Renzo Piano Building Workshop   France   Since the Middle Ages, Parisian justice has been dispensed from the famous building that surrounds the Sainte-Chapelle on the Île de la Cité. However, over the years an increasing shortage of space has resulted in a good many offices having to be loc

UNStudio   Based on the concept of vertical city, the Scotts Soho Tower includes four types of housing of different scale; between the units there are green, outdoor areas with pools and spa. The 128 housing units in the tower are organized in two groups: above

Jean Nouvel, MDW Architecture   Belgium   The proposal includes the extension of the current gendarmerie, located in two 19th- century stables, and the refurbishment of the small villa of the Belgian dance company Charleroi. The scheme proposes demolishing some of the current buildings to ge

Herzog & de Meuron   France   Situated on the outskirts of Paris, at the Porte de Versailles and beside the Parc des Expositions, Triangle will be a visual reference on a metropolitan scale. Its singular shape – an irregular pyramid with a trapezoid base – contrasts with the uniq

SOM   China   A large opening maximizes daylight intake and facilitates cross ventilation in the offices, hotel and apartments occupying the 75-level and 358-meter Greenland Group tower...  

Sou Fujimoto Architects, Fei & Cheng Associates   Taiwan   The project for Taiwan Tower, rising 300m, proposes a new type akin to a transparent cloud. The structural frame evokes banyan trees, and the floating-rooftop the Taiwanese island of Formosa...

Dominique Perrault Architecture   France   The project for the restructuring of the Pont de Sèvres district, to the west of Paris, maintains the existing hexagonal towers and gathers them in three buildings with a new enclosure...

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Finland   The new residential and leisure complex is located in Levi ski resort, in the municipality of Kittilä, in the Lapland region. Extending the existing topography, the project proposes four buildings that radiate out from a central square creating a net

ETB Studio   Italy   In the alpine village of Sappada, a new multifunctional center is inserted on the boundary between the mountains and the traditional buildings of Bach village. Three similar architectural pieces generated by the same module are arranged in continuity

Thienot Ballan Zulaica architectes, Ricardo Sánchez González, José Ignacio Linazasoro   France   In the old quarter of the French town of Troyes, characterized by its Gothic churches and its half-timbered buildings, the urban fabric will be completed thanks to the project that includes the extension of the headquarters of the Department Council

JDS Architects   China   In the Chinese city of Hangzhou, capital of the province of Zhejiang, the new multipurpose complex of 120,000 square meters will become a gateway to the district of Gongshu and an icon for the new developments in the city. Sculpted from a parallelepi

AWP | office for territorial reconfiguration, HHF Architects   France   On the outskirts of Paris, close to the Villa Savoye of Le Corbusier, a series of small structures will direct the flow of visitors arriving at the future ‘Parc des bords de Seine’ designed by the Paris-based landscaping architects Agence Ter. The fo

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Keppie Design, OLIN   United Kingdom   The project to refurbish the historic center of Aberdeen, in Scotland, has been the object of controversy ever since it was proposed in 2010. The City Council wanted to revitalize the Union Terrace Gardens, open to the public in 1879 and currently un

Norman Foster   United Kingdom   The proposal addresses the site’s level changes establishing gentle gradation, and places, over the road and the railway, a glass building that has a resonance with the National Museum of Scotland...

Gustafson Porter   United Kingdom   The valley generated by the strong relief of the site is filled with the cultural and civic program defined in the competition brief, and is covered with a glass structure, evening out the terrain...

Mecanoo   United Kingdom   The proposal lifts a gardened platform that covers the railway tracks and the highway, thus eliminating the barriers that isolate the largest green area in the historic center of the city. Beneath the new green layer and by taking advantage of the bu

Snøhetta, Hoskins Architects   United Kingdom   The project proposes a gardened layer that makes the most of the level changes to generated multiple pedestrian connections and to insert the required program amid the vegetal mass...

West 8   United Kingdom   The project places the gardens above road traffic, increasing threefold the current green area, and proposes raising four new buildings with a cultural and commercial program...

Nexus, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   Park City, in Utah, used to be a silver mining town, but today it lives on tourism, especially during the winter ski season. The town’s Kimball Art Center – where the annual Sundance Film Festival is held yearly at the end of January – was inaugurate

Brooks + Scarpa Architects   United States   The proposal for the extension of the art center is conceived as a large glass cloud, with many transparency nuances, which hovers above the existing building, whose roof will become a large terrace...

Will Bruder Architects   United States   The extension takes up the plot adjacent to the original building with a volume whose facade, of ceramic pieces, includes two accesses at different height through the main avenues of the city...

Sparano + Mooney   United States   The proposal is inspired by the poplar trees that grow on the Wasatch mountains. The building is thus drawn up as a trunk, made of local wood, from which the different circulations and uses branch out...

Williams + Tsien Architects   United States   Instead of trying to compete with the alpine landscape of the city, the project defines outdoor halls that become part of the context. The volumes combine glazed brick and a copper enclosure...

Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra   Spain   The demand for exhibition space and the addition of an auditorium for large performances required the extension of the FIBES Exhibition and Congress Center in Seville, designed by the Spanish architect Antonio Velázquez Sáseta and opened in 1989. The

The exhibition ‘Photomontage Between the Wars (1918-1939)’ takes stock of the first moments of this photographic technique, defined by the constructivist Gustavs Klucis as ‘the artistic development of one or more photographs into a single graphical i

On another notice, the work of the artist and designer Gerry Judah, born in Calcutta in 1951 and based in London, represents the effects of wars and natural disasters on the urban landscape through three-dimensional compositions that explore the boun

Within a series of shows spotlighting women photographers of the twentieth century, the work of Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is presented for the first time in France, at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris, the city where this American photographer bega