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
The main building is designed as a prefab wood structure that permits opening up to 36 skylights on the saw-tooth roof, making sure that the spaces for theater and for culture are always adequately illuminated throughout the day...
The Rotterdam firm MVRDV has won the competition to design a residential and shopping complex in the financial district of Jiangbei New Area, an expansion of the Chinese city of Nanjing. The 166,000-square-meter project presents two L-shaped towers,
Located in the Lower Manhattan financial district, near Tribeca and South Street Seaport, 130 William will rise 240 meters tall, making a bold architectural statement and a unique addition to Manhattan’s iconic skyline. The mixed-use high-rise is des
Part of an initiative of the non-profit developer Broadway Housing Communities, this mixed-use complex in the historic Sugar Hill district of Harlem sought to give the neighborhood new affordable housing options and also a cultural institution that w
The Italian-Spanish team formed by FRPO Rodríguez y Oriol Arquitectos (Pablo Oriol, Fernando Rodríguez), Walk Architecture & Landscape (Juan Tur Mc Glone), and SD Partners (Massimo, Giuliani, Alessandro Viganò, Beatrice Meroni) placed first in the Ma
The Préfecture de Paris, a building that originally constructed in the 1960s that housed the city administration, was situated on the banks of the River Seine. The existing ensemble comprised a 16-storey tower flanked by two 9-storey wings, which for
This project signals the transformation of a former harbor district in the south of the city into the new ecological district of Hammerby Sjöstad. Situated along the western edge of the redevelopment area, south of the bridges over the canal and besi
David Chipperfield Architects Berlin has in collaboration with Atelier Loidl Landschaftsarchitekten won the competition to carry out a development on Schützenstrasse, in the heart of Munich, having submitted a scheme characterized by functional diver
Between the consolidated city and its peripheral areas – in what is a crossroads of rivers, obsolete industries, airports, and logistical parks – lies this huge, almost 300,000-square-meter development containing residential, retail, and office uses.
In 2012, the project for the Madrid Convention Center, set to become part of the Cuatro Torres Business Area, was put on hold. After three years of construction work, the stalled project left a huge urban void where earthwork, foundation laying, and
A work of the architect Amin Taha, this seven-story block contains apartments – including this own home on the top floor – and the offices of his practice, Groupwork. Defined by its limestone structure, the building makes references to a ruined 11th-
Foster+Partners’ first commission in Chile involves regenerating an existing mid-20th-century textile factory in the heart of Santiago. It will be part of a new mixed-use urban quarter. The masterplan extends onto an adjacent site, towards the plant’
Split up by a covered central passageway connecting two streets – Ma Dang and Dan Shui – in Shanghai’s Huangpu district, this complex contains 25,000 square meters of office space and 15,000 of commercial units. The location is in what was part of th
- Occupying the last stretch of open ground in the Étoile development zone, the Saint-Urbain block occupies a particular place in the city of Strasbourg. At once a major link between the downtown and the Neudorf neighborhood, at the regional level it
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...
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
