Renovation of 709 Housing Units, Lormont
Se ha enriquecido la vida urbana del distrito incorporando nuevos usos privados, sin renunciar a las ventajas paisajísticas de la organización moderna mediante bloques y torres.
Se ha enriquecido la vida urbana del distrito incorporando nuevos usos privados, sin renunciar a las ventajas paisajísticas de la organización moderna mediante bloques y torres.
While preserving all the structural elements of the buildings worked on, the operation enlarges the floor area of the apartment units by creating a band of usable exterior spaces.
Architecture is center, life is periphery. We associate the European city with the medieval quarters and the extensions of the 19th century, but most of the population lives in the peripheries. The political and social will to improve the everyday li
The endeavor to improve the typology and energy properties of obsolete buildings, whilst preserving their formal virutes, defines an altogether new way of regarding heritage.
Each year, Renzo Piano puts the salary he receives as a senator for life into developing projects addressing one of the major challenges of Italy’s cities: the degrading outskirts.
With a foreword by Norman Foster, Vishaan Chakrabarti’s book shows through intuitive diagrams the advantages of the dense city in terms of land and energy use, transportation and social cohesion.
Al sur del centro de Los Ángeles viven el cuarenta por ciento de los indigentes estadounidenses. Se concentran junto a los edificios de servicios sociales, alrededor de las tiendas y en plazoletas. Según las entrevistas, muchos viven aquí por elecció