Tag Paul Raftery

24-03-2021

Lipsky+Rollet’s mixed-use EKLA complex: an inhabited island in Euralille

Lipsky+Rollet architectes designed EKLA, a large mixed-use complex in Lille. Architects Florence Lipsky and Pascal Rollet conceived of EKLA as an inhabited island consisting of three residential buildings, including a 17-floor tower, offices, commercial spaces, a carpark and other services for residents.

19-09-2017

Rogers Stirk Harbour British Museum World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre London

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners recently won two Riba awards for the new oncological centre at Guy’s Hospital and the new World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre (WCEC) at the British Museum.

07-09-2017

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU ECB offices in Frankfurt

The new ECB headquarters in Frankfurt, designed by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, are featured in a series of documentaries on skyscrapers produced by Joachim Haupt and Sabine Pollmaier, aired recently on the German TV channel 3sat.

27-03-2013

François: “Urban college”, social housing in France

Champigny-sur-Marne, near Paris, sees the completion of the Urban Collage complex, designed by Maison Edouard François. The architect is famous in France and worldwide for his green architecture. Here, as in his recent work in the area of Les Vignoles in the capital, François reflects on the existing types of buildings present on site: his new social housing is a project that derives from the overlap of forms already present in the town’s memory.