Museum of Fine Arts

Boston/ USA, 1999-2009

Architecturally, the project echoes themes explored in the Reichstag and the Great Court at the British Museum, establishing a creative dialogue between the old and the new, and strengthening links with the local community by making the building more open and accessible. This masterplan presents a clear strategic framework within which the Museum’s current accommodation will eventually be doubled to provide new galleries, a study centre, and temporary exhibition and education spaces. In the proc

Quartermile Masterplan

Edinburgh/ UK, 2001-2008

This scheme for the renewal of the historic Edinburgh Royal Infirmary site extends the practice’s investigations into the creation of sustainable, mixed-use urban communities, continuing themes first explored in schemes such as the King’s Cross and Duisburg Inner Harbour masterplans.

Caja Madrid Tower

Madrid/ Spain, 2002-2009

This new headquarters building for Caja Madrid – the largest bank in Spain - continues investigations into the flexible workplace that can be traced through a family of recent office towers, most notably for Swiss Re and Commerzbank. This degree of flexibility results in part from pushing the service cores to the edges of the plan - a strategy first used in the design of the Hongkong Bank – to create uninterrupted 1200-square-metre floor plates.

Florence TAV Station

Florence/ Italy, 2003-2010

As part of the creation of a new high-speed rail network, the Italian Government has instituted a major programme of station restructuring, including the creation of many new stations. The design for Florence Station provides a new facility that will connect with the citys existing Santa Maria Novella station via a new tramline.