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Architecture

Yancheng Vertical Forest

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«Yancheng lies around 300 km northwest of Shanghai. We have developed a completely new residential area in a growth zone of this prosperous city of 1.7 million inhabitants. The residential complex is state of the art throughout, and aims to be a role model for urban development. In cooperation with our partner CEG Schwarzwald, our […]

Inhabited Sky

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A raised building that minimizes its footprint, its boundaries and multiplies light. Inside, geometry and materials play together in order to blur any sense of limit or border. That’s Inhabited Sky. For more information visit Xpiral – Innovative Answers

FMRM Headquarters

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The decission of raising the building has two immediate consequences: in one hand, the plot is recover for is profitable use, both as a parking and as public space. In the other hand, the building achieves hierarchy within its context instantly, being headquarters and sign at the same time. For more information visit Xpiral – […]

Salamandra

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Salamandra from the architects: The building emerges from the sea, as a rock that always was there. An eroded rock, that wraps without covering, buries itself and looks. The material which the building is made of is going to age, is going to get moss, improving with time. The building breaks itself, gets to the […]

superEixample

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superEixample Barcelona is a city in constant demographic and economic growth, trend that is expected to continue in the future. The growth is extensive and unsustainable. The next enlargement will not be towards outside, but inner growth. The Eixample is the core of this growth. SuperEixample will support, feed and empowers this next evolution thanks […]

Caixa Galicia Towers

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Caixa Galicia Towers. We start from the assumption that an office tower cannot have the same treatment as a residential tower: the first looks for notoriety for being the symbol of who is behind it; the second should be associated to intimacy. We thought the office tower with the will of creating an inner space […]

WU Vienna

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Department building in the new Wien University of Economics Campus From the architect: «We could define our projects as a parallepipeds’ game where, while a repetitive and homogeneous program is solved, has the will to create public space. This game allows to connect the two proposed buildings in the masterplan, letting the street pass below […]

Cube 2

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Office Tower “Cube 2” (Guadalajara, Mexico) From the architect. «It can’t be denied that a tower has always a will of singularity and that its sculptural value is its most precious asset. In this case, we don’t want to disconnect this sculptural value from its structural expression; we believe that any balancing act which its […]

Caixaforum Zaragoza

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Caixafòrum (Zaragoza) From the architect. «We start the project by posing two challenges: The first: to design a building that can ‘feel like a city’ – both due to its uniqueness and to the public spaces it generates. The second: to design a building which connects with distant perspectives when walking around, providing at the […]