#sectional elevation

Villers Abbey Visitor Center The Villers abbey site is crossed and split by the N275 national road so it loses logic and unity. Architecture, through a common intervention in landscape and scenography fields, tries to reunite the full cistercian composition plan. 

The Royal Ontario Museum The program of the ROM provides a wonderful opportunity for dramatic new architecture and the creation of a great public attraction. This building tells a unique and a particular story which crystallizes ROM’s programmatic content and the singularity of the site. The Crystal transforms the secretive and fortress-like character of ROM, turning it into an inspired atmosphere dedicated to the resurgence of the Museum as the dynamic centre of Toronto.

Taipei Performing Arts Centre In the last five years, the world has seen a proliferation of performance centres that propose, according to a mysterious consensus, versions of a more or less identical combination: large (2,000-seat) auditorium, medium (1,500-seat) theatre, completed by a black box. Contemporary forms disguise conservative typologies: theatre configurations based on 19th century practice (and symbolism: balconies as evidence of social stratification). Even though the essential elements of the theater – stage, proscenium, auditorium – are more than 3,000 years old, there is no excuse for this stagnation, which is oblivious to experiment and ignores relevant 20th century innovation.

New York. Guggenheim. Frank Lloyd Wright. Sectional Elevation.

Designed by SHoP Architects out of New York, plans for the Hudson’s site include more than one million square feet of retail, office, residential units and public space. The building's 912-foot stature will provide unique city views at every level, while a market anchors the ground floor retail space.

UK Pavilion, Shanghai Expo 2010. Heatherwick Studio

Habitat ‘67. Moshe Safdie. Site section.