In the fields of North Jutland, a food education center open to townspeople and visitors alike seeks to celebrate the region’s farming tradition and promote its rich cereal-based culture. Intended as a laboratory for experimentation in the processes
The annex sought not only to accommodate new programs but also to improve a complicated urban situation characterized by loosely related buildings and a heavily used street. A new underground parking garage forms an entrance square that connects the
The planning frenzy that Baron Haussman breathed into the Paris of 1850 led to an ambitious succession of urbanistic operations of an imperial grandeur that continued even after the establishment of the Third Republic twenty years later. It was in th
A building with explicit references to medieval architecture replaces an obsolete brutalist annex that never managed to gain acceptance in the historical core of the city of Frankfurt. An entrance plaza envisioned as an open-air exhibition space divi
On the outskirts of the city, a building provides new spaces for classes and meetings to be shared by a prestigious ‘gymnasium’ and the historical choir school of the cathedral of Cologne. The new educational facilities make use of the formal and mat
A crematorium is an important public building. It has, however, a conflicted attitude towards self-expression, torn between its technical content and its ceremonial character. To overcome this, the building is designed as a big inclined table, of whi
A semi-exterior void forms a public square for the enjoyment of students of the Kanagawa Institute of Technology, a university center which had no hesitations assigning this new project to the architect who had completed some dazzling workshops on th
The surrounding landscape and the specifications of the artworks shaped the design of the museum on a sloping site. The sawtooth roof clad in dark tiles is contrasted by the bush-hammered finish of the concrete that unifies the articulated volumes...
The German publishing group Axel Springer is currently shifting from print to digital media. To launch this move the company decided to call a competition to extend its Berlin headquarters with a new building that would act both as a symbol and as a
By the course of the River Peyne, a spectacular inverted dome pierced by round courtyards shapes the Pézenas spa resort, whose design is inspired by the rocky surroundings and by the traditional Japanese thermal baths... [+]
Inspired by the shelter a tree gives, the House of Hungarian Music is embedded in the dense vegetation of the City Park in Budapest. The building is included within the Liget Budapest Project, an ambitious cultural initiative to renovate this histori
For the headquarters of the sports equipment and accessories manufacturer Amaya Sport in Noain (Navarre), the architect Josean Ruiz Esquiroz – who works from offices in Madrid and Gorraiz – reused ten shipping containers as structural pieces while st
Los valencianos Agustín Sebastián y Jorge Quesada, agrupados como SQ Arquitectos, junto al estudio noruego Asplan Viak han resultado ganadores del concurso internacional para la construcción de un centro cultural dedicado al pueblo lapón o sami, con
The home of Su Rogers’s parents hangs over an existing boathouse on a creek, and is both a sailing base and an exhibition space for their art collection. Developed between 1964 and 1966, the final building shows a mature complexity in its blending of
Like Stansted Airport, the American Air Museum at Duxford took ten years from design to completion, and in this case no environmental debates could be blamed for the delay. Perhaps because of its protracted development, this museum has not been fully
In 1992, Foster and Partners won the competition to build a new airport for Hong Kong. To be placed, like Osaka’s Kansai (whose competition Foster lost to Piano in 1988) on an artificial island, the huge building was to be the largest construction pr
