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Michael Cook Architecture & Design (MC|AD)​
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20+ years of experience designing a diverse range of award-winning projects around the globe ...
Temple
Competition (First Place, Prix du Jury)
Festival des Architectures Vives
Montpellier, France
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collaborators: G2-Studio (construction)
Located in the courtyard of the historic Hôtel de Grave, home of the Regional Ministry of Culture (DRAC Occitanie), the project explores the environmental impacts of human consumption.
© photoarchitecture.com
Festival des Cabanes
Département de la Haute-Savoie
Annecy, France
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collaborators: G2-Studio (joint venture)
An elevated platform built from local wood and repurposed sailing line offers a new vantage point from which to view the spectacular alpine landscape.
© Garth Goldstein
Update (01/2025) ... MC|AD has been selected to create an installation at the Ministry of Culture in Montpellier, France as part of the Festival des Architectures Vives international competition.
Mémorial de la Shoah à Lyon
Fondation MSL
Lyon, France
The monument's geometry breaks with the grid of Place Carnot and the historic city center, generating a vector of remembrance that orients the visitor towards Auschwitz.
Valley of Love
Vietnam Design Association
Da Lat, Vietnam
Rising above the shores of Da Thien Lake, the iconic new tower can be read not only as an object to look at, but also as a gateway to look beyond.
La Forêt Monumentale
Métropole Rouen Normandie
Rouen, France
Abstract rectilinear volumes act as a counterpoint to the natural environment, establishing a mediating element through which viewers experience the surrounding woods, and each other.
Harvard Science & Engineering Complex
(with Behnisch Architekten)
Boston, MA
The LEED Platinum Harvard SEC is the largest structure in the world, and the first incorporating wet labs, to achieve Living Building Challenge certification (Materials, Beauty, and Equity Petals).
© BA / Brad Feinknopf
Museum of the Bible
(with SmithGroup)
Washington, DC
Located two blocks from the National Mall, this new 400,000 sf cultural institution displays one of the most significant private collections of biblical art and artifacts on the planet.
© SG / Alan Karchmer
New Holland Island
(with Foster + Partners)
St. Petersburg, Russia
This planned 2,000,000 sf mixed-use development incorporates both the renovation of 18th-century warehouses, built during the time of Peter the Great, and substantial new construction.
© F+P / Nigel Young
Landmark Wales
Competition (First Place)
Capital Region Tourism
Monmouth, Wales
Visible from afar, along the approach into Monmouth via the A40 motorway, the strategically-sited tower creates a bold symbol for Wales at this important border route.
Square of Europe
Competition (Second Place)
Council of Europe / City of St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, Russia
Situated at the western edge of Vasilevsky Island, the project encourages new patterns of circulation and sets the stage for future land reclamation proposed along the Gulf of Finland.
Morgan Library
(with Renzo Piano Building Workshop)
New York, NY
A campus of contemporary steel and glass structures is sensitively inserted into the irregular Midtown parcel framed by the Library's three existing landmark buildings.
© RPBW / Michel Denancé
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