Decorated with a curved screen made of metal grids, the theater in its weightless appearance strikes a contrast with the clay fabric of historical Albi and has become a new cultural hub.
In 1992, the city of Berlin, still in the throes of the reunification, set up an international public competition for the design of the Olympic Velodrome and Swimming Pool. The city ended up losing the games to Sydney, but the project was green-light
As with the Velodrome and Olympic Pool in Berlin, the Madrid Olympic Tennis Center aims to strengthen the Spanish capital’s candidacy for the Olympic Games. With a plot area of 16,5 hectares, the 100,000-square meter project includes three indoor cou
The National Library of France goes up on a stretch of industrial wasteland on the banks of the Seine in the East End of Paris. It represents the starting-point for a complete restructuring of this entire sector of the city. The enormous building is
Towards 1960, the Kirschberg plateau was practically a desert, separated from the old city of Luxembourg by the valley of L’Alzette. Like a large clearing in the heart of Grünewald forest, its image was marked by the even extension of the harvested f
In one of the parisian scenarios of the French Revolution, close to Palais Royal and the Louvre, is the block called Bons Enfants, redesigned to house the once scattered premises of the Ministry of Culture and Communication. The historic quarter, com
A diez minutos a las afueras de París, en un entorno de construcciones heterogéneas, junto a una autopista y unas vías de tren, se ubica el nuevo parque de bomberos de la pequeña ciudad de Nanterre. La necesidad de incluir en el programa un número el
On the outskirts of Amsterdam, far away from the canals that characterize its quaint urban center, the landscape next to the freeway around the city bears much resemblance to the edges of many other European metropolis. The headquarter offices of the
The Media Library is located in the small town of Vénissieux, on the outskirts of Lyon. This is a large multi-purpose shelter, opening onto the town, opening onto the world. It is a place for learning about cultures, for a blending of sensibilities a
As part of the built-up landscape of Grand Caen, the iron and steel plant of Unimetal was a dense jumble of sheds and railway tracks that took up a surface similar to that which in Paris comprises the Louvre Museum and the Tuleries Garden, meanwhile
A building set out in the landscape according to the strict geometric and syntactic rules of a puzzle. Each square of the twenty meter grid takes up an industrial function or a part of a function like a square of the crossword takes a letter. These f
