The proposal for a research center for the EPF Lausanne and the University of Freiburg understands that the building must construct the urban image of an institution that is open, multidisciplinary, inclusive, and transversal. The access canopy offer
The grain silo of Cape Town had since the 1920s been used to store and process corn coming from different parts of South Africa. Over twenty years after it closed down, it has undergone an overhaul to house the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
The center’s exhibition programme is structured vertically by a series of intertwined silos which are connected horizontally by an interior street overlooking the park and the city, and cut by screens for audiovisual installations.
The harbor of Copenhagen has become a suitable place for new residential developments. It is not an isolated case. Many old harbors in Europe also enjoy favorable conditions for the insertion of these new uses: the excellent views, the presence of wa
With its shores occupied by all sorts of sheds and factories, the river Aker has been at the same time witness and also the driving force behind the industrial development that has taken place in Oslo from the 18th century. Since these constructions
The conversion of an old grain silo into an architectural studio has been an invasion in phases, a floor by floor conquest. As so many other port buildings from the beginnings of the 20th century, the Westerdokhuis was a grain shed that, after fallin
Perhaps due precisely to its success, the port of Hamburg has taken its time to start reusing its installations for new purposes unrelated to sea transport activities. But the transfer of the large container terminals to the southern shore of the Elb
In the austrian city of Graz, a corner lot surrounded by residential blocks and animal feed silos was chosen by a ceramic products distributor as the site of its new showroom headquarters. The building asserts its independence in such a heterogeneous
