Culture and services

The design for the Sino-Italian Cultural Exchange City Reception Center in Chengdu, China, revolves around the blend of Italian and Chinese styles to depict the cultural fusion and seamlessly merge the structure with its surroundings

Located in San Juan Cosalá, Jalisco, the RLJ Chapel is a religious building that is part of a larger project for an events and hospitality site. A place of worship with materiality and simplicity defined by the essential elements of a chapel, where the entrance of natural light and the interplay of materials create a serene and emotional environment

The experiences of early childhood profoundly influence the perception patterns that accompany us throughout our lives. This highlights the significance of the environment we live in and how it shapes our interactions. From this principle, the concept for the expansion of the Ursuletul Nursery in Cluj, Romania was born

Hormoz Island is a salty, 42 km2, oval-shaped tongue of land extending into the Persian Gulf. The climate is hot and the region is economically depressed. The Rong Cultural Center, with its shape in harmony with the island but also iconic in its own way, is located in the main port of Hormoz

Following the destruction in 2001by the Taliban of the world's two colossal Buddha statues, the world's largest dating back 1,500 years, UNESCO, with financial support from the government of South Korea, launched an international competition in 2014 for the Bamyan Cultural Center. A center to safeguard the existing heritage and promote the social and cultural development of the region

The Prior Performing Arts Center at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, is a facility spanning roughly 7,800 square meters, designed to be an incubator for multidisciplinary learning based on the performing and visual arts for students of all academic disciplines

SON Cascina San Carlo, in addition to the restoration of the 1915 farmhouse and the enhancement of the public park, is a project that encompasses a range of social and residential services located within two residential buildings and an open pavilion for civic and public activities in the Crescenzago neighborhood of Milan

In 2020, Michael Green Architecture completed two new wood buildings for the internationally recognized College of Forestry at Oregon State University. Located on campus within the Oregon Forest Science Complex (OFSC), the new George W. Peavy Forest Science Center and the A.A. "Red" Emmerson Advanced Wood Products Laboratory (AWP) support the College's vision in providing dynamic learning, collaboration, and research venues aimed at managing and maintaining active forest ecosystems in the 21st century

The new Humanitas Congress Center aims to create independent access from the spaces dedicated to conference halls in the hospital building that currently houses the congress center in Rozzano, in the province of Milan

A 3000 square meter area, between the third floor and the welcoming spaces on the ground floor of the iconic Venetian palace, has been redesigned. This project, commissioned by one of the world's largest insurance and asset management providers, the Generali Group, aims to accommodate new spaces for Interior, Exhibition, Graphic & Multimedia Design at the Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco

The NM Bodecker Foundation was established in 2017 by Sandy Bodecker to provide the creative communities with a dynamic mix of spaces for workshops, meetings, and collaborations. Located within a series of warehouses from the 1950s in northwest Portland

The original buildings of unquestionable architectural quality on the Prague University campus are being overwhelmed by a radical change needed to accommodate the new needs of the Faculty of Humanities Charles University in Prague

The goal of Boriskavka Centre, as Aulík Fiser specifies, is to reinvent the traditional urban block, ensuring the same quality of public space as a historic center and meeting current indoor environmental quality requirements

The Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet, built in 1919, is one of the oldest music schools in Slovenia. Located in the vicinity of other historical buildings and important monuments, its renovation has aimed at improving the existing program and some technical features of the school facilities, while maintaining the original volume and structure

Local government, cultural institutions and citizens gave birth to Tribuna Pública, a social and cultural activation facility whose goal is to create a space for reflection and debate on the future of the historic docklands

The new reception areas in the Botanical Garden in Meise, Belgium, appear as a tranquil architectural landscape, giving a powerful impetus to a visit to the park

The restoration of the Carnavalet Museum was a great challenge: the goal was to create a new visitor layout for the museum while preserving its architecture and the special atmosphere of this museum so dear to the hearts of Parisians

The redesign of the Hayden Library transforms the 1951 modernist repository used for post-World War II collections into a space for study, collaboration, and innovative research: MIT's new library embodies the concept of "Research Crossroads" by highlighting the potential of new ways of thinking between collections, digital and analogue analysis

In the church in Artsakh, Armenia, the traditional values of the monumental architecture of the place meet, in the architectural design, with a contemporary structure rooted in our time

The Qaammat Fjeld Sarfannguit pavilion, located on the Sarfannguit UNESCO site in Greenland, celebrates and promotes Inuit intangible cultural heritage and traditional knowledge of the environment

In Saitama, Japan, the family of the developer of this children's dental clinic has for generations owned the land on which it stands, which is largely occupied by Zelkova trees, some of them centuries old. Surrounded by greenery and trees, not only does the clinic create a relaxing atmosphere for young patients it also proposes a space to welcome and nurture all children in the community

The location of the kindergarten in the center of Drinovac, a village in Croatia of 200 inhabitants, required a careful approach to the intervention that fits into the fabric of the rural settlement. An olive grove and an irregularly shaped lot evoke an expressively impactful architectural gesture, as if to give new direction to the identity of the village itself through the Terra Membrane kindergarten

The design of the new Travettore Municipal Stadium roof generates a covered space with a few targeted gestures, inserting itself in balance between the context and the playing field

The Kaohsiung National Center for the Arts symbolizes the transformation of the Chinese city of Kaohsiung, once a major international port, into a modern and diverse metropolis with a rich cultural climate. The project is located on former military land, and stands as an integral part of the adjacent subtropical park with the intent of positive social impact on Kaohsiung's nearly 3 million residents

MUZE is an 18-story high-rise, 502-bed residence hall for undergraduate students in the West Campus neighborhood, two blocks west of the University of Texas main campus

The Forêt project was conceived as an intervention aimed at raising awareness of the real and radical gap between the nature and the city. Thanks to 30 laminated pine panels, mecanismo studio creates an urban forest that can be permeated and crossed

The challenge of the project for the Priko Vode school in Solin, Croatia, was to combine in the same facility both an elementary school and a kindergarten, which are, although similar in purpose, not only different in their use and character, but also limit each other

A sacred space for the Virgen del Carmen, protector of sailors in the fishing village El Pris on the island of Tenerife: the Stella Maris Chapel

In Shenzhen, China, the crown jewel of the Bao'an Cultural Complex, the Performing Arts Center overlooking Quanhai Bay and the South China Sea, has been inaugurated

Inside Tongbai Palace, one of the most important traditional Taoist temples in China, the reconstruction of the water reservoir gives occasion for the birth of the Fangzhang Building: from Taoist parlance the "place where the immortals live," the building with highly symbolic architecture accommodates visitors as they arrive and the daily practice of the master