UrbanLogic

The competition winning proposal for the Terrace 9 Housing Complex in Nanterre, France by Atelier Zündel Cristea aims to restore the human scale and legibility necessary for creating large and enjoyable public spaces, capable of attracting people from beyond the city and the Hauts de Seine region. They do this by taking into account the urban project’s varying relief, both natural and artificial, with the coexistence of road and rail transportation networks and the structures of colossal scale such networks required. Extending out from the axis of La Défense, the site encompasses an exceptionally vast terrain, in which a train classification yard, railroad...

This winning proposal by London-based Foster + Partners and designer Adrien Gardere has been selected from shortlisted entries for an international competition to design the 'Musée de la Romanitée' in Narbonne of southern France. Roman artifacts found in the port city will be showcased, featuring ancient relics from the area's archeological sites and legacy of buildings. The collection of 1,000 stone funerary blocks which have been excavated nearby will be stored within a flexible cubbyhole bookcase that spans the length of the building. The wall doubles as a barrier between the gallery and the adjacent private restoration spaces, offering visitors...

The E8 building is the result of a design competition called with the intention of highlight an ambitious expansion of Alava Technology Park, an institutional commitment to research whose validity and future should be represented by the building. The Park will rent or sell the full building by plants or by modules. The design should incorporate this uncertainty in use, which was taken as a positive requirement. The architecture must allow modify programs and adapt to uses, be transformable, such as the old buildings. Paradoxically, the building then gains in stability, in possibilities: we can say that the building wins...