Snøhetta   Norway   Snøhetta is in charge of designing the entrances to this tunnel – 1.7 km long, 37 meters high, and 36 meters wide –, which will connect two fjords and improve the safety of maritime transport around the Stad peninsula, exposed to strong winds...

Snøhetta   Norway   The new church of Ulstein will be built next to the existing one, of the 19th century, to make up for its reduced capacity and flexibility. To be built mainly of solid wood, with a glulam substructure, it will have three levels with independent acces

Snøhetta   Germany   The museum, as a new centerpiece, adopts a negotiating position among its iconic neighbors – the Nationalgalerie of Mies and Scharoun´s Philharmonic – with its publicly accessible roof which helps to connect urban spaces that are currently undefined.

Snøhetta   France   The Norwegian firm Snøhetta – headed by Craig Dykers and Kjetil Traedal Thorsen – in collaboration with the French office SRA designed new headquarters for the Le Monde Group in Paris. The 23,000-square-meter building brings the media company’s 1,600

Snøhetta   Lebanon   In order to create an authentic community, and not only an office building, the volume is carved generating a series of terraces. These outdoor areas act as social hubs, and the workspaces of the headquarters are organized around them...

Snøhetta, WCIT Architecture   United States   Inspired in the forms of the coral reef, the center is organized around a central courtyard, creating a public space of access; the building is also a landscape, with a sloping roof emerging from the terrain and inviting visitors to go up to the rais

Snøhetta   Canada   Convinced of the importance of engaging the community from the outset, the design for the city’s new library building was completed after two years of conversations with the local community. The new facility, built over an existing Light Rail Train l

Snøhetta   United States   In 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit the city of New York, and its devastating effects were felt particularly in the Far Rockaway neighborhood, in Queens. In the aftermath of the storm, the existing 1968 library building provided disaster relief to residents

Snøhetta   United States   The project recovers the natural site for visitors, putting at their service the industrial infrastructures that took up the riverbank during the industrial boom more than a century ago. A raised walkway draws visitors in and guides them as they arri

wHY Architecture   Escocia   The scheme proposed takes inspiration from the geology and history of the gardens, blending the sculptural seating bowl in the earth, expanding the green areas, and allowing the historic Edinburgh Castle to persist as the main focal point of the site

Sou Fujimoto Architects, William Matthews Associates   Escocia   Inspired by Celtic spirals, the remarkable stone circles of Orkney, and the form of the original Ross Pavilion, the proposal symbolizes the unity of the city with rings-ways connecting the New Town, the Old Town, and the Castle...

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Escocia   The undulating canopy, sculpted by its context, reflects the movement of the terrain and the light of the sky above, and frames the view of Edinburgh Castle. The visual transparency at ground level allows to enjoy the continuity of the gardens...

Flanagan Lawrence   Escocia   Through sinuous landforms that reflect the surrounding natural landscape, the project aims to create an ambivalent stage, one that invites to stroll peacefully around the gardens and also welcomes vibrant large-scale public events...

Page\ Park Architects, West 8   Escocia   The scheme maintains the character of Princes Street Gardens as space for celebration and for leisure, and carves a grotto inspired in the Nymphaeum of classical tradition, marking the memory of the Nor Loch, the old lake occupied today by the garden

Adjaye Associates   Escocia   This proposal reinterprets the original bandstand that was once the beating heart of the gardens in the late 19th century. The pavilion is the focal point of a system of stone-clad outdoor, indoor and in-between spaces, discreetly embedded into the l

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter - RRA   Escocia   The design allows to accommodate the wide variety of functions required for the pavilion as well as to extend and intensify the activities in the gardens, with elements that respond to the context and terraces of water reminiscent of Nor Loch...

Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   The information point, of 300 m², which is part of the provisional urban plan for Glòries, is built with a removable and reusable scaffolding system and surrounded by a triple skin of polycarbonate, shading mesh, and metal mesh. It has an exhibition

Dominique Perrault Architecture   France   Decorated with a curved screen made of metal grids, the theater in its weightless appearance strikes a contrast with the clay fabric of historical Albi and has become a new cultural hub.

Rue Royale Architectes   France   Under the idea of the object disappearance in time and memory, the electrical substation and its extension are surrounded by a bamboo forest and gabion meshes that unify the image of the building transforming it into an urban oasis...

De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop    United States   The design strategy for the remodeling of the visitors’ pavilion is based on a modular exterior cladding of folded aluminum mesh panels that evokes the wooded environment and reminisces traditional elements such as the garden grates...

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Bahrain   Dar Al Jinaa and Dar Al Riffa are two similar buildings, part of an urban renewal project in the historic center of Muharraq in Bahrain. The ambition is to give a public face to the ancient community of pearl divers and their musical and cultural tra

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   South Korea   A light and seemingly infinite brass structure that defragments vertically colonizes the whole building. The project references the lantern concept and its symbolism – light in the dark showing the way – to connect with Asian traditions...

SO-IL   South Korea   A stainless steel mesh veil envelops the rigid geometry of a white cube located in Seoul’s historic fabric. It blurs the actual and real mass of the geometrical art gallery playing with the shadows, the light reflections and the moiré effect...

Studio Phenomenon / Fumihiko Sano   Japan   A stainless steel mesh surrounds the house-study, creating a diffuse border between indoors and outdoors that is enhanced by the moiré effect produced by the duplicity of layers; the changes of wind and light reflect the transitions of time on the f

Kengo Kuma   Escocia   The Victoria & Albert Museum of Design is the first British building by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, and the only museum dedicated exclusively to design in Scotland. On the banks of the Tay River, with a budget of 80 million pounds, it will hos

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