Sou Fujimoto   France   The proposal for the New High Court of Lille, designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects with Coldefy, welcomes citizens beneath a tent-like, transparent canopy that fills the interior spaces with natural light... [+]

Díaz y Díaz TAU   Spain   The practice of Gustavo Díaz and Lucas Díaz – working out of offices in A Coruña and Madrid – and that of Naiara Montero and Jon Montero (TAU) – A Coruña and Barcelona – together designed a new judiciary building for the city of Pontevedra. The 23,48

Mecanoo   Spain   Seeing the need to modernize the city courts, the regional government of Andalusia called a competition for the construction of the new City of Justice of Córdoba. On a plot of 12,000 square meters, in a new urban area, the project would give the nei

Bevk Perović arhitekti Atelier 4 architects NFA   Albania   Considering the entire site as a natural monument, the project integrates the Supreme Court and the School of Magistrates – a listed Italian rationalist building – with the least possible impact, maintaining the park green and accessible... [+]

Renzo Piano   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

Dominique Perrault   Luxembourg   This is the latest of the interventions that Perrault has planned for the extension of this complex. It’s a third tower that synthesizes the aesthetics of the different buildings of the Court and marks the end of the Gallery that articulates them...

Pesquera Ulargui Arquitectos   Spain   The new Palace of Justice goes up as a building open to citizens, functional, transparent, and accessible. If furthermore brings together all the law courts services of La Rioja, up to now scattered in different buildings, while at the same time cont

Arquitecturia   Spain   Located by the River Segre, Balaguer is the capital of La Noguera – the largest county in the province of Lleida, and one of the most heterogeneous due to its different types of landscape –, and also of one of the seven judicial districts of Lleida.

Mecanoo   Spain   Winners of the international competition called in 2006, the Dutch studio Mecanoo – together with the Spanish engineering firm Ayesa – is building the City of Justice of Córdoba since 2014. The new complex of 50,000 square meters is designed to gathe

Cappai + Segantini architects   Italy   Besides providing new offices for the Law Courts of the city of Venice, the building becomes an urban infrastructure in freeing up ground area and giving it up to the street.

Barbosa & Guimarães   Portugal   The new law Court building in the small city of Gouveia goes up on a site between two public gardens, at the end of Rampa do Monte do Calvário. The project foresees the replacement of an existing structure that took up the whole block, which has allo

François Chaslin   The Cité Judiciaire serves to centralize a vast network of courthouses in a tiered tower that rises a hundred and sixty meters, and is already an icon of the new neighborhoods of Paris. 

Known for the formal freedom with which it tackles its projects, the Dutch firm Mecanoo has demonstrated more restraint in building the new Palace of Justice of the southern Spanish city of Córdoba. The Delft-based practice has distributed the comple

La sala de los pasos perdidos del antiguo Palais de Justice en la parisina isla de la Cité ha sido el escenario de la presentación por Renzo Piano del anteproyecto para el nuevo Palais que se ubicará en el barrio de Batignolles. El edificio, que será

¿Cómo compatibilizar utilidad con representación, economía con significación, en un edificio destinado a la admistración de justicia? Tal es la pregunta planteada en la propuesta del equipo liderado por Jesús Ulargui y Eduardo Pesquera, que ha result

Emilio Tuñón   En las últimas décadas del siglo pasado, las diferentes administraciones de la Justicia de España no fueron conscientes del colapso judicial que se estaba gestando como consecuencia del crecimiento exponencial de los procesos derivados de la nueva si

El Pais   Luis Fernández-Galiano   Justice is no longer blindfolded. Both France and the United States are erecting effusively visual constructions to patch up a cracked system, and Spain – attentive at once to the judiciary experiments of its northern neighbor and to the litigation s