Buildings
Westside - by Libeskind
The Westside shopping and leisure complex in the outskirts of Bern is Libeskind’s first finished building in Europe, purely dedicated to a commercial program. The architecture and design of the building has strong similarities to Libeskind’s museum projects like the Jewish Museum Berlin or the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück.Westside offers a book shop devoted […]
Plasticamente pavilion by Riccardo Giovanetti
Italian designer Riccardo Giovanetti has designed a pavilion to host the premier of new Walt Disney movie Trilli.It is made from shiny, white, plastic disks and houses an exhibition for children about plastics and recycling.The design of the Pavilion was an exercise in balance that comprises the transparency of the architecture, the visibility of the […]
Moliere 209 Building - SCAP
Placed in a constant traffic corner, in front of a shopping center access square and Sordo Madaleno’s San Ignacio Church. The project plays the condition of being a building that takes control of the urban life and the best views in this sector of Mexico City, at the same time, is a private building and […]
Gardiner Museum Renewal - KPMB Architects
The Gardiner Museum is one of the world’s pre-eminent institutions devoted to ceramic art, and the only museum of its kind in Canada. It is also one of the major projects in Toronto’s cultural renaissance. Framed between the neoclassical Lillian Massey building to the north and the Queen Anne-style Margaret Addison Hall to the south, […]
NRGi’s Headquarters - SHL Architects
NRGi’s new corporate headquarters is situated in an area marked by a number of freestanding buildings. NRGi stands out from its neighbours in the surrounding area in virtue of its visually light, metallically gleaming built volume. Distinguished by an angular and distinctive façade, the building forms a crisp contrast to the mellow, scenic context. Moreover, […]
Sundsvall art centre
Harri Mäkiaho a Finnish Architect has just won a competition for a new Art Centre and Theatre in Sundsvall, Sweden. The entry was called Kräfta. The Swedish Architects Association has a page on it with some good images and plans. It’s a really nice project and deserved winner, and the jury description is mostly quite […]
International criminal court in the Hague - SHL Architects
SHLa will now enter into a consultation process alongside the other two practices on the shortlist to determine the overall winner.The building’s sculptural composition, made from rows of various-sized square towers united by a rectangular base, will be integrated into the dunes of dry and wet grasslands that surround the site. Visitors will be able […]
Granada Science Park - Ferrater + Jimenez Brasa
The project for the extension of the Science Park in Granada, by the Genil river, starts with the construction of a single roof with small inflections that looks like an open hand, covering the different programmatic pieces interconnected on a continuous space.The roof flies over the terrain, constructing a new topography that, as it folds, […]
At University of Toronto at Mississagua, replacing a “Dungeon” library with beacon
The new library at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, a suburban campus of the Canadian flagship university, clad in an unusual wood veneer, is a warm and inviting place, unlike its predecessor. Mississauga’s old library was so awful that the head librarian, Mary Ann Mavrinac, actually considered turning down the job. It was designed […]
Vital building - Mozas Aguirre Arquitectos
This is the headquarters for the local savings bank in Madrid by Mozas Aguirre arquitectos. The building reproduces the scale of the surrounding small woods, a park of the Natura 2000 networking programme. The structural concept is based on pairs of exterior metal supports, clad in stainless steel composite panels.The idea is to identify the […]
