The work of Dutch office mei is smart and complex. While their buildings immediately attract attention, they also spring from a deep reflection on programming and identity, urban life and the need of communities
Metaphorical greenery shapes the experimental facade of this garage. A project about public character for an equipment, architectural joy and hi-tech manufacturing
Barcelona’s La Rambla is split in about three places. Half of the medieval centre disappears.
Cerdà’s extension loses, as percent, fewer surfaces, but it’s enough to have no kind of continuity and stop working as an urban system. Right behind this mad axis and the concrete curtains, fragments of blocks from the famous grid or of the historic fabric are left.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Bogdan Ilie, Dan Achim
Barcelona’s La Rambla is split in about three places. Half of the medieval centre disappears. Cerdà’s extension loses, as percent, fewer surfaces, but it’s enough to have no kind of continuity and stop working as an urban system. Right behind this mad axis and the concrete curtains, fragments of blocks from the famous grid or of the historic fabric are left.
90 New Holland, St. Petersburg: The City within the City
> The conversion of a former military port in St. Petersburg
Text: Cosmin Caciuc
