Bevk Perović arhitekti   Slovenia   The new National Library and University of Ljubljana (NUK2), a result of the competition for the enlargement of that built in the 1930s by Jože Plečnik, will rise over the remains of the ancient Roman city of Emona. By respecting the site’s original

Bevk Perović arhitekti, x3m arhitekti   Croatia   The BGG is a single entity comprising three faculties – Biology, Geography, and Geology – distributed in blocks, which share a series of programs on ground floor and unify university social life with a topographical outdoor area for communal use... [

Bevk Perović arhitekti, B-architecten   Belgium   The Faculty is composed of two adjacent buildings, one of classrooms and the other of offices. The essential element is the diagonally ascendent agora that spatially and programmatically connects all levels of classrooms with the common space... [+]

Bevk Perović arhitekti, Atelier 4 architects, NFA   Albania   Considering the entire site as a natural monument, the project integrates the Supreme Court and the School of Magistrates – a listed Italian rationalist building – with the least possible impact, maintaining the park green and accessible... [+]

Bevk Perović arhitekti   Germany   The proposal is based on a hybrid structure, a compound of programmatic elements that favor urban complexity. The program is dissolved into several volumes unifying the whole through a square that functions as the city’s social and artistic platform.

Bevk Perović arhitekti   Austria   The project has three parts: the casemate – a renovated medieval artillery warehouse –, a welcome center, and a gallery. The casemate connects all the programs within a whole, creating a tie between city and park and between present and past... [+]

Bevk Perović arhitekti   Austria   A hybrid structure, conceived as a ‘vertical city’ where an extensive variety of units coexist, surrounds a landscaped courtyard that functions as a park, a plaza, and a terrace at the same time, drawing an ‘open perimeter.’... [+]

Bevk Perović arhitekti   Slovenia   The basic forms – a circle for the chapels and a rectangle for the exterior funerary rituals –, the traditional architectural elements – pedestal, beams, and pitched roof –, and the classical principles – symmetry and stacking – are the basis of this

Bevk Perović arhitekti   Slovenia   The project tackles the renovation of the historic Drama Theater, built in the early 20th century, and the replacement of the technical extension – built in the 1960s – with a production volume. The set is complemented with an outdoor public space. T

Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten   Germany   A skin of glass with deeply sloping surfaces, which rises up to 45 meters in height evoking the roof of a cathedral, delimits a translucent body that allows intuiting its inner life. The main concert hall ‘floats’ above the smaller one... [+]

PFP Planungs   Germany   A series of staggered volumes of different sizes, which house differentiated functions of the program individually, create a complex of great sculptural expressiveness, stressed by the perforated facades that mark out the cubic forms... [+]

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   A ramp of access surrounds the building, a ziggurat-shaped structure with slender concrete pillars placed rhythmically on the facade. The ascending spiral reappears inside, in the main concert hall, with the seating arranged along it... [+]

3XN   Germany   With a striking image, the facade resembles a fabric thrown on top of the building. The fold in the frontal plane frames the main entrance, which articulates two of the three volumes that make up the building, each one with a different function... [+

Staab Architekten   Germany   A structure with an industrial-like image emphasizes the longitudinal axis of the project. The accesses are large column-free spaces placed at the ends, occupying the entire width of the building and extending the outdoor public space... [+]

Henning Larsen   Germany   The concert hall is a musical ‘production plant’ and seeks permeability by placing entrances on four of its sides; the facade plays with transparencies and different materials – copper, cor-ten steel, and glass – subtly showing the interior activitie

Zaha Hadid Architects   Germany   Taking inspiration from the design of industrial silos, the monolithic volume is composed of smooth metallic skin cylinders. The facade is dematerialized at one of the corners, transformed into glass to accommodate a hall illuminated overhead... [+]

Christ & Gantenbein   Germany   A skin of semi-cylinders of glass surrounds the main room unveiling the activities taking place inside the building and composing a solid prism with industrial echoes. The building opens up to the square through a large foyer... [+]

Mecanoo   Germany   The proposal explores the classical principles of typology and draws inspiration from musical rhythms both in its bronze facade and in the hall’s interior. The glass-enclosed foyer becomes a large space for gathering and visits. 

Padilla Nicás arquitectos   Spain   Two of the pieces that are incorporated, the reagents and pretreatment buildings, are resolved with a metallic structure resting on in situ concrete vats, and are covered with goffered aluminum, with the intention of dematerializing the volumes in th

MX_SI Architectural Studio   Spain   The need to reduce costs to a maximum during the building’s construction process led to the decision of choosing a lightweight facade, formed by aluminum trays with a variable section, which allowed a fast and dynamic assembly... [+]

CEBRA Architecture   Denmark   A set of stacked boxes, covered with a light facade of perforated aluminum panels – according to a pattern that illustrates how the air flow changes when it meets resistance – are offset from the base, where the existing brickwork is preserved... [+]

Labics   Italy   The ensemble, with a total area of 17,000 m², is organized in several volumes, each one with a different envelope depending on its use. The facades of offices and retail buildings are designed with glass and a delicate aluminum lattice... [+]

Bernardes Arquitetura   Brazil   The facade consists of a series of different layers that filter light and sound. The outermost skin, with a green buffer and special soundproof windows placed behind it, is a lattice of perforated aluminum that covers the upper working floors... [+]

MAYU architects   Taiwan   The aluminum perforated screens of the main facade pay tribute to the Biblical metaphor of the eagle, arranged as feathers. Their orientation is calculated according to the Fibonacci sequence and varies by increments of two degrees from feather to fe

Neutelings Riedijk Architects   Netherlands   The building’s interior and exterior facades are completed with brick and oakwood frames holding a total of 2,264 fingerprints of Deventer citizens, reproduced with aluminum in collaboration with the local artist Loes ten Anscher... [+]

Mecanoo, CCDI   China   The Dutch team is building a new complex, comprising three cultural centers and a large bookstore, in the city of Shenzhen, on the southern coast of China. Fragmented into four volumes, the project seeks revitalizing its environment acting as an urba

The exhibition ‘Cartographies of the Unknown’ gathers more than 200 pieces from the collection of the National Library of Spain as well as other institutions, like the National Geographic Institute, the Royal Academy of History, the Royal Palace, and

Photographer and graphic designer in the toy industry, Emmett started developing his interest in capturing the spirit of abandoned places five years ago, when during a visit to the National Gas Turbine Establishment of Hampshire he discovered that th