Architecture

Naoshima Pavilion

photo by Iwan Baan On the pool side of Naoshima, renowned as an island of art and architecture, Sou Fujimoto Architects designed a small public space where a variety of people including local residents and tourists, can...

Appartamento Dos de Maig

Located in the east side of Barcelona, this block built in 1930 consists of two houses almost symmetrical per floor. The floor plan of the project, despite its small size, has two facades (NE-NO) and...

Harbin Opera House

Embedded within Harbin‘s wetlands, the Harbin Opera House was designed in response to the force and spirit of the northern city‘s untamed wilderness and frigid climate. Appearing as if sculpted by wind and water,...

Louvre Abu Dhabi

“Louvre Abu Dhabi will open in two months. After several years of studies and construction, guests will be able to enter this place of light, this revelatory meeting place of a number of planetary...

Urban Rigger

Recent years have demonstrated a substantial and sustained increase in the number of student applicants throughout Denmark. As the number of students continues to grow, additional student housing will be needed to accommodate them....

Momofuku Ando Centre

We wanted to place an architecture that is like a long stick. To be precise, a single, long, and ‘free‘ roof in the forest under which various activities – exercise, studying, eating, sleeping –...

Elderly Person‘ Residence

Located in Cascais, in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, the Social Complex of Alcabideche with a total construction area of approximately 10,000 sqm aims to reconstitute a Mediterranean life style in which the outdoor...

New dwelling house for students

The new dwelling house for students is placed in the same plot as the University of Architecture (ETSAV), in a low density residential area in Sant Cugat del Vallès.  The competition, organized by the...

Meeting Centre in Grândola

Designed by Aires Mateus, Grândola's new meeting center in Portugal is a pure volume, scratched only by some geometric and sculptural openings, forms derived from the context of the Portuguese city. The context with its...

Kitasenzoku Apartment

“As you find in Silicon Valley of the United States, I would like to produce a model case near Tokyo Institute of Technology, creating and developing a synergistic cycle for this university, companies and...

Serpentine Pavilion 2017

The proposed design for the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion is conceived as a micro cosmos – a community structure within Kensington Gardens that fuses cultural references of my home country Burkina Faso with experimental construction...

Tirpitz

The new TIRPITZ  by BIG is a sanctuary in the sand that acts as a gentle counterbalance to the dramatic war history of the site in Blåvand on the west coast of Denmark. The 2,800 m2 ‘invisible...