OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Canada   The extension of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec sits amid the other three existing buildings, already belonging to the institution, and that make up a complex on the edge of the park. The project tries to establish new relationships betw

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   Located between Collins Avenue and Indian Creek, with direct views of the Atlantic Ocean, the complex includes three buildings: an arts center, a market, and a parking garage, which are interconnected and articulated through the public space.  The ar

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   Located in the heart of downtown Santa Monica, the mixed-use complex achieves a strong interaction between interior program and exterior environment with a stepped building that creates terraces for a broad range of activities... [+]

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The project wraps a tower and a horizontal plate in an ETFE membrane that is fritted to accept projections both from within and from the outside, creating a lifted public space for the city, the Sky Park, that brings new life to the surrounding green

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The stepped form, possible thanks to a structural facade, is a response to its context: on a narrow plot with adjacent buildings, the tower stretches skywards and to the east, expanding the floor area and preserving the views over Madison Square Park

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The skyscraper is designed as three stacked cubes connected by curved planes that rotate gradually to form a 45-degree angle with regards to Manhattan’s grid, engaging in dialogue with neighbor buildings like the Seagram or the Lever House... [+]

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   To prevent catastrophes with such devastating effects as hurricane Sandy, the project proposes a comprehensive strategy dealing with urban, landscape, and political issues and based on four concepts: resist, delay, store, and discharge... [+]

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The infrastructure is a centralized facility that proposes a new model for the relationship between food producers and consumers through a series of interwoven program areas, rotated at different angles with regards to the urban grid... [+]

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   11th Street Bridge Park – the Anacostia Crossing – will connect green spaces and services on both sides of the river, turning the X-shaped bridge into a city landmark, offering new views and a variety of cultural, leisure, and sports activities... [+

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   Two possible design approaches, the North-South Axis and Stitch concepts, propose revitalizing the Anacostia River with a variety of amenities and public spaces that can offer a new gate of entrance to Washington D.C... [+]

Norman Foster   A droneport project for Africa with an initial plan for three buildings to be completed by 2020, and a larger network so that every small town in Africa can have its own droneport by 2030: this is the ambition of the first project of the foundation

Estonian Academy of Arts   Estonia   The three pavilions are shaped as megaphones, built with untreated larch wood, and rest on stones collected in the surroundings. They function as attention amplifiers, prompting to listen to the sounds of the forest and to observe nature... [+]

Flanagan Lawrence   United Kingdom   Inspired in the local sand dunes, the concept of the shells is derived from notion of a traditional bandstand. Built without formwork and with concrete sprayed directly on to the reinforcement mesh, the shell is only ten centimeters thick... [+]

Lukas Kühne   Iceland   On Iceland’s east coast, Tvisöngur is a sound sculpture consisting of five inteconnected concrete domes with heights between two and four meters. Each dome has a resonance that corresponds to a tone in the island’s five-tone harmony tradition... [+]

Luke Jerram   United Kingdom   Aeolus is a sound sculpture with a spheric-arch shape covered with steel tubes. Some of the tubes have tops with strings attached to them, transferring vibrations that make audible the sounds of the wind while amplifying the sky views through the tub

Mecanoo   Spain   Winners of the international competition called in 2006, the Dutch studio Mecanoo – together with the Spanish engineering firm Ayesa – is building the City of Justice of Córdoba since 2014. The new complex of 50,000 square meters is designed to gathe

Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia founded Superstudio in Florence in 1966. Gian Piero Frassinelli, the brothers Roberto and Alessandro Magris, and Alessandro Poli would later join the architecture, art, and design collective. Just as o

The self-taught photographer Francisco Gómez (1918-1988) witnessed the intensive renewal process that took place in the field during the second half of the 20th century in Spain, and is a key figure in Spanish architectural photography of that time.