Suzhou is a Chinese canal city which aged for 2,500 years. Set on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River on the verge of Lake Taihu, the city represented the edge of urban sophistication: a place where enclosed garden evolved into a naturalistic universe in miniature. In 1997 and 2000, UNESCO identified nine of [...]
The Milan Trade Fair new complex will offer complementary services that will help it to blend with the surrounding area: the area will provide an extensive parking system, vast landscaped areas and a wide range of compatible services, such as hotels, stores, cafés, bars and restaurants, and recreational facilities. It is the place of meeting, [...]
In addition to the development of a new masterplan for the university, OMA was commissioned to design Educatorium, a crucial link or urban keystone for the entire academic complex. The parameter of the site is surrounded by four extremely different conditions: Horticulture and Botanical Gardens, a green boundary in the north; Transitorium 2, a 17 [...]
The Jubilee Church is the jewel in the crown of the Vicariato di Roma’s (Archdiocese of Rome) Millennium Project. Formally known as Dio Padre Misericordioso, it is the 50th new church and community center built in the suburbs of Rome. The Jubilee Church has been conceived as a new center for a somewhat isolated housing [...]
Alsop’s Colorium forms one element of a larger ongoing program for the regeneration of Dusseldorf’s waterfront. The completed ‘Media Harbor’ project will include works by Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, David Chipperfield and Fumihiko Maki. The building was designed as an office block, with its special shape as a process of aesthetic, economic and social [...]
