Arquitectura Viva 258 - Neri & Hu

With its babelic chaos and constant mutation, Shanghai is one of the world's new frontiers, a reality which Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu learn from to produce rigorous works that pursue order without ignoring their urban and cultural contexts, as shown by the six buildings now featured in Arquitectura Viva, which bring the spirit of China's most cosmopolitan city to other parts of the country. For its part, this issue's dossier presents three funerary spaces that illustrate different ways of engaging with the beyond, and Andres Jaque examines the real-estate development that Silvio Berlusconi chose for his last public appearance.