Fengming Mountain Park
Fengming Mountain Park is set on a 16,000 sqm site, located in the growing Shapingba District of Chongqing. The site extends south to the old housing quarter, north to the Huayu City Project, west to Shangqiao Road and east to Fengxi Road, which is the …
Louvre Lens Museum Park
The installation of the Louvre lens on one of the pitheads introduce the capacity to change over from economic production to an economy regenerated by a way of inhabiting and revisiting the memories of an area in contact with the memories of art and cu …
area 152 – public nature
presentazione/introduction Public Nature text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Landscape in the centre. For an integration between disciplines text by Isotta Cortesi antologia/anthology Public nature anthology text by David Besson-Girard, Chiara …
Tenri Station plaza CoFuFun
The plan for the 6000 square meter area includes bicycle rentals, a cafe and other shops, an information kiosk, a play area, outdoor stage, and meeting space. The project goal was to encourage local community revitalisation by providing a space for eve …
Eyes as Big as Plates
Eyes as Big as Plates is a photography series produced in collaboration with over fifty seniors from ten countries. Starting out as a play on characters from Nordic folklore, the series has evolved into a continual search for modern human’s belonging t …
Jardins du Tiers-Paysage
The garden of the Third Landscape proposed for the Roof of the Submarine Base of Saint Nazaire is made up of species belonging to the Third Landscape of the Estuary territory and, in part, by convergent species compatible with the climate and the absen …
Firemen Museum/Fire prevention center Barcelona
The Fire Prevention Center Project has transformed the former Fire Station of Lleida Street, Barcelona, built for the 1929 International Exhibition, into an integrated part in the network of cultural spaces – “Montjuïc, mountain of museums”. The orig …
18 anni in 100 numeri
Issue number 100 of Area inevitably forces us to look inwards and backwards, to reflect on the history of the magazine, how it all began, or rather how the cultural aims of Area came to be defined, and where this kind of story, which at least for now w …
White house Origgio
White House by SELF Arquitectura s.l.p. is a residence for four families, which is spread over two levels above ground, plus one in the basement. The project was born from the desire to design a single volume that draws the icon of the house with a tra …
Seoullo 7017 Skygarden
Located in the heart of Seoul, a true plant village has been realised by MVRDV on a former inner city highway in an ever-changing urban area accommodating the biggest variety of Korean plant species and transforming it into a public 983-metre long park …