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Arquitectura Viva 182 Industrial Heritage
Reinventing Europe: From Portugal to Poland
Dossier Branching Structures

MENOS É MAIS · E2A · ADH · 51N4E · RIEGLER RIEWE · OUTSIDERS: VALCÁRCEL, ASINS MOE ON ENERGY · FOSTER, OPEN, AREP IN DOSSIER: BRANCHING STRUCTURES

In Short. Herzog & de Meuron inaugurate the new BBVA headquarters in Madrid; Venturi & Scott Brown win the AIA Gold Medal, and Zaha Hadid the RIBA Gold Medal; Rafael Viñoly completes a high-rise at 432 Park Avenue in New York, and Gensler the Shanghai Tower, the world’s second tallest building, in China’s economic capital; and the Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia finishes a unique house in Ho Chi Minh City.

Amnesia and Memory. The industrial revolutions that took place from the 18th to the 20th centuries have left their mark on contemporary cities through a vast series of constructions of immense value not only in terms of the material and economic resources invested in them, but also because of their contribution to the collective memory of the places they are located in. Miguel Ángel Álvarez Areces sets down the problem of protecting a still underappreciated part of our heritage, and describes its characteristics, in an essay abounding in examples located around the world and references to Spain. It is followed by a presentation of five works in different countries: on São Miguel Island, in the archipelago of the Azores (Portugal), Menos é Máis turns an old tobacco factory into a center for art; in Auch (France), ADH Architectes transforms a military facility into circus workshops; in Genk (Belgium), 51N4E refurbishes an abandoned coal mine to house a cultural center; in Zurich (Switzerland), E2A Architects attaches an apartment tower to a former textile factory warehouse; and Riegler Riewe converts a mining complex in Katowice (Poland) into a museum devoted to the region of Silesia.

On the Margins. Francisco Javier San Martín guides us through the work of the conceptual artist Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, winner of the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts in 2015, and Julia Ramírez recounts the career of the recently demised Elena Asins, a pioneer in the exploration of the aesthetic possibilities associated with the new technologies.

Sustainable Societies. Luis Fernández-Galiano suggests a transversal reading of three works which analyze the concept of ‘sustainability’ from complementary angles. Also: a book by Bruno Taut about his ‘house to inhabit,’ an essay about the construction of climate in modern architecture, and a monograph on the dreamlike drawings of Brodsky & Utin.

Dossier: Branching Structures. Our technical section this time turns to a nature-inspired structural solution which has been highly recurrent in contem- porary architecture. The engineer Alejandro Bernabeu explains the differences between trees and artificial branching structures in terms of resistance behavior, in an article followed by feature of three buildings characterized by this construction system: the Château Margaux winery renovated and extended by Norman Foster in Bordeaux; the experimental pavilion that OPEN Architecture has raised in Guangzhou with its hex-sys modular set-up; and the Casa-Port railway station carried out by AREP in Casablanca.

To close, Kiel Moe questions the need to design and construct buildings on criteria of energy efficiency.

INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
Reinventing Europe: From Portugal to Poland
Dossier Branching Structures

News
H&deM: BBVA HQ, Madrid
Assemble, Turner Prize
VSBA, AIA Gold Medal
Zaha Hadid, RIBA Gold Medal
Viñoly, Gensler: New Towers
‘House for Trees’ in Vietnam

Miguel Ángel Álvarez Areces
A Future for the Past

Basalt Archipelago
Menos é Mais
Art Center, Azores

Martial Ceremony
ADH Architectes
Circus Workshops, Auch

Mining Machine
51N4E
Cultural Center, Genk

Interwoven Time
E2A Architects
Escher Terrace, Zurich

Buried Identity
Riegler Riewe
Silesian Museum, Katowice

Art / Culture

Francisco Javier San Martín
The Laws of Billiards
I. Valcárcel, Velázquez Prize

Julia Ramírez
Harmonies of the Number
Elena Asins, in memoriam

Books
Three Essays on Energy
Against Simplism
Modern Temperatures
The Flight of the Mind
Publications Received

Technique / Construction

Alejandro Bernabeu
A House is Not a Tree

Three Cases

Foster + Partners
Winery Extension, France

OPEN Architecture
Experimental Pavilion, China

AREP
Station, Morocco

Products

Kiel Moe
Thermodynamic Lessons