There’s an old, biblical parable about two builders. One constructs his house on rock, the other on sand. The latter comes a cropper when the rains descend, washing away his audacious structure. “And it fell. And great was its fall.” The lesson? Hubris never pays. Italian architectural office Fabris&Partners’ ambitious new international conference centre in Algiers listens to the landscape. Here, sand isn’t an issue, as hubris makes way for respect – both for the immediate, dune-filled geographical context and for the formal language of the local culture. “What we didn’t want was to make a huge impact, when inserting this great volume into the landscape” says partner Valentina Fabris of the 220,000-square-metre venue on the Mediterranean. The largest multi-purpose complex in the region and the fifth-biggest in the world, the Centre Internationale des Conférences d’Alger (or CIC) chooses to lie low, so to speak, harmoniously dovetailing with its topographical situation, rather than… continue
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