A Directory of Great Architectures
A Directory of Great Architectures
Lightemotion, the Montreal-based lighting design studio, has illuminated the Ajax Experience, a new interactive museum that tells the story of Ajax FC, one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious football clubs from the Netherlands. Located in an existing building in…
Create a signal in the landscape The operation takes place along a canal in St. Pierre, which is the former industrial district of Calais.In this bleak urban landscape, The future facility must signal its presence and invite potential users, the…
In reality, ecological strategies often generate an over-production of materials, becoming energy-vores and clients of factories, the polluters of the world. The real ecological combat is within the reappropriation of materials and experimentations with ready-made objects, far from the so-called…
The Pfizer Canada reconfiguration project makes a very clear statement. The architectural design focuses on promoting the corporate identity of the company located on the Trans-Canada Highway. The strategy is to use the building space in a transparent and expeditious…
© Foster + Partners Hermitage Plaza will create a new community to the east of La Défense, in Courbevoie, that extends down to the river Seine with cafés, shops and a public plaza at its heart. The project incorporates two…
Tobias Rehberger and J. MAYER H. have blended art and technology to create a unique Innovation Space in the 3,500 square-meter Hall 16 – providing the perfect setting for the CODE_n finalists and a platform for inspiration, dialogue and business.…
The building consists of an elongated volume facing south, and includes a longitudinal central courtyard, with overhead lighting. Thus, it achieves a perfect control of sunlight (in winter the building can have the maximum amount of direct sunlight, and in…
Mind the Gap is a temporary information pavilion for the London 2012 Olympic Games, located in Trafalgar Square in the heart of London. Every athlete talks of a feeling – an experience – that can be defined as the moment…
