Category list : Justice & Law
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Law Court Offices, Venice, Italy, by C+S ArchitectsSubscription
This extraordinary looming monolith on the Piazzale Roma provides offices and a grandly scaled public entrance for the Venetian law courts
Kununurra Couthouse, Kununurra, Australia, by TAG Architects + Iredale Pederson Hook ArchitectsSubscription
An undulating grey roof shelters the courthouse, announcing the building’s presence without admonishment
District Court Extension, Alingsås, Sweden, by TengbomSubscription
The courtrooms occupy the upper storey up to the roofline, giving these spaces impressive volume
Court of Justice, Hasselt, Belgium, by Jürgen Mayer H ArchitectsSubscription
The building takes the form of a blob erupting from a rectangular podium, and, with its somewhat 1970s orange and brown colour scheme, is wilfully ungainly
Typology: Law CourtSubscription
From Kafkaesque labyrinths of columns and arches to the abstraction of Modernist towers: the representation of justice in a world ruled by its absence is an intractable task
Hive mind: Refugee classroom in Za’atari Camp, Jordan by Emergency Architecture & Human RightsSubscription
A prototypical classroom for a refugee camp brings momentary hope, but the measure of its success will be whether it can be replicated in quantity
House of representatives: US Embassy in London, United Kingdom, by Kieran TimberlakeSubscription
The US Embassy in Vauxhall revives its site on the south bank of the Thames
The new normal: exercises in American citizenshipSubscription
In recent times, events in the US have raised an awareness of the connections between the built environment and questions of justice, equity and political agency
A law unto themselves: San Pedro prison in La Paz, BoliviaSubscription
The thriving sense of community at San Pedro prison in La Paz, Bolivia, belies the dangers to which inmate families are exposed
Outrage: Architects should not design without considering the politics that they are tacitly sanctioningSubscription
Designing prisons condones the system of organised violence behind them
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