The Marco Polo Terrassen form an urban amphitheatre overlooking the Grasbrookhafen basin. Layers of steps, ramps, and green slopes mediate between city and water, creating a generous public stage for daily use and large gatherings. Completed in 2007 over an area of about 5,700 m², the terraces integrate flood protection with civic life through durable […]
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We believe that the building of the New Parliament of Albania have to insist on the great capacity of Albania of accepting and integrate the differences, reflected in its folk dresses, in the skyline of its cities, mixed with minarets and tower bells, in the coloured facades of the unusual new look of Tirana. In […]
The basic idea to start with is the preservation and revitalization of the most of the industrial complex in competition, a valuable architectonic heritage, by introducing a new intervention in the same way industrial architecture has always done. This intervention takes place in a space which has already been inhabited, which has been used as […]
The project was located in a restricted space between the city and countryside, in the area of l’Horta de l’Hospital, where there were still roads without tarmac in between stone walls. It was a place that was apparently losing its identity; the new urban intervention had to preserve the area’s memory. We proposed a building […]
The Gas Natural Company decided in 1999 to build a representative building in the same site where it started its activities more than 100 years before. The site is a very complex piece of Barcelona., positioned among the fast way, the railway and the different city grids of La Barceloneta, the Olympic and the old […]
A project that lasts a long time is special, it becomes something that accompanies your life, it is built slowly… like yourself… The English architect Peter Smithson commented that the fact that the Igualada Cemetery was built little by little made it more intense, gave it that air full of things that made everyone fascinated. […]
The delicacy and richness of the Korean landscape painting was the reference for our Yeouido Park proposal from the beginning. The lines and interactions of our Park should have the same strength as the brushstrokes that produced by those paintings. We see the interventions and the development of Yeouido Park as the continuation and interpretation […]
The Vasco da Gama Platz is an elevated public square within the western HafenCity district of Hamburg that acts as a lively meeting point between two waterfront edges. The plaza spans approximately 2,720 m² and is framed by a mix of apartments, offices, retail and restaurants. The design accommodates the flood-resilient character of the quarter: […]
Nen is a sculptural wooden chair designed by Enric Miralles in collaboration with Benedetta Tagliabue. Conceived as a functional yet poetic piece of furniture, the chair reflects Miralles’s distinctive architectural language, characterized by expressive, organic forms and an intrinsic relationship between structure and motion. Its dynamic shape and seemingly gravity-defying posture exemplify the fusion of […]