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Headquarters of the Province of Antwerp / XDGA

Andreas Luco — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 03:00:00 +0000

The new building replaces a complex of modernist building volumes that used to occupy the entire site and could not be adapted to today's sustainability standards. As the Antwerp city centre has few public green surfaces, the transformation of the site from a merely private, mineral, and infrastructural area into a public garden is a crucial requirement of the competition brief. Surrounded by fragments of public green, the parcel is key to the formation of a larger, coherent park. Another – contradictory - demand was to maintain a more recent representational pavilion, which was positioned as an obstacle in between the fragments.

Africa Museum in Tervuren / Stéphane Beel Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000

In 2006, the Belgian Buildings Agency launched a competition for the redevelopment of the site of the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren. The multi-disciplinary team headed by Stéphane Beel Architects, laid out the new masterplan for the AfricaMuseum and its surrounding area.

Office Building Lyon Confluence Îlot A3 / Christian Kerez

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 04:00:00 +0000

The office building is a generic space. It is characterized by a grid of columns and slabs to ensure total flexibility. This structure is stripped bare and becomes the architecture of the building. The interior and exterior form a continuous whole.

Castagnola / Herzog & de Meuron

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:00:00 +0000

The Villa Favorita in Lugano
The well-preserved gardens of the 17th century Villa Favorita, lining the shores of Lake Lugano at the foot of Monte Bré, are of great historical significance. The 13 romanticist buildings situated in the gardens were erected between 1687 and 1932. Their historicizing style is characteristic of Ticino architecture and, in fact, generally of the villas on the lake shores of northern Italy. Originally, the Villa Favorita was a freestanding, single ensemble of buildings between Lugano and Castagnola. Today it is surrounded by modernist blocks of housing from the second half of the 20th century. This modern architecture is also a typical Ticino style, that emerged in response to the appeal of the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland as a second home and a financial center.

Matmut Atlantique Stadium / Herzog & de Meuron

Diego Hernández — Thu, 21 May 2015 05:00:41 +0000

The new Bordeaux stadium appears light and open; it is elegant, if such a term can be used for a building of this size. Its purity and geometrical clarity inspires a sense of monumentality and gracefulness. One might be tempted to draw a comparison with a classical temple, but unlike the elevated plinth of a temple, the grand stairs of the stadium blur the boundaries between inside and outside. Countless columns standing on the stairs accompany the visitors on their way in and out of the stadium. The fusion of stairs and columns forms a gesture of openness and accessibility.

Léon Blum Viaduct Bridge / RFR

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The Léon Blum Viaduct spans over a large high speed rail station and the Boivre river valley running through the center of Poitiers. The project is to create a line in the urban landscape of Poitiers connecting the historic city to the east and the new suburban landscape to the west by bridging the once industrial center and train station along the Boivre River at the base of the valley.

Familistere Guise / h2o architectes

Cristian Aguilar — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Faculty of Economics Ghent University / XDGA + Stéphane Beel Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The campus path that crosses the building, the topography, the nearby existing economics building, and the new program together generate the form of the building. The path leads down from the street towards the roof of the existing building. On one side are organized all the vertical circulation shafts of the new building, on the other side a double height foyer is accessed from the path.