Located at the entrance to the Brazza area of Bordeaux, this sports center has built area exceeding 15,700 square meters and rises 20 meters. The exterior spaces are superimposed like urban squares and streets protected against wind. The building’s m
When Loos raised the Villa Müller in a quiet suburb of the city of Prague, he blotted out all exterior expression with a severe white cube, preferring to keep all intricacy indoors. Not far away from the site, another residence has emulated this sobe
Within the Quinta da Ponte in the Portuguese town of Sintra, a few kilometers from Lisbon, is this two-story construction that is part of a row of buildings arranged along the perimeter wall of the property. The ground floor contained a shop, and the
The firm of the Dutch architect Anna Holtrop took on the job of bringing back and enlarging the former Customs House at the harbor of Manama. Raised in 1937, what is one of the oldest public buildings in the capital of the Kingdom of Bahrein was tran
Shortlisted for the 2022 FAD Award in the Architecture section, the house was designed as an L-shaped porch opening onto a courtyard cum garden. With a total area of 202 square meters, the three-level building is surrounded by party walls, and its wh
Behind a renovated old facade on Verdi street in Barcelona, where white is the dominant color, the floors of the house descend toward the rear garden, where the building shows its true size. The fragmentation of the different levels forms interior ba
A bundle of slender metal diagonals breaks the traditional hierarchy of pillars and beams, altogether altering the Cartesian space inside the prism by offering fragmented views...
The strict structural rhythm creates a module capable of accommodating different programs –housing, garages, and public or commercial spaces– and offers the possibility of reversing all of them to in the future adapt them to the needs of the campus..
Auxiliary services and recreation amenities are stacked within a distinctive structure that provides users of the outlying Saclay campus with a new space for meetings and activities. The different programs are organized floor by floor, from the publi
A tower containing unobstructed spaces is the solution adopted on a small plot from which a ‘fab lab’ seeks to take part in revitalizing the port area of the city of Caen. The brief left the program largely undefined, which gave rise to a series of s
In 2009, Herzog & de Meuron in cooperation with Michel Desvigne won the invited competition for the master plan of Lyon Confluence 2, an area at the end of the peninsula between the Rhône and Sâone, there where the two rivers converge. Once the urban
