A new vision for Milan’s disused railway yards, Milan
In 2016, EMBT participated with four teams – Stefano Boeri, MAD, Cino Zucchi, and Mecanoo – in a multidisciplinary workshop to redefine seven old railway yards that break the urban fabric of Milan imposing barriers between neighboring districts... [+
San Giacomo Church and Parish Center, Ferrara
The parish complex functions as a catalyst for social interaction, with a plaza where the two side access axes converge, connecting it to a series of attached structures containing educational, associative, and recreational services... [+]
Centro Direzionale Subway Station, Naples
In 2004, the city of Naples invited different international architects – including Benedetta Tagliabue, Richard Rogers, Álvaro Siza, Massimiliano Fuksas, or Dominique Perault – to design the stations for the city’s new metropolitan line... [+]
Clichy-Montfermeil Subway Station, Paris
A pergola of panels inspired in the lively colors and patterns of African fabrics unifies the exterior volumes and the plaza. The central space, clad in the same material and with four zigzagging stairs, receives natural light through a large skyligh
Fudan Business School, Shanghai
The current structure of the area lacks spaces with the capacity to promote public life, so the new Fudan campus wishes to create a new social hub for the community. Its pieces are connected with each other and with the other schools by a new green s
Vanke Headquarters, Shenzhen
The Mangrove Reserve in Shenzhen Bay served as inspiration to carry out this design, in which lush vegetation colonizes three towers destined to host the new Vanke headquarters, which incorporate multiple measures to erect them as a symbol of sustain
Chinatrust Tower, Taichung
Taking the image of a cypress forest as reference, evoking the name of the company founder, the tower vanishes in a play of reflections on the facade as it rises. The collages and initial models were very important in the design of the skin and volum
Exhibition project at the Vittoriano in Rome
The setting for the exhibition ‘Italian Lexicon: Stories and Faces of Our Country’ features structures of unfinished air combining arches, vaults, and exedras, returning to the architectural language of classical Rome to establish a dialogue with the
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Extension, Competition in Bilbao
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Extension, Foster + Partners
The proposal restores the original entrance of the museum and turns Plaza Arriaga into the new heart along the museum’s spine. A new structure rests across the buildings of 1945 and 1970, adding 2,000m² of gallery space on a single, open flexible fl
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Extension, BIG
The geometry of the new landscape is defined as a smooth curve that moves between the buildings of 1945 and 1970. This line generates a surface that rises at three points to produce the necessary spaces for the extension of the museum... [+]
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Extension, Rafael Moneo
The proposal modifies the urban layout to ‘place’ the museum on the square, and is envisaged as a new and final extension of the first Museum, doing away with earlier ones; the new volumes generate interstitial spaces like the courtyard-cloister and
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Extension, Nieto Sobejano
The extension is incorporated as a new piece to the heterogeneous sum of interventions. A cubic volume of concrete rises above the ground occupying the empty space between the two buildings, and creating a strong contrast with them... [+]
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Extension, SANAA
The emblematic spaces of the Arriaga and Chillida squares are enhanced by floating elements, which favor traffic and accessibility by providing covered resting spaces. Euskadi Square is renovated to become a welcome point to the site... [+]
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Extension, Snøhetta
An ascending route takes visitors up to the last floor, where they discover how the museum opens to the landscape. The plaza, previously enclosed, rises to connect with Doña Casilda park, and contains an outdoor amphitheater for cultural events... [+
Observation Tower
Swan Lake Viewing Tower, Rongcheng
At 15.6 meters in height, the tower offers visitors spectacular views of the wetlands and the mountains. The tower is built and wrapped with wood, with a shingle facade of Douglas fir, and a roof skylight that lets light reach the interior spaces...
Observatorios del ciervo corso, Córcega
Three observatories built by artisans from the area using local wood (‘Laricio’ or andemic pine) go up in different spots of Corsica Regional Park. Each tower is designed to adapt to its specific location and context, offering the best views to obser
Bird Watching Tower, Tipperne
The structural system is designed like a supporting frame thanks to which the tower can expand gradually as it rises. All individual elements, including handrails, stairs, landings, and balustrades, form a part of the tower’s overall structural syste
Camp Adventure Tower, Haslev
A work of EFFEKT, the Copenhagen firm headed by Tue Foged and Sinus Lyngeesta, this tower contains a spiral walk of oakwood from which to enjoy views over the treetops of Gisselfeld Klosters Skove, a forest 60 kilometers from the Danish capital. The
Thermal Machine
Exhibition
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, Natural Approach
Miracoli a Milano, Milan (Italy)
San Giacomo Church and Parish Center, Ferrara (Italy)
Centro Direzionale Subway Station, Naples (Italy)
Clichy-Montfermeil Subway Station, Paris (France)
Fudan Business School, Shanghai (China)
Vanke Headquarters, Shenzhen (China)
Chinatrust Tower, Taichung (China)
Exhibition project at the Vittoriano, Rome (Italy)
Museo de Bellas Artes, Competition in Bilbao
Foster + Partners / LM Uriarte BIG / AZAB
Rafael Moneo
Nieto Sobejano
SANAA / IA+B
Snøhetta / Foraster Arquitectos
Torres de observación, Four Details
TAO (Trace Architecture Office)
Swan Lake Viewing Tower, Rongcheng (China)
ORMA Architettura
Corsican Deer Observatories, Corsica (France)
Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
Bird Watching Tower, Tipperne (Denmark)
EFFEKT
Camp Adventure Tower, Haslev (Denmark)
PLANTA para la Fundación Sorigué, Thermal Machine
Ábalos + Sentkiewicz
Balaguer (Spain)
‘Calder Stories’, Colorful Balance
Centro Botín, Santander (Spain)
Thomas Jorion, Majestic Ruins
‘Veduta’, ‘Vestiges d’Empire’
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