police station
Given the reduced program size and the location of the land parcel, the idea was to insert most of the program elements in a high vertical volume. Which set on a street angle will...
Docks de Paris
The Docks of Paris is a long, thin building built in concrete at the turn of the last century. It was a depot for goods brought up the Seine by barge, which were deposited,...
100 social apartments
The program is for a combination of different-sized apartments, the ground floor being designed for handicapped persons, and some shops at street level. In this project we had to create three separate buildings on fragments...
SIEMP social housing
The project is located in the Marais district, and consists of the renovation of a building in rue Saint Antoine no. 76 and the adjacent lot in rue de Turenne no. 1. The residential...
Département des arts de l‘Islam
Covering the Visconti Court with a glazed structure would be a solution typical for the national 20th century architecture for this area which has been left open until now. To change this court with...
Jean Bouin stadium
La posizione dello stadio di rugby è fondamentale dato che si trova nel XVI arrondissement in un quartiere pieno di complessi sportivi di alto livello (Parco dei Principi, Ippodromo di Longchamp, Roland Garros ecc.)....
Philharmonic
Harmonies, accords…
The word philharmonic embodies the concept of “love for harmony”. We “play” a succession of urban harmonies. The philharmonic represents a prestigious element which maintains harmonious relationships with the Villette Park, the City...
Les Halles
A general metropolitan plan for the area already exists; it is a matter of the junction connecting the RER (rapid underground of Paris) and the ordinary underground. And this is the significance of the...
Phare Tower
Synthesizing Idiosyncrasies to Mend a Site
Drawing on the power of parametric scripting, the design of the Phare Tower gathers disparate programmatic, physical, and infrastructural elements from the requirements of the building and synthesizes these...
de kunstlinie
Almere, a new town west of Amsterdam, is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Within the master plan by OMA, SANAA was selected to design the city’s theater and cultural community center on the lake that...
extension of a shopping mall
On the sides of a main road going out of Milan, one doesn’t easily notice the presence of a small two-storey shopping centre, concealed between the invasive throng of bigger counterparts with high-flown names...
k:fem department store
Fifty years after the opening of Vällingby, Sweden’s world famous New Town from 1954, works began with its resurrection. After the glorious days when children and their mothers filled the community in the outskirts...
