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Next up in our high-tech architecture series we take a look at the inside-out Lloyd's building in London, Richard Rogers' second major building following Centre Pompidou.

CONCEPT In order to give strength to the village center and counteract the ever-expanding urban boundaries, the necessity arises to pay attention to the city compaction issue. The realization of more housing units per square meter ensures that the village

Davidson Rafailidis has turned a general contractor’s former office space into a small apartment dwelling, in an interior adaptive re-use that treats space as constantly evolving and ever-changing. Over time, most spaces stray from their original programs

Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates built Loop House around a central courtyard in pursuit of peace and quiet a dense urban site in in Hyogo, Japan.

PHOTO ESSAY BY LORENZO ZANDRI

The bridge over the Dřetovice stream in Vrapice, near the city of Kladno, is located on a pedestrian trail that leads from the village to the cemetery. It is set in a remarkable natural context that, in a way, compensates for the urbanized public space of

Situated on a triangular site as part of the large “Rive de Seine” urban project in Boulogne-Billancourt, the new school complex fits into a contrasting urban context and faces a large public plaza that allows access to both schools while creating a link

Site The plot is located in the Mira-sol district in Sant Cugat del Vallès, dominated by isolated houses with gardens. A space of spaces or a house of houses, in the middle of a garden. Every small pice turns into an interior courtyard and looks differen

Changjiang Art Museum is located in Changjiang village at the northeast corner of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. Similar to any other Chinese villages, this village was razed in 2016 to give way to the full speed urban development. The spatial context that onc

The project is located in a meadow near the site of a new hotel in the natural setting of Nasu in Tochigi. Before, the meadow site was a paddy field; a forest overgrows with moss, like the present-day surroundings. Traces of the site’s history, such as a

The B1B4 tower is a residence for researchers located at the edge of Paris in the new Massena Bruneseau neighborhood. This area is characterised by a duality between aerial towers and the presence of heavy underground infrastructures of transport. The pro

This Babel project is a condensator of urban and professionnal activities, situated in the continuity of the Euralille district planned by OMA, along the urban boulevard linking the differents communes of the Lille metropolis. This project questions the f

The French-Tech hall is a place of professional activity situated in the heart of the future Cambarérès district, the new urban center dedicated to innovation in Montpellier. It is meant to host young developing companies, and encourage encounters between

This project has as its ambition the reinvention of the collective habitat by integrating the scale and quality of the individual habitat within a dense and flexible structure. The building is designed as an aggregation of stacked villas, conveying ideas

The building sits in a former industrial site of Lille being reconverted into a business district for young IT companies. The building works as an urban articulation between a large public space and various existing buildings. To sustain the dialogue with

Dichotomies of Power calls on the interpretive capacities of the visitor to submerge into a three dimensional representation of power: the real, the symbolic and the imagined. THE REAL, Represented by the extinct colonial tradition of the production of co

The office building in the center of Oberhausen combines the diverse functions of a public administrative building and rooftop garden in a new way, integrating features of both typologies. The tension between the physicality of the brick building and the

PHOTO ESSAY BY ANDY LIFFNER

The whole was in neglected condition, the original valuable heritage was packed in all kinds of bulky and purely rational outbuildings on the one hand, and by the later function of a cookie factory on the other. However, this function had also been out of

The Fermi School, a middle school, opens up to the urban sphere through the reorganization of its entrances and of its external spaces. The back of the existing building becomes the large new main entrance, shaping a green space while unfolding to the nei

The county of Fuliang was once under the administrative jurisdiction of Jingdezhen, the Porcelain Capital of China, and is known as the origin of the Porcelain Capital. The Gaoling Ancient Mine Ruins in Fuliang is also a holy place for international ceram

Designed by architect Louis Kahn, Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban or National Parliament House is the house of the Parliament of Bangladesh, located at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. Also available as DIVISARE BOOK #142

95 degrees is a restaurant designed by Alexander Brodsky in Pirogovo, a place near Moscow.

Alexander Brodsky project is a private house for a large family living all together under one roof.

The housing for the elderly in Adeamayor de San Martin (Valladolid) can not be understood without its context. Located on the border of a saline hidden wetland (Salgüeros de Aldeamayor) the aridity of the terrain and the infinite horizontality of the Span

The Atelierhaus for the german artist Markus Oehlen is located in a formerly illigal settlement in the north of Munich. Inbetween makeshift buildings a house was formed with just one room, constructed with just one layer. The materials concrete, pumice st

PHOTO ESSAY BY EMANUELE RICCI

An addition to the Helsinki University campus area in Kumpula neighbourhood. The building comprises communal spaces and more than 200 student apartments. The small site is wedged on steep slope between heavy traffic and the faculty buildings. Due to the