The project envisions developing the two Bouygues and RIVP housing complexes into separate volumes, designed within a unitary urban study and displaying the same interpretation of the city. Organizing the land into two plots overseen by different architecture studios stimulated a joint reflection on the urban situation, and created a couple of sibling buildings that […]
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The Provincial Government Building Antwerp is scattered in the middle of an area that in parts has buildings forming a boundary and in parts is open to the street. It is surrounded by a park, but does not take advantage of the privileged site. The new proposal offers the possibility to rethink all of that, […]
The new auditorium with its main entrance foyer completes the program of the youth music school, which was finished in 2000. The extension, designed 10 years after the original project, is located in the narrow space between the old school and the new youth music school and creates a new passage between them. A folded […]
Camper has much to do with “el campo”, that is the countryside, the elds, to walk in the elds, and so we imagined shoes stepping on irregular surfaces, like when we walk on earth. Camper has gotten us used to play, smile, see fashion with children’s eyes… we imagined trying on shoes in front of […]
The client, Excellence Group, the largest property developer in the Chinese city of Shenzhen’s Central Business District, requested a tower of 90,000 m2 and 220 m high with a commercial and office program. The floor plan of the “Bamboo tower” is like a “soft square”. Each floor is slightly different in shape from the next, […]
The built form has to do with light, air and the comprehension that the possible views from this site to residential apartments adds to the amenability. It is in the public interest to enable residential comfort by virtue of a view; a position; a certain calmness and repose. The site already makes that offering and […]
The House of the Music is a house for the musicians of Gandia, a city with a high musical tradition. Gandia has several music bands and in almost every family there is a relative who either plays in a band or studies in the conservatory. This culture requires a building which figures all the needs […]
The painter Zhang Daqian was born in Neijiang. On April 2010, Excellence Group invited EMBT to design Zhang Daqian’s museum in Neijiang city, the painter’s hometown. The design philosophy behind the museum was to integrate the cultural essence of East and West and build expressing the past and the future. The site is located peak […]