The Unity building is a mixed use scheme with 15,000m2 of office accommodation, shops and parking plus 161 residential units situated slightly to the North of the Liver Building and enjoys spectacular views of the Mersey and the Wirrel beyond.


The building dissociates itself from its urban surrounding, with its non-monolytic form, an unusual treatment of the façades, and the oversized volume that tops the building, and is easily discernable within the cityscape.

Situated in the Croatian coastal city of Rijeka, the new Zamet Centre is a multi-purpose comunity edifice,  hosting, mainly, a 2380-seat sports hall, the local community offices, a library, and 13 retail/service spaces.

While the third of the sports hall’s volume is embeded  in the ground, the rest of the Centre has been fully integrated into the surrounding landscape.

The building’s main architectural elements are ribbon-like linear stripes stretching over the entire site in a north-south direction,  functioning at the same time as an architectural design element and a zoning element that forms a public square and links between the park on the north and school and B. Vidas street on the south.

The site of this mixed-use project is situated within the urban extension related to the long and diffuse conurbation of the Adriatic coast.

The building lies upon a rectangular lot along the east-west direction, bordering the sea. The project’s location and functional requirements could have been perceived as disadvantages at first sight.

The morphological aspects of the site, stretched along a longitudinal axis with the presence of a very high building bordering the southern side. The program called for the use of the ground floor for equipment and services for the cinema, resulting in the need for a completely free connection to the ground.

Photographs by Alessandro Ciampi

Re-thinking the traditional aproach to producing a mixed-use buildings, the project has just won the Vancouver’s FormShift Competition in the Vancouver Primary Category, a category that required the "design for a mixed use primary (arterial) site along a major Vancouver street that includes a rapid transit station."

The project is designed as a variety of productive surfaces. Walls harness energy, roofs grow food and floors connect the public and private spaces.

The 7.5 hectares site stretches along Sa He Road, one of the busiest commuting road downtown Shenzhen.


Part of an effort to revitalize Nan Shan district, Cha Guang Industrial Zone is a government-initiated business-development project in one of the last undeveloped district of Shenzhen city.


The master plan features 330.000 square meters of office space, 30.000 square meters of residential units, 15.000 square meters of restaurants and retail, 15.000 square meters of public facilities as exhibition hall, meeting rooms, business centers, auditorium and 1.3 hectares of open space.

This second phase of development around Barking Town Hall and its new plaza completes an architectural ensemble grouped either side of a compact urban woodland called the Arboretum.

To the immediate east of the new Arboretum is the recently completed apartment building and Learning Centre of Barking Central I which establishes the identity of the whole scheme. To the west and north are four of the new

Barking Central II buildings, and one further residential block on Axe Street to the east of Phase I. They are deliberately mixed in both character and size. The residential accommodation in the scheme contains a variety of high specification 1, 2 and 3 bed units, each with private amenity spaces.