ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY
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Faculty of Economics in Strasbourg, France
There appears to be one constant about academic buildings: they require extensions, often at the cost of their own initial qualities. In this case, a new library and a cafeteria are required, in addition to the reorganization of an existing building and the spatial restructuring of an interior street. The obvious answer to the competition brief would…
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Multipurpose school building in Ghent, Belgium
In the harbour area, a narrow stretch of land alongside a dock is freed from port activities. A very simple ‘chopstick’ urban plan is being developed by O.M.A. in which open green pockets alternate with dense construction. In order to give the linear plan a notion of centrality, a public path is designed to cross the whole strip.…
