The new Pathé complex proposes Paris as European capital of cinema, bringing together production and distribution under one roof. The project involves a complete renovation of the historic Paramount complex – built in 1929 by Auguste Bluysen in art d
An open-air enclave that preserves old rural constructions of Bavaria has been completed with an entrance pavilion that adopts the silent presence of a granary. The orderly geometry and the simple larch cladding of the building’s exterior belie the s
The German publishing group Axel Springer is currently shifting from print to digital media. To launch this move the company decided to call a competition to extend its Berlin headquarters with a new building that would act both as a symbol and as a
Nature fills the new learning center designed by Sou Fujimoto with Manal Rachdi and Nicolas Laisné, which opens up to the park through a large clear facade and an atrium for social interaction... [+]
Located in the urban nucleus of the Colombian capital, the Ágora-Bogotá Convention Center is conceived to be a civic, technological, cultural, and environmental center of attraction for use by the city’s inhabitants. With this as objective, the proj
The grain silo of Cape Town had since the 1920s been used to store and process corn coming from different parts of South Africa. Over twenty years after it closed down, it has undergone an overhaul to house the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
Three starting points: understanding the historic value of Lleialtat Santsenca (1928), an old working class cooperative in the Sants neighborhood; knowing to the detail the building’s (physical) state to maintain as much as possible; and being sensit
The building had gone through many different stages –construction as a workers’ cooperative in 1924, renovation in 1954, abandonment in the 1980s and 1990s, okupa center – and each of them had left a mark. The intervention to create a new dramaturgy
A large prefabricated volume built with larch wood contains 104 rooms distributed in eight independent communities that share gardens and atriums, and open up to a shared plaza.
The German publishing group Axel Springer is currently shifting from print to digital media. To launch this move the company decided to call a competition to extend its Berlin headquarters with a new building that would act both as a symbol and as a
Un atrio central bañado de luz organiza el edificio de la nueva biblioteca, cuya compleja estructura está diseñada para no afectar a las ruinas arqueológicas existentes en el subsuelo.
Various operations aim to activate and engage the surroundings, like raising the building to favor free-flowing circulation on the ground level and extending an adjacent roof with a gentle slope to the interior courtyard. The building, conceived as a
The new center, which will connect with the current fair, will create a new node in Bogotá. It aims to revitalize the nearby surroundings by creating attractive spaces and not being limited to specific uses. A bold and formally restrained volume gro
Hamburg’s extense fluvial port is perhaps its least elegant side, but also its most attractive one. From its historic position on the north bank of the Elbe river, this vast commercial interchange has gradually taken up the endless branches into whic
The proximity to the airport and to the fairground area have made of the northeast stretch of the M-40 – Madrid’s second beltway –one of the most coveted sites for the construction of corporate headquarters from the capital. Attracted by the characte
The intention to emphasize its role as a service to society inspired the foundation of the Pompeu Fabra University in the nineties, with an urban character that was uncommon to newly built campus. Installed in renovated buildings of diverse origin, t
Bilbao bet on the winning horse of brand-name image and architecture in order to provide the city with a new identity. And the metallic flower that grew from the banks of the Nervión fulfilled more than its expectations, converting itself into an exc
The library presides over the Nou Campus plaza, its symmetrical facade, closing the perspective created by two parallel classroom blocks. The public space of this seat of learning is shaded by regularly planted trees. The Nous Cam
