National September 11 Memorial
The National September 11 Memorial is an eight acre plaza set within the dense urban fabric of Lower Manhattan, where the former World Trade Center Twin Towers once stood. The Memorial Plaza is an integral part of the sixteen acre redeveloped World Tra …
Messe Basel – New Hall
Viewed from the outside, exhibition halls are actually nothing more than a stack of big boxes. They require very few windows and architectural distinctions are deemed as impractical restrictions on interior flexibility. The architectural results are ge …
Busan Cinema Center
The concept envisions an urban plaza of overlapping zones including an Urban Valley, a Red Carpet Zone, a Walk of Fame and the BIFF Canal Park. The urban plaza is formed by building and plaza elements sheltered by two large roofs that are enabled with …
Cultural Center “Plassen“
‘Plassen’ (meaning the square or the space in Norwegian) is formed like a giant paper cutting. The building literally grabs the city square, Gørvellplassen. It cuts and folds the surface, resulting in a building where the inside and the outside, the su …
Teikyo Shogakko Elementary School
We aimed at a wooden schoolhouse of our age. The building consists of a big roofing and materiality of wood for interior and exterior. By changing its length and height of eave, roof can create multiformity to respond to its environment and different p …
Fish Market
As a lively market place it is leaving it´s mark upon the city just as well as does the historic monuments that are significant tourist attractions. Our contribution to the design competition intends to carry on telling this story in the future. The pr …
Red Bull Music Academy
The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a nomadic annual music festival. For the last 14 years, this event has been held in a different world city, welcoming the sixty pre-selected international participants and surrounding them with musicians, producers, …
Movement Café
Café, theatre, local landmark, meeting place and poem – the Movement Café in Greenwich is all of this and more. The café turned a hole in the ground left by demolition into a fabulous community space run by the not-for-profit Greenwich Co-operative Dev …
contemporary itinerary: Warsaw
A tour through the Warsaw’s contemporary architectures
area 129 – urban architecture
presentazione/introduction Planning along the street text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Modernity of Via Novissima, Paolo Portoghesi a dialogue with Marco Casamonti and Vittorio Pizzigoni letture critiche/cr …