Category: Projects

Dialogue of surfaces Religious believers from local communities conceived the idea for this ambitious project in Bern well over a decade ago. As a result of their vision of creating an interreligious space, Europan5 launched an architectural competition in 1999, which was won by Madir Shah of Urbanoffice in Amsterdam. The competition marks the start…

Stamping Game For the São Paulo branch of ITMS Telemedicina do Brasil, a company specialised in telemedicine services, two floors of office space were projected in the business heart of the city. With the atmosphere of a “residential loft”, Brazilian architect Maurício Karam gave the rooms a high-tech feature using a differentiated lighting system and…

Beacon of Hope The first Catholic high school to be built on Chicago’s West Side in more than 80 years, Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School sets a striking contrast to its decayed surroundings. A tonal arrangement of fiber cement panels adds depth to the façade and gives it a corporate appearance in keeping…

Rhythm and Movement The complex at the University of Rijeka had a demanding brief as the building had to house two separate faculties as well as a student counselling centre and an underground parking area.   Anna Roos The architects used the incline of the site to carefully model the ground plane of the project,…

Dancing Pyramid Stumps The town of Lund in the southernmost province of Sweden, the beautiful Schonen, is known as the “students’ city” owing to the fact that over one third of its inhabitants are students. Four new highrise buildings dominate the town’s silhouette. The Swiss architect Mario Campi and his Swedish colleague Arne Jönsson and…

Dividing Fence The Track 13 Community Garden renovation transforms a defunct loading dock into a luxurious outdoor amenity. The site is situated in a sliver of space between Cummins Station, a historically registered industrial warehouseturned corporate office building, and the Gulch, one of downtown Nashville’s thriving neighbourhoods.   The building once accommodated freight trains, but…

Aesthetic wind protection On the beach of Apelviken in the Swedish health resort of Varberg, a settlement of lookalike holiday houses was developed. They are exceptional not only through their extraordinary location right on the sea, but also through their minimal styling and uniform use of materials. The roof and façades are protected from the…

Shifting Panels Appear to Vibrate Across the Façades The junction of this L-shaped business center is emphasized by a vertical volume clad in overlapping, vertical Swisspearl panels in jet black with clipped eaves and small punctured windows.   The total area of the three- to four-story business center in Kaunas, Lithuania, is approximately 5,300 square…

Connecting Urban and Rural Neptune Office Building is articulated in long, extended parallel lines of layered materials: stone, glazing, Swisspearl panels, and steel flashing in tightly packed, overlapping panels. Interlocking forms protrude from the façade envelope covered by the timber-clad eaves overhang that protects the upper floor outdoor balcony. This 42,000-square-foot office building in Rogers,…