SANAA   Taiwan   Ten different-sized volumes intersect or separate from each other, generating inner courtyards in accordance with the programmatic needs.The volumes rest on the ground or are raised to provide the building with shaded public spaces. The pieces are p

Jean-Loup Baldacci   Taiwan   The project is conceived as a transition space between Gateway Park and the city, proposing an artificial topography that buries the museum program and supports a longitudinal piece housing the library and a tower containing offices. 

Eisenman Architects   Taiwan   Two transversal axes organize the site, turning the TCCC into a door of access to Gateway Park. On a smaller scale, those same axes arrange the form and program of the building, with the library and museum placed at different heights. 

Mass Studies   Taiwan   The project rethinks the library and museum programs, making them coexist and cooperate in a polygonal and flexible mesh structure. The purpose of this approach is to achieve urban, social, programmatic and architectural permeability.

Stücheli Architekten   Taiwan   One single orthogonal volume, strategically situated on the plot, rises from the ground creating a protected urban square underneath. The museum and library programs intertwine and shift throughout the building’s interior circulations.

Herzog & de Meuron, Hassell   Australia   The roof, inspired by the 19th century original design, is made of extruded longitudinal vaults in the direction of the rail tracks. The new addition seeks to blend with the historic building, working the connections of the station with the city. A s

ARM / Ashton Raggatt McDougall   Australia   The reflection and the spreading of waves and curves is the metaphor that inspires the project, which includes a large rooftop garden made up of a great diversity of vegetation and sparse ‘islands’ that function as skylights of the new station.

Grimshaw Architects, Wardle   Australia   Developed along the river, the proposal is conceived as an economic solution: only the central part of the railway tracks is covered. The proposal is regarded as one which doesn’t interrupt the running of the station while the construction works last

Zaha Hadid Architects, BVN Donovan Hill   Australia   On top of the train tracks is the piazza – a new public space connecting the station with the walkway from north to south –, and an amphitheater looking onto a stage over the river. The new plaza functions as an integrating element within the urban f

NH Architecture   Australia   Wishing to offer new civic spaces, the proposal incorporates a large cultural building – the Melbourne Room –, and a number of pedestrian connections under a glazed lattice that shelters the users without interrupting the views.

Eduardo Velasquez, Santiago Medina, Manuel Alejandro Pineda   Australia   A glass box protects the building of the old train station while an extensive deck with a few openings covers the train tracks, generating a new green urban space in the city. These openings allow light and air to go through the deck.

Atelier Bow-Wow, SDM Architects   India   The project is inspired by the traditional Indian mandapas, open air pavilions for public events. It has two parts, a permanent one with an L-shaped plan in the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum gardens, and an itinerant one – a wing of the main structure.&nb

H&P Architects   Vietnam   This multifunctional module is presented as a cheap solution – $2,500 – to the housing problem for populations affected by natural disasters, common in Vietnam. It can be assembled in 25 days and resists floods of up to 1.5 meters in height.  Module

Mu Wei, Sam Cho, Yu Hui   China   Thirty-six kids and their parents participated in this experimental project that integrates two structures: a three-dimensional bamboo truss that holds an elevated slab, and a few small platforms of 3x3 meters held by planted bamboo canes. Both struc

VTN Architects   Vietnam   Surrounded by an artificial lake, the dome, measuring ten meters high and fifteen meters in diameter, is topped with an oculus of 1.5 meters in diameter that ensures the release of hot air from the bar, cooled by the adiabatic evaporation of the peri

Fine Arts professor at the University of Seville, the city where he studied and currently lives, Dionisio González (Gijón, 1965) explores the different ways of inhabiting the contemporary city. His photographs, videos, spatial interventions and insta

David Maisel   Moved by the desolate landscapes destroyed by human action, the American David Maisel (New York, 1961) captures in his photographs the uncompromising physical reality of a complex world. His large-scale images show the impact on nature of industrial