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The project falls under a largescale program aimed at regenerating the Barcelona coast. Ever since the city of Barcelona’s bid to host the Olympic Games of 1992, it has tried to reconcile itself with its maritime side...

The High Line is a 1.2-mile long abandoned elevated freight rail line along the west side of  lower Manhattan. This 5.9 acre stretch of open space spans 20 city blocks in between and through buildings from Gansevoort Street, through the meat  packing district and West Chelsea, up to 30th Street, ending at the Hudson Rail Yards...

Under the bridge, in the center, the city is interrupted. It is a small town close to Amsterdam, situated at the start of the river Zaan, that an old highway divides into two halves...

A former industrial site dating from the early 19th century adjacent to the Finow Canal was cleared and converted into an innovative park. This marks the transformation of an early industrial area...

The 130 x 130 m block, one of the largest in the urban-plan, is divided into four sections by pedestrian roads. The commercial spaces in the plinth have zigzagging façades above which the housing block 'floats' independently. The circulation routes, that slice through the volume, prevent a massive, wall-like appearance. They widen at their intersection, forming a plaza that is marked by a small 10-floor tower on stilts.

Project published in DBOOK.

Until recently, the premises conjured up the golden era of Swiss mechanical engineering: intact production facilities, an abundance of casting tools, steel parts and warehousing installations, a diesel engine as a monument, and enormous craneways in the midst of monstrous factory halls...

This project started with the intention of rescuing the last available land near downtown Seattle from the pressures of real estate, taking an area of abandoned industrial land back for the city. It is fundamentally an open-air public space programme through a route that begins in a multipurpose building...

Project published in Density is Home.

The Rive de Billancourt sector is located on the trapezium which was once occupied by the Renault car factory; this will be a lively part of the city with a mix of all urban uses...

Le Monolithe is a compact volume which reproduces the variety of the traditional city, both in terms of form and programme...

The plan Grand Large by Nicolas Michelin is set around a ha park and foresees the construction of about 1,000 dwellings...

The Docks Dombasles housing project maintains an existing warehouse, converted into offices, opposite the new docks walkway...

The project is based on modelling the maximum building envelope -a traditional closed seven-storey block- set out in the strict building regulations. The proposal breaks with convention and distributes the dwelling units on a new volume of variable height (between three and seven storeys)...

This development offers dwellings for sale or rental in three blocks which have been separated enabling light to flow into the interior of the blocks...

Where the old city fades away and the UNESCO-protected zone ends, this exercise of adapting architecture to its context whilst avoiding becoming nostalgic, has been planned...

The city separated the residential space from the business areas and promoted, with special emphasis on Japanese society, the isolation and lack of communication among citizens...

This mixed tenure housing development for the private market and rented social housing is located on a site with a steep inclination in the historic centre of Vila Nova de Gaia...

The construction of the building is the result of a long process of consulting and reaching an agreement with the local residents who wanted to take an active part in the site planning...

The facilities of a former brewery have been converted to housing units in the interior of this block in downtown Leuven...

After the demise of the paradigm of unlimited city growth as a motor for generating wealth and high returns, renovation, refurbishment and implementation of new uses on the existing urban fabric have taken its place...

The X-TUproject contributes to regenerating this urban setting, noted for the aggregation of very different scales and types...

The operation initially concentrated housing and a municipal sports centre in a compact volume, to which, thanks to the determination of the architects and the councillor in charge of the programme, a roof garden open to the public was added...