About Us

Our work strives to enhance our sense of surroundings, identity and relationship to others and the physical spaces we inhabit, whether feral or human-made.

Selected Awards
  • 2004 — Aga Khan Award for Architecture
  • 2009 — Mies van der Rohe Award
  • 2013 — AIA/ALA Library Building Award
  • 2015 — Best Interior, Designers Saturday
  • 2016 — AIA New York Honor Award

Hotel Babosa

Hotel Babosa
2007
Cidade da Praia

The Hotel Babosa in Praia, Cabo Verde, is small turistic unit where all apartments have independent entrances. A group of staircases links all different levels of the various buildings. A central garden area is available for the guests and leads to the pool. The morphology of the terraces is done in a way to present privacy as much as possible. The use of red volcanic rock on the first volume as well as in the ground floor of the second is the way we found to contextualize the buildings within the surrounding landscape.