Architecture

It may come as a surprise to find a flourishing catholic monastery in the midst of an industrial city like Duisburg. The urban district of Hamborn is, however, rather different from the ones dominated by withering heavy industry.

3XNs design for Danish Law Firm Horten’s new head office reflects the duality between the classic and the modern, combining solidity with an advanced choice of materials that express the profile of Horten’s practice.

International competition to create a cultural center in Jøssingfjord, Norway. Designed to incorporate the site's original powerhouse, this museum addition offers a hybrid extension to the historical structure. The contemporary plan arrangement is composed of forms faced with a ...

The 25 metre high observation tower will be realised on the forested boundary of ‘De Onlanden’ nature reserve on the outskirts of Groningen. Once built, the tower will extend 5 metres above the trees and will offer views over the 3,000 hectares of natural landscape.

The Research and development building offers a new working environment at the corporation’s headquarters in Herzogenaurach to round about 1,700 adidas designers, developers, scientists and marketing strategists.

After designing and building post-tsunami reconstruction houses in Sri Lanka, Shigeru Ban was commissioned to design a residence for an owner of a local tire company. Located on a hilltop site facing the ocean, the floor, walls and ceiling of this building frame three different views.

Architectural thinking can “set” spatial experiences that incorporate very strong deeper intentions, extending the limits beyond the building’s material substance between the familiar and the experimental, the organized and the imaginary, the material and the conceptual.