The deep meaning of the concept of ‘building the city’ lies in the ability to generate public space. While the public nature of a place is essentially a consequence of its citizens’ activity, the architect’s responsibility is to create the conditions
Envisioned as a village within a circle, the pavilions designed by the firm of Tarik Oualalou and Linna Choi, working out of offices in Casablanca and Paris, were the venue of the 2023 World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, held from 9
The Laherrère Center is part of an urban renewal program for the Saragosse district of Pau, the capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of France’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It rises on the site of an old hospice that was unoccupied and in ve
La oficina de París liderada por Antonio Virga ha sido la encargada de construir este cine con siete salas y de remodelar los espacios circundantes en la ciudad francesa de Cahors, en la región de Occitania. Integrado en un proyecto de desarrollo del
The Paris practice of Jacques Ferrier and Pauline Marchetti built this complex of office buildings in Shanghai. Interconnected by spaces covered with vegetation, the sober blocks were designed according to their positions on the site. In spite of the
Adjacent to the Saint-Lazare Station in Paris, this mixed-use development is the work of the local practice of Jacques Ferrier and Pauline Marchetti. The project involves restoring and rehabilitating a listed historical edifice, and raising a 20,000-
With a composition of series, encounters, and indentations that make the facade a dazzling urban altarpiece, the building rises fifty meters over the horizon of Paris.
Una estructura central, de 680x18 metros, une todos los espacios y pabellones del complejo, construido para la cumbre climática COP 22; un colosal toldo de membrana pretensada, de 12.400 metros cuadrados, protege del fuerte sol el eje principal en to
The Casarès-Doisneau intermunicipal school and social center in the French city of Saint-Denis comprises two buildings organized around a courtyard and characterized by the strong stamp of wood, as much in the structures as in the finishing touches.
Built over a railroad crossing in northeast Paris, the Green Office® enjoy building addresses the particularities of the site. The inner structure, which had to be as light as possible, is formed by pillars and wooden beams, while towards the exterio
El restaurante Fouquet’s, inaugurado en 1899 en la intersección de los Campos Elíseos con la elegante avenida George V, se ha ido convirtiendo a lo largo de sus más de cien años de existencia en una auténtica institución parisina. Adquirido por el gr
La cultura mediática actual ha creado una fórmula casi siempre infalible: la reunión de estrellas es sinónimo de éxito. Los directivos de la cadena hotelera Silken, no ajenos a este hecho, reunieron a diecinueve estudios de arquitectura, diseño y pai
In the Marshy lands of the French region of the Marne, amidst a wooded vegetation of apple, cherry and pine trees, this green metallic house feeds on the landscape with the purpose of making itself invisible. The long plot, with a strong slope of fif
