Project Specs Parque Biblioteca España Medellín, Colombia Giancarlo Mazzanti Arquitectos << Return to article the People Architect Giancarlo Mazzanti Arquitectos Calle 29 #6-94 Bogotá, Colombia Phone/fax: (571)2326309/3406564 E-mail:  gmazzanti@gmail.com www.giancarlomazzanti.com Giancarlo Mazzanti,  Registered Andrés Sarmiento Juan Manuel Gil,  Registered Fredy Pantoja,  Registered Pedro Saa,  Registered Gustavo Vasquez ,  Registered Iván Ucros,  Registered Architect of record Giancarlo Mazzanti Interior designer: Giancarlo Mazzanti Arquitectos Engineer(s): Sergio Tobon,  Structural Engineer Alberto Aschner, Structural Engineer Consultant(s) Landscape:    Mesa y Uribe Paisajistas Lighting:     Scheder Lighting Acoustical:   Raul Dario Franco, Architect Other:         Raul Dario Franco, Architect. (Bioclimatic Design) General contractor: Arquitectura y

Blurring the line between construction and topography, French architect Dominique Perrault’s campus center for Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea’s trendy Sinchon district is seamlessly integrated into the sloping hillside it intersects.

Project Specs Ewha Womans University Campus Center Seoul, South Korea Dominique Perrault Architecture << Return to article the People Architect Dominique Perrault Architecture 6, rue Bouvier 75011 Paris, France Tel. +33 1 44 06 00 00 Fax +33 1 44 06 00 01 www.perraultarchitecture.com dpa@d-p-a.fr Engineers Perrault Projets, Paris (architectural engineering) VP&Green Ingénierie, Paris (structural engineers) HL-PP Consult, Munich (Building services) Jean-Paul Lamoureux (acoustic) Rache-Willms, Aachen (façades) Consultants Jeon and Lee Partners, Séoul (structural engineer) HIMEC, Séoul (mechanical engineer) CG E&C, Séoul (civil engineer) CnK Associates, Séoul (Landscape) General contracter Samsung Corporation   the Products

Given an awkward site squeezed between an 80-foot-high cliff and a busy avenue, Álvaro Siza Vieira’s design for the Iberê Camargo Museum (ICM) secures the building to its particular setting while reaching out both physically and metaphorically to a larger notion of place and culture.

Project Specs Graduate Center, Adolfo Ib''ez University Santiago, Chile Jos' Cruz Ovalle and Partners << Return to article the People Architect José Cruz Ovalle Espoz 2902 Vitacura Santiago, Chile Phone (056 2)2066145 fax (056 2) 2060857 Associate architect(s) Ana Turell S-C Juan Purcell M. Hernán Cruz S. Engineer(s): Pedro Bartolomé(B&B Ingenería) Consultant(s) Lighting: Ana Turell S-C Photographer(s) Juan Purcell (056 2) 2066145 Roland Halbe (0711) 6074073 CAD system, project management, or other software used: Autocad   the Products Structural system: Muros y losas de Hormigón Armado Exterior cladding Concrete: Premix S.A. Wood: Maderas Laminadas Ingelam Roofing Built-up roofing: CYPCO Constructora

From afar, Snøhetta’s National Opera House for the Norwegian Opera & Ballet appears like a marble-and-glass iceberg floating in the eastern Oslo harbor of Bjørvika.

Project Specs The National Opera House Oslo, Norway Sn'hetta << Return to article the People Architect Snøhetta Skur 39 Vippetangen 0172 Oslo NORWAY +47 24 15 60 60 Contributing Partners: Craig Dykers, Tarald Lundevall, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen Project Architects: Sigrun Aunan, Simon Ewings, Rune Grasdal, Tom Holtmann, Elaine Molinar, Kari Stensrød, Øystein Tveter Engineer(s): RREH Engineering Group Reinertsen Engineering ANS: Structural Ingeniør Per Rasmussen AS: Electrical Erichsen & Horgen AS: HVAC Consultant(s) Landscape: Snøhetta Lighting: Ingeniør Per Rasmussen AS Acoustical: Arup Acoustics and Brekke Strand Akustikk Other: Theatre Planning: Theatre Projects Consultants Artists: Kristian Blystad, Kalle Grude, Jorunn Sannes, Astrid

It is striking to discover the unabashedly futuristic architecture of spectacle of the Zenith concert halls cropping up on the outskirts of French towns and cities often best known for the soaring spires of their Gothic cathedrals.

Project Specs Zenith de Strasbourg Eckbolsheim, France Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas << Return to article the People Architect Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, principals Project manager Julian Therme Project architect Michele d’Arcangelo Engineer: BETOM Ingenierie (concrete) Simon & Christiansen, Jacob et Christiansen (structural)   the Products

Getting from the sidewalk into the main sanctuary of Beth Sholom synagogue, in San Francisco, is hardly a matter of opening a front door and entering.