10th anniversary of the Nice Éco-Vallée project
Nice Éco-Vallée, the scheme to promote the area of Nice Grand Arénas where Josep Lluís Mateo is carrying out his urban planning and development project, celebrates its 10th anniversary...
The blue house on the sea, by Ignasi Solà-Morales
On a cold and blustery Saturday in February 2001 Ignasi Solà-Morales and I went to visit this house in Mallorca...
Beneath the paving stones lies the sea…
In the main axis of the new multimodal hub in the French city of Nice, for the first time in Europe, a large expanse of urban cool paving has been created.
Earthworks
Take two of my projects 30 years apart, one recent work and one early scheme; despite the lapse in time and their very different contexts, they reveal much in common.
Nice Grand Arénas. France
50 hectares of public land on which to design the city’s new urban centre.
Materials #2: Prague National Gallery Entrance Hall
Two parallel surfaces organize what used to be an empty space without weighing it down...
Materials: Dwellings in Toulouse
The structure comprises a series of parallel concrete walls...
Dwellings in Toulouse: The Garden
A housing development that seeks to optimize the living conditions of each...
Nature as a continuous layer for the PGGM‘s headquarters to float on
The landscape created at PGGM’s headquarters, four years on...
EL NINOT MARKET: LIGHT IN THE SPACE
The space took the form of a great pre-existing roof. Beautiful...
Urban Filters #2
“We are interested in the surface, but we like to see it in relation to the volume..."
Urban Filters #1
“We know that the skin is important, but what interests us is seeing it..."
Museums: #3 Cultural Center in Castelo Branco
The plaza is a surface, a topography drawn out in relation to the movement of the water and built by pedreiros...
Museums: #1 Prague National Gallery Entrance Hall
In the grounds of Prague Castle, among various palaces currently reused to house the National Gallery, the brief was to design...