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AV Proyectos 75 Dossier Estudio Herreros
+ HERZOG & DE MEURON: TATE MODERN IN DETAIL · GIBRALTAR NEUTRAL STATE · MADE IN TOKYO 15TH YEAR UPDATE · PREHISTORIC BEAUTY · LUIGI GHIRRI

Dossier Estudio Herreros. Eight Projects
With two major works under construction outside Spain, the Munch Museum in Oslo and the Ágora-Bogotá Convention Center in the Colombian capital, the studio of Juan Herreros (San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 1958) channels his teaching, research, and professional activity from a global and multidisciplinary approach. Founder of Ábalos & Herreros in 1984, he set up his own office in 2006, first under the name Herreros Arquitectos and later rebranded as Estudio Herreros with his German associate partner Jens Richter (Kassel, 1977). The eight projects featured here focus on some of the studio’s main areas of interest: the city, sustainability, and typological revision.

Bordering Geographies. ETSAM With Honors
Along the Bay of Algeciras the sea is divided into Spanish waters and British ones belonging to the Gibraltar peninsula. The Strategic Action Plan on Bordering Geographies GeoFront 1.3 is devised as a fiction strategy to create the Neutral State of the Gibraltar Strait, consisting of floating, island-like infrastructures named ‘topos,’ which trace a changing landscape along the waterfront and serve as political and social intermediaries between the two countries. Policarpo del Canto presented this proposal to the graduation project jury of the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), earning ‘Matrícula de Honor,’ the highest grade possible in Spain.

Made in Tokyo. 15th Year Update
Fifteen years after the publication of Made in Tokyo, a book-guide by the Japanese studio Atelier Bow-Wow that reflected the hybrid and changing quality of Japan’s capital, the Madrid architect Lys Villalba proposes a new research that brings that work up to date. The 70 buildings under study are located in different parts of the city: photographed, posted on Instagram, and later redrawn as axonometric perspectives – as featured in the original book –, the new analysis calls to reflect on the influence of the economic, social, political, and technological reality in urban transformations. The twelve buildings included in the following pages take stock of this new project.

Herzog & de Neuron. New Tate Modern
Tate Modern has changed London since 2000. Herzog & de Meuron’s project has had a huge impact on the development of Southwark, and in fact Tate Modern has become the world’s most visited museum of modern and contemporary art. Such popularity and the need to accommodate a growing collection encouraged to undertake the museum’s expansion. After six years of construction works, 2016 has seen the opening of Switch House, a pyramidal 10-storey building that adds 22,500 square meters of galleries and new kinds of spaces. The new building also transforms the subterranean oil tanks into spaces for performances and installations. These tanks emerge in a large terrace south of the Turbine Hall.

Cave Paintings. Prehistoric Beauty
Over more than two decades, between 1912 and 1936, the CIPP (commission for paleontological and prehistoric research) made a vast number of tracings and drawings of cave art paintings found in different areas of the Iberian Peninsula. The Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid has preserved thousands of these reproduction works, which constitute one of the most foremost collections of this kind in the world. The reproductions have been shown to the public for the first time in an exhibition that includes 127 tracings and drawings in an atmosphere that resembles that of the caves where they were created: a valuable artistic and scientific legacy of our prehistoric forbears.

Luigi Ghiri. Aldo Rossi’s Photographer
Collaborator of Aldo Rossi since 1983, when he photographed San Cataldo Cemetery for magazine Lotus International, Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) maintained until his death a fruitful dialogue with the Milanese master, with whom he shared an interest in researching the ways of representing reality. Writer, editor, and teacher aside from photographer, the Italian artist focussed on landscapes and their artificial transformation. His images gradually moved from the conceptual to the symbolic and, in Rossi’s words: ‘‘They are ‘something new’ that only an artist is able to recognize. And in them I see something I was looking for, and that I had never found.’’

Dossier Estudio Herreros, Eight Projects
Munch Museum, Oslo (Norway)
Congrexpo, Bogotá (Colombia)
Green Vertical Housing, Marseille (France)
Intermodal Station, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Evergreen Terrace, Seoul (South Korea)
San Francisco Forum, Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
Resort Housing Complex, Casablanca (Morocco)
Glass House (Prototype)

Bordering Geographies, ETSAM with Honors
Estado Neutral del Estrecho de Gibraltar (E.N.E.G.)
Policarpo del Canto

Made in Tokyo, 15th Year Update
Lys Villalba
Cine-Bridge / Roller Coaster Building / Pachinko Cathedral
Expressway Patrol Building / Golf Taxi Building / Car Tower
Interchange Parking / Super Car School / Flying Temple
Convention Hall / Pet Architecture / Luxury Apartments

New Tate Modern, in Detail
Herzog & de Meuron
London (United Kingdom)

Cave Paintings, Prehistoric Beauty
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid (Spain)

Luigi Ghirri, Aldo Rossi’s Photographer
Areas of Memory