Paris, France.
The station beside the Gustave Roussy Hospital in Villejuif, in the south of Paris, is part of the Grand Paris Express, a 200-kilometer system of metropolitan railway lines and 68 new stations which is one of the largest infrastructural projects unde
Through a series of stairs and ramps that follow a spiral formation, Saint-Denis Station expands public space and connects with the urban scheme of the Pleyel district in northern Paris. A work of the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the complex includ
The organization that operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory has opened a facility for scientific education and outreach, composed of several blocks pierced by a raised walkway.
Built between 1904 and 1908 in Bálchug (Bolotny óstrov), a river island in the heart of Moscow, GES-2 was a power station. The old plant is now a space conceived as an experience of going from visual to performing arts, via a welcoming civic space. T
The planning frenzy that Baron Haussman breathed into the Paris of 1850 led to an ambitious succession of urbanistic operations of an imperial grandeur that continued even after the establishment of the Third Republic twenty years later. It was in th
The new headquarters of Blue Ice, a company that designs and makes climbing and mountain equipment, is in Les Houches, a small village in the French Alps, close to the Mont Blanc. A wide roof marks the design, and follows the natural slope of the sit
Located by the Rolex Learning Center built by SANAA on the campus of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), ‘Under One Roof’ is a project that gathers three programs: an art and science pavilion, a technology and information gallery, an
Como parte del complejo de la Fundación Stavros Niarchos, la Ópera Nacional de Grecia se organiza siguiendo al pie de la letra los dictados de un ‘teatro a la italiana’ tradicional.
Since the opening of Louis Kahn’s building in 1972, the Kimbell Museum has been enlarging its collection, and with that, its needs have increased. It eventually became necessary to raise a pavilion that would accommodate a spacious gallery for tempor
Designed by Le Corbusier, the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut draws thousands of visitors and religious pilgrims every year. The project focuses on bringing the site back to a more contemplative and spiritual dimension with the settlement of a community
The scope of this project was to fuse the scattered buildings of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) into a cohesive campus with new public spaces, new exhibition spaces and a strong visual identity for the museum. The first phase introduced the
Colloquially known as The Rookery, London’s St. Giles district was for centuries one of the poorest neighborhoods in central London. The construction in the 1950s of a large government complex was meant to bring positive change, but the opposite happ
The London Bridge Tower, also known as the Shard, is a 72-public storey, mixed-use tower located beside London Bridge Station on the south bank of the River Thames. This project was a response to the urban vision of London Mayor Ken Livingstone and t
The new headquarters for The New York Times newspaper was commissioned via invited competition in 2000. RPBW’s winning design opens up a neglected corner of Manhattan opposite the Port Authority, with a 52-storey building whose themes of permeability
The City Gate project is a complex operation to reconfigure the entrance to the city of Valletta. The project has four parts: the transformation of the Valletta City Gate and the square immediately outside the ramparts, the design of a new theater ‘m
Since 2006, the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation has strived to preserve and promote the legacy of The Pathé Company, started producing films 120 years ago. With an area of 2,220 square meters, the foundation is located on the former Théàtre des Gobel
Richard Ingersoll. Con la inauguración de la actuación de Piano en Ronchamp sigue la polémica entre los enemigos y los defensores del proyecto. Los primeros critican su impacto; los segundos alaban su capacidad de enriquecer el singular enclave.
The scope of this project was to fuse the scattered buildings of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) into a cohesive campus with new public spaces, new exhibition spaces and a strong visual identity for the museum. The first phase introduced the
In 1985, the Paris City Council and the Société Anonyme de Gestion Immobilière held a competition for the construction of the Industrial Hotel Jean-Baptiste Berlier. It was to be located on a plot of land between the highway interchange of the easter
The Art Institute of Chicago consists of two wings connected by a bridge-building that goes up over railway tracks. The need to extend the facilities to house new uses and improve overall performance encouraged to add another wing to the existing mus
Founded in 1851, The New York Times is one of the leading newspapers in the United States. In the year 2000 the daily launched an architecture competition for the design of its new headquarters, to be built on a site not very far from its current loc
Both a museum and a library, the Morgan Library is the New York home of the financier J. P. Morgan’s collection, one of the world’s biggest and finest of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, books, prints and drawings. Installed in a building design
Taking the building designed by Richard Meier as point of departure, this project entails the extension of its facilities to adapt them to the significant growth of the institution. Founded in 1905 under the name Atlanta Art Association, the High Mus
The department store chain Peek & Cloppenburg began its activity in 1901, writing a story of successes that has allowed it to overcome many obstacles, such as the huge impact caused by World War II both for the German economy and for the company itse
