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[Space design] Islamic Cemetery / Altach (Austria), 2012

In 2004, several communities of Muslim immigrants in the region organised a joint initiative to request a place where they could bury their dead in accordance with Islamic rites in the land where they have settled. Th…

[Street design] Avenida Gaudi, Barcelona (Gaudi Avenue, Barcelona)

As a small diagonal that breaks the perfect grid of the Eixample, Gaudi Avenue proudly exhibits from the Sagrada Familia to the Hospital de Sant Pau. This large pedestrian street blends two types of modernism, with buildin…

[Architecture] Metropol Parasol, Sevilla (Spain), 2011

In 2004, the Seville City Council called for entries in an international competition for ideas as to how to renovate the square and, after so long, to activate the adjoining commercial areas. The rules of the competition …

[Architecture] HochstaplerGraz - city park pavilion (Austria), 2010

It would be difficult to find a more ideal venue for the Styrian Autumn Festival which, devoted to avant-garde trends in music, theatre, literature and the visual arts, is held in a different part of Graz every year. The F…

[BIG(Bjarke Ingels Group)] Danish Maritime Museum Helsingør (Denmark), 2013

In 2004, four leading shipping companies each contributed €200,000 to finance an architecture competition for designing a museum to be located in the old dry dock. In order to avoid any obstacles that might block the vi…

[Urban design]  La vall trenada (The Braided Valley),  Elx ,Spain  2013

A braided network of paths and footbridges have transformed the bed of the Vinalopó River into a linear park that re-stitches together the neighbourhoods through which it passes, connecting them with natural spaces to…

[Design] Stadshal, Gent (Belgium), 2012

In 1996, the municipal authorities made a call for projects in a competition with a view to reforming the esplanade and constructing an underground car park. Convinced that more facilities for private vehicles was the…