Project: Biblioteca Central y Archivo Municipal en Leganés
Site: Spain
Standout: Thousands of pigmented ceramic half cylinders represent book spines as they cover 23,000 square feet of surface area on the new library that has been nearly a decade in the making.
Aranya Art Center by Neri & Hu Design and Research Office. Photography by Pedro Pegenaute.
Standout: Molded concrete panels channel the rippling tide of the nearby Bohai Sea at a spiritually minded residential development’s event venue containing an amphitheater, galleries, and a roof deck.
Courtyard No. 1 by AOE. Photography by Ligang Huang.
Standout: Inspired by suprematism, the early 20th–century abstract art movement, a residential sales center’s glazing of UV-resistant panels is intercepted by geometric apertures framed in stainless steel.
Pedro Reyes Studio by Pedro Reyes. Photography by Edmund Sumner.
Standout: The fabricators who collaborate on the sculptor’s Brutalist-inspired art constructed a workshop to match, punching portholes into the building’s precast concrete panels, then connecting its three floors with a spiral staircase in the same material.
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Biblioteca Central y Archivo Municipal en Leganés by BN Asociados. Photography by Roland Halbe.Biblioteca Central y Archivo Municipal en Leganés by BN Asociados. Photography by Roland Halbe.Biblioteca Central y Archivo Municipal en Leganés by BN Asociados. Photography by Roland Halbe.Biblioteca Central y Archivo Municipal en Leganés by BN Asociados. Photography by Roland Halbe.Aranya Art Center by Neri & Hu Design and Research Office. Photography by Pedro Pegenaute. Aranya Art Center by Neri & Hu Design and Research Office. Photography by Pedro Pegenaute. Aranya Art Center by Neri & Hu Design and Research Office. Photography by Pedro Pegenaute. Courtyard No. 1 by AOE. Photography by Ligang Huang. Courtyard No. 1 by AOE. Photography by Ligang Huang.
Courtyard No. 1 by AOE. Photography by Ligang Huang. Pedro Reyes Studio by Pedro Reyes. Photography by Edmund Sumner.Pedro Reyes Studio by Pedro Reyes. Photography by Edmund Sumner.Pedro Reyes Studio by Pedro Reyes. Photography by Edmund Sumner.