Amsterdam homogeneous/inhomogeneous – Residential Housing KNSM – Eiland
It is seldom in our western cities that an architect has the possibility of implementing his ideas without resistance. The structures in which political decision-making is embedded and the committees which assume the role of the client are all geared t …
Amsterdam homogeneous/inhomogeneous – Silodam
Along a jetty in the Amsterdam Y–river a mixed programme of 160 houses, offices, work spaces, commercial spaces and public spaces has been squeezed into a tight urban envelope. These elements involved four different clients: a housing developer, a hous …
Milan memory/invention
The “Velasca tower”, a building that symbolizes a thought that is impenitently pursued by its author, has in the Twentieth century marked a virtual break with the dogmas of Modernism and its supposedly anti-historical character, reconnecting the evolut …
Milan memory/invention – Università Luigi Bocconi
We saw this brief as an opportunity for the Luigi Bocconi University to make a space at the scale of the city. To this end we have built at the scale of the site, 50 m x150 m. Inside, our building is thought of as a large market hall, directly influenc …
Milan memory/invention – Nuovo Polo Fiera Milano
The new trade fair is located on the site of the former AGIP refinery at Rho-Pero, an area of over 2 million sqm that has recently been reclaimed, and close to functional infrastructures of urban and territorial communication that is planned to develop …
Berlin built/built on existing tissue
The empty areas left behind by the “wall” have triggered a long debate on the city and its design. Planners have proposed to build on the existing tissue, an ancient method on which basis cities have been built on top of one another in layers, where bu …
Berlin built/built on existing tissue – Blocco Schützenstrasse
The Schützenstrasse block in Berlin, designed by Aldo Rossi, is one of the most authoritative examples and lessons on the importance of continuity, understood as a project’s ability to present past, present and future in one single act. Fragments, pers …
Berlin built/built on existing tissue – Neues Museum
In 1997 David Chipperfield Architects won an international competition for the restoration of Friedrich August Stüler’s Neues Museum, originally built between 1841/43 – 1859. Located on Museum Island in the heart of former East Berlin, the building was …
Graz art/architecture
Art and architecture have, in history, always been closely bound by a single urban destiny associated with the presence of monuments. Modernity, with its dogmatic goals defined for design, as solutions to the needs and functionality of living, has ofte …
Graz art/architecture – Kunsthaus
In the late Nineties the city of Graz decided to found a new museum of contemporary art. After two competitions, launched in 1988 and 1998 respectively, which had not resulted in the construction of any of the winning projects, in 2000 the turn has com …