The capital of the island of Menorca, Mahón, boasts the Mediterranean’s largest natural harbor, a dynamic hub that day after day sees the coming and going of passengers and merchandise without ceasing to be a place of remarkable beauty. Antoni Barcel
Aside from renewing the captaincy and the services of the marina, the project recovers the continuity of the old customs officers’ trail, which had been interrupted by the construction of the port infrastructure.
A project drawn up by Ma Yansong, MAD Architects, in collaboration with the China Academy of Building Research (CASR) is the winner in the competition to design an international cruise hub at the city of Chongqing’s Cuntan Port. It will include a 15,
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
The Huanggang Port Area in the city of Shenzhen’s Futian District services 300,000 people crossing over to Hong Kong daily. The new masterplan, focused around two large public squares, marks out three interconnected parts: the harbor hub including of
The ICA is the first museum to be built in Boston in 100 years. The building includes an extensive program, from exhibition halls to a multipurpose theater, a restaurant, a bookstore, education/workshop facilities, and administrative offices. It stra
The project named ‘Batea en tierra’ proposes a continuous complex with a landscaped slope, a linear pergola over the existing premises, and a tilted roof for Capitanía; a large open and permeable ombrière defines the new image of Sanxenxo... [+]
The Madrid firm Paredes Pedrosa has won the idea competition for Plaza del Mar, a square in the Galician city of Sanxenxo, and its immediate surroundings. Carme Pinós and Emilio Tuñón came in second and third. There were 35 entries in all. The winnin
The transformation of an old grain silo into a building that mixes residential and public uses was part of an overall plan to redevelop the Danish capital’s Nordhavn industrial port.
With the idea of connecting the city to the lake, the project transforms the coastal area of the old port, currently closed to the public, into a permeable enclave for nautical activities and social gathering, with cultural programs and restaurants..
Located in the middle of Hamburg’s HafenCity, the Elbphilharmonie marks a location that was known to the public but not really accessible, and that will now become a center of social, cultural and daily life both for locals and visitors. The site is
Subtracted temporarily from the world wide flow of trade, 3,500 containers are gathered in Rotterdam to form a megacontainer on the scale of the city: the City Container. These containers are used as the envelope – floor, walls, and ceiling – of an i
The tourism boom of the recent years has immersed the city of Puerto de la Cruz in a process of urban degradation that is cause for worry. This proposal, winner of a public competition expressly organized to address the situation, arose in response t
The proposal is designed to reactivate Rijnhaven, a decaying Rotterdam port, by redefining a maritime border with a new structure to organize the flows with flexibility and provide a framework for evolution. The project develops a modulated honeycom
La Asamblea Nacional de Noruega decidió en 1999 que la nueva Ópera de Oslo se emplazara en Bjørvika, una zona de la capital situada en la orilla de su fiordo. El edificio, cuya construcción supone el primer paso de un plan de desarrollo para esta áre
The Inland Sea (formerly named the Seto Inland Sea) is a body of water separating three of the main islands of the Japanese archipelago, connecting the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Japan. In the region of Shikoku, among the more than three thousand is
Situado en el punto de entrada al canal de la dársena interior del puerto, el edificio se compone de cuatro plataformas apiladas y desplazadas unas de otras estratégicamente para ofrecer espacios a la sombra con vistas panorámicas. En el zócalo se ub
Desde un extremo de uno de los dedos de la explanada arranca la pasarela peatonal. Un puente de 19,5 metros de longitud cuya misión es dar continuidad al frente marítimo uniendo la gran plaza del Fórum con el parque de la Paz y configurar al mismo ti
Con el convencimiento de que lo más memorable de un puerto es su actividad y no tanto su forma, la superficie portuaria se configura como un lugar visible, fácil de comprender y de usar, donde el agua, los barcos y el bullicio aparecen como los princ
El puerto deportivo se encuentra encajado por uno de sus lados entre las prolongaciones de la explanada, mientras que un zócalo comercial dibuja los otros dos. El proyecto debía definir la fachada del sector suroeste, así como el cerramiento de estos
Hamburg’s extense fluvial port is perhaps its least elegant side, but also its most attractive one. From its historic position on the north bank of the Elbe river, this vast commercial interchange has gradually taken up the endless branches into whic
La nueva ordenación, cuyo principal objetivo es crear una ‘plaza tridimensional sobre el Mediterráneo’, incluye una terminal marítima y dotaciones culturales, comerciales y de ocio, de forma que el enclave tenga actividad todo el día. La cubierta, cu
In the eighties, the new city of Donau intended not only to incorporate the terrains opposite the Danube to Vienna’s development, but also to provide the historic center with an avant-garde and modem counterpoint. Though the urban layout designed to
As many as 300,000 people crossing the border between continental China and Hong Kong on a daily basis are served by Huanggang Port Area, a strategic enclave for which the London-based firm Zaha Hadid Architects has drawn up a highly ambitious regene
El muelle de Langelinie, conocido por albergar la diminuta Sirenita de Copenhague, se reconvierte. A los pies de las dos torres unidas por un puente encargadas a Steven Holl se construirá la nueva sede de la entidad financiera FIH. En el concurso por
Después de Rotterdam, Amberes es el segundo puerto de Europa, con más de 50 kilómetros de muelles a orillas del Escalda. Con el fin de centralizar servicios administrativos dispersos, la Autoridad Portuaria belga convocó un concurso abierto al que se
Los almacenes para pescadores construidos por Jesús Irisarri y Guadalupe Piñera en el puerto de Cangas de Morrazo, a la entrada de la ría de Vigo, ganaron el premio FAD 2008 en la categoría Paisaje y Ciudad. Se trata de 36 módulos de dos plantas de a
El estudio de Steven Holl ha ganado el concurso internacional titulado ‘Proyecto LM’ para la construcción de la espectacular entrada al puerto de Copenhague. Dos torres, Langenlinie y Marmormolen, estarán unidas por un puente de acceso público situad
The tough labour environment of the docks was very different from the smart atmosphere of the electronics industry, but Foster found in Fred Olsen a progressive client with whom to develop the ideas of industrial democracy advanced in Reliance. After
