The Dutch firm Mecanoo and the Chinese Meng Architects, in collaboration with LOLA Landscape, are the winners of the international design competition for Shenzhen Guangming Scientist Valley. The ambitious project aims to establish the first comprehen
At the edge of the city, on the shores of the Segre River and close to the AVE station, the La Llotja Theater and Congress Center has as its backdrop the Seu Vella, the historical cathedral of Lérida, located at a hilltop. The project, which won the
Francine Houben directs the architecture office Mecanoo since 1984. With noteworthy projects like the library of TU Delft (completed in 1997), after a competition held in 2005 the studio was commissioned to build the La Llotja de Lleida Congress Cent
With a perimetral block and interior courtyard typology, the project includes 170 dwellings. The communal spaces of the complex will be covered with gold-colored tiles that will remind of the tone of olive oil…
Dos suaves montañas de césped cubren las zonas destinadas a aparcamiento, e invitan a estudiantes y profesores a reunirse, pasear, leer o montar en bicicleta; sobre una de ellas se levanta el Learning Center, un edificio en forma de ala que termina e
The relationship of Dutch architecture and landscape is especially broad and deep; the land is conquered and altered constantly, in such a way that the artificial is not understood as opposed to the natural. The National Ethnographic Museum, founded