Diagonal 80 Industrial Building is one of the 19 top candidates, from over 300 entries across the world, for the Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture 2010.

Diagonal 80 building will be featured in the Emerging Architecture special edition of the Architectural Review and the Emerging Architecture Exhibition at the RIBA, both in December.

Images: Discoteque, by Niklavs Paegle

Diagonal80 industrial building has been nominated for contractworld.award 2011, 11th International Architecture Award for Innovative Interior Design Concepts, at the ‘New Generation’ category for Office/Administration Buildings. The final jury decision will take place next January in Hannover, Germany.

Efrén García Grinda and Cristina Díaz Moreno were interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 as part of the NOW Interviews project.

AmesMM film by Amid.cero9 and Neograma that was produced for the IX Biennale di Architecttura di Venezia is exhibited now in The Imaginarium.  The Imaginarium is part of the exhibition Examples to Follow! Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability curated by Adrienne Goehler. The Imaginarium, A Catalogue of Speculative Specimens, has been curated by Studio Lukas Feireiss and Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today with Luis Berríos-Negrón.

As a living »wunderkammer« and alchemists’ den, The Imaginarium acts as a discursive exhibit and performative platform: “The Imaginarium is devoted to the prescient subject of ecological change and adaptations caused by artificial interventions into existing ecosystems”. Since September 2nd to October 10th, 2010 at Uferhallen, Uferstrasse 8-11, 13357 Berlin.

The Cherry Tree Blossom Pavilion has been selected by Kazuyo Sejima to be exhibited at the International Pavilion of the 12th Biennale di Architectura di Venecia, “People Meet in Architecture”. The Biennale is held from August 29^th to November 21^st, 2010.

Third Natures in Yeoungsan River.

Seven High Critical Political Proposals for an alternative to corporate driven environmental projects: The Inverse Jail for Desertors,  The Republic of 10⁶ Different Foods, The Recovered Identity, Eluding Control Through Purification, Let`s Demolish!, The Four Soil Restoration Project, Desire’sex Ark.

The 2010 Summer Workshop, Public river interfaces, organized by Sakia with AA School of Aarchitecture, a.du, and Daejeon university.

Tutors: Cristina Díaz Moreno, Efrén García Grinda; assitants: Ji In Kim, Eugene Duck Jong Lee, Kyung Tae Jung.

Students:Inhwan Kim, Hun Yim, Sohyun Jung, Junheang Lee, Min A Kim, Youn Kyong Choea and Hojin Bae

Cristina Díaz Moreno + Efrén García Grinda, with Tyen Masten, are Diploma 5 Unit Masters at A.A. Architectural Association School of Architecture of London. 2010/2011 Prospectus has been recently published at AA School website

Cherry Blossom Pavillion in Jerte Valley is now under construction. The concrete crypt underneath the main hall is almost finished. You can visit the construction site in El Cabrero, Cáceres by appointment in our mail info(at)cero9(dot)com.

Is the revision of the Haussmanisation –Gran Vía II– able to be turned into an alternative to toxicity and low material quality of the more than 10.000.000 m2 of built housing in the last 10 years in Spain?

Amid.cero9 and Colectivo Cuartoymitad present  Gran Vía Toxic, a work by The Big Mech & Co that is exhibited at Laboratorio Gran Via exhibition in the ‘Fundación Telefónica’ building (Gran Vía,28). The exhibition will run from the 2nd of July until the 17th of October.

Laboratorio Gran Vía is a collective thought about the past, present and future of this street which has had a remarkable influence on life in Madrid during the last century. You can learn more about Laboratiorio Gran Vía here