Mecanoo LOLA Landscape Architects Meng Architects   China   The Dutch firm Mecanoo and the Chinese Meng Architects, in collaboration with LOLA Landscape, are the winners of the international design competition for Shenzhen Guangming Scientist Valley. The ambitious project aims to establish the first comprehen

Mecanoo   China   The new library will rise by Tap Seac Square in the historical center of Macau, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its grid facade recalls the exterior of the building that stands on the site, the former Hotel Estoril. Where the main entrance is, the skin

Mecanoo LABB   Spain   At the edge of the city, on the shores of the Segre River and close to the AVE station, the La Llotja Theater and Congress Center has as its backdrop the Seu Vella, the historical cathedral of Lérida, located at a hilltop. The project, which won the

Mecanoo LABB   Spain   Francine Houben directs the architecture office Mecanoo since 1984. With noteworthy projects like the library of TU Delft (completed in 1997), after a competition held in 2005 the studio was commissioned to build the La Llotja de Lleida Congress Cent

Mecanoo   Spain   With a perimetral block and interior courtyard typology, the project includes 170 dwellings. The communal spaces of the complex will be covered with gold-colored tiles that will remind of the tone of olive oil…

De Architectengroep   Ethiopia   In the center of Ethiopia, the city of Addis Ababa, with an extension of 21,000 square kilometers, covers a valley south of the Entoto mountain range. At 2,500 meters in height, the capital always enjoys the scent of eucalyptus wood, coming from the

Mecanoo   Switzerland   Dos suaves montañas de césped cubren las zonas destinadas a aparcamiento, e invitan a estudiantes y profesores a reunirse, pasear, leer o montar en bicicleta; sobre una de ellas se levanta el Learning Center, un edificio en forma de ala que termina e

De Architectengroep   Holanda   The reuse of the plot that housed a storage tank of a former sewage plant was the object of a 1994 competition in Amsterdam-West. The urban plan for the area foresaw a series of single-family housing units in the green area that separated two residen

Mecanoo   Netherlands   The relationship of Dutch architecture and landscape is especially broad and deep; the land is conquered and altered constantly, in such a way that the artificial is not understood as opposed to the natural. The National Ethnographic Museum, founded

De Architectengroep   Netherlands   True to the Dutch tradition of expanding cities by claiming land from the sea, Amsterdam authorities thought early on filling and draining their old port for an eventual urbanization of the zone, close to downtown. In awareness of the area’s historic