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 plan of the large “Square”, a “roof on a garden” f …
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 in …
area 102 – leisure
presentazione/introduction L’utopia del tempo libero testo Daniel Mothé scenari di architettura/architectural scenario Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas/peres peace house Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/de kunstlinie Boeri Studio/extension of a shopping …
”L‘utopia del tempo libero”
The plan to reduce working hours and distribute employment amongst more individuals, with a view to guaranteeing a freer, happier existence, is one of the main aims of socioeconomic research, which endeavours, also experimentally, to identify the right …
peres peace house
A homeland for all sailors and shipwrecked people. Conceiving a place that is not virtual but real, to dedicate to Peace, is an undertaking of huge commitment and profound ethical intensity.Peace is a place of the spirit, it is an aspiration, it is ten …
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 faces the new center. We sought an interaction …
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 such as Brico Center, Multimedia, Metro, Ik …
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 of Stockholm with life, other develop …
the opposite house
The current main stream for urban development in the world is the combination of super-skyscrapers + plazas. However for this project, we tried to reproduce a human-scale, maze-like space within the city by using medium rise architectures. The project …
juvet landscape hotel
The Juvet Landscape Hotel is located at Valldal, near the town of Åndalsnes in north-western Norway. Passing tourists are attracted by a spectacular waterfall in a deep gorge near the road, ”Gudbrandsjuvet”. The client, Knut Slinning, is a local reside …