The rehabilitation of Industrial heritage buildings is a Europe-wide theme. Most of the factories, plants and industrial halls built in the 19th century are no longer in use, and their territory is reclaimed by the evolution of the cities. Buildings with s specific functional aesthetics,
The larger, yet unpublished, series is called Walking the Yamanote Line. The Yamanote aboveground subway line surrounds the central area of the city of Tokyo. In 2015, I walked the streets near the subway line. This can be done in 12 hours. In total, I
It's always a challenge to write about a person you don’t know or know very little and only from what you’ve heard/read about them. And perhaps it’s not by accident that this new igloo column (called A Switch) debuts with the proposal and challenge to meet
Recently inaugurated (in September 2019), Beijing’s Daxing International Airport is located in the Daxing district, 46 km south of the city center. It can be reached easily, in just 20 minutes on the express train. Built in order to attenuate the congestion in the existing
ING has always been an innovative bank, with a lot of courage in experimenting novel solutions, this time, through a different approach in the organization of their new headquarters. Together with the consultants and the architecture team of AMA Design, they created a desk sharing
The interior design of the Microsoft offices in Bucharest and Timișoara provided the architect teams with a good opportunity to question the interior design paradigm of workspaces. In a context where technology is often misunderstood as moving away from the human factor, or where the
Medium-height office buildings are a sensible subject due to the specific tension between the characteristic architectural language that requires large glazed surfaces and the small volume, whose composition and morphology must somehow conciliate these extremes. Located in Bucharest, on a street with Modernist apartment buildings
MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, completed in October 2019 an ample action of renovation and extension, based on the project of the architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro, in collaboration with Gensler. The project amplifies the exhibition space by 30% and offers visitors a
Christophe Benichou is a young French architect who believes in a “narrative and sensorial” architecture, an architecture that creates (and disrupts) meanings, located on the delicate – but generous – border between what we are and what we wish to be. In 2015, he began to
