Svendborg International Maritime Academy, Denmark

Svendborg International Maritime Academy Denmark

Danish architecture studios EFFEKT and C.F. Møller Architects have designed SIMAC, the largest maritime education institution in the country, in the port of Svendborg, Denmark. The building’s transparent façade allows natural light to flood the interior in the daytime and as twilight sets, the building becomes a beacon, illuminating the harbour front.

Escaleras y Mirador Vela, Barcelona, Spain

Escaleras y Mirador Vela Spain

“This project, on the one hand is inevitable, and on the other, very representative. The culmination of Passeig del Mare Nostrum with a walkable façade is proposed as a fundamental element that reconfigures the city’s relationship with the sea,” says architect Carmelo Zappulla, founder of External Reference, Barcelona