Nestled among a kaleidoscope of overlapping shanty homes and mountains cloaked in dense forestry, a giant pyramid-shaped building — once touted to become a world-leading retail mecca — towers over ...

Editor’s Note: Editor’s note: Celeste Olalquiaga is a cultural historian with a PhD from Columbia University and the author of “Megalopolis” (1992) and “The Artificial Kingdom” (1998). In 2013, she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image shows the infamous El Helicoide, a prison owned by the Venezuelan government and used for both regular and political ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Jesús Armas spent 14 months inside El Helicoide, a notorious prison built on top of a massive rock in the center of the capital Caracas. One of the things that struck him the most ...

AIA New York’s Center for Architecture opens its newest exhibit, El Helicoide: From Mall to Prison, on May 9. The exhibit, curated by Celeste Olalquiaga of PROYECTO HELICOIDE, examines the development ...

In a 2007 book on El Helicoide, a state-of-the-art mall planned for 1950s Caracas, German-Venezuelan architect Dirk Bornhorst writes, "The whole construction was conceived as an artistic urban ...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — After being tortured and brutalized during 129 days at El Helicoide, Venezuela's most notorious jail for dissidents, human rights activist Víctor Navarro was determined to expose ...

Once a futuristic shopping mall, El Helicoide became one of Venezuela's most feared prisons. Now, as the country changes, so does its fate —... From mall to torture site: Venezuela debates El ...