Nantes, France
The masterplan for this plateau proposed boulevards, streets, and squares with the poetic integration of landscape and ecology. It referred to the legacy of the great tradition of institutions such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard, which were reinte
The Mistral residential complex is part of EuroMed, a mixed-use development built in Mar-seille on the grounds of the old port. In accordance with the masterplan, the complex pre-sents an urban scheme of a certain density; an intermediate volume made
In a pleasant atmosphere around a garden, a facility on the outskirts of Toulouse provides research and meeting spaces for archeologists working in nearby excavations. A simple porticoed structure harbors a series of flexible spaces with generous ope
The extension of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec sits amid the other three existing institutional buildings creating a complex on the edge of the park. The project tries to establish new relationships between the green areas and the adjac
Beside the Moskva River and a minute’s walk from the Kremlin and Red Square, the Zaryadye was an over 50,000-square-meter urban void between Moscow’s tourist zone and the Kitay-Gorod business district. This area, inhabited in the past, has a troubled
Located on the outskirts of Paris, the École Centrale is one of the oldest engineering schools in the country. Within an internal restructuring program, the school called a competition in 2012 to build a new school. Under the concept of ‘Lab City,’ t
The demolition of the facilities of the Renault plant in Boulogne Billancourt – a commune in the western suburbs of Paris – freed up space for this project for 79 apartments distributed in the two wings that form the building and gave rise to an unin
The housing crisis of the 1960s led to the construction in the northen part of the city of Bordeaux of the Cité du Grand Parc, a large-scale urban project that addressed the growing demand for dwellings in the aftermath of World War II. Now, in the f
Le Monolithe is located in the Lyon Confluence area and its design is the result of the collaboration between five studios, based on the masterplan by MVRDV. The urban superblock is a mixed-use development comprising of a mix of social and rental hou
Located between Collins Avenue and Indian Creek, with direct views of the Atlantic Ocean, the complex includes three buildings: an arts center, a market, and a parking garage, which are interconnected and articulated through the public space. The ar
The Taipei Performing Arts Center takes on an innovative role as cultural container for big events. While the world of theater and the performing arts has evolved a lot over the last century, the design of performing centers maintains the traditional
With its rigorous prism of offices on a podium floating 36 meters above ground, Shenzhen’s new stock exchange mirrors the no less afloat nature of financial capital. It rises 254 meters and 46 floors with a usable area of 265,000 square meters (85,00
Una configuración escénica flexible es la protagonista de este prisma de aluminio estriado, cuyo interior acoge una serie cajas apiladas de diferentes alturas que contienen el programa.
Despite the attempts to escape the shoebox-shaped auditorium, experience shows that this type of concert hall offers the best acoustics. In this case, the design chosen reinterprets the type, redefining the relationship of the concert hall with the e
Defined by its location on the side of a hill and close to the entrance to the university, the building’s form was conceived as a basic rectangular box, with a diagonal cut that adjusts to the incline of the hill. The form is then raised over a centr
Within a city plan to extend and modernize the public network of reading centers, the project sets out to redefine the concept of archive, creating a civic space for the circulation of knowledge in all media, and an innovative organizing system for a
The aim of the project was to reinvigorate the IIT Campus, planned by Mies van der Rohe in the 1940s. Over the years the campus had sprawled but lost half its population, and was separated by elevated railway tracks. The competition called for a new
The project includes 59 social housing units for rental, set forth as a continuation of the ‘Cité manifeste’ carried out in 2005 with the HLM (agency for controlled price housing), which defines housing according to quality standards. This manifesto
The FRAC (Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain) centers contain the public contemporary art collections of the different regions of France. These collections are preserved, catalogued and publicly displayed through exhibitions or leases to galleries and
The building is located in an area that is developing quickly from a demographic point of view, in the 19th district of Paris, between l’Ourcq canal and the old railroad tracks of la petite ceinture. To address this changing context and favor urban f
La Chesnaie neighborhood in Saint-Nazaire is a symbol of 1970s urban planning. Towers and linear buildings make up a low-density landscape located between the sea and the city center. In spite of its many advantages, today it is a decaying territory
Located in the Plaisance quarter, close to the city center in the region of Bretagne, the plot is located amid a dense complex of collective social housing from the 1960s, several low-density residential areas of single-family houses to the north and
Built in the 1960s by Raymond López, the Bois-le-Prêtre Tower is part of a group of high-rise apartments rising by the north ringroad of Paris. Their radical transformation is set forth as an alternative to the demolition-reconstruction policy initia
Thanks to a structure with a large capacity, and thanks also to the participation of the city’s School of Architecture (École d’Architecture, la Ville et le Paysage), the project generates a piece that is capable of creating a rich variety of situati
A Jean Nouvel work which opened in 1996 on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, what was the first branch abroad of the iconic Galeries Lafayette of Paris could now become a large library. In spite of huge investments, Friedrichstrasse has not managed to cons
The Hyatt Foundation has selected Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal as the 2021 winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the accolade it has been giving every year since 1979, coming with an award of US$100,000 (84,000 euros). Chaired by Ale
530 Dwellings in Bordeaux Refurbishing the collective housing constructions built during the boom of the 1950s and 1960s is one of the main problems in European cities. A problem that, faced with common sense and talent, can lead to projects that are
The revamp of housing estates erected during the developmentalism of the 1950s and 1960s is one of the major problems that European cities are now having to deal with. It is a problem that, if addressed with a combination of talent and common sense,
The evolution of the glass envelope goes along with the evolution of architecture as one of the most representative components of contemporaneity, and is the architectural element that most significantly expresses the cultural values of society, and
The changes that humans have performed on the Earths crust have opened a new geological epoch, and the cities and landscapes of our own tiems reflect this historical mutation.
El ministerio de cultura francés ha otorgado el Grand Prix National de l’Architecture al estudio parisino de Anne Lacaton y Jean-Philippe Vassal. Desde sus inicios en 1987 su trayectoria ha estado dedicada a la investigación de la arquitectura de baj
La centenaria Universidad de Deusto, cuya sede central se encuentra a orillas de la ría de Bilbao, enfrente del Museo Guggenheim, ha inaugurado su nueva Biblioteca y Centro de Recursos para el Aprendizaje y la Investigación, un edificio de diez plant
A las afueras de la capital danesa, en un entorno sin referentes salpicado por anónimos edificios de viviendas y oficinas, se eleva el nuevo Auditorio de Copenhague, un misterioso cubo de 43 metros de lado, envuelto en una llamativa piel translúcida
The architectural development of the past fifteen years has made it clear that in its essence modernism is not a visual stylistic canon at all, but a dialectic philosophical position in relation to the reality of culture. The modernist position is an
