Unlike other institutions of Cambridge University, Jesus College was founded outside the city, on the grounds of an old Benedictine convent. With their five hundred years of history, these buildings form the core of the college, which has grown aroun
The Irish Film Institute was the first of the three buildings O’Donnell and Tuomey completed in the Temple Bar area, in the center of Dublin. Inside a compact urban block, the project had to transform a motley ensemble of properties – that the Quaker
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music is a regional music centre of international standing, with approximately half a million visitors each year. The building forms the heart of an ambitious project to regenerate Gateshead’s river frontage an
El Museo Fuglsang es un museo de arte regional destinado a albergar la colección permanente de arte danés del periodo comprendido entre 1780 y 1980 del Museo Storstrøm. El edificio, de 2.500 metros cuadrados, cuenta también con nuevas salas para expo
La nueva sede principal para la BBC Scotland acoge todos los aspectos relacionados con la televisión, radio e Internet del canal británico, alojando instalaciones de producción, estudios digitales, espacios técnicos de apoyo y oficinas. Su diseño pre
To celebrate the Olympic Games in Sydney in the year 2000, an Australian company commissioned and initiated the construction of a complex that comprises two buildings: an office tower and a residential building of lower height right beside it. At fir
Presided by the small baroque church after which it is named, the historic quarter of Christianshavn looks over the main canal of Copenhagen combining in a small distance the alternative area of Christiania with new buildings that have emerged attrac
To practice what one preaches is the message of this building, built by and for the company Ove Arup: an engineering consultancy firm with headquarters all over the world that has decided to gather its branches of Coventry and Birmingham under one sa
Deyan Sudjic Manchester is a big, confident city, but an oddly shapeless one. It was the city in which Engels documented the living conditions of the world’s first industrial proletariat, the British working class, forged in Manchester’s explosive tr
Como resultado del fluctuante destino de las ciudades europeas, Viena ha pasado del dogma de la renovación urbana sin alteración de su imagen histórica —con ordenanzas que hace poco más de diez años prohibían la construcción de edificios de gran altu
As part of a long term decentralization process, the Tate Gallery commissioned the renovation of its London headquarters in Millbank and its Liverpool site to James Stirling, its branch in St. Ives, Cornwall, to Evans and Shale, and will now move its
Londres estrena ayuntamiento. La nueva sede de la Greater London Authority (GLA), la autoridad municipal londinense, es el proyecto con mayor carga simbólica entre los últimos que se han construido en la capital británica. Este singular volumen expre
In the allocation of the new stadiums for the 1990 World Cup in Italy, an architect as passionate about engineering as Piano was a favorite candidate. And, in fact, he got Bari. The capital of Apulia is surrounded by gently rolling hills that form a
