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fromArchDaily
17 hours ago
Design

Climate and Collective Use: Architectural Permeability in Latin America

Architecture in Latin America often features open structures that enhance connectivity with the environment, prioritizing lightness and permeability over traditional enclosure.
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 week ago
Design

Stand for Circo de Ideias / fala

The project transforms a standard book fair stand into a vibrant installation using repurposed materials and a bold color palette.
Design
fromArchDaily
17 hours ago

Climate and Collective Use: Architectural Permeability in Latin America

Architecture in Latin America often features open structures that enhance connectivity with the environment, prioritizing lightness and permeability over traditional enclosure.
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 week ago

Stand for Circo de Ideias / fala

The project transforms a standard book fair stand into a vibrant installation using repurposed materials and a bold color palette.
Environment
fromThe Nation
12 hours ago

Wait, Could This Be a Climate Conference That Actually Works?

The Iran war has irreparably damaged fossil fuel markets, pushing countries towards renewable energy sources.
fromHyperallergic
16 minutes ago

Co-Working Meets Art at Brooklyn's Newest Experimental Space

"I didn't change anything, I love it. These cubicles appear to me like remnants of bureaucracy and business models. It feels like we stumbled upon this place and found signs of life."
Arts
#colombia
California
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

Bomb attack on Colombia highway kills 19 ahead of election

A highway bombing in Colombia's Cauca killed 19 and injured dozens, escalating violence ahead of the presidential election.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Historic but not enough? Inside Gustavo Petro's antidrug strategy

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has intercepted record cocaine volumes, but faces pressure from the U.S. regarding drug policy effectiveness.
fromFortune
1 week ago
Agriculture

Colombia approves plan to kill cocaine hippos roaming through center of country | Fortune

California
fromwww.dw.com
1 day ago

Colombia highway bomb attack kills 14

A bomb attack in southwestern Colombia killed 14 and injured 38, attributed to FARC dissidents, ahead of the presidential election.
California
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

Bomb attack on Colombia highway kills 19 ahead of election

A highway bombing in Colombia's Cauca killed 19 and injured dozens, escalating violence ahead of the presidential election.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Historic but not enough? Inside Gustavo Petro's antidrug strategy

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has intercepted record cocaine volumes, but faces pressure from the U.S. regarding drug policy effectiveness.
fromFortune
1 week ago
Agriculture

Colombia approves plan to kill cocaine hippos roaming through center of country | Fortune

California
fromwww.dw.com
1 day ago

Colombia highway bomb attack kills 14

A bomb attack in southwestern Colombia killed 14 and injured 38, attributed to FARC dissidents, ahead of the presidential election.
fromArchDaily
5 days ago

Reclaiming the Street: Alejandra Ferrera on Architecture and Urban Life in Honduras

Alejandra Ferrera emphasizes that the security-driven design, while functional at the time, has led to a fragmented urban experience where streets serve only as transit voids, lacking social engagement.
Madrid food
Vue
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 week ago

La Vuelta Al Monte Installation / Rare Studio Experimental

Vuelta al Monte installation aims to reconnect the Cosquin Rock Festival with its surrounding territory and promote conservation of native plant species.
SOMA, SF
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Has the world grown weary of art biennials? In search of an antidote, a Portuguese festival turns to anarchism

Coimbra's Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova is haunted and faces redevelopment into a hotel, threatening its role as an art festival hub.
Left-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Colombia's history-making VP blames racism for four years of frustration

Francia Marquez becomes Colombia's first Black vice-president, highlighting systemic racism and exclusion faced by Black leaders in government.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Leonardo Madriz's Monuments to the Precarity of Now

Leonardo Madriz's sculptures symbolize the fragile balance of American life through anthropomorphized forms made from everyday objects and intricate knots.
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

A story that needs to be told': the Manacillos festival of Colombia photo essay

Afro-Colombians celebrate the Manacillos festival to unite and resist economic instability and violence, preserving their ancestral heritage along the Yurumangui River.
Design
fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Public Space in Use: Region Austral and the Architecture of Everyday Life

Design in architecture focuses on how spaces are used and adapted over time, rather than just what is built.
California
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 day ago

Explosion in southwest Colombia kills at leat seven, state governor says

Authorities in Cauca demand government action after a deadly explosion killed seven and injured twenty on the Pan-American Highway.
fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 weeks ago

Brooklyn Pop: An experience as rich as the borough itself, created by Mr. Kaves

"We find beauty out of struggle and out of something broken," says the artist, emphasizing the importance of representing life in Brooklyn through the exhibit.
Brooklyn
Media industry
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

#MeToo movement brings wave of harassment claims across Colombia

Juanita Gomez and other journalists are sharing experiences of sexual harassment, leading to significant repercussions in Colombian media.
Photography
fromArchDaily
3 weeks ago

40+ Contemporary Architectural Works Across Ecuador Captured by Francesco Russo and Luca Piffaretti

Photographers document Ecuador's architecture and landscapes, highlighting the country's evolving identity and the interplay between built environments and natural surroundings.
#public-art
fromsfist.com
3 weeks ago
Mission District

Friends Who Bought Dirt Alley' Are Looking For 1,280 People to Help Transform It Into Public Art

Mission District
fromsfist.com
3 weeks ago

Friends Who Bought Dirt Alley' Are Looking For 1,280 People to Help Transform It Into Public Art

A public art project will transform a barren alley in San Francisco's Sunset District into a 1,280-piece art quilt.
fromPhilosophynow
3 weeks ago
Philosophy

The Collective City

Islamic philosophy invites plurality and coexistence, emphasizing the importance of dialogue and the acceptance of error in understanding.
Photography
fromThe Nation
3 weeks ago

Alejandro Cartagena's Mexico in Flux

Photographs capture the transformation of landscapes and suburban growth, reflecting themes of isolation and environmental change.
Madrid food
fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Contemporary Ecuadorian Architecture: Connecting Materials, Environment, and Culture

Ecuador's architecture blends tradition and innovation, reflecting diverse landscapes and cultural contexts while addressing social needs and environmental challenges.
Roam Research
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Circle Pit / Studio Clash

Xiangchun trees symbolize nostalgia and regional culture in Shandong, representing local memory and emotion in the 'Circle Pit' installation.
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 month ago

Sound of the Week: CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso - FREE SPIRITS - KALTBLUT Magazine

The album showcases an audacious blend of trap, rock, pop, and experimental elements, all infused with a refreshing emotional honesty.
Music production
Online Community Development
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Research Center of the Colla Indigenous Community of the Municipality of Copiapo / Arquitika

The Research Center of the Colla Indigenous Community in Chile supports community-driven development, innovation, and research on medicinal plants.
Madrid food
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

The subway that brought life back to Quito's historic center

Natividad Dominguez, a salchipapa vendor in Quito, has seen her business thrive since the metro's introduction, despite her personal fear of using it.
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Ivan Cepeda: Our fight is not with Paloma or Abelardo, it is with Uribe'

Cepeda emphasizes that he is not competing against other candidates like Abelardo de La Espriella or Paloma Valencia, but rather against former president Alvaro Uribe Velez.
US Elections
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Taller Agropoetico - Foresta Collective / Atelier Poem

In Cabranes, Asturias, Atelier Poem has realized the Taller Agropoetico for Foresta Collective—a space that integrates agricultural practice with pedagogy.
Agriculture
Design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

How the public changes spaces-and art-for the better

Public engagement enhances design, transforming spaces into vibrant community hubs that foster creativity and connection.
Madrid food
fromwww.businessinsider.com
3 weeks ago

A trip to Colombia in my 20s turned into 8 years freelancing in South America. Here's what I'd do differently.

A transformative experience in Colombia led to a successful freelance writing career in Ecuador after careful planning and saving.
Women in technology
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

3. Colombia: Mothers for Peace

Carmen Elena, a Colombian woman displaced by violence that killed her husband and brother, lost her project to create a safe village for mothers protecting children from armed group recruitment after USAID withdrew funding.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I was overwhlemed, it was a miracle': the jailed mothers getting a second chance in Colombia

Colombia's Public Utility law enables first-time female offenders who are heads of households to serve remaining sentences in the community, allowing early releases for qualifying women.
SF parents
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

ICE deports family, including deaf boy who wasn't given his assistive devices

A hearing-impaired six-year-old child with a cochlear implant was detained and deported to Colombia during an ICE check-in visit, separated from his assistive devices and communication support.
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Rehabilitation of Casa P. Colina / DARP - De Arquitectura y Paisaje

The rehabilitation project of Casa P. Colina is based on a regenerative view of architecture, understood as a process of transformation that reconciles the natural, the built, and the existing. Rather than replacing, the intervention rewrites the house from its own material, integrating structures, materials, and memories as active components of the new spatial system.
Renovation
Miscellaneous
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

From guns to ballots: FARC's campaign for votes in Colombia

Former FARC guerrillas in Colombia face electoral challenges after transitioning to politics following a 2016 peace treaty that guaranteed them congressional seats now expiring.
Healthcare
from99% Invisible
2 months ago

Molar City - 99% Invisible

Los Algodones, dubbed Molar City, became a dense, cross-border dental tourism hub where nearly one thousand dentists serve over a million largely American visitors annually.
Public health
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

The record-breaking cocaine boom and its deadly fallout

Global cocaine production has reached all-time highs, driving increased seizures, more users, and rising cocaine-related deaths, and contributing to growing U.S. overdose impacts.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Where the Silence Breaks | Ep 3 Colombia

Colombian military soldiers confess to extrajudicial killings of innocent civilians through the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, a transitional justice mechanism established by the 2016 peace agreement.
Alternative transportation
fromStreetsblog
1 month ago

Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disinformation - Streetsblog USA

Fifteen-minute cities enable convenient living without car dependency, while decades of car-centric policies have deliberately created sprawl and reduced walkability, homelessness correlates directly with insufficient housing supply, and wider roads increase crashes and traffic rather than reducing congestion.
Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
10 years ago

Neighborhood spotlight: L.A. Arts District

Late 1970s artists transformed Los Angeles's abandoned industrial Arts District through cheap rent and creative freedom, inadvertently catalyzing gentrification and development that continues today.
Barcelona
fromEuro Weekly News
1 month ago

The week Barcelona becomes the centre of the future

Barcelona hosts the 20th Mobile World Congress with over 110,000 visitors expected, showcasing AI breakthroughs, space technology, and future mobility innovations while generating approximately €585 million for the local economy.
Music
fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

"Music is the new gastronomy": How the rise of LatAm music is changing the face of travel

Latin American music is driving tourism and shaping cultural travel experiences in Puerto Rico, Colombia, Mexico and Belize.
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

A small Africa in Colombia': the palenqueras of Cartagena

Cartagena's palenqueras symbolize the enduring, commodified legacy of enslavement, mixing cultural resilience with tourist-driven exploitation.
World news
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The discovery of Camilo Torres' body revives one of the most sensitive issues in Colombia's internal conflict

Forensic experts confirmed identification of Camilo Torres's remains, resolving a decades-long mystery about his 1966 death and closing a chapter in Latin American armed struggle.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
2 months ago

Science and Culture in Latin America, Alejo Stark

Scientific knowledge is culturally embedded; Indigenous and colonial practices fundamentally shaped modern science, and values and power influence inquiry.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Clean air should not be a privilege': how Bogota is tackling air pollution in its poorest areas

Every Sunday in Bogota, streets across the city are closed to cars and transformed into urban parks. Shirtless rollerbladers with boomboxes drift leisurely in figures of eight, Lycra-clad cyclists zoom downhill and young children wobble nervously as they pedal on bikes for the first time. This is perhaps the most visible component of a multipronged plan to clean up the Colombian capital's air.
Environment
Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Muimenta Social Center / Eduardo Dipre Mazza + Daniel Gomez Magide + Miguel Angel Diaz Gonzalez

A multi-purpose social center in rural Galicia revitalizes an abandoned village through infrastructure rehabilitation, economic activity generation, and improved quality of life for residents.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Malba Forest / Estudio Bulla

Estudio Bulla designed Malba Puertos, a 615 m² suburban public museum in Buenos Aires with six exhibition rooms integrated into a natural grove landscape.
Madrid food
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

The criminal underworlds of Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador converge in the murder of Fernando Villavicencio

Mexico captured Angel Esteban Aguilar, a Los Lobos leader wanted for a 2023 presidential candidate murder, revealing criminal networks connecting Ecuador, Mexico, and Colombia in cocaine trafficking operations.
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Cocaine in Petro's car: A new sabotage allegation reignites Colombia's shadow war

On Tuesday, during an extended Cabinet meeting, Colombian President Gustavo Petro denounced two plots that initially drew little attention but would have halted the political agenda in almost any other country. As if downplaying it, Petro claimed that earlier this week someone tried to kill him while he was traveling by helicopter. According to his account, the aircraft had to change course and fly over the ocean for four hours before it could land.
World news
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

Tomas Saraceno and Indigenous communities build art complex in Argentine salt flats

We don't eat batteries. They take away the water; they take away life. This pronouncement, in Spanish, appears in a photograph that the artist Tomás Saraceno sent via WhatsApp last month from Salinas Grandes, a high-altitude salt flat in northern Argentina. There, in one of the world's largest lithium reserves, the artist is working alongside 11 Indigenous communities to build El Santuario del Agua (The Water Sanctuary), a monumental work about the global energy transition.
SOMA, SF
Renovation
fromColossal
1 month ago

Alvaro Urbano Suspends Fleeting Moments of Decay in Metal Plants

Álvaro Urbano sculpts plants from metal and paint to preserve fleeting moments of nature that would otherwise disappear within days or minutes.
Design
fromArchDaily
3 months ago

From the Courtyard to the Neighborhood: Latin American Lessons on Collective Placemaking

Everyday encounters in Latin America primarily occur in intermediate informal spaces—courtyards, verandas, sidewalks—where spontaneous social practices continually reshape urban life.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Small but mighty: Colombia's Muslim community celebrates Ramadan

But Zia is one of an estimated 85,000 to 100,000 Muslims in Colombia, comprising less than 0.2 percent of the country's population. Within that community, though, is a prism of diverse backgrounds and experiences. Some of Colombia's Muslims reflect a rich history of migration to the region. Others are converts. The Colombian Islamic community is a small one but enjoys more on account of its diversity, Zia said, as he took a break from serving tea in his uncle Zaheer's restaurant
World news
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

The Uncertain Future of Colombia's Museum of Memory

In 2011, the Colombian government ordered the creation of a national museum "to achieve the strengthening of the collective memory" around the decades-long armed conflict. That same year, it passed the Victims and Land Restitution Law aimed at providing victims with reparations and justice. More than just a curated collection of objects or artworks, the museum, scheduled to be inaugurated in 2018, was conceived as an archive of the violent civil war.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

As Colombia moves to outlaw cockfighting, a bloody night unfolds in Cartagena

On the outskirts of Cartagena far from the brightly coloured facades of the old city and the 500-year-old fortress walls overlooking the Caribbean a crowd of about 300 people erupted into a roar. Given Colombians' passion for football, it could have been the celebration of a goal. But the cheers followed the bloody climax of bout in a cockfighting ring whose white padded walls were now splattered with blood.
World news
Madrid food
fromwww.wanderwithjo.com
1 month ago

Why Everyone Under 30 Is Heading to Medellin's Neighborhood X (And No, It's Not El Poblado)

La America is emerging as the preferred neighborhood for young travelers in Medellin, replacing El Poblado due to its affordability, authenticity, local culture, and genuine community atmosphere.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

How best to uproot Colombia's vast cocaine crops?

President Gustavo Petro's voluntary coca eradication and substitution strategy has strained relations with the United States amid pressure for more aggressive tactics.
Arts
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Madrid named world's best city for street art for its 425 masterpieces'

Murfin's 'Ninos Perdidos I' in Fuenlabrada won third place in the Best of 2025 Street Art Awards; Madrid named world's top street art city.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Colombia to resume peace talks with ECG after temporary suspension

Colombia's government has announced it will resume peace talks with the powerful Gulf Clan, also known as the Gaitanist Self-Defence Forces (ECG), after the criminal group expressed concern about a recent deal with the United States. Tuesday's announcement addresses a temporary suspension the Gulf Clan announced earlier this month, in the wake of a meeting between Colombian President Gustavo Petro and his US counterpart, Donald Trump.
World news
fromELLE Decor
2 months ago

How Artist Mickalene Thomas Turned an Abandoned Auto Garage Into Her New Creative Headquarters

When I walked in, I just teared up. I've received so many texts and DMs that said, "Do you know you're plastered all over Paris?" To me, this is just the beginning. I come from a long line of incredible matriarchs who always fought to do the right thing. My mother worked and struggled, so I know what it takes to get things done.
Arts
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