BIG has completed work on Macondo Park at Madrid’s Iberdrola Music venue. The project was commissioned for Shakira’s month-long, 12-show residency in the Spanish capital. Image credit: Adrià Goula PhotoImage credit: Adrià Goula Photo Designed in collaboration with Komodo and Vampire, the 1.8 million square foot temporary cultural venue takes inspiration from Macondo, the fictional town created by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. The masterplan is organized around a central plaza and eight thematic pavilions dedicated to activities including music, dance, art, food, literature, cinema, and fashion. Image credit: LiveNationImage credit: LiveNation Color-coded, curving routes connect different areas of the site, while more than 500 tropical and Mediterranean trees have been introduced to provide shade and gathering spaces. Additional areas accommodate artisan markets, food outlets and children’s activities, with landscaped islands drawing on environments found across Spain and La...

This just in: The U.S. Supreme Court today allowed construction of Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project to proceed indefinitely while legal challenges continue. In a 5–4 decision, the court blocked lower-court rulings that would have paused the aboveground portion of the project (Archinect reported on August 7). The challenge, brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, argued that Trump lacked unilateral authority to proceed without congressional approval.  The court’s unsigned eight-page ruling found that the trust likely lacks standing to bring the case but stopped short of deciding whether the president actually has the authority to build the ballroom without Congress.  "Today, we do not pass upon the legality of the government’s East Wing project," the ruling states. "We conclude only that, based on the submissions before us, the government is likely to prevail in showing that the Trust lacks Article III standing to challenge the project in federal cou...

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Living Spaces. ↑ Cummings Estate in Los Angeles, CA, by Chet Architecture; Interior Designer: Ghislaine Vinas; Photo: Minh T. and Garrett Rowland ↑ SkyHouse in New York, NY, by David Hotson Architect ↑ Heritage Apartment in São Paulo, Brazil, by André Luque Arquitetura; Photo: Carolina Lacaz ↑ House in Avándaro in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, by ESTUDIO Ignacio Urquiza Ana Paula de Alba; Photo: Rafael Gamo ↑ Orcas Farmhouse in Orcas, WA, by Syndicate Smith; Photo: Will Austin ↑ Montauk Residence in Montauk, NY, by Rafael de Cárdenas ↑ West Don Ravine Home in Toronto, Canada, by Poiesis Architecture ↑ James Residence in Manhattan Beach, CA, by VENN STUDIO ↑ Red Valley Dwellings in Mile, China, by line+; Photo: Ce Wang Tip: use the handy...

MAD has completed Tengyun Center, a new headquarters complex for Tencent in Shenzhen, China. As we previously reported, the 775,000-square-foot "cloud" building comprises five blocks, seeking to rethink the conventional corporate campus with more public offerings. Image credit: Zhang ChaoImage credit: aogvision Rather than occupying the site at ground level, the approximately 4 million-square-foot development is elevated 28 feet above the landscape on ten structural cores. The design lifts three interconnected building volumes, creating an open public realm beneath that accommodates pedestrian routes, landscaped gardens, gathering spaces, and views toward the waterfront. Image credit: aogvisionImage credit: Zhang Chao The headquarters is organized as three cloud-like volumes arranged along a north-south axis and connected by elevated steel-truss bridges. The bridges provide circulation between the buildings while also functioning as communal spaces overlooking the surrounding coastlin...