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Project Specs Agora Theater Lelystad, the Netherlands UNStudio << Return to article the People Client: Gemeente Lelystad Architect UNStudio Amsterdam Ben van Berkel and Gerard Loozekoot with Jacques van Wijk Job Mouwen en Holger Hoffmann Khoi Tran Christian Veddeler Christian Bergmann Sabine Habicht Ramon Hernandez Ron Roos Rene Wysk Claudia Dorner Markus Berger Markus Jacobi Ken Okonkwo Jörgen Grahl-Madse Hanka Drdlova Realization UNStudio in collaboration with B + M, Den Haag Advisors Construction management: BBN, Houten Engineering: Pieters bouwtechniek Haarlem Theatre technique: pb|theateradviseurs Uden Acoustics / Fire strategy: DGMR Arnhem Installations: Valstar Simones Apeldoorn Lighting advise: Arup Amsterdam Contractors Contractor:

Like an expertly crafted Swiss watch, the Nicolas G. Hayek Center is an assemblage of movable pieces that work together with machinelike precision.

For a moment, the trendy shoppers of London’s Oxford Street may think they’ve landed in Omotesando or Roppongi Hills.

Project Specs Reiss Headquarters London, England Squire & Partners << Return to article the People Architect Squire and Partners 77 Wicklow Street London WC1X 9JY United Kingdom ph: +44 (0)20 7278 5555 fx: +44 (0)20 7239 0495 www.squireandpartners.com Project architect: Alessandro Mangiavacchi Design team: Murray Levinson, partner; Marcie Larizadeh, associate; Fred Renton, architect; Choong Chan; Anna Medland Client design consultant D-Raw Associates Engineer Fluid Structures www.fluidstructures.com Lighting designer Light Tecnica www.lighttecnica.com Acoustics consultant Sandy Brown Service Engineers Hilson Moran Partnership www.hilsonmoran.com Fire Engineer SAFE www.safe.eu.com Cost Consultant Davis Langdon www.davislangdon.com Client project managers Buro 4 www.burofour.co.uk General contractor COMO Construction

In Tours, France, a building-size mask has transformed the nondescript face of an experimental arts center into a striking neighborhood talking point.

Project Specs 19h04, Centre de Création Contemporaine Tours, France PCA Architecture << Return to article the People Architect Philippe Chiambaretta/PCA 10, Rue Pecquay 75004 Paris France ph: +33 1 4493 9000 fx: +33 1 4493 9099 www.pca-architecture.com Design team: Adrien Raoul, Marie Marouli, Steven Ware, Boris Vapne, Christian Delecluze Lighting design consultant ACT Design Avenue des Volontaires, 19 Vrijwilligerslaan, 19 B-1160 Auderghem Belgium ph: +32 (0)2 453 09 77 fx: +32 (0)453 28 51 www.act-design.com Engineer RFR 4 rue d'Enghien F 75010 Paris France ph: +33 1 53 24 91 00 fx: +33 1 53 24 13 31 www.rfr.com  

Aquiet collection of aging factories and outdated manufacturing plants, the Keihin industrial district of Tokyo seems light-years away from the city’s eye-popping, neon-clad commercial centers.

Project Specs AGC Quality Manufacturing Training Center Tokyo, Japan Takenaka Corporation << Return to article the People Architect Takenaka Corporation 1-1-1, Shinsuna Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0075 Japan ph: +81-3-6810-5000 fx: +81-3-6660-6027 www.takanaka.co.jp www.takenaka.co.jp/designservices/index.html Project team: Hirotsugu Yamaguchi, Nobuaki Miyashita, Seiko Tanaka Lighting consultant Masahide Kakudate Lighting Architect & Associates, Inc 567 Waseda-Tsurumaki-cho, Shinjyuku, Tokyo, 162-0041 Japan ph: +81-3-5272-5597 fx: +81-3-5272-5598 www.BonBori.com MEP engineer Takenaka Corporation Project team: Takao Odajima, Yasuyuki Kanebako General contractor Takenaka Corporation   the Products Interior fluorescent lamps Prince Electronics Company www.prince-d.co.jp

Located in the heart of France’s Cantal region, the small city of Aurillac is the stuff of postcards, its surrounding landscape featuring the smoothed peaks of the extinct Massif Central volcanoes.

Project Specs Aurillac multipurpose hall Aurillac, France Brisac Gonzalez Architects << Return to article the People Architect Brisac Gonzalez 7 Bermondsey Exchange 179–181 Bermondsey Street London SE1 3UW United Kingdom ph: +44 (0)20 7378 7787 fx: +44 (0)20 7378 7796 www.brisacgonzalez.com Directors in charge: Cécile Brisac, Edgar Gonzalez Project team: Olivier Herman, Christopher Pfiffner, Margarita Bescos, Fumiko Kato, Henrike Rabe, João Baptista, Nicolas Ecrepont, Tea Puric, Afroditi Kirmi, Aitor Albo, Jean Dumas, Gerd Wetzel, Anke Schulz, Franck Quintanel Structure VP Green 115, rue du Bac 75007 Paris France Civil engineer SERALP Agence Auvergne ZAC de Pacheroux 6, avenue Jean-Jacques Rousseau