A few kilometers from Lucerne, the town of Kriens is promoting sustainable and controlled development, applying policies to densify the urban fabric and create compact neighborhoods with highly diversified uses. Much of this growth is taking place so
(Text by Abalos+Sentkiewicz) The scheme drawn up by AS+ for Dongguan Binhai Cultural District is an innovative technical, cultural, and environmental composite that orchestrates and combines natural and industrial resources to come up with forms, m
On its main facades, the tower is characterized by cantilevered offices and apartments. Each one of them represents a town or city of Albania, so the visual play they generate with the terraces, seen from afar, configures an abstract map of the count
The impressive mountains that surround the capital of Albania inspire the design of this mixed-use skyscraper set to be the country’s tallest, and houses apartments, shops, boutique hotel, business area, offices, and parking as well as restaurants an
How do we want to work tomorrow? That is the question that EM2N set out to answer in designing the building located at Binzstrasse in Zurich. From the start of the project it was clear that the Swiss practice would itself take part of the rental spac
A new district, designed by Heatherwick Studio, has opened in Xi’an, honoring the Chinese city’s legacy of craftsmanship and ceramics. The Xi’an Centre Culture Business District (CCBD) is south of the historic core, between the ruins of the Temple of
The Rruga Adem Jashari mixed-use development presents three russet-hued towers and a white stepped pyramid. Located on a strategic site in the Albanian capital, on the boundary between the urban fabric and an adjacent park, the pigmented concrete co
The sip main Campus is part of the BaseLink site, a global hub for innovative companies in life sciences, technologies, and research. The project offers flexibility and durability, catering to start-ups, scale-ups, and established companies in the bi
The collaboration between the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Herzog & de Meuron began in the 1990s. In the three decades since then, a series of buildings has been realized. A development plan devised in 2014 provides the urban gu
Basel’s Messeplatz district is home to the convention center (also by Herzog & de Meuron), life science industry, and the Badischer Bahnhof station. The Rosentalturm project aims to enhance local ties with residences, businesses, and green spaces, em
The Danish architecture firm Cobe has been tasked to turn the historic Krulli steelworks into a mixed-use district – with housing and offices – in the Estonian capital. The masterplan is based on transforming, reusing (from materials and components t
A crack carves through the glass facade of One River North, a new mixed-use development near the center of the River North Art District of Denver, Colorado. The building contains 187 rental apartments on fifteen stories, plus retail spaces at the bot
In the heart of the Yangtze River Delta, integrating existing water streets with new ones, this development mixes offices, dwellings, and retail spaces with a cultural center that provides a theater and exhibition galleries, under a roof that include
The ‘H.E.Co, Híbrido Ecolóxico Cohabitacional’ scheme drawn up by Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas, and Javier de Andrés de Vicente has won the ideas competition for a mixed-use building in the Barreiro neighborhood of the city
Stretching 67.5 meters, what is now the longest cantilever in the world cuts a figure between two skyscrapers of the One Za’abeel mixed-use development in Dubai. This horizontal structure weighing approximately 9,580 tons floats 100 meters above grou
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
The metal facade reflects the modulation of the floor plans. The photovoltaic system with color coated solar modules integrated in the cladding provides high energy efficiency, protects the interior space from excessive heat, and takes advantage of s
Due to the poor condition of the existing buildings, the new design had to be based on tearing everything down and building from scratch. The architectural type of the industrial warehouse served as a programmatic premise for the complex. The warehou
Europaallee is by far the largest real estate development in the heart of Zurich and lies just beyond the main train station. The site is the final of eight new constructions and is directly adjacent to the multicultural – and rather infamous – distr
The former Masséna Station and the area surrounding it will form a complex governed by a circular economy and a sustainable food system. Residents and visitors can participate in all the cycles, from planting to producing and composting. The ramps we
In Singapore's financial district the Danish firm BIG and the Italian office of Carlo Ratti Associati have together built a mixed-use building 280 meters tall. The vertical elements on the facade are pulled apart like curtains, and the resulting curv
The project is the result of an international design competition to transform Harbourside into a new, iconic, and inviting destination at the heart of Sydney. The landmark site has a long, rich, and layered history, which provides a unique framework.
The tripartite composition of the envelope organizes the distribution of uses within the factory. The two first floors, dedicated to theater-related activities, are integrated into the circulation routes of visitors, who become part of the performanc
Construction of Herzog & de Meuron’s ‘Triangle’ is to begin in Paris at the end of the year, after 15 of legal battles. The tower will be the tallest to go up in Paris since 1973. Building work is programmed for completion in 2026... Libération:
Located in the western Polish city of Wroclaw, which was the German Breslau, the Concordia Design building highlights the Dutch firm MVRDV’s capacity to deal with all kinds of situations. In this case the situation could hardly have been more complic
Almost thirty years ago MVRDV leaped to fame thanks, among other things, to its uninhibited way of crystallizing the diagrams of uses in constructions of a public nature. After all this time it seems that the formula still works, as we can see in the
