Zagreb Stadium Complex. hr
ZAGREB STADIUM COMPLEX Extending Maksimir Rather than introducing a UEFA Category 4 stadium as a monumental object, the proposal extends the landscape of Zagreb’s historic Maksimir Park southwards, transforming the stadium into an inhabited topography where architecture emerges from the terrain rather than sits upon it. The site gently rises to conceal the program […]
Manarat AlKhafji. sa
Manarat Al Khafji is a civic cultural center located in Al Khafji, Saudi Arabia. Conceived as a contemporary landmark along the Arabian Gulf, the project integrates architecture, landscape, and public space into a unified urban destination. The design extends the coastal edge into an activated civic promenade, creating a layered environment that connects retail, […]
Tumo Urban Canopy. am
Previous slide Next slide Gyumri Urban Canopy, Armenia The Tumo Urban Canopy design draws from Gyumri’s architectural heritage, the Pamphak mountain range, and the ruins of old market arches. It blends traditional Armenian and Soviet architectural elements, featuring cantilevered structures, sloping roofs, and arches inspired by restored adjacent architectural ruins. The design integrates historical and […]
Museum in the Park. fi
Previous slide Next slide Museum in the Park, Finland Seamlessly integrating with Linnanpuisto Castle Park, the museum extends the park towards the waterfront, elevating into a cascaded open theater with the castle as a backdrop. Rather than merely occupying the site, the building canopies over it, transforming the waterfront walkway into an extended parkway. Engaging […]
AlUla House. sa
Previous slide Next slide Al Ula House, KSA A primordial interpretation of the landscape, flipped upside-down, wraps around the program with gradualness; from “closed” to “open” and from “private” to “public”. The interplay between architecture and nature, from the mythically internalized to the majestically sublime, reveals an eloquence of symbiotic coexistence with the landscape. Reinterpreting, […]
KFAS HQ & CC. kw
Previous slide Next slide KFAS HQ & Convention Center PAD10 Architects’ finalist entry interlaces the two new buildings of Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), its new headquarters (HQ) and Convention Center (CC) along Kuwait’s most prominent coastal stretch. With KFAS’s already existing Scientific Center, its promenade, and a newly proposed elevated pedestrian […]
Elderly Home. pt
Previous slide Next slide Elderly Home Our architectural aspiration is to make the elderly home one with its community: a continuum, not an end! Anchored along the terrain’s westside, adjacent to the main access road, and down-sloping east-wards, the building is formed by two ribbons inscribed within the jagged polygonal opposite site boundaries. The building […]
NDU HQ. cn
Previous slide Next slide NDU HQ NDU is mixed used development situated in Hexi District, also known as the “City reception Room” of Tianjin, China. The building sets itself as an urban catalyst, an in-between mediator between architecture and landscape, indoor and outdoor, residential neighborhood and cultural emerging hub; the project explores the in-betweenness / […]
PASS. kw
Previous slide Next slide Post-Arab Spring Square An urban action calls to connect the city to its sea and the institutions to the people. We call for submerging the Arabian Gulf Road below ground level and erasing the urban infrastructures all around, except for the civic and governmental institutions. A public park with lush landscape […]
Lab-École Shefford. ca
Previous slide Next slide Lab-École Shefford, Quebec It grows from the ground and blends with the surrounding forest. Its architecture recedes behind the staggering columns that screen the school program and mediate with the forest trees. The swelling of the perimeter flanks a more intimate outdoor landscape, onto which the school program looks and around […]
Hybrid Grid City. sa
Previous slide Next slide Hybrid Grid City, KSA Implemented by Doxiades in modern Riyadh, the Grid is redefined for this project in a new understanding that is both modern and historical. Its horizontal two-dimensional nature is warped and distorted into a third-dimensional topology, that of the two Friday mosques that constitute two hills. Easily identifiable […]
- June 11, 2016
- Architecture, Civic, Mixed Use + Residential, Office Buildings + Fitout, Placemaking, Retail Buildings + Fitout
Terminal City. ae
Previous slide Next slide Terminal City, Dubai Modern Dubai is littered with architectural monuments that can be labeled as Superlative Architecture: an architecture that breeds on the next big thing, on the shock of the new by comparison to, and referential scale with what has just become old. In Dubai everything will soon be outdone; […]
Museum of Civilizations. kw
Previous slide Next slide Otherness, Venice Biennale ’16 Between North and South, Otherness Temporal Statelessness The Project, shared between two islands, spans the extremities of the Gulf. Imprinted planometrically in the grounds of Failaka, akin to its archeological ruins, and carved sectionally from the fjords around Maqlab, the Project suspends its program from site specificity […]
Human Rights in China. us
Previous slide Next slide Human Rights in China, NYC The Human Rights in China (HRIC) is an international organization founded by Chinese scientists and scholars to promote and protect the human rights of those living in China. The office is designed to create an open and flexible work space. Adaptability was achieved by creating a […]
J Cultural Center. ae
Previous slide Next slide Jumeirah Cultural Center, Dubai Water is the material of the new Jumeirah Cultural Center. It gives it form, but is also formed by it. Following the tradition of the desert nomad, the Center is an oasis for the modern nomadic jet-setter of the 21st Century. Conceived as a crescent overlap of […]
Czech Natl Library. cz
Previous slide Next slide Czech National Library, Prague The design for the New National Library is conceived as the intersection of sectional relationships that are formed between different internal programmatic, topological and spatial components. It is also the outcome of external site conditions – from the adjacent park of the Letenska Plain, the view of […]
Offshore Urbanism. lb
Previous slide Next slide Offshore Urbanism Reclaiming the past of Phoenician traders and the present foreigners’ evacuations, we propose a temporary mass exodus of the Lebanese population on prototype barges docked all along the Lebanese coast. These barges once undocked and parked in international waters, not only provide a shelter from aggressions of outside forces, […]
- June 11, 2010
- Architecture, Civic, Hospitality + Leisure, Placemaking, Retail Buildings + Fitout, Sports+Recreation
SAASC A2. kw
Previous slide Next slide Sabah Al Ahmad Seacity A2 Sabah Al-Ahmad Sea City (SAASC) is an engineering marvel where land and sea are interlaced into 7km meandering lagoons. Within this development and as a precursor to the 170,000sqm A2 Marina master plan completion in 10 years time, the Owner sought proposals for a makeshift project […]
Criminal Inv HQ. kw
Previous slide Next slide Criminal Investigations HQ Sloping down northwards, the building envelope restores visual harmony between the monumental government buildings to the south and Al-Zahra’s low residences to the north. This urban threshold is coupled with the challenge of marrying the pragmatism of the bureaucratic typology with the monumentalism that is typical of a […]