1985 (Belgium)
Like a grand opéra, the exhibition is divided into acts: the ceremonious entrance is followed by a sequence of thematic spaces that look over the ground floor, to which one returns after an interlude in the rear garden...
The sip main Campus is part of the BaseLink site, a global hub for innovative companies in life sciences, technologies, and research. The project offers flexibility and durability, catering to start-ups, scale-ups, and established companies in the bi
The Paris-based Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane – founder of the architecture firm ATTA – was commissioned to build this cabin, raised on a stone base with a timber structure enclosed with thatch, a material
The French firm TANK, headed by Olivier Camus and Lydéric Veauvy, designed this complex of 55 housing units wrapped in pinewood. The simple volume is part of a larger residential development that also includes a building by Agence Guervilly. The co
The redevelopment of the Brossette site completes the transformation of boulevard Vincent-Gâche, hosting the largest construction site ever opened on the Île de Nantes. Formerly occupied by the warehouses of a manufacturer of bathroom fixtures, this
La Marine is an old industrial wasteland at the edge of the boulevard Charles de Gaulle in Colombes, in the Hauts-de-Seine Department. Formerly occupied by the Navy, it is today part of a vast urban development project to revitalize the Petit-Colombe
The project tries to create a city hall that avoids the usual monumental codes of institutional buildings and gives citizens a new civic center. This compact volume is conceived to be not only an administrative center, but also a symbol for the commu
The project revolved around the idea of creating a hybrid between ‘the house’ and ‘the apartment.’ The building therefore had to meet the challenge of raising a collective residential block having the same qualities and advantages as a one-family res
Located between the Émile Fouchard Park of Remembrance, a secondary school, and a contemporary art museum, which occupy two former churches, the gymnasium is inserted into a both formally and functionally heterogeneous context. Being right in the cit
The population of the neighborhood of La Chapelle in Paris is as varied as its architecture. Haussmann-era buildings stand next to warehouses and light industry workshops bordering those of the SNCF along the tracks leading into the Gare de l’Est. It
The new headquarters of the Italian pharmaceutical group Marchesini is located in Saint-Mesmes, a small commune in the Seine-et-Marne department. Surrounded by farmland, woods, and hills, the site of the over 1,000 m² building slopes down three meter
The renovation of the Fréquel-Fontarabie block is the last phase of the process of refurbishing the Réunion neighborhood. Characterized by ill-assorted constructions and wastelands, the block bears witness to the urban development of these working cl
The project is located in a very dense plot, in the heart of La Goutte d’Or, a working-class district in Paris currently under rehabilitation, and which is a reflection of the immigration waves in the capital: first those of rural France, later those
Se ha enriquecido la vida urbana del distrito incorporando nuevos usos privados, sin renunciar a las ventajas paisajísticas de la organización moderna mediante bloques y torres.
This building for office and retail spaces occupies the last free lot of phase one of Euralille, the urban project that Rem Koolhaas designed in the 1990s, coinciding with the French high-speed railway line’s arrival in the city, and which started to
This project for forty apartments, because of its geometry, brings to mind the corner blocks that characterized Paris of the Haussmann era; buildings originally designed as homes for families of the bourgeoisie, but gradually transformed, taking in o
This complex of 33 dwellings is the result of two successive negotiation processes. The first responds to a competition organized by the International Building Exhibition (IBA) of Hamburg in 2008 and is part of an urban development for the Wilhelmsbu
The building contains the industrial records of the energy company EDF and symbolizes its historical service to, and strong presence in, the Meuse and Haute Marne region. Archives previously kept in the firm’s production centers (nuclear, hydraulic,
Designed to connect the two parts of the city of Changsha’s urban expansion by spanning the river, this pedestrian bridge is inspired in the Chinese art of knotting and takes on the form of a Moebius strip. This makes it possible to connect multiple
The structure houses the workshop and exhibition gallery of a local artist and expert in Celadon pottery (traditional in the place). The building goes up on a two-meter high stonework plinth, right across from the main bridge that leads to the site o
Consisting of two hostels and a guest house, the complex built for the Longquan Bamboo Biennale typologically and constructively reinterprets local traditions. The floor plan is devised as a series of concentric rings of differing condition and mater
A result of the recycling of what was a police station, this media library is divided ito two parts, the entrance area and the reading room. The former is situated in the pavilion that was previously occupied by the police facilities, and the latter,
Pre-oxidized copper is the solution adopted for the various elements of the building’s facade, from the mullions of the window frames to the lattices and the opaque panels that cover the edges of the slabs.
Opened in 1849, the Museum der Kulturen Basel replaced the Augustinian monastery on the Münsterhügel with the classicist building by architect Melchior Berri. The “Universal Museum”, as it was then called, was extended in 1917 by the architects Visch
This coming Wednesday, 9 February, Museo ICO inaugurates ‘Anna Heringer: Essential Beauty’, curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano and organized by Fundación ICO. For the first time in Spain, an exhibition focuses monographically on Anna Heringer (Rosenh
Xitou Village, hidden in the green hills and clear waters of Baoxi Town, Longquan City (Zhejiang Province), is one of the birthplaces of the Celadon ceramic culture. Inconvenient transportation somewhat shields it from the influence of rapid urbaniza
