In what is an emerging industrial area, a top manufacturer of elevators has provided itself with a headquarters of formidable dimensions, yet is able to integrate the human scale. In what is a campus of workshops, showrooms, and storage interspersed
How can an abandoned warehouse be transformed into a mixed-use center brimming with activity 24 hours a day? The city of Basel, in constant growth, has for some years been launching programs to regenerate industrial neighborhoods in the historic cent
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 building contains the industrial records of the energy company EDF and symbolizes its historical service to, and strong presence in, the Meuse and Haute Marne region. Archives previously kept in the firm’s production centers (nuclear, hydraulic,
Built on one of the busiest fishing docks of the port of Cangas, on the banks of the Vigo estuary, in the northwest of Spain, this lightweight construction comprises a series of warehouses for the fishermen of this Galician town. Due to its proximity
What is the point of a Schaulager, of a building in which art is stored but still accessible to the public? What ideas about art and collection strategy does it involve, and what is the best architectural and urban concept for it? The brief: a wareho
Awooded site between the Rhine-Rhone Canal and the River Ill in Brunnstatt, on the southern outskirts of the French town of Mulhouse, was chosen as the position for the second building commissioned by the Ricola company. Serving as both factory and w
Laufen, in the Swiss canton of Jura, is best known outside the country for being the headquarters of the famous throat lozenge manufacturer Ricola. A new warehouse was required to automate the storage of lozenges and medicinal herbs. The starting poi
The sobriety of the containers that house the big film studios often contrasts with the waste of fantasy and imagination that takes place inside them. Most of the time, these buildings are simply diaphanous and blind boxes that allow the installation
It is surprising to see the broad-mindedness of the commission that is preserving the character of this former industrial warehouse in Boston's Back Bay area. The architect, in fact, acted as a prudent restorer of the decrepit facades and, at the sam
The large dimensions give the peculiar character of this work within the overall production of Frank Gehry's workshop. This is a huge building for the headquarters of the Herman Miller furniture company: an operations center for the entire western Un
