Materials

France | PARIS
Created in the 17th century as barracks for the Black Musketeers, the Quinze-Vingts nowadays houses France's National...
Facade, Glass

Iceland | REYKJAVIK
With its unique glass prisms and mixture of colours, the Icelandic National Concert & Conference Centre combines...
Facade, Glass, Light

Italy | RIMINI
The striking green facades of this L-shaped office building with street-level retail spaces make for a pleasant work climate...
Ecocentric, Facade

Hungary | PÉCS
In the foothills of the Mecsek range north-west of the city of Pécs, stands the home of a ceramic artist, Márta Nagy, and...
Ecocentric, Facade, Stone

Belgium | ASSE
Between a vast car park and a nature reserve in the centre of Asse, a municipality near Brussels, stand two grassy banks...
Ecocentric, Facade

Netherlands | HELMOND
In Helmond, in the south-eastern Netherlands, architect Theo Termond has designed a new car park for the Elkerliek hospital....
Facade, Wood

Denmark | COPENHAGEN
The basic dilemma of the car park is how to stack automobiles without creating 'inhuman structures'. The obvious solution...
Ecocentric, Facade

Denmark | COPENHAGEN
Several years ago the City of Copenhagen planned a centre for organized sports and improvised activities in Nørrebro. The...
Ecocentric, Facade

Spain | MADRID
Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron were commissioned by the La Caixa Foundation to convert a former power station into...
Ecocentric, Facade

Germany | HOYERSWERDA
Built in the 1970s and '80s, New Town Hoyerswerda was already starting to shrink in the 1990s. By 2015 the peak population of...
Conversion, Ecocentric, Facade