New Park in Leopoldov by n-1
Today we rediscover the BigMat Finalist Prize in Slovakia’21, a transformation of a former cementery into a park with playground in Leopoldov, focused on activating the park boundary, enabling free movement and combining the new with the old. The original fencing along the Hlohovská Street was newly positioned behind the chapel, the enlarged pavement, a […]
“Sick Architecture” exhibition at CIVA Brussels
Curated by Beatriz Colomina, the Sick Architecture exhibition gathers examples from across modern history of how buildings can heal us — or make us sick.
Pavilion in Belem by Bak Gordon Arquitectos
This small pavilion on the banks of the Tagus, close to the Belém river terminal and the MAAT gardens, was awarded as BigMat Finalist Prize in Portugal 2021. Bak Gordon Arquitectos proposes a big roof where everything could happen underneath. The Lisbon waterfront is an outstanding environment which is the setting for numerous work and […]
“Garden Metropolis” exhibition by GRAU at arc en rêve
Through a cross-section of these four territories, GRAU invites us to explore the potential of a third type of city, neither center nor periphery, the Garden Metropolis. Since the beginning of urbanisation, towns and cities have been places where people live together: for the opportunities and safety they provide, for economic reasons, to fulfil a […]
Panta Rei Beach by Toffoli Architetti
This small seaside structure by Ubaldo and Gianrico Toffoli was awarded as BigMat Finalist Prize in Italy 2021, featuring structural simplicity accompanied by meticulous attention to detail and a sober and appropriate use of materials. Building a small seaside structure is a tough challenge for an architect, who has to make the building visible but […]
“Futuro Precedente” winning entry for the refurbishment and extension of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome
Futuro Precedente, a proposal developed by Estudio de Arquitectura Jesús Aparicio (BigMat Award’s president), and Donaire Milans Arquitectos, led by María Milans del Bosch and Jesús Donaire (BigMat Award’s secretary), local architects and heritage experts Francesco Cellini and María Margarita Segarra, together with historic preservationist Alejandro Pajares, has been awarded with the first prize to […]
“Against the Extravagance of Desire” Carlos Bunga installation in Madrid
The cycles of nature that surround the Palacio, as well as the context in which the building was originally constructed, form some of the keys to his new installation, which interlocks the dialectic between the inside and outside of discourses. Much of the work of Carlos Bunga (Oporto, 1976) impugns the concept of architecture as […]
Maillon Theater in Strasbourg by LAN
Parisian studio LAN was awarded as BigMat Finalist Prize in France’21 for their Maillon Theater in Strasbourg, a minimalist complex and one of the first spaces specifically designed for contemporary theatre in Europe. To reassert the founding principles of the Maillon’s artistic identity and to enshrine an experimental approach to research and artistic creation, as […]
“Mario Botta. Sacred and profane” at MAXXI Rome
The seventh edition of Nature features the work of Mario Botta, the world-famous Swiss designer who graduated with Carlo Scarpa, worked with Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn and is today a master among masters. With the Nature cycle MAXXI presents significant research in contemporary architecture, inviting the authors to talk about themselves through the […]
White Shed in Opatov by ATELIER 111 architekti
BigMat Award Finalist for the Czech Republic 2021, the building is a reinterpretation of traditional local architecture, proposing an alternative of what is built today for similar purposes in the Czech Republic. The new workshop building, located in an agricultural compound on the periphery of Opatov, is designed mainly for service and maintenance of large […]
