On a difficult plot in the historic quarter of the city of Grasse in southern France, the Charles Nègre media library absorbs some preexisting dwellings and an old water reservoir. The 3,600-square-meter building is inserted into the urban fabric of
A work of the firm Co-Architects, headed by Nicolas Peyrebonne, this building is located in Saint-Joseph, a commune on the southern tip of Réunion, one of the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. Establishing a constant dialogue
The new media library located in Ghent’s historic center presents a stack of horizontal slabs in what is a highly flexible volume. A series of external metal louvers set before the facade of the media library serves to protect the building against su
The new media library, in the center of Ghent, sits at a bend of the krook, the canal that runs through the city and reaches its lowest level at this point, marking the two ‘zero levels’ of the city: that of the canal itself and that of the many brid
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,
La propuesta que ganó el concurso de la mediateca es una extensión de trabajos anteriores en pos de la desmaterialización, como la casa de aluminio en Tokio, la estructura Silver Hut, la Torre de los Vientos o el desaparecido restaurante Nomad. Pero
El estudio catalán RCR junto con los flamencos Coussée & Goris ha ganado el concurso de la nueva mediateca en el centro histórico de Gante, Bélgica. La propuesta consiste en un apilamiento de losas, un volumen horizontal cuya planta baja transcurre e
Frank Gehry’s museum in Seattle and Toyo Ito’s media library in Sendai illustrate, on opposite sides of the Pacific, the fluid character of turn-of-century architecture.
On a first approach, Nîmes Carré (1984-1993) is a slender reinterpretation of the classical temple in front of it: a glass box with a steel portico. But the modern translation of the Roman monument is subtly shifted to enter into a dialogue with the
