At the edge of Chaoyang Garden, the Beijing Central Park (China), the Sino-US agency MAD Architects delivers a titanic project of 220 000 square meters of floor, including offices, shops and luxury housing. Figurehead of the realization: two incredible black towers of 120 meters high with rippling and prominent edges. A new emblem for the capital.

Designed by the Danish architect CF Møller in 2016, the forecourt of the Mærsk Tower of the University of Copenhagen is adorned with greenery thanks to the intervention of the local planning and landscaping agency SLA. The project is divided into two parts: the construction of a large park, the SUND, at the foot of the tower and the greening of the flat roofs of the building at the bottom. A landscaping project that earned its designers to receive the Scandinavian Green Roof Award.

As part of the construction of the ZAC Clichy-Batignolles in Paris (17e), architecture agencies ChartierDalix and Brenac & Gonzalez and Associates have designed an office building of 24 000 square meters on the 07 Lot. An achievement highlighting the railways that face it and that vibrates to the rhythm of the sky and the activity of the employees who give life to its corridors.

In the business center of the effervescent megalopolis of Guadalajara (Mexico), has set up a surprising office tower, Las Américas 1500. The Mexican studio Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, delivers here a totemic building thanks to the offset of four impressive parallelepipedic volumes, accentuated by the zebra lines of their facades.

Between two railway tracks of the Chinese capital, stands a building built with volumetry and various styles, realized by the Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects. The programs that it hosts are like its appearance: plural. The Beijing Cidi Memo iTown is an incubator for start-ups, hotels and commercial space, pushing the codes of tertiary spaces with strength and elegance.

Located in Naucalpan, on the outskirts of Mexico City (Mexico), an impressive commercial complex of nearly 475 000 square meters, combines multiple uses and activities under one roof. As a place of traffic and urban park, this complex realized by the agency Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos tries to palliate the absence of meeting places of the megalopolis.

Renovated by the Portuguese architecture agency éOp, the social center São Pedro de Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal) is intended for the reception of the local community.

After Châtenay-Malabry (92), École Centrale Paris moved to Gif-sur-Yvette (91), on the Saclay plateau, under a brand new envelope designed by the Dutch agency OMA.

Installed since 2003 in the city of Saint-Ouen (93), the global design agency Saguez & Partners places its suitcases in the district of Docks, more precisely in the old hall Alstom which it rehabilitates in Manufacture Design, Work, reflection, relaxation and creativity.