Market Hall
Following two demolition campaigns for a world exhibition in 1913 and an administrative centre never built in the 60s, Ghent’s historic heart degenerated for decades into a desolate parking lot in between a suite of three adjoining Gothic towers. In tw …
Poroscape
We cannot exclude the probability that our urban area might degenerate into a faceless city unawares consequent on ideational identity incurred by prevailing outward appearance with no difference through indiscriminate duplication and the influence of …
Novancia Business School
This project is the expression of several conceptual ideas that guided our team work from competition stage to building completion. The school existed since 1908 and was looking for a new identity. It is located near Montparnasse Station in Paris, a ci …
Domkyrkoforum
The site of the new Cathedral Forum is central Lund, directly south of the cathedral. On the site there are two historical buildings to be kept. The rebuilding project is 883 sqm. The new building is 1617 sqm and aims to integrate itself in the urban f …
Casa della Giovane
The Casa della Giovane or home for young women, the recent project in Genoa by Franz Prati and Una2, is an example of a building that is part of the tissue of the compact city, the most solid part of the urban composition, where very little has been bu …
Lagere School Sint-Gillis
Architecture is more than simply producing images, spaces and thinking of technical solutions. It is a far more complex process in which one looks for a synthesis on various levels of scale, from the town planning dimension up to the careful detailing …
Tetris
The commission for this social housing project came from SIEMP, a public enterprise whose surgical, case-by-case approach responds to the city’s revised urban renewal strategy. Contrary to the 1980s-90s policy of razing entire blocks, today Paris prefe …
Town Hall Hotel
photo by Sue Barr Town Hall Hotel is a new 98-room luxury hotel, restaurant and bar housed in the old Bethnal Green Town Hall, at the heart of London’s burgeoning East End. Comprising the provision of a contemporary extension in the form of a new top f …
Consolidated city and design in action
The identity of the public space in our cities is, from many points of view, hard to define and in continuous evolution. On the one side it is manifesting clear signs of fragility and of an inability to represent the social dynamics in progress; on the …
contemporary itinerary: Rhein-Ruhr area
Rhein-Ruhr area’s contemporary architectures