Gyumri Urban Canopy, Armenia
Previous slide Next slide Gyumri Urban Canopy, Armenia The Tumo Urban Canopy design draws from Gyumri’s architectural heritage, the Pamphak mountain range, and the ruins of old market arches. It blends traditional Armenian and Soviet architectural elements, featuring cantilevered structures, sloping roofs, and arches inspired by restored adjacent architectural ruins. The design integrates historical and […]
A Museum in the Park, Finland
Previous slide Next slide Museum in the Park, Finland Seamlessly integrating with Linnanpuisto Castle Park, the museum extends the park towards the waterfront, elevating into a cascaded open theater with the castle as a backdrop. Rather than merely occupying the site, the building canopies over it, transforming the waterfront walkway into an extended parkway. Engaging […]
PAD to The Power 10
PAD to The Power 10 PAD to the power 10 examines four projects of different scales: 1:1, 1:100, 1:1000, and 100×100. While specific factors, criteria, and glossary emerge at specific scales, others recede and are rendered consequential when doing the switch.
Jumeirah Cultural Center
Previous slide Next slide Jumeirah Cultural Center, Dubai Water is the material of the new Jumeirah Cultural Center. It gives it form, but is also formed by it. Following the tradition of the desert nomad, the Center is an oasis for the modern nomadic jet-setter of the 21st Century. Conceived as a crescent overlap of […]
Czech National Library
Previous slide Next slide Czech National Library, Prague The design for the New National Library is conceived as the intersection of sectional relationships that are formed between different internal programmatic, topological and spatial components. It is also the outcome of external site conditions – from the adjacent park of the Letenska Plain, the view of […]
Terminal City
Previous slide Next slide Terminal City, Dubai Modern Dubai is littered with architectural monuments that can be labeled as Superlative Architecture: an architecture that breeds on the next big thing, on the shock of the new by comparison to, and referential scale with what has just become old. In Dubai everything will soon be outdone; […]
Criminal Investigations HQ
Previous slide Next slide Criminal Investigations HQ Sloping down northwards, the building envelope restores visual harmony between the monumental government buildings to the south and Al-Zahra’s low residences to the north. This urban threshold is coupled with the challenge of marrying the pragmatism of the bureaucratic typology with the monumentalism that is typical of a […]
NDU HQ
Previous slide Next slide NDU HQ NDU is mixed used development situated in Hexi District, also known as the “City reception Room” of Tianjin, China. The building sets itself as an urban catalyst, an in-between mediator between architecture and landscape, indoor and outdoor, residential neighborhood and cultural emerging hub; the project explores the in-betweenness / […]
Lab-École Shefford
Previous slide Next slide Lab-École Shefford, Quebec It grows from the ground and blends with the surrounding forest. Its architecture recedes behind the staggering columns that screen the school program and mediate with the forest trees. The swelling of the perimeter flanks a more intimate outdoor landscape, onto which the school program looks and around […]
KFAS HQ & Convention Center
Previous slide Next slide KFAS HQ & Convention Center PAD10 Architects’ finalist entry interlaces the two new buildings of Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), its new headquarters (HQ) and Convention Center (CC) along Kuwait’s most prominent coastal stretch. With KFAS’s already existing Scientific Center, its promenade, and a newly proposed elevated pedestrian […]
Elderly Home
Previous slide Next slide Elderly Home Our architectural aspiration is to make the elderly home one with its community: a continuum, not an end! Anchored along the terrain’s westside, adjacent to the main access road, and down-sloping east-wards, the building is formed by two ribbons inscribed within the jagged polygonal opposite site boundaries. The building […]