Institutional

BMW Welt, Munich, Germany, Coop Himmelb(l)au

BMW Welt

Text description provided by the architects. The realization of the technical building facilities within the scope of the architecture led to a planning model with five thematic blocks: Hall, Premiere, Forum, Gastronomy and Double Cone. Hall A low-tech concept optimized ecologically using high-tech methods The technical solution here is based […]

Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Reykjavík, Iceland, Arkís arkitektar

Icelandic Institute of Natural History

Text description provided by the architects. The Institute The Institute of Natural History is a public institution, carrying out diverse research and monitoring of nature. Research is especially focused on botany, ecology, taxonomy geology and zoology. The new building for the Icelandic Institute of Natural History houses research facilities and […]

Parliament for the German-Speaking Community, Eupen, Belgium, Atelier Kempe Thill

Parliament for the German-Speaking Community

Text description provided by the architects.  A Parliament for the German-Speaking Community After the end of World War I, with the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, the neutral area surrounding the municipality of Kelmis, Belgium, and the German administrative district of Eupen-Malmedy, Belgium, are annexed. As a result, some seventy […]

International Management Institute, Bhubaneswar, India, Abin Design Studio

International Management Institute

Text description provided by the architects. The past always catches up with you. Why shouldn’t it? Especially, when it offers you a rich heritage and timeless unparalleled grandeur. Orissa is a state widely known for its opulent cultural heritage and rich architecture. Geographically, Bhubaneswar is situated in the eastern coastal […]

CJ Nine Bridges "The Forum", Seogwipo, South Korea, D.LIM Architects

CJ Nine Bridges “The Forum”

Text description provided by the architects. D·LIM Architects digs subterranean forum for CJ nine bridges in Korea. South Korean studio D·LIM architects has completed a multipurpose facility for CJ, one of the country largest companies. Located at the center’s golf club on Jeju island, the subterranean project avoids disrupting views […]

Incuba Science Park Katrinebjerg, Aarhus, Denmark, C.F. Møller Architects

Incuba Science Park Katrinebjerg

Text description provided by the architects. Incuba Science Park is a new creative centre located at Katrinebjerg, the IT powerhouse of the city of Aarhus, where innovative IT companies, graduate training, research and advanced technology co-exist side by side. The elegant 10,000 m2 complex is composed of three elements: an […]

Bestseller Logistics Centre North, Haderslev, Denmark, C.F. Møller Architects

Bestseller Logistics Centre North

Text description provided by the architects. The new logistics centre, located on the E45 motorway at Haderslev, supplies all of the clothing company Bestseller’s boutiques, right across Europe. The centre has been planned to occupy three parallel bands surrounding a main avenue. One of these bands contains the main entrance, […]

Schuurman Group, Alkmaar, Netherlands, Bekkering Adams Architecten

Schuurman Group

Text description provided by the architects. The accommodation for the Schuurman Group is situated in the business area Boekelermeer in Alkmaar, a small town in the north of the Netherlands.  This prime location is visible from the highway A9 and is adjacent to a natural reserve. To profit from the […]

Public Records Office Canton Basel-Landschaft, Liestal, Switzerland, EM2N

Public Records Office Canton Basel-Landschaft

Text description provided by the architects. The Public Record Office is the collective memory of the political, economic and cultural life of a canton. Consequently, a suitable urban location and appropriate architectural expression are of central importance. The current location of the existing office, amidst smaller and larger residential buildings […]

Sauflon Centre of Innovation, Gyál, Hungary, Földes Architects

Sauflon Centre of Innovation

Text description provided by the architects. The ethereal centre of innovation  project, unveiled in Hungary, stands for the mutual inspiration of science, technology and art. A twenty four meter passage surrounded by the reflections of reflections. Foldes Architects involved a glass sculptor to compose the illusion effects engaging the visual […]

Raiffeisenbank Satteins, Satteins, Austria, Gohm Hiessberger Architekten

Raiffeisenbank Satteins

Text description provided by the architects. The surprisingly Janus-headed aspect of this building, which in the center of the village of Satteins and connects business and residential purposes in an urban way, is expressed in the structure: smoothness and roughness, flatness and depth, transparency and closure. To the street on […]

Vidre Negre Office Building, Cuneo, Italy, DaMilano Studio

Vidre Negre Office Building

Text description provided by the architects. Oficina Vidre Negre was born as a contemporary sculpture, a symbol of a dynamic and continuous development with the need for strong identification, even in terms of image. In a context of peripheral node of the motorway, the building is set within a park, […]

Epsilon Euskadi Centre, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, IDOM

Epsilon Euskadi Centre

Epsilon Euskadi is a Motor Racing Innovation and Technology Research Centre that integrates three activities: 1) Design: R&D&I and production of state-of-the-art racing cars; 2) Racing team management: team competitors in the Le Mans 24 Hours, World Series by Renault, Formula Renault 3.5, Eurocup Formula Renault […]

Institute for Vehicles Research, Alcañiz, Spain, IDOM

Institute for Vehicles Research

Text description provided by the architects. The building is located next to the road from Zaragoza to Castellon, in the area of ​​the new circuit Motorland. The plot, on which it is located, is rectangular, 130 meters wide by an average of 116 meter long. Its total area is 13,351 […]

Data Centre in Cerdanyola, Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain, IDOM

Data Centre in Cerdanyola

The Data Centre program includes more than 6.000m² of processors distributed into 18 IT rooms as well as parking places, contingency offices, operation, coupling facilities, testing rooms, suppliers and workshops. The building typology requires the highest technological functionality, prioritizing: flexibility, scalability and energy […]

112 Reus, Reus, Spain, IDOM

112 Reus

Text description provided by the architects. The new 112 Building in Reus is the model for the new emergencies management and service system in Catalonia, and the first public facility in the country to have a LEED certification. It is a new architectonic typology that brings together all the bodies […]

Nestlé Application Group Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, Rojkind Arquitectos

Nestlé Application Group Querétaro

In his “A Concrete Atlantis,” Reyner Banham posits “a casual connection, conscious and cultural, between modern architecture and industrial utilitarian structures of an industrial epoch.” From Loos and Behrens to Gropius and Le Corbusier, at the beginning of the 20th century, a constant back and forth was established between […]

European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt, Germany, Coop Himmelb(l)au

European Central Bank (ECB)

The new premises of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt were contructed from a design which combines the horizontal structure of the landmarked Grossmarkthalle with a twisted double tower, rising to 185 meters, from the Viennese architectural studio Coop Himmelb(l)au. United by […]

Hollenbeck Replacement Police Station, Los Angeles, California, United States, AC Martin

Hollenbeck Replacement Police Station

The design of LAPD Hollenbeck Replacement Station in Boyle Heights exemplifies the station efforts to create an open, community-serving police force. Strengthening the neighborhood’s civic center and highlighting the community’s distinct tradition of artistic expression was the intention of the […]

Chamber of Commerce in Chapinero, Bogotá, Colombia, Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos

Chamber of Commerce in Chapinero

Text description provided by the architects. The collective value of this program to the city is celebrated by the urban reaction of the scheme celebrates while the ground floor space opens to the public in making a diagonal pass through the building. The tilted first floor plan creates a dynamic […]

Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Institut du Monde Arabe

Institut du Monde Arabe was established in 1980 in Paris, when an agreement with France was concluded from 18 countries 18 Arab countries concluded an agreement with France to establish the Institute with information about the Arab world and to start research to cover Arabic and the Arab world’s cultural […]

Yitzak Rabin Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, Safdie Architects

Yitzak Rabin Centre

The Yitzhak Rabin Center was commissioned as a memorial to the slain Israeli leader. The centre includes a museum focusing on Rabin’s life and times, an auditorium, a research institute devoted to the study of the history of his era, a library and archive, and a multipurpose great hall. The […]