New 685 First Avenue Tower in Manhattan
Richard Meier & Partners in collaboration with Developer Sheldon Solow’s East River Realty Development is pleased to celebrate the design and construction of the new 685 First Avenue tower in New York City. The 42-story, 460-foot high residential t …
Edible Schoolyard
New York City’s first Edible Schoolyard at P.S.216 in Brooklyn is a half-acre Organic Garden and Kitchen Classroom Building including a greenhouse and cooking space for students to prepare and enjoy food from the garden. With one of the lowest percenta …
The Elbphilharmonie Plaza
The Plaza of the Elbphilharmonie – a public viewing platform situated between the former warehouse and the new glass structure – was officially opened at a ceremony last 4th of November, 2016. photo by Sophie Wolter The opening of the Elbphilharmonie b …
The Rampart Wave
In the heart of Lyon, on the old Sergent Blandan barracks from 1830, a new public space of 20 hectares was opened in 2014: Blandan park. On this nonstandard site, unnoticeable for a long time, new urban, contemporary and exclusive spaces were designed …
Dovecote Studio
The Dovecote Studio forms part of the internationally renowned music campus at Snape Maltings, founded by Benjamin Britten in derelict industrial buildings on the Suffolk coast. Britten was inspired by the almost abstract landscape of the reedbeds at t …
The architecture of sacred space and the search for a needed sacredness
Some themes, subjects, and areas are much influenced by the era, inevitably feeling the effects of broader issues of the day. Reflecting the expectations of the social and cultural environment around them, today‘s architects seem to pay minimal attenti …
Sayama Forest Chapel
Sayama Lakeside Cemetery is open to various religions and denominations. It is located in a nature-rich environment adjacent to the water conservation forest, and the site itself is in front of a deep forest. I envisioned an architecture that reflect …
Ribbon Chapel
This wedding chapel stands in a garden of a resort hotel, “Bella Vista Sakaigahama,” in Onomichi, Hiroshima. The site is midway on a hill enjoying a panoramic view of the Inland Sea of Japan. By entwining two spiral stairways, we realized a free-standi …
Bunker 599
In a radical way this intervention sheds new light on the Dutch and UNESCO policy on cultural heritage. At the same, it makes people look at their surroundings in a new way. The project lays bare two secrets of the New Dutch Waterline (NDW), a military …
38 social housing units
Avenier Cornejo architectes completed 38 social housing units at 10/12 rue Bonnet in the city of Clichy-la-Garenne for Efidis (social housing landlord), located at the doorstep of Paris, along the périphérique beltway. At the edge of the capital and it …