Aires Mateus   Portugal   A large central space runs vertically through the building, meant to become a structure of urban spaces with all its elements connected externally, just as in the historic city of Lisbon, combining different programs and functions...

Aires Mateus   Portugal   The project extends the structure of the pavilion, rebuilding two units like a Lioz marble block. The lower floors are toplit by apparently impossible skylights, and the upper floor through the reflection of the light that bathes the lower levels... 

Aires Mateus   Spain   The project designs the access and route to the museum, where a narrow, buried corridor leads to the dome-shaped reception area that, pierced by another dome in the opposite direction, offers views of Málaga’s Convento de la Trinidad...

Aires Mateus   France   The project proposes two isolated volumes – one existing and another one new –, connected by a volume of light, a transparent and permeable space that stresses the relationship between them and underscores their urban condition. The existing main vol

Aires Mateus   France   A gentle topography between the lower floor – which gives access to the center – and the upper level, open to the sky through cloisters that favor introspection, generates the building’s shared spaces for gathering and meeting...

Aires Mateus   Belgium   The school is built inside an urban block where the old 18th-century hospital is refurbished and converted into an administration building, and two existing industrial warehouses are renovated to house classrooms and the library. Barely without touch

Aires Mateus   Switzerland   Promoted by the Canton of Vaud, the City of Lausanne, and the CFF (Swiss Federal Railways), the new Pôle Museal is an urban regeneration plan, of scope unprecedented in Switzerland, set out to transform the city into a dynamic center of cultural inno

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The latest addition to the Berlin Kulturforum goes up between the Philharmonic of Scharoun and the Neue Nationalgalerie of Mies van der Rohe, designed as a large gabled volume with multiple accesses that replicates the materiality of the nearby Matth

Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter   Germany   A low-rise pavilion of organic forms functions as a modern agora that gathers the circulation and meeting spaces, as well as those for temporary exhibitions; the permanent collection is kept in the basement, organized around an orthogonal structure..

Bruno Fioretti Marquez   Germany   Two spiral staircases run through the building vertically: from the restoration workshops and offices, located in the top floor, to the permanent exhibition in the basement; the level of access becomes an extension of the public space...

Aires Mateus   Germany   The building’s suspension generates the central element of the project: a void that preserves an existing tree and creates a plaza where the outside path ends; the underground level houses the exhibition spaces in a large hall...

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Germany   El proyecto convierte el difícil emplazamiento en su punto fuerte y se divide en cuatro sectores en aspa que lo relacionan con su contexto inmediato: la Neuenationalgalerie de Mies, la Filarmónica de Scharoun, la plaza de la iglesia y la carretera...

SANAA   Germany   A light glass facade wraps the new museum, transformed into a winter garden where the public program spaces are surrounded by local vegetation; the structure is minimized to stress the transparency and permeability of the building...

Staab Architekten   Germany   A series of courtyards, glass facades, and double-height exhibition spaces define a permeable ground floor that connects the public space with the museum’s program; on top emerge three volumes that are visible from afar...

Beatriz Alés, Elena Zaera   Germany   In contrast with the facade’s permeable character, the unidirectional structure of the load-bearing walls and cores gives a bold image to the museum’s interior, which is partially developed in height to engage in dialogue with the urban context...

Mateo Arquitectura   Germany   A vertical structure that rises on top of a buried level supports a faceted and rotated volume – of the same height as St. Matthew’s Church – which articulates the adjacent free spaces: that of the Neue Nationalgalerie and of Scharoun Platz...

Francisco Mangado   Germany   The museum consists of a series of functional blocks, housing the exhibition program, and the voids generated between them, that become gathering places and establish contact with the exterior. A large void vertically connects the three public level

Emilio Tuñón   Germany   A group of prismatic volumes is arranged around a porticoed patio that functions as distributing element and gives access to the museum, divided into two distinct sectors: the exhibition area and the events and educational spaces...

Dominique Perrault Architecture   Spain   Ten years after the French architect won the first prize in the architectural competition called by the Town Hall, the construction of the Convention Center and Exhibition Hall of León is now reaching its final stages. The project is a key urban inte

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Born in 1979 in the old German Democratic Republic, Christian Richter was still a child when the Berlin Wall fell. Many buildings were abandoned in East Germany after the Reunification, and the young photographer found his source of inspiration in th