International competition

International competition |  First mention The project is the result of an international design competition for the building of the Courts of Guard at the Campus of Justice in Madrid. The Campus will consist of a series of buildings, all of them set in a circular site layout, and will house all the necessary spaces for Justice of the Community of Madrid, scattered throughout the city today. Analogous to a searchlight, the operation of a building Courts Guard is continued for 24 hours a day and this uniqueness is the basis of our proposal. The circular volumes will be affected by a series of cuts that expose the public uses of the building and in its night vision flashlights are presented as claiming the continued activity of such co... More

International competition purchased As part of the proposal it is decided the location of the building as well as the demolition or not of the existing buildings. It is now an area that is occupied by some railway facilities in disuse, not far away from the center of the city, and the well known Jacobsen Town Hall. To finish the baseline data there are set some urban requirements that we must fulfill, as well as solving the location of some social dwelling, one parking tower and the Jultand Museum, being Aarhus the largest city of that region. Caption   We proposed to place the new school in the southern plot, keeping that way two out of three existing buildings. The one on the south (surrounded by the proposal), will be the ad... More

LWK + PARTNERS Landscape Team in collaboration with DDON has won the international competition to design landscape areas of multiple sites of FUTURE TIMES in China’s Qianhai, Shenzhen’s headline-making industry co-operation zone, after fighting off other strong global design firms!    LWK + PARTNERS will be the Landscape Architect of Sites 4, 5 and 7-2 of FUTURE TIMES, one of Qianhai’s largest transport-oriented developments (TODs) with an ecological low-carbon vision. Taking into account Qianhai’s urban planning objectives to be ‘ecological’, ‘all-dimensional’ and ‘compact’, the landscape scheme will establish the overall development as a contemporary urban landmark. T... More

The city of Vilnius simultaneously speaks of evidence of the past, life of the present and aspirations of the future through its built fabric and culture. The design proposal perceives Vilnius as the potential beating heart of the city. It realises the opportunity that a transport hub located in an area steeped in history presents. It is an inspired attempt that draws value from the macro and micro site-scape at every turn to shine a light on the potential of the railway precinct to pioneer urban solutions, celebrate the numerous forms of heritage, build context responsive and heritage sensitive structures, utilise landscape as an element of reactive urbanism, and bring the community together at different points and different formats.... More

The Barilla Pavilion is conceived as a multi-level stage where agriculture and visitors interact in a dynamic exchange. Inspired by both nature and industrial production, the design elevates fields into stacked planes, creating a vertical journey through open-air crops, greenhouses, and exhibition spaces. By revealing the hidden processes of food production, the pavilion breaks away from traditional industrial architecture, exposing the relationship between people, machines, and raw materials. Visitors experience crops and cultivation at multiple levels, navigating through vertically stacked thin slabs designed to accommodate various soil depths. This light, open structure fosters a three-dimensional exploration, seamlessly connecting each... More

Las gerias son una expresión de los confines de una posible definición de arquitectura. El territorio delimitado con sus mismos materiales desdibuja los bordes entre construcción y topografía, lo que implica el total arraigo de la cultura en el paisaje. El límite, el aquí, propicia el encuentro humano y es en la interacción social donde se potencia la creatividad. La Fábrica de Música de Lanzarote toma estos conceptos y replica estas estrategias para la generación de un área de encuentro, una geria creativa de escala urbana More

The Moscow Metro is among the main sights of Russian capital city and is known as masterpiece of engineering and architectural thought. The best architects were involved in the construction of the Metro: Ivan Fomin, Alexey Dushkin, Boris Iofan, consultants were Alexey Shchusev, Ivan Zholtovsky. In June 2017 Moscow based Architectural bureau AI-architects won an international competition for architecture and design of a new metro station "Sheremeryevskaya", which will be built in 2020. Anyone who had ever entered the underground transport artery of the Russian capital could appreciate the extraordinary breadth of variants of architectural-artistic appearances, the compositional integrity of the spaces of all halls and platforms, light... More

The new public library in Varna is a permeable cultural container, an incubator for social interaction. As a vertical urban plaza, it gathers visitors of all ages in an open and inviting environment. Through a seamless blend of interior and exterior, visitors are able to move deep into the building without loosing connection with the surrounding city. Staggered volumes containing traditional library programs, such as areas for individual concentration and areas for socialization, float within a permeable envelope to create open spaces, both indoor and outdoor, for social interaction. The city and the library, connected uninterruptedly at ground level, continue their communication throughout the upper floors. The envelope is clad with me... More

The House of Arts and Culture appears at exactly the right moment to boost the already sizzling creativity of Beirut ever since the end of the period of violence in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990. Beirut never ceased to be a place of freedom of thought. Beirut was home to the first universities of the Middle East and was the birthplace of modern Arabic literature. The sultanate of Oman granted USD 20 million to help funding the House of Arts and Culture. Caption After studying the brief of the competition, it was a surprise not to encounter the word Icon once. The brief talks about a strong presence, a recognisable character, an exceptional architecture …but also about banning words such as: rigidity, routine, or static. The cur... More