Smiljan Radic, with special emphasis on construction details, material quality, and interior designs. A multipart essay by the editor, Luis Fernández-Galiano, throws light on the timeless character of eight spaces of the home.
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Over the past two decades, the studio led by Fermín Vázquez has completed a broad repertoire of projects, often co-authored with prominent international firms. With an introduction on the team’s method by Vázquez and an essay on its evolution by Richard Ingersoll, this issue introduces a varied selection of eighteen works. From his first office buildings to two corporate(...)
AV Monographs 229 : b720 Fermin Vazquez, 2000-2020
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Over the past two decades, the studio led by Fermín Vázquez has completed a broad repertoire of projects, often co-authored with prominent international firms. With an introduction on the team’s method by Vázquez and an essay on its evolution by Richard Ingersoll, this issue introduces a varied selection of eighteen works. From his first office buildings to two corporate headquarters currently being built in Madrid and Barcelona, the list of works also comprises residential experiments like the Forma Itaim Tower and the Buenavista sustainable housing, plus notable buildings like the Mercat dels Encants and Lycée Français in Barcelona and the new Hotel VP in Madrid.
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AV proyectos 101 : MOS
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'AV Proyectos 101' dedicates its dossier to MOS, a small New York office self-defined as a studio that benefits and suffers from contradiction, and that creates projects that appear to one thing and something else at the same time - familiar and strange, childish and sophisticated, precise and vague. The issue includes the competition for Tuchkov Buyan Park, a new urban(...)
AV proyectos 101 : MOS
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'AV Proyectos 101' dedicates its dossier to MOS, a small New York office self-defined as a studio that benefits and suffers from contradiction, and that creates projects that appear to one thing and something else at the same time - familiar and strange, childish and sophisticated, precise and vague. The issue includes the competition for Tuchkov Buyan Park, a new urban garden on Vatny Island in Saint Petersburg, with the winning proposal of Studio 44 and West 8 plus the two finalist projects, and six projects that take on the challenge of designing kindergartens.
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