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In 2014 the Barcelona City Council held an architectural competition for the landscape planning of an interior urban block and a sports facility consisting of an indoor heated swimming pool and a sports court.
The long-term development idea of the Hungarian Canoe Federation was to create a multifunctional site that would be suitable for both landing and stopping, to replace the sites that had previously disappeared along the Danube River.
The architectural concept of the Christian-Bucher-Gasse elementary school, which dates back to the 1950s, combines the existing structure with the new buildings into a harmonious, functional school complex with a large, protected inner courtyard.
The owner of the development wanted a clearly discernible office space of 500 square meters. Angular folded planes create this office, set back from the road junction at the north-west corner, punctuating the rectilinear composition of the rest of the building.
Why isolate the department of Science from the department of Sports? Instead, the two are merged into one linear volume, situated at the edge of the playing field.
The Jiangyin Greenway belongs to a growing movement in China towards healthy, sustainable transportation and urban enjoyment. Infrastructure of this scale has an opportunity – or more correctly a responsibility – to create meaningful places in the city. It is also seen as an opportunity...
Originating from an architectural competition, the Drummondville Library project transposes the historical, cultural and poetic essence of the region into a studied urban and architectural composition.
ANNSO HILL, located in Heshun, Yunnan, is a drastic L-shaped architecture situated alongside an alleyway market. It begins with a compressed street-front zone on a steep slope and ends on a gently reclined hillside aligned with beautiful tall trees.
The James-Simon-Galerie serves as the new entrance building for Museum Island in Berlin, completing the ensemble between the Kupfergraben canal and Neues Museum.
Standing beside the beltway surrounding the dense center of Bayeux with its winding narrow streets, the new Bayeux Media Library is thoughtfully integrated into the rich historical context of the town.
Grand Park Hotel Rovinj is a viewpoint for the most beautiful stage on the Adriatic. No matter where he is in the hotel, the guest gets the impression he is staying in a park overlooking Rovinj, St. Euphemia, the island of St. Catherine and the most beautiful sea sunset.
Some may question why a city like Shanghai — which only began its large-scale urbanization in the 1990s and is still undergoing rapid growth — needs to be concerned about regeneration.
Sky Green is a mixed-use development located at the heart of Taichung in a densely developed and vibrant neighborhood.
Located adjacent to their existing manufacturing facility, the new 42,800-square-foot facility contains exhibits, a retail shop, a restaurant and ice cream counter, allowing Tillamook to share their traditions, processes and products with 1.3 million visitors every year.
The House is located in a typical plot in the outskirts of the city of Guimarães and is characterized by a dense construction environment that surrounds the plot where we are intervening.
The project is an office building of a logistics company, located in an industrial park on the outskirts of a city in Northern China.
A playful arrangement of organic volumes set on various planes divide the "white cube" of the former technical hall of a 19th century brewery into individual spaces, thereby reflecting the scale and atmosphere of traditional wine cellars of the region through several smaller interconnected...
The result of a dynamic partnership between the YMCA of Hamilton|Burlington|Brantford and Wilfrid Laurier University, the Laurier Brantford YMCA revitalizes the City of Brantford as a hub for community health, recreation and wellness.
The Pavilion is the starting point of the Festival des Architectures Vives. It aims to inform and inform visitors to guide them in their journey.
During the last three decades, the quiet village of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, known for its longstanding woodcarving tradition, has been a rallying point for artists from various locations around the world. What started as a series of casual encounters in the early 1990s gradually turned into an...
The Villa in the Dutch countryside near Vught gives a contemporary twist to the local farmstead typology. The Villa’s functions are distributed within three distinct volumes, shaped to resemble the vernacular of a small village.
Criteria such as universal accessibility and parametric design consolidate the Manta Hospital, the third healthcare center designed by PMMT Architecture in Ecuador.
The Sauerland-Museum, located in the historically listed Landsberger Hof, has been expanded to become Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia. The existing building connects to the extension by means of a bridge-like docking structure with three diagonally cut windows.
The office building in the center of Oberhausen, Germany, combines the diverse functions of a public administrative building and rooftop garden in a new way, integrating features of both typologies.
Our focus was to return the house to its essence of form and to create a home full of atmosphere and individuality. The brief was to create an authentic home with a strong sense of identity and with clients being of Danish heritage, a house that at its core was the definition of “Hygge” (a...
Designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and executive architect LEO A DALY, The Heights Building opens as a cascade of green terraces fanning from a central axis, addressing the academic needs of Arlington’s two county-wide school programs while forming a vertical community within its dense...
When we were commissioned to renovate the main lobby of the University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, we saw an opportunity to bring people together on campus and to encourage new ways of relating to the environment, inside and out.
OMA / Iyad Alsaka and Reinier de Graaf, in collaboration with Kuwait-based consultant Pace as a local partner, have revealed their design for the Wafra tower, a residential tower in the Hessa Al Mubarak District along the Kuwait City waterfront.
Building a troglodyte villa poses the question of the human relationship with nature, from nature to culture: how can one carve out a house form a rock, a landscape, without altering it, by respecting its volumes, its fractures and vegetation.
Parque O2, a sprawling public installation of colorful bamboo totems, recently opened in San José, Costa Rica’s disused Polideportivo de Aranjuez Park. The project is the latest installment of the FUNdaMENTAL Design Build Initiative, an annual design-build project founded by New York and...
La chansonnière is a high-end French restaurant designed by GB SPACE, featuring new media immersive dining experience. This project is located on the first floor, block B, Jiuxianqiao language and cultural center, Chaoyang district, Beijing.
A team of architects including Kohn Pedersen Fox, James Corner Field Operations, Ronald Lu & Partners, Leigh & Orange, LAAB Architects, AB Concepts and PLandscape have completed K11 MUSEA, a cultural-retail destination in Hong Kong’s newest purpose-built art and cultural district,...
The name, Opeongo, derives from the Anishnaabe wordopeauwingauk (sandy narrows); it refers to Canada’s Indigenous people and their deep love for nature. The Opeongo Pavilion is located in Parc du Mont-Orford, a true gem amid lakes, mountains, and forest, an hour drive from Montréal.
The new Museum Depot, City Archive and Youth Center is located on a slightly descending lot which was previously occupied by a car dealership, abandoned many years ago, and is directly adjacent to the historically listed "Mainzer Tor."
The new Charles Library at Temple University in Philadelphia has opened its doors for the start of the fall 2019 semester. Snøhetta’s design, developed in collaboration with Stantec, reinterprets the traditional typology of the research library as a repository for books.
Lucknow city in India has a rich heritage with numerous buildings dating back to the 18th century. The site for this house lies along a busy arterial road and is on the peripheral edge of an extensive plotted development for private homes. Patterned screens derived from traditional Indian...