Abu Dhabi World Trade Center at Al Raha Beach resolves the contradictions of its site: providing shade yet also admitting light; cooled by a natural flow of air yet buffered against the strong desert wind; asymmetrical and sculptural yet environmentally and functionally coherent.
Lumière is the main of two towers that form the Regent Place Development on the site of the former Regent Theatre adjacent to Sydney Town Hall.
The Tubaloon is a membrane structure designed by the Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta to serve as the main stage at Scandinavia’s reputable Kongsberg Jazz Festival.
The King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture is a bold new initiative on the part of the Saudi Aramco Oil Company to promote cultural development within the Kingdom.
The SOS community center combines services for foster care families and neighborhood families in one building. SOS is an international not-for-profit agency committed to training foster parents and reuniting siblings
For Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Location: E10 tourist route project, Design Competition winner design by Snøhetta Architects
With a magnificent view as the main feature of this retreat located on the hill of a small village some 150km from mexico city, one-half-house aims to live landscape under a canopy with as few interior elements as possible.
After more than 10 years of design, planning and construction, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina was completed with a formal opening in the fall of 2002.
The projects involved designing a new 1350 sqm museum building, a landscape plan for the surrounding site, parking facilities and a service building.
The site offered an opportunity to energize an urban area that had long been unappealing. It demanded a transformative vision of invigorating its decrepit urban presence.
Ave Fénix Ciudad de México: the program includes, in addition to the Firemen station itself, a space of consultation and training center open to the public, both activities must be executed separately and never the presence of the visitor should interfere in the work of the firemen.
The lot is situated in a typical suburban housing development in Japan, among an array of terraced modest sites. The majority of the houses in the development are of prefabricated, two-story construction, seemingly disconnected from their surroundings.
The Bergen Firestation is a crescent-shaped building predominantly using timber for both structure and for cladding of the facade.
A prominent Melbourne secondary school occupies the site surrounded by important landscapes. Several historic trees along its main campus orientation preface the original bluestone Quadrangle building