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Sciences Po Paris (Moreau Kusunoki)

The entire 16 000 m² project was developed in partnership with Wilmotte & Associés and heritage architect Pierre Bortolussi. Moreau Kusunoki focused on the contemporary extensions, namely the Pavilion and the main courtyard in relation to the underground library.

S-LAB – Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (ELASTICOFarm)

ELASTICOFarm has recently completed the new Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) building in Turin, Italy. The complex is part of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) area, surrounded by trees and close to sport facilities. This project reinterprets the typology of the industrial building, from which it draws a criterion of economy and formal simplicity. But this typology is then reinvented, starting from an unconventional structural solution.

SNCF Rail Operating Center (SCAPE Architecture)

SCAPE Architecture, led by Ludovica Di Falco, has completed the new SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français) Rail Operating Center in Pantin, north-east of Paris. A new type of building: a logistic facility in the very heart of the city and a Campus for the SNCF.

Walk Over the Quarry (henkai architekti and Zahrada-Park-Krajin)

henkai architekti and Zahrada-Park-Krajina designed three scenic walks around a disused quarry hill located in the Beskydy Protected Landscape Area. On the top of the hill, three lookouts, designed as hollow cube frames, complement the dramatic natural setting and the main lookout, a cantilever over the exposed quarry wall, offers views of the surrounding hills and meadows.

Zomorrod 11 (Ákaran Architects)

A stack of four cubes, Zomorrod 11 stands firmly at the heart of a traffic junction in Tehran. The design has incorporated the use of geometric brick pattern modules following a strategy by which the exterior façade of the building stretches inside and forms many elements of the interior; from the lowest parking level at -5 through to the top.

Eleftheria Square (Zaha Hadid Architects)

Establishing Eleftheria Square as the city’s primary gathering space, Zaha Hadid Architects’ (ZHA) design creates new connections intended to unite a divided capital. Nicosia’s massive Venetian fortifications separate the old city from its modern districts, while the city’s ‘Green Line’ divides the capital into two disparate communities.

Quarantine Cabin: The Voxel

The Voxel is a prototype of an advanced ecological building constructed with natural KM.0 materials and industrialized techniques in the natural park of Collserola (Barcelona, Spain). The project proposes a space for confinement as an architectural solution to the COVID-19 pandemic.