The firm MVRDV, in collaboration with LLJ Architects, has built a fruit and vegetable market in the east part of the city of Tainan. Reinventing the typology of markets, the building gives views of the surrounding landscape from an undulating accessi
Through the Mexican government's Urban Improvement Program, implemented by SEDATU (Secretariat for Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development) and with the community participating, the project for the new Guadalupe Market was undertaken for the pur
In rural Niger, markets run on a weekly basis, but the fast demographic growth of the remote village of Dandaji led to building of a new marketplace for daily shopping, on the original site around the ancestral tree villagers have always gathered at.
The Groningen office of the firm De Zwarte Hond was commissioned to design a central building that would serve as a social space for Meerstad, an up-and-coming developing residential zone that falls under the jurisdiction of the northern Dutch city.
Located at the heart of a new real-estate development on Greenwich Peninsula, London’s Design District features 16 buildings. Each is assigned to a different architecture practice, and the invited teams drew up their respective projects knowing nothi
The broad program – museum, cultural center, market, and open-air theater – is addressed through a decentralized scheme, with a promenade linking the buildings and stretching through the entire site, from the square below to the roof garden...
This ten-story building revolves around a courtyard that becomes the heart of the project – the market –, which is a connecting element between the nearby streets. The top eight floors contain 151 apartments of 80, 100, 120, and 140m²...
In the framework of a national effort to revitalize vulnerable urban areas, a market raised by means of a low-cost building system aspires to become a neighborhood’s nerve center. The edifice takes on the solid but permeable character of traditional
Built in 1930, the Mercado de Abastos has always been one of the most significant buildings of Temuco, not only because of its dimensions and privileged urban location in the central city grid, but also for its social importance. The building, which
This proposal to transform the listed Victorian Smithfield Market into the new Museum of London involves reconstructing the distinctive silhouette of the old market and reinstating the corner tower to generate a new landmark in the city... [+]
The Sant Antoni Market, completed in 1882 according to the project by the architect Antoni Rovira i Trias and the engineer Josep Maria Cornet i Mas, is one of the most emblematic public buildings in Barcelona’s Ensanche. Since its construction, the s
The proposal divides the underused industrial warehouse into two halves – the vacant space, surrounded by the ‘ring,’ and the cattle market – via the ‘switch,’ a ‘bypass’ located between them that favors simultaneous use and spatial mutability... [+]
The proposal for the New London Museum at Smithfield Market adapts its program to the available spaces, making the most of the preexisting, its uniqueness and richness, and intervening to improve circulation and to highlight the qualities of the plac
The building goes up on the site of the old market, with a trapezoidal plan, attached to a party wall and with three facades, the shortest one onto Plaza de Colón, the center of which is presided by the medieval Islamic tower, symbol and image of the
The new market in the historic center of Rotterdam, characterized by its roof which is a horseshoe arch of 40 meters in height, offers a mixture of different programs aimed at revitalizing the Laurenskwartier district where it goes up. Aside from the
The Lideta Mercato was destined to be a shopping mall like the many others that, under the impact of globalization, already exist in Addis Ababa: a simple glass container with large shops for wealthy customers. However, the attention given to local c
The infrastructure is a centralized facility that proposes a new model for the relationship between food producers and consumers through a series of interwoven program areas, rotated at different angles with regards to the urban grid... [+]
Located between Collins Avenue and Indian Creek, with direct views of the Atlantic Ocean, the complex includes three buildings: an arts center, a market, and a parking garage, which are interconnected and articulated through the public space. The ar
The Barceló Market area in Madrid includes public spaces, buildings and temporary installations belonging to one same complex. Its multiple denomination – market/sports center/library – soon speaks of collective engagement and reveals the social cond
This Angolan marketplace was constructed by means of an easy-to-assemble modular system whose components could be optimally packed in shipping containers.
Barcelona’s Mercat Fira de Bellcaire, popularly known as Mercat dels Encants Vells, is one of the oldest markets in Europe (some references date its origin back to the 14th century). Though in the past it was organized informally outdoors on the stre
As a result of a competition held in 2004, the Market Hall is part of a larger plan that aims to regenerate the city center of Rotterdam. Located where the city was founded, the building is a new mixed-use type that interrelates public and residentia
The historic Abu Dhabi Central Market is one of the oldest sites in the city. Inspired by the traditional architecture of the Gulf, this scheme aims to reinvent the marketplace as a contemporary mixed-use complex and give the city a new civic heart.
It is very likely that Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano are currently the most international partners of Spanish architecture. From offices set up in Madrid and Berlin, their practice operates like a perfectly well-oiled machine, one capable. mor
From afar the Markthal built by MVRDV in Rotterdam might suggest a kind of arch of triumph, a monument of the magnitude of the Baths of Caracalla. But this is just a mirage. As the visitor approaches the central eye of the building, the impression it
El equipo dirigido por Julien De Smedt construirá un nuevo edificio destinado a mercado, oficinas y aparcamiento en el barrio barcelonés de Poble Nou, no lejos de la Torre Agbar. Inspirándose en el Museo Guggenheim de Nueva York, el edificio propone
Revitalizar los cascos históricos a partir de pequeñas intervenciones respetuosas con el entorno es una de las estrategias más exitosas que plantea el urbanismo contemporáneo. Esta sensibilidad inspira el proyecto de Diego Brieva y Carlos Violadé (Be
Después de un proceso largo y complejo que ha durado diez años desde la celebración del concurso, el estudio barcelonés dirigido por Charmaine Lay y Carles Muro ha finalizado la construcción del nuevo mercado municipal cubierto de la localidad mallor
El Mercado de Atarazanas, construido en Málaga en 1876 por Joaquín de Roucoba en hierro y vidrio según el modelo de Les Halles, sobre un taller naval nazarí del que conserva la portada, ha vuelto a abrir sus puertas tras la rehabilitación dirigida po
El mercado mayorista de flores y plantas de Barcelona ha inaugurado nuevas instalaciones: una atípica nave de 15.000 metros cuadrados, firmada por el argentino Willy Müller. Dividida en tres áreas (flor cortada, plantas, y flores secas y complementos
