SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PLAZA
DIABLOS ROJOS STADIUM
FELIPE ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
FACET
SHENZHEN WORLD EXHIBITION CENTER
LEATOP PLAZA
HARMONY BRIDGE
ART-2
DECC
GUANGZHOU INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CENTER
GDL-T2
SHENZHEN GATE
EMERGENT
NAICM
1KT
REX 2030
AGUAMARINA TALISMAN
INTERLOFT
QIANTAN ENTERPRISE WORLD PHASE II
THOMPSON CENTER
JAPAN POST TOWER
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF MEXICO
VEER TOWERS
UNION PAY
GRANTOKYO STATION
CHANGE
WISH
TRANSPARENTE
THE HENRY AND LEIGH BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
TULUM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
PODER
BEETHOVENHALLE
UNITED STATES PAVILION EXPO 2025
OPEN MOSQUE
HEGAU TOWER
X-SPACE 1
TECNANO
SIGN TOWER
MAR
YV
WIND
1000MI
KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA EMBASSY COMPLEX
ORCHID + EDUCATIONAL PAVILION
X-BASE
COUNTRY LANE
BALBOA PALLOZAS
SPACECRAFT
THE LEAF
BOCA CHICA
HOUSE M5
FONICO
RAYO
STARRING BY TED GIBSON

SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PLAZA

200 M + 180 M + 160 M HEADQUARTER OFFICE TOWERS, SHANGHAI, CHINA,
COMPLETED 2021

“ATELIER FGP’s latest building complex design is based on functionality and simplicity. Three buildings united in one powerful unit while reflecting the identity of three beacons of Finance where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” Global Design News, Summer 2022

  • AIA Design Excellence Award
  • American International Awards
  • AIA Chicago
  • Golden Trezzini Awards
  • Rethinking The Future
  • CTBUH

CLIENT Shanghai Stock Exchange,
China Financial Futures Exchange
and China Securities and Clearing Corporation.
PROGRAM Headquarters, Office, Museum,
Performance Hall, Exhibition, Conference and Retail
AREA 550,000 m2/ 6,000,000 sf
COST $2 B USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP + JAHN
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT SIADR
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, WSP, Rainer Schmidt
Landscape, L-Plan, Lerch Bates, Yan Kersale, RWDI
CATEGORY MEGA
YEAR 2021

DIABLOS ROJOS STADIUM

BASEBALL STADIUM, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2019

‘Emerging as the new distinctive landmark of Mexico City and being the first stadium to be built in the capital in the last 50 years, the Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium is positioned as one of the largest and most modern ball parks in Latin America; where functionality, service and the conjunction between art and sport rise as distinctive banners of the property.’ Francisco Rojas, Director of CDAHH As we stand, silent and in shadow, the crosswind subtly reminding us we are outside, the stadium, this place, tells us of its roots and transports us with an unexpected feeling of transparency and openness. It is designed to express the many layers of this vast leading metropolis steeped in a rich culture, connecting to its people, rewriting a new future after every game.
  • 2020 American Architecture Awards
  • Rethinking The Future Awards
  • Blueprint Awards
  • Architecture Masterprize
  • Golden Trezzini Awards

CLIENT Alfredo Harp Helú
PROGRAM 20,000 seat Baseball Stadium
AREA 80,000 m2 / 860,000 sf
COST $150 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP + Taller ADG
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP + Taller ADG
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Precsa, Izquierdo, WE Engineering, CYVSA, Bemlo, Garza Maldonado, L-Plan, L+F, Musco, Populous, Entorno, RWDI
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MEGA

FELIPE ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2022

“Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido’s monumental, new iconic airport for Mexico City is guided by the principles of modularity, lightness of materials, use of efficient and high-performance systems, layout and circulation patterns derived from a data-driven scientific approach, resiliency, exceptional energy performance, and ease of operations and maintenance.” Global Design News, November 2021
  • 2021 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

CLIENT Government of Mexico
PROGRAM 84 million Passenger International Airport Masterplan And 20 million Passenger Terminal
AREA 220,000 m2/ 2,350,000 sf
COST $3.75 Billion USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Prohabita, ADPI, EMI, SEDENA
YEAR 2021
CATEGORY MEGA

FACET

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2021

Tallness has become an instrument towards expedited density, with technological progress and innovation as its byproducts. But how can it go beyond branding a city’s skyline and recognize the existence of a place? Here, a public podium that dilutes the boundaries of private and public space gives the tower an urban significance at the ground level, marking the building’s identity as much as its peak stands it apart in the skyline.
  • 2021 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS​

CLIENT Shenzhen Urban Construction and Development Group
PROGRAM Office, Headquarters, Bus Station, and Retail
AREA 180,000 m2 / 1,940,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT CNADRI
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, WE Engineering
YEAR 2017
CATEGORY MEGA

SHENZHEN WORLD EXHIBITION CENTER

CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTER COMPLEX AND MASTERPLAN, SHENZHEN, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2016

To plan what was envisioned to be the largest conference and exhibition complex in the world, modular elements, through repetition and clever configurations provided logic and order to the massive scale. Interconnected modular elements generated super modules, the super modules, clusters, and the clusters, urban systems. Each exhibition hall became a super module; three halls formed a cluster around a triangular courtyard. The clusters were organized along a pedestrian promenade forming a system of rich urban experiences. The whole would be assembled as a giant puzzle made from a few pieces that fit effortlessly.

CLIENT ASM Global
PROGRAM Exhibition, Conference, Hotel, Office, and Retail
AREA 500,000 m2 / 5,400,00 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, Rainer Schmidt Landscape
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MEGA

LEATOP PLAZA

305 M OFFICE TOWER, GUANGZHOU, CHINA,
COMPLETED 2012

The first LEED Gold Certified Building in South China, Leatop Plaza is a square tower whose hybrid structural system eliminated 30% of the structural weight. The vertical shingles that form the façade not only give the building a timeless elegance and shimmering quality, but also act as brises-soleil while their intersections allow indirect natural light to penetrate the large floor plates. The Ground and Sky lobbies employ a more transparent glass curtain wall than the tower to increase street-level visual porosity and create a distinctive presence in the skyline. “Selected among the most beautiful buildings in the world in 2013 by both a Jury and a community. Leatop Plaza flaunts a broad range of ‘beautiful’ from jagged facets to material light that make our hearts pound.” Beautiful, 2013

CLIENT Guangdong Leatop Real Estate Investment
PROGRAM Office
AREA 119,000 m2 / 1,280,00 sf
COST $160 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT SCUT
CONSULTANTS MKA, WSP, Lerch Bates, HH Angus, Yan Kersale, RWDI, ALT
YEAR 2012
CATEGORY MEGA

HARMONY BRIDGE

2000 M BRIDGE AND LINEAR PARK, GUANGZHOU, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2016

A bridge at the intersection of the technical and the natural. Inspired by sound and harmony. Spaces for flowing and spaces for pausing. Moving, gathering, connecting. Unifying people to each other, their city, and their culture. Each of the bridge’s 13,000 wood ribs are connected to the main structure with large springs that translate the cars’ vibrations into a massive percussive sound. The ribs’ distinct angular shapes resonate in different frequencies that subtly turn the two-kilometer journey into a rich sensorial experience.

CLIENT City of Guangzhou
PROGRAM Bridge, Gardens and Linear Park
AREA N/A
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MEGA

ART-2

200 M FOUR TOWER URBAN COMPLEX, RIYADH, KSA,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2019

Contortionism in architecture is sexy when it originates and yields a cultural, environmental, and technological revolution. The block stacking signals a change in program. The shift relates to orientation towards cardinal, symbolic, and urban targets, while the façade folds in and out to shield the building from direct sunlight and sandstorms while maintaining views. The light color and dynamic shape of the second skin is a cultural reference to Arabian clothing.

CLIENT Mabanee Company and Al Fozan Holding Group
PROGRAM Office, Hotel, Long Stay Apartments and Condominiums.
AREA 260,000 m2 / 2,800,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MEGA

DECC

EXHIBITION + CONVENTION CENTER, DOHA, QATAR,
COMPLETED 2016

An Exhibition Hall is to the city as an airport is to a country. Both present a polaroid of their technology and culture to a global audience with long-term impact. In the new Doha Exhibition and Convention Center, a monumental floating blade roof floats above seven Exhibit Halls and adjacent conference rooms that can combine into one single hall, making it the largest single hall in the world at 35,000m2, or function independently as five halls with partitions down. Circular skylights flood the halls with natural light; black-out shades provide control. A 270m long lobby with a full height, cabled- stayed façade offers panoramic views of Doha’s new downtown.

CLIENT Qatari Diar
PROGRAM Exhibition and Convention Center
AREA 220,000 m2 / 2,360,000 sf
COST $1 B USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn + Francisco Gonzalez Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT JAHN
CONSULTANTS MKA, WSP, Werner Sobek, L-Plan, Yan Kersale, RWDI
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MEGA

GUANGZHOU INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CENTER

320 M OFFICE TOWER, GUANGZHOU, CHINA,
COMMENCED 2017

GICC is not a formal exploration. It is a systemic and technical solution to reduce material resources and energy consumption and use its optimized structural system to form the building’s shape and open its panoramic views. And still, the skyscraper’s manipulated mass and the interplay between solid and void form a distinct scale and identity both at grade and in the skyline.

CLIENT Guangdong South Square Development Co. Ltd
PROGRAM Office, Retail + Headquarters
AREA 150,000 m2 / 1,600,000 sf
COST $3600 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Guangzhou Design Institute
CONSULTANTS RBS, South China University of technology, RFR, Lerch Bates, MICK and Grandsight
YEAR 2017-2025
CATEGORY MEGA

GDL-T2

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, GUADALAJARA, MEXICO,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2019

Airports are complex systems under one roof, living organisms that must be designed as frameworks for adaptability. GDL-T2’s clear organization and layered geometric structure provide a legible and efficient journey for passengers and crews under one unified grand roof whose 72-meter spans soar safely and unencumbered. Embracing the local culture, ramps on the airside are outside, covered by porticos, where passengers can breathe fresh air right up to boarding.

CLIENT GRUPO GAP
PROGRAM International Airport Terminal 2 l
AREA 130,000 m2 / 1,400,000 sf
BUDGET $350 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MEGA

SHENZHEN GATE

200 M + 100 M + PODIUM MIX-USE COMPLEX, SHENZEHN, CHINA,
COMPLETED 2020

Three connected buildings create a multimodal neighborhood as a gateway to the city’s key business districts. Two mixed use towers of different heights and architectural identity are connected by a ground level building that houses the 20th largest train station in China. The towers stand apart in Shenzhen’s Sea of glass, steel, and concrete, with lush public spaces cut into their heights every 50 meters.

CLIENT Shenzhen Metro Group and Vanke
PROGRAM Residential, Office and Retail
AREA 240,000 M2 / 2,580,000 sf
COST $360 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT CNADRI
CONSULTANTS RWDI
YEAR 2020
CATEGORY MEGA

EMERGENT

360 M + 180 M OFFICE TOWER COMPLEX, WUHAN, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION 2017

Just like chiseled, stepped cuts protect regal yet brittle emeralds from chipping during faceting, the triangles that form Emergent’s façade inspire the building’s shape and reinforce its structural direction. The geometry expresses structural optimization. The façade surface kinks in and out establishing a bond that gives the buildings a unified image in the skyline.

CLIENT Wuhan Development Group
PROGRAM Office, Headquarters and Retail 
AREA 180,000 m2 / 1,940,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT CNADRI
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, WE Engineering, Lerch Bates
YEAR 2017
CATEGORY MEGA

NAICM

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2023

The triangular figure of the terminal building is inspired by the design of a Delta Wing built from 300 identical and modular interconnected umbrellas. Each 36 x 36-meter inverted umbrella provides shelter, braces the building from earthquake forces, filters natural light, captures water and by reflection emanates light, transforming the whole roof into a giant urban lantern at night. Beyond being an efficient mass transportation machine, the building’s energy consumption is reduced by 46%.

CLIENT Government of Mexico
PROGRAM 80 million Passenger Terminal
AREA 450,000 m2 / 4,850,000 sf
BUDGET $5 B USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, WSP, Mario Schjetnan
YEAR 2023
CATEGORY MEGA

1KT

1000 M TOWER, CONFIDENTIAL, PROPOSAL

CLIENT Research Project
PROGRAM Vertical City, office, residential, cultural, educational, institutional.
AREA 350,000 m2 / 3,760,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CATEGORY MEGA

REX 2030

MASTERPLAN, CONFIDENTIAL,
INVITED COMPETITION 2022

Little is more important to global humankind today than finding hope and a new paradigm for city-building on a planet challenged by the climate crisis. This masterplan for an EXPO introduces a symbiotic relationship between humans and nature in which the legacy becomes a self-sustainable ecosystem. Emulating the landscape of the northwest part of the country, an X is carved in the land into which are placed exhibition centers, and oasis environments exposing the natural resources of the below-grade levels of the desert. The EXPO pavilions sit lightly atop, designed to be repurposed, recycled, and reimagined. The legacy of this 6-month event becomes the largest urban ecological park in the world, a long-term strategy for a new type of city center, instead of the usual abandoned industrial park.

CLIENT Confidential
PROGRAM Confidential
AREA 6 Km2 / 65,000,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Buro Happold, Werner Sobek, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Creative Measures, Gordon Linden
YEAR 2022
CATEGORY MEGA

AGUAMARINA TALISMAN

135 M MIX-USE TOWER, MAZATLAN, MEXICO,
INVITED COMPETITION 1ST PLACE – COMMENCED 2022

Aguamarina Talismán is born from the ancient legend that the aquamarine stone would keep those at sea fearless and safe. Aguamarina Talismán is about living with the sea. Its design is an expression of movement and beauty in the functional, from its sculptural façade, morphology, aesthetic, and color, to the largest spaces and smallest details.

CLIENT Grupo Alerta S.A de CV
PROGRAM Residential Tower, 501 condominiums, 176 Key Hotel and Shops
AREA 130,000 m2/ 1,400,000 sf
COST $160 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS ADC, ALBA, EDCO
YEAR 2021-2025
CATEGORY MAX

INTERLOFT

HEADQUARTERS, SHANGHAI, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION 2019

A great city is like a park. Working in the park would be the dream of urban life. Interloft is a small corporate campus where the buildings’ geometry and façade maximize a visual connection to nature. Each building presents a central open-air courtyard linked via public gateways to its surroundings, promoting social interaction within and beyond the campus. The prototypical building shape is a series of stacked narrow slabs shaped as alternating knots that allow daylight and cross ventilation from the exterior façade and the interior atrium formed by the courtyards.

CLIENT Shanghai Zhou Jiadu Community
PROGRAM Headquarters, Office, and Retail
AREA 70,000 m2 / 750,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MAX

QIANTAN ENTERPRISE WORLD PHASE II

100 M OFFICE TOWER AND MIX-USE COMPLEX. SHANGHAI, CHINA,
COMPLETED 2019

Two towers frame four low-profile pavilions in this new urban complex for China’s headquarters for Land Rover, spec offices, and showrooms with retail and restaurants at the bridge level. Designed as a kind of walled city, the complex is both transparent and has a gate, with open space at its heart, a contrasting sanctuary to the bustling city outside. The façade’s custom fritted glass emulates bamboo in a playful, contextual break from the rigorous and cartesian building’s composition, and serves as an energy-efficiency device for shading and privacy, as well as a metamorphic tool that transforms the buildings as the weather changes.

  • 2019 Iconic Awards

CLIENT Shanghai Binjiang International Tourist Resort and Development Co. Ltd.
PROGRAM Office, Land Rover Headquarters and Retail
AREA 83,000 m2 / 900,000 sf
COST $120 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Rainer Schmidt, WSP, Lerch Bates, ALT, RWDI
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MAX

THOMPSON CENTER

MIX-USE + ADAPTIVE REUSE,
CHICAGO, USA,
COMPETITION – EDITOR’S PICK 2021

The Thompson Center was reinvented from a derelict landmark into a container of urban life. It demonstrates how cities can reimagine their existing assets into sustainable contributors to their urban infrastructures.

CLIENT N/A
PROGRAM Mix use
AREA 150,000 m2 1,600,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Buro Happold
YEAR 2021
CATEGORY MAX

JAPAN POST TOWER

200 M OFFICE TOWER + SHOPS, TOKYO, JAPAN,
COMPLETED 2015

“Japan Post Tower is about the parallelism of two prominent forces in Japanese culture: tradition and innovation. The building envelope sustains an ecological model firstly by programmatically reinventing and reusing the existing podium and secondly by the use of a sophisticated skin that reduces significantly its carbon footprint. The ever-changing nature of the ‘origami’ skin at its North Face has quietly redefined the character of the north Plaza in the heart of the Marunouchi district.” Bustler interview of Francisco Gonzalez Pulido, March 2013

CLIENT Japan Post Holdings Real Estate Division, Co. Ltd
PROGRAM Office, Retail + Headquarters
AREA 180,000 m2 / 1,900,000 sf
COST $1 B USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT MJS
CONSULTANTS MJS
YEAR 2015
CATEGORY MAX

CULINARY INSTITUTE OF MEXICO

MIX-USE, PUEBLA, MEXICO,
PROPOSAL 2019

In 2010, UNESCO inscribed Mexican Cuisine on their Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This mixed-use complex is programmed around a series of unique culinary experiences, reflective of the significance of food in the Mexican tradition, where the kitchen is a cultural space, where exploration, innovation, and life experience are shared. As such, the culinary school as the most important building in the complex is designed around and over an atrium-esplanade that brings all the students together in a public forum to share their creations and engage the community at large, just as the kitchen does for a House. 

CLIENT Culinary Institute of Mexico
PROGRAM Culinary School, Office, Residential, Retail and Hotel
AREA 180,000 m2 / 1,940,000 sf
BUDGET $360 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MAX

VEER TOWERS

150 M RESIDENTIAL TOWERS, LAS VEGAS, USA,
COMPLETED 2012

“[…] They lean at 5 degrees, hence the name. Actually, it’s not a tour: the buildings are not yet open. A few journalists and the PR team mill around on the access road in front of the buildings, which are easily the best things about CityCenter. They are at once robust and delicate. There’s no reflective glass. This is unheard of in Vegas. […]” Marc Lamster, Architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, February 2010

CLIENT MGM Mirage
PROGRAM Residential Towers, 670 Units.
AREA 1,200,000 sf / 111,000m2
COST $400 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Adamson Associates
CONSULTANTS Flack and Kurtz, Halcrow Yolles, Israel Berger Façade Consulting, Gensler, RWDI, ALT 
YEAR 2012
CATEGORY MAX

UNION PAY

180 M HEADQUARTER TOWER, SHANGHAI, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION 2016

The challenge was to create an office tower for contemporary users’ expectations with a building code that limited the use of glass in the enclosure to a maximum of 40%. By varying the heights of the façade’s black horizontal spandrels, the façade becomes more transparent as the building gets taller and playfully directs the views. On the higher floors, the viewing angle opens towards the street below, while lower floors get to see more sky. A stepped base integrates the building in the scale of its context makes the building accessible, and beyond its office program, better becomes a large, densely tree-lined public space.

CLIENT China Union Pay
PROGRAM Headquarters and Retail.
AREA 90,000 m2 / 970,000 sf
BUDGET $200 M USD
STATUS Competition Entry 2016
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, Rainer Schmidt Landscape
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MAX

GRANTOKYO STATION

MIX-USE URBAN COMPLEX, TOKYO, JAPAN,
COMPLETED 2007

Yeasu is the eastern entrance to the city’s main train station, Tokyo Station. While the original entrance is designed to symbolize history, the Yeasu redevelopment sets a new symbol of the city’s future. Two high-rise towers, shopping areas, pedestrian decks with large roofs, and a station plaza are integrated in a landscape that expresses the four seasons. A grand canopy marks the new entrance.

CLIENT East Japan Railway Company, Mitsui Fudosan Co.
PROGRAM Office, Retail and Train Station
AREA 346,000 m2 / 3,700,000 m2
COST $1 B USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Murphy/Jahn
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, RSLA
YEAR 2007
CATEGORY MAX

CHANGE

COUNTRY PAVILION, CONFIDENTIAL,
INVITED COMPETITION 2022

To signal true innovation and prosperity for all, we must enter an era that moves away from a planet that depletes resources to one that lives in harmony with them. The pavilion in the desert is a vertical museum. The access floor is a monumental open space that can accommodate 5,000 people. A series of amorphous volumes stack inside the tower and contain all the gallery spaces. A series of platforms distributed at different heights along the tower’s shaft serve as vestibules to the exhibition rooms as well as sculptural spaces. The materiality of the façade has a geological character to establish a contextual relationship to its indigenous landscape.

CLIENT Confidential
PROGRAM Confidential
AREA 50,000 m2 / 540,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Buro Happold, Werner Sobek, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Creative Measures, Gordon Linden
YEAR 2022
CATEGORY MAX

WISH

170 M MIX-USE TOWER, SHANGHAI, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2014/2018

WISH is a dreamlike place constructed on three symbols that emerge from three platonic shapes. Earth’s Abundance in the form of a wharf garden, a square man-made floating platform that connects to the mainland through an embroidery parterre. Earth’s Pulse in the form of the building bun, a 160-meter diameter disc that eclipses with the sun early in the morning and late afternoon. And Earth’s Threshold, a triangular gate where the natural meets the supernatural.
CLIENT Shanghai Harbor City Development Group Co. Ltd.
PROGRAM Hotel, Service Apartments, Exhibition, Conference and Retail
AREA 164,000m2 / 1,760,000 sf
BUDGET $300 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Thornton Tomasetti, Rainer Schmidt Landscape, Lerch Bates
YEAR 2014
CATEGORY MAX

TRANSPARENTE

ADAPTIVE REUSE OF A LANDMARK UNIVERSITY BUILDING, MONTERREY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2019

“The language of the remodeled structure displays an adaptive solution to a futuristic approach, ideas, and vision. The overly welcoming entrance sets a serene atmosphere of nurture and growth for the working and learning mass. The spaces for discussion and interaction have a flavor of informality in terms of materials and feelings. The vibrant murals at the mid-landing set a thirst for being different and innovative.” Jury member, Rethinking the Future Awards
  • First Prize, Rethinking the Future Award

CLIENT Monterrey Institute of Technology (Monterrey Tec)
PROGRAM Institutional Office Spaces, Exhibition, Auditoriums, Meeting Rooms, Classrooms and Amenities
AREA 8,000 m2 / 86,000 sf
COST $2 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Oficina de Arquitectura
CONSULTANTS Arup
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MED

THE HENRY AND LEIGH BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

NORTWESTERN UNIVERSITY MUSIC SCHOOL, CHICAGO, USA,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2017

The School of Music’s position next to Lake Michigan, its dramatic cantilever, and its nautically inspired shape define the university’s quadrangle while framing the Chicago skyline. Clarity, liveliness, spaciousness, envelopment, silence, loudness, and warmth are acoustical design drivers and architectural principles.

CLIENT Northwestern University
PROGRAM Music School
AREA 200,000 sf / 18,580 m2
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, Nagata Acoustics, L-Plan
YEAR 2017
CATEGORY MED

TULUM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

AIRPORT TERMINAL AND MASTERPLAN, TULUM, MEXICO,
PROPOSAL 2021

While designing Tulum’s new Airport, we rediscovered a sophisticated, simple, audacious, and forward-looking community, centered around nature, archeology, and deeply rooted in Mexican traditions. It was then that we were able to transcend the efficient, expandable, modular, and cost-effective airport we were designing, and offer the community a symbol of their culturally rich and significant place.

CLIENT Government of Mexico
PROGRAM Masterplan and Airport Terminal
AREA 65,000 m2 / 700,000 sf
BUDGET $250 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2021
CATEGORY MED

PODER

COMMUNITY + IMMIGRATION CENTER, CHICAGO, USA,
COMPLETED 2022

Adaptive reuse; Urban responsibility through public spaces that promote safety; Building more with less by using a kit of parts; Environmental consciousness during construction and operations; Supporting education and local culture through the integration of local arts; Providing a forum for a community that never had a center. This project fuses many topics at the core of what makes cities livable – Architecture in service of the American dream.

“This Building is Changing Lives.” Chicago Tribune, May 2023 (on the First Immigration Building in America)

CLIENT Poder
PROGRAM Community and Immigration Center
AREA 6000 sf / 560 m2
COST $6 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT SCALA PLUS
YEAR 2022
CATEGORY MED

BEETHOVENHALLE

CONCERT HALL, BONN, GERMANY,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2008

On the shore of the Rhine, the Beethoven Festspielhaus Bonn beckons the city to gather under its iconic cantilevered roof, an engineering feat that establishes a contextual kinship with the many bridges of this famous river. From the steel grid roof to the hall’s geometry, or the fritted glass, the design of this concert hall is the physical expression of Beethoven’s systematic, advanced, innovative, integrated, and intellectually profound approach to composition.

CLIENT City of Bonn
PROGRAM Concert Hall
AREA 10,000 m2 / 110,000 sf
BUDGET $20 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, Rainer Schmidt Landscape, Nagata Acoustics
YEAR 2008
CATEGORY MED

UNITED STATES PAVILION EXPO 2025

PAVILION, OSAKA, JAPAN,
PROPOSAL 2023

‘A veil over a Lunar Garden’, our proposal for the US pavilion for the Osaka 2025 World Expo is an open-ended system that juxtaposes the beauty of ecosystems native to central North America with the innate American desire to discover and explore the cosmos.

CLIENT Department of State
PROGRAM Exhibition and Cultural
AREA 15,000m2 / 160,000 sf
BUDGET $49 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Certain Measures, Gordon Linden, Ralph Miller, Barry Howard
YEAR 2023
CATEGORY MED

OPEN MOSQUE

MOSQUE, DUBAI, UEA,
COMPETITION 2019

The Open Mosque’s mission is one of spiritual openness. Its physical expression consists of an edifice whose perimeter filigreed walls open and close five times a day. Prayers are held in the contemplative quiet of closed walls. At all other times, the world is invited to come in, immersed in a simple space that evokes vestiges of an ancient building and protected under a light, suspended roof that speaks of our time.

CLIENT Emaar
PROGRAM Mosque
AREA 15,000 m2 / 160,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MED

HEGAU TOWER

70 M OFFICE TOWER, SINGEN, GERMANY,
COMPLETED 2010

Transparency and Lightness. Hegau Tower’s two slender, rectangular volumes are connected through a glass atrium. The narrowness of the volumes promotes the penetration of natural light through all its facades, reducing reliance on artificial lighting. Embedded in the slabs’ perimeter, the decentralized thermal conditioning systems reduce energy demand and, in conjunction with the automated shades, increases comfort.

“Hegau Tower takes the transparency posited by Mies Van Der Rohe early projects to a new extreme of lucidity.” Architectural Review, May 2017

CLIENT ZUBLIN AG
PROGRAM Office
AREA 17,000 m2 / 183,000 sf
COST $36 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Murphy/Jahn
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, L-Plan
YEAR 2010
CATEGORY MED

X-SPACE 1

COMMERCIAL CONDOMINIUMS, HOUSTON, USA,
COMMENCED 2023

A cabinet of curiosities that unleashes creativity and innovation, XSPACE belongs to future generations, now. Each of the 84 units in its chiseled body is a canvas for individual creation that promotes an emergent format of cross-disciplinary collaboration and self-expression. Its form is a response to climate, controls glare, reduces energy demands, and opens the building to natural ventilation. Its spatial organization bets on transparency to promote human connectivity.

CLIENT XSPACE
PROGRAM Commercial Condominium
AREA 120,000 sf / 111,000 m2
COST $25 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Dally, Telios, JLA
YEAR 2023-2025
CATEGORY MED

TECNANO

NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING LABORATORY, MONTERREY, MEXICO,
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT 2019

The first nanotech and bioengineering research facility in Mexico, Tecnano is a vertical community conceived as a sustainable ecosystem of human connections and sustainable efficiencies. Aside from its clean rooms, auditoria, classrooms, and labs, the building is designed as a high-performance kit of parts in the form of clip-on elements, from the façade and atrium screen covers, to the ramps, stairs, elevators and bridges, the modular façade, and thermal, energy and water distributions systems. This approach ensures not only ease of maintenance but immense adaptability. Future technologies can be integrated into its retrofittable envelope, expanding the possibility of future functions inside the building.

  • Architects Newspaper

CLIENT Monterrey Institute of Technology (Monterrey Tec)
PROGRAM Science Lab
AREA 35,000 m2   / 380,000 sf
BUDGET $35 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MED

SIGN TOWER

80 M HEADQUARTER TOWER, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY,
COMPLETED 2009

“The holistic approach to design not just a form and its surface but rather an integrated structural and energetic system and its envelope, results in a functional and ecological optimum advancing the typology of the office building itself. It is expressed in a simple yet highly sophisticated aesthetic.” Bustler, October 2013
  • 2013 AIA Distinguished Building Award

CLIENT SAP
PROGRAM Office Headquarters
AREA 15,000 m2 / 160,000 sf
COST $30 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn, John Durbrow and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Murphy/Jahn
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, RSLA
YEAR 2009
CATEGORY MED

MAR

OFFICE HEADQUARTERS, LUSAIL, QATAR,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2019

Skin color represents an example of how our species has been capable of adapting to different environments. Buildings have ‘skins’ that for the most part are static, homogeneous, and standardized. In response to that, MAR focuses on the design of façade systems to generate building forms. Façade systems that respond to the specificity of the program’s interior conditions, fine-tuning light through screens, minimizing heat transmission, and framing views. On the interior, the building is designed around a central atrium and a large reflective pool, which is intended to cool down the public spaces, create an internal airflow through the stack effect and connect all people in one grand experience.

CLIENT Masraf Al Rayan Bank
PROGRAM Headquarters
AREA 40,000 m2 /440,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MED

YV

RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX, YORKVILLE, USA,
PROPOSAL 2023

The client’s program was simple: 90,000 sf condos, 60,000 sf parking, and 20,000 sf retail. Our response included all that but in the form of a Garden, bigger than the program, shaped as an amphitheater, placed at the heart of everything and linked to the River Walk. It was then that the project became a place and the buildings, architecture.

CLIENT Howard Ecker
PROGRAM Condominiums and Retail
AREA 170,000m2 / 1,830,000 sf
BUDGET $50 M USD
STATUS Proposal 2023
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2023
CATEGORY MED

WIND

PAVILION, CONFIDENTIAL,
INVITED COMPETITION 2022

Equal access to knowledge for all lays hope for a changing tomorrow where balance and constructive behavior help restore Mother Earth. The wind pavilion is nestled between the rocks in a kind of oasis. A cube, the building operates like an aerodynamic chamber that channels the wind into its interior, conducts it, and conditions it in puffs. The experience of random and unpredictable temperatures may provoke a reflection on our demand for climatic comfort and its correlation to our carbon footprint.

CLIENT Confidential
PROGRAM Cultural and Exhibition
AREA 5,000 m2
BUDGET $5 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Buro Happold, Werner Sobek, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Creative Measures, Gordon Linden
YEAR 2022
CATEGORY MED

1000MI

INTERIORS FOR A 240 M TOWER, CHICAGO, USA,
PROPOSAL 2016

Equal access to knowledge for all lays hope for a changing tomorrow where balance and constructive behavior help restore Mother Earth. The wind pavilion is nestled between the rocks in a kind of oasis. A cube, the building operates like an aerodynamic chamber that channels the wind into its interior, conducts it, and conditions it in puffs. The experience of random and unpredictable temperatures may provoke a reflection on our demand for climatic comfort and its correlation to our carbon footprint.

CLIENT JK Equities, Time Equities and OAK Capital
PROGRAM Interior Design for Condominiums, Amenities, and all Public Spaces
AREA 80,000 m2 / 860,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MED

KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA EMBASSY COMPLEX

K-12 SCHOOL, MORONI, AFRICA,
INVITED COMPETITION 2016

A K-12 boys and girls school contained in a two-story parallelogram that sits and “slides” over its steep site. The girls’ side floats above; the boys’ side is grounded. Their respective courtyards do not connect physically to respect religious customs, but they do visually through filigree screens. Sometimes design can quietly challenge tradition and convention; what better typology to do so than a school?

CLIENT Ministry of Foreign Affairs, KSA
PROGRAM Ambassador’s Residence, K-12 School, Office and Residence campus, Exhibition, Meeting and Conference
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MED

ORCHID + EDUCATIONAL PAVILION

GREENHOUSE, OAXACA, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2018

“[…] It is also something of a blueprint for the museum of the future. How can you combine environmental sustainability with structural flexibility? How to balance usability and aesthetics? How to modulate light levels, humidity, and temperature while, at the same time, planning for a future that cannot be known? Set within this museum-like garden, Gonzalez-Pulido’s light-footed pavilion offers several propositions to the questions that the next generation of museum planners will have to answer. […]” Frieze Magazine, March 2016
  • German Architecture Awards
  • Mies Van Der Rohe Crown Hall America Prize Nominated

CLIENT Jardin Etnobotanico de Santo Domingo de Guzman
PROGRAM Greenhouse
AREA 100 m2 / 1,100 sf
COST $300,000 USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek and Transsolar
YEAR 2018
CATEGORY MINI

X-BASE

BESPOKE MAN-CAVES,
COMMENCED 2024

This high-end, multifunctional space is packaged and delivered on site as a kit of parts that can be assembled in six weeks in any geographical context, with four men and a small crane. The building is delivered in two separate 50 m3 shipments: a Green Box that contains the building’s structure and façade, and a Red Box with the canopies, insulation, stairs, optional modular kitchen, bathroom, and closet systems.

CLIENT ATELIER FGP
PROGRAM Multifunctional
AREA 600m2 / 6,500 sf
BUDGET $49 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek
YEAR 2023
CATEGORY MINI

COUNTRY LANE

RESIDENCE, CHICAGO, USA,
COMPLETED 2020

“How we welcome others, how we welcome light and natural elements into a place makes it extraordinary.”’ Interview in Modern Luxury / Chicago Social, November 2021

CLIENT Private
PROGRAM Interior Renovation
AREA 6,000 sf/ 560 m2
COST Confidential
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2020
CATEGORY MINI

BALBOA PALLOZAS

RESORT, CALABAZAS TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO,
PROPOSAL 2023

The Palloza is a pre-roman thatched house found in western Spain in the town of Balboa in Galicia. Circular, its main structure is a stone base with a conical roof built from natural materials.
At the foot of the Sierra Madre Oriental, on the main path to El Cielo, one of the most important biospheres reserves on the planet, lies a vast destination of 12 Pallozas on this hot, rural land. They are made of concrete, wood, bamboo, palm, and rattan. The bedrooms are below grade, on the circular floor. The social spaces and the kitchen are at grade under the grand 9-meter-tall conical roof.

CLIENT Wilfrido Gonzalez Balboa
PROGRAM Resort
AREA 2,000 m2 / 21,000 sf
BUDGET $1 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2023
CATEGORY MINI

SPACECRAFT

EXPERIMENTAL LIVING UNIT, VALENCIA, SPAIN

All functions of private life are supported in a 25 m2 space by designing all the interior systems to perform more than one function. The four interior walls are clad in perforated, foldable wood screens, that can unfold to become doors, cabinets, working surfaces, sunshades, windows, and artificial light. The Wet Box, a movable KRION block, contains all the wet functions, and a collapsible bed that can move to redefine the interior layout. Storage for clothing and personal objects occupies random spaces between the wood screens and the partition walls.

  • A’DESIGN AWARD

CLIENT PORCELANOSA
PROGRAM Experimental Living Unit
AREA 25 m2 / 300 sf
BUDGET $30,000 USD
STATUS Completed 2014
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CATEGORY MINI

THE LEAF

LIBRARY’S ATRIUM LIGHTWEIGHT ROOF, MONTERREY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2018

The new atrium roof at the Central Library, The Leaf, captures the space-in-between and turns it into a student indoors-outdoors haven. Of a light material and inconspicuously anchored to the building, the 600 m2 roof appears to float weightlessly. The abstracted leaf design imprinted on its EFTE panels recalls the white poplars populating the campus. The library building was designed by Sasaki.

  • 2020 Architecture Masterprize Honorable Mention
  • 2023 Architecture Masterprize

CLIENT Monterrey Institute of Technology (Monterrey Tec)
PROGRAM Public Space
AREA 400 m2 / 4,300 sf
COST $160,000 USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Dunn Lightweight Architecture, RWDI
YEAR2018
CATEGORY MINI

BOCA CHICA

MODULAR HOUSING PROTOTYPE,
PROPOSAL 2021

A modular option designed to address inequality, poverty, childhoods stolen to labor, natural disasters, and immigrant crises. A home built with advanced materials and assembled on a production line. Designed for all types of climates, and topography and capable of resisting natural disasters without losing their structural integrity. Non-flammable, acoustically and thermally high performing. Easily transportable, assembled, and/or disassembled and fully equipped.

CLIENT ATELIER FGP
PROGRAM Modular System
AREA 40 m2 / 430 sf
BUDGET $60,000 USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2021
CATEGORY MINI

HOUSE M5

RESIDENCE, OAXACA, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2009

Numerology: Two wings, Two gardens, Two levels. Three Private and Three Public. Six months of planning, Six months of construction, Six figure budget. Five people: Manuel, Maribel, Manu, Migue y Marina.

Ten Sustainable moves: Orientation, Natural Cross Ventilation, Thermal Mass, Insulated Lightweight Concrete Panels, Kit of parts Steel Frame, Modular Construction, Daylight, No HVAC, Local Materials.

CLIENT Manuel Garcia Diaz, Maribel Santaularia
PROGRAM Residence
AREA 600 m2 / 6,500 sf
BUDGET $600,000 USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2009
CATEGORY MINI

FONICO

RESTAURANT, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2021

Fonico, in Mexico City’s Roma Norte, is a culinary experience, in constant search of the unknown and the unexplored. Our interior design of the three-story 19th century mansion it occupies creates a ‘weightless’ space that embodies their culinary philosophy.

CLIENT Victor Garibay
PROGRAM Restaurant
AREA 200 m2 / 2,200 sf
COST $1 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS AHC
YEAR 2021
CATEGORY MINI 

RAYO

BAR, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2022

On the top level of a 19th century mansion in Mexico City’s Roma Norte neighborhood, Rayo’s interiors are cinematic, a mix of eclectic and idiosyncratic that feels intimate yet unfamiliar without boundaries between inside and outside. Layers of color, materials, and light inspired by the tones and textures of the blue agave juxtapose over the historic features of the mansion. It was voted among the 50 best bars in the world in 2023.

CLIENT Victor Garibay
PROGRAM Bar
AREA 100 m2 / 1,100 sf
COST $300,000 USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS AHC
YEAR 2022
CATEGORY MINI

STARRING BY TED GIBSON

SMART POP-UP SALON, BEVERLY HILLS, USA,
COMPLETED 2018

“They call it a smart salon. The space doesn’t have normal chair-and-mirror stations but rather something they are calling “salon clouds,” softly rounded room dividers designed by Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido that are strangely suggestive of a vaginal canal. The lighting inside the clouds, powered by Amazon’s Alexa, can be changed among soft light that resembles “sunrise,” “daylight,” “sunset,” “twilight” and “moonlight” to see your hair in different settings.” The New York Times, July 2019
  • 2021 American Architecture Awards
  • Rethinking The Future Awards

CLIENT Ted Gibson
PROGRAM Beauty Salon
AREA 2,000 sf / 200 m2
COST $300,000 USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2018
CATEGORY MINI

STARRING BY TED GIBSON

SMART POP-UP SALON, BEVERLY HILLS, USA,
COMPLETED 2018

“They call it a smart salon. The space doesn’t have normal chair-and-mirror stations but rather something they are calling “salon clouds,” softly rounded room dividers designed by Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido that are strangely suggestive of a vaginal canal. The lighting inside the clouds, powered by Amazon’s Alexa, can be changed among soft light that resembles “sunrise,” “daylight,” “sunset,” “twilight” and “moonlight” to see your hair in different settings.” The New York Times, July 2019
  • 2021 American Architecture Awards
  • Rethinking The Future Awards

CLIENT Ted Gibson
PROGRAM Beauty Salon
AREA 2,000 sf / 200 m2
COST $300,000 USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2018
CATEGORY MINI

RAYO

BAR, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2022

On the top level of a 19th century mansion in Mexico City’s Roma Norte neighborhood, Rayo’s interiors are cinematic, a mix of eclectic and idiosyncratic that feels intimate yet unfamiliar without boundaries between inside and outside. Layers of color, materials, and light inspired by the tones and textures of the blue agave juxtapose over the historic features of the mansion. It was voted among the 50 best bars in the world in 2023.

CLIENT Victor Garibay
PROGRAM Bar
AREA 100 m2 / 1,100 sf
COST $300,000 USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS AHC
YEAR 2022
CATEGORY MINI

FONICO

RESTAURANT, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2021

Fonico, in Mexico City’s Roma Norte, is a culinary experience, in constant search of the unknown and the unexplored. Our interior design of the three-story 19th century mansion it occupies creates a ‘weightless’ space that embodies their culinary philosophy.

CLIENT Victor Garibay
PROGRAM Restaurant
AREA 200 m2 / 2,200 sf
COST $1 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS AHC
YEAR 2021
CATEGORY MINI 

HOUSE M5

RESIDENCE, OAXACA, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2009

Numerology: Two wings, Two gardens, Two levels. Three Private and Three Public. Six months of planning, Six months of construction, Six figure budget. Five people: Manuel, Maribel, Manu, Migue y Marina.

Ten Sustainable moves: Orientation, Natural Cross Ventilation, Thermal Mass, Insulated Lightweight Concrete Panels, Kit of parts Steel Frame, Modular Construction, Daylight, No HVAC, Local Materials.

CLIENT Manuel Garcia Diaz, Maribel Santaularia
PROGRAM Residence
AREA 600 m2 / 6,500 sf
BUDGET $600,000 USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2009
CATEGORY MINI

BOCA CHICA

MODULAR HOUSING PROTOTYPE,
PROPOSAL 2021

A modular option designed to address inequality, poverty, childhoods stolen to labor, natural disasters, and immigrant crises. A home built with advanced materials and assembled on a production line. Designed for all types of climates, and topography and capable of resisting natural disasters without losing their structural integrity. Non-flammable, acoustically and thermally high performing. Easily transportable, assembled, and/or disassembled and fully equipped.

CLIENT ATELIER FGP
PROGRAM Modular System
AREA 40 m2 / 430 sf
BUDGET $60,000 USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2021
CATEGORY MINI

THE LEAF

LIBRARY’S ATRIUM LIGHTWEIGHT ROOF, MONTERREY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2018

The new atrium roof at the Central Library, The Leaf, captures the space-in-between and turns it into a student indoors-outdoors haven. Of a light material and inconspicuously anchored to the building, the 600 m2 roof appears to float weightlessly. The abstracted leaf design imprinted on its EFTE panels recalls the white poplars populating the campus. The library building was designed by Sasaki.

  • 2020 Architecture Masterprize Honorable Mention
  • 2023 Architecture Masterprize

CLIENT Monterrey Institute of Technology (Monterrey Tec)
PROGRAM Public Space
AREA 400 m2 / 4,300 sf
COST $160,000 USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Dunn Lightweight Architecture, RWDI
YEAR2018
CATEGORY MINI

SPACECRAFT
EXPERIMENTAL LIVING UNIT, VALENCIA, SPAIN

All functions of private life are supported in a 25 m2 space by designing all the interior systems to perform more than one function. The four interior walls are clad in perforated, foldable wood screens, that can unfold to become doors, cabinets, working surfaces, sunshades, windows, and artificial light. The Wet Box, a movable KRION block, contains all the wet functions, and a collapsible bed that can move to redefine the interior layout. Storage for clothing and personal objects occupies random spaces between the wood screens and the partition walls.

  • A’DESIGN AWARD

CLIENT PORCELANOSA
PROGRAM Experimental Living Unit
AREA 25 m2 / 300 sf
BUDGET $30,000 USD
STATUS Completed 2014
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CATEGORY MINI

BALBOA PALLOZAS

RESORT, CALABAZAS TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO,
PROPOSAL 2023

The Palloza is a pre-roman thatched house found in western Spain in the town of Balboa in Galicia. Circular, its main structure is a stone base with a conical roof built from natural materials.
At the foot of the Sierra Madre Oriental, on the main path to El Cielo, one of the most important biospheres reserves on the planet, lies a vast destination of 12 Pallozas on this hot, rural land. They are made of concrete, wood, bamboo, palm, and rattan. The bedrooms are below grade, on the circular floor. The social spaces and the kitchen are at grade under the grand 9-meter-tall conical roof.

CLIENT Wilfrido Gonzalez Balboa
PROGRAM Resort
AREA 2,000 m2 / 21,000 sf
BUDGET $1 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2023
CATEGORY MINI

COUNTRY LANE

RESIDENCE, CHICAGO, USA,
COMPLETED 2020

“How we welcome others, how we welcome light and natural elements into a place makes it extraordinary.”’ Interview in Modern Luxury / Chicago Social, November 2021

CLIENT Private
PROGRAM Interior Renovation
AREA 6,000 sf/ 560 m2
COST Confidential
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2020
CATEGORY MINI

X-BASE

BESPOKE MAN-CAVES,
COMMENCED 2024

This high-end, multifunctional space is packaged and delivered on site as a kit of parts that can be assembled in six weeks in any geographical context, with four men and a small crane. The building is delivered in two separate 50 m3 shipments: a Green Box that contains the building’s structure and façade, and a Red Box with the canopies, insulation, stairs, optional modular kitchen, bathroom, and closet systems.

CLIENT ATELIER FGP
PROGRAM Multifunctional
AREA 600m2 / 6,500 sf
BUDGET $49 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek
YEAR 2023
CATEGORY MINI

ORCHID + EDUCATIONAL PAVILION

GREENHOUSE, OAXACA, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2018

“[…] It is also something of a blueprint for the museum of the future. How can you combine environmental sustainability with structural flexibility? How to balance usability and aesthetics? How to modulate light levels, humidity, and temperature while, at the same time, planning for a future that cannot be known? Set within this museum-like garden, Gonzalez-Pulido’s light-footed pavilion offers several propositions to the questions that the next generation of museum planners will have to answer. […]” Frieze Magazine, March 2016
  • German Architecture Awards
  • Mies Van Der Rohe Crown Hall America Prize Nominated

CLIENT Jardin Etnobotanico de Santo Domingo de Guzman
PROGRAM Greenhouse
AREA 100 m2 / 1,100 sf
COST $300,000 USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek and Transsolar
YEAR 2018
CATEGORY MINI

KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA EMBASSY COMPLEX

K-12 SCHOOL, MORONI, AFRICA,
INVITED COMPETITION 2016

A K-12 boys and girls school contained in a two-story parallelogram that sits and “slides” over its steep site. The girls’ side floats above; the boys’ side is grounded. Their respective courtyards do not connect physically to respect religious customs, but they do visually through filigree screens. Sometimes design can quietly challenge tradition and convention; what better typology to do so than a school?

CLIENT Ministry of Foreign Affairs, KSA
PROGRAM Ambassador’s Residence, K-12 School, Office and Residence campus, Exhibition, Meeting and Conference
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MED

1000MI

INTERIORS FOR A 240 M TOWER, CHICAGO, USA,
PROPOSAL 2016

The palette for the tower’s residences and public amenities interior strives for harmony. The beauty of simple details and natural materials selected for their durability shines in the visually open spaces whose profuse daylight and natural ventilation contribute to reduced energy consumption. Materials that absorb more heat are used for the north and east exposures, while lighter materials with matte finishes reduce heat gain and glare in the south and west rooms.

CLIENT JK Equities, Time Equities and OAK Capital
PROGRAM Interior Design for Condominiums, Amenities, and all Public Spaces
AREA 80,000 m2 / 860,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MED

WIND

PAVILION, CONFIDENTIAL,
INVITED COMPETITION 2022

Equal access to knowledge for all lays hope for a changing tomorrow where balance and constructive behavior help restore Mother Earth. The wind pavilion is nestled between the rocks in a kind of oasis. A cube, the building operates like an aerodynamic chamber that channels the wind into its interior, conducts it, and conditions it in puffs. The experience of random and unpredictable temperatures may provoke a reflection on our demand for climatic comfort and its correlation to our carbon footprint.

CLIENT Confidential
PROGRAM Cultural and Exhibition
AREA 5,000 m2
BUDGET $5 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Buro Happold, Werner Sobek, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Creative Measures, Gordon Linden
YEAR 2022
CATEGORY MED

YV

RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX, YORKVILLE, USA,
PROPOSAL 2023

The client’s program was simple: 90,000 sf condos, 60,000 sf parking, and 20,000 sf retail. Our response included all that but in the form of a Garden, bigger than the program, shaped as an amphitheater, placed at the heart of everything and linked to the River Walk. It was then that the project became a place and the buildings, architecture.

CLIENT Howard Ecker
PROGRAM Condominiums and Retail
AREA 170,000m2 / 1,830,000 sf
BUDGET $50 M USD
STATUS Proposal 2023
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2023
CATEGORY MED

MAR

OFFICE HEADQUARTERS, LUSAIL, QATAR,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2019

Skin color represents an example of how our species has been capable of adapting to different environments. Buildings have ‘skins’ that for the most part are static, homogeneous, and standardized. In response to that, MAR focuses on the design of façade systems to generate building forms. Façade systems that respond to the specificity of the program’s interior conditions, fine-tuning light through screens, minimizing heat transmission, and framing views. On the interior, the building is designed around a central atrium and a large reflective pool, which is intended to cool down the public spaces, create an internal airflow through the stack effect and connect all people in one grand experience.

CLIENT Masraf Al Rayan Bank
PROGRAM Headquarters
AREA 40,000 m2 /440,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MED

SIGN TOWER

80 M HEADQUARTER TOWER, DUSSELDORF, GERMANY,
COMPLETED 2009

“The holistic approach to design not just a form and its surface but rather an integrated structural and energetic system and its envelope, results in a functional and ecological optimum advancing the typology of the office building itself. It is expressed in a simple yet highly sophisticated aesthetic.” Bustler, October 2013
  • 2013 AIA Distinguished Building Award

CLIENT SAP
PROGRAM Office Headquarters
AREA 15,000 m2 / 160,000 sf
COST $30 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn, John Durbrow and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Murphy/Jahn
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, RSLA
YEAR 2009
CATEGORY MED

TECNANO

NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING LABORATORY, MONTERREY, MEXICO,
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT 2019

The first nanotech and bioengineering research facility in Mexico, Tecnano is a vertical community conceived as a sustainable ecosystem of human connections and sustainable efficiencies. Aside from its clean rooms, auditoria, classrooms, and labs, the building is designed as a high-performance kit of parts in the form of clip-on elements, from the façade and atrium screen covers, to the ramps, stairs, elevators and bridges, the modular façade, and thermal, energy and water distributions systems. This approach ensures not only ease of maintenance but immense adaptability. Future technologies can be integrated into its retrofittable envelope, expanding the possibility of future functions inside the building.
  • Architects Newspaper

CLIENT Monterrey Institute of Technology (Monterrey Tec)
PROGRAM Science Lab
AREA 35,000 m2   / 380,000 sf
BUDGET $35 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MED

X-SPACE 1

COMMERCIAL CONDOMINIUMS, HOUSTON, USA,
COMMENCED 2023

A cabinet of curiosities that unleashes creativity and innovation, XSPACE belongs to future generations, now. Each of the 84 units in its chiseled body is a canvas for individual creation that promotes an emergent format of cross-disciplinary collaboration and self-expression. Its form is a response to climate, controls glare, reduces energy demands, and opens the building to natural ventilation. Its spatial organization bets on transparency to promote human connectivity.

CLIENT XSPACE
PROGRAM Commercial Condominium
AREA 120,000 sf / 111,000 m2
COST $25 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Dally, Telios, JLA
YEAR 2023-2025
CATEGORY MED

HEGAU TOWER

70 M OFFICE TOWER, SINGEN, GERMANY,
COMPLETED 2010

Transparency and Lightness. Hegau Tower’s two slender, rectangular volumes are connected through a glass atrium. The narrowness of the volumes promotes the penetration of natural light through all its facades, reducing reliance on artificial lighting. Embedded in the slabs’ perimeter, the decentralized thermal conditioning systems reduce energy demand and, in conjunction with the automated shades, increases comfort.

“Hegau Tower takes the transparency posited by Mies Van Der Rohe early projects to a new extreme of lucidity.” Architectural Review, May 2017

CLIENT ZUBLIN AG
PROGRAM Office
AREA 17,000 m2 / 183,000 sf
COST $36 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Murphy/Jahn
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, L-Plan
YEAR 2010
CATEGORY MED

OPEN MOSQUE

MOSQUE, DUBAI, UEA,
COMPETITION 2019

The Open Mosque’s mission is one of spiritual openness. Its physical expression consists of an edifice whose perimeter filigreed walls open and close five times a day. Prayers are held in the contemplative quiet of closed walls. At all other times, the world is invited to come in, immersed in a simple space that evokes vestiges of an ancient building and protected under a light, suspended roof that speaks of our time.

CLIENT Emaar
PROGRAM Mosque
AREA 15,000 m2 / 160,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MED

UNITED STATES PAVILION EXPO 2025

PAVILION, OSAKA, JAPAN,
PROPOSAL 2023

‘A veil over a Lunar Garden’, our proposal for the US pavilion for the Osaka 2025 World Expo is an open-ended system that juxtaposes the beauty of ecosystems native to central North America with the innate American desire to discover and explore the cosmos.

CLIENT Department of State
PROGRAM Exhibition and Cultural
AREA 15,000m2 / 160,000 sf
BUDGET $49 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Certain Measures, Gordon Linden, Ralph Miller, Barry Howard
YEAR 2023
CATEGORY MED

BEETHOVENHALLE

CONCERT HALL, BONN, GERMANY,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2008

On the shore of the Rhine, the Beethoven Festspielhaus Bonn beckons the city to gather under its iconic cantilevered roof, an engineering feat that establishes a contextual kinship with the many bridges of this famous river. From the steel grid roof to the hall’s geometry, or the fritted glass, the design of this concert hall is the physical expression of Beethoven’s systematic, advanced, innovative, integrated, and intellectually profound approach to composition.

CLIENT City of Bonn
PROGRAM Concert Hall
AREA 10,000 m2 / 110,000 sf
BUDGET $20 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, Rainer Schmidt Landscape, Nagata Acoustics
YEAR 2008
CATEGORY MED

PODER

COMMUNITY + IMMIGRATION CENTER, CHICAGO, USA,
COMPLETED 2022

Adaptive reuse; Urban responsibility through public spaces that promote safety; Building more with less by using a kit of parts; Environmental consciousness during construction and operations; Supporting education and local culture through the integration of local arts; Providing a forum for a community that never had a center. This project fuses many topics at the core of what makes cities livable – Architecture in service of the American dream.

“This Building is Changing Lives.” Chicago Tribune, May 2023 (on the First Immigration Building in America)

CLIENT Poder
PROGRAM Community and Immigration Center
AREA 6000 sf / 560 m2
COST $6 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT SCALA PLUS
YEAR 2022
CATEGORY MED

TULUM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

AIRPORT TERMINAL AND MASTERPLAN, TULUM, MEXICO,
PROPOSAL 2021

While designing Tulum’s new Airport, we rediscovered a sophisticated, simple, audacious, and forward-looking community, centered around nature, archeology, and deeply rooted in Mexican traditions. It was then that we were able to transcend the efficient, expandable, modular, and cost-effective airport we were designing, and offer the community a symbol of their culturally rich and significant place.

CLIENT Government of Mexico
PROGRAM Masterplan and Airport Terminal
AREA 65,000 m2 / 700,000 sf
BUDGET $250 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2021
CATEGORY MED

THE HENRY AND LEIGH BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

NORTWESTERN UNIVERSITY MUSIC SCHOOL, CHICAGO, USA,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2017

The School of Music’s position next to Lake Michigan, its dramatic cantilever, and its nautically inspired shape define the university’s quadrangle while framing the Chicago skyline. Clarity, liveliness, spaciousness, envelopment, silence, loudness, and warmth are acoustical design drivers and architectural principles.

CLIENT Northwestern University
PROGRAM Music School
AREA 200,000 sf / 18,580 m2
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, Nagata Acoustics, L-Plan
YEAR 2017
CATEGORY MED

TRANSPARENTE

ADAPTIVE REUSE OF A LANDMARK UNIVERSITY BUILDING,
MONTERREY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2019

“The language of the remodeled structure displays an adaptive solution to a futuristic approach, ideas, and vision. The overly welcoming entrance sets a serene atmosphere of nurture and growth for the working and learning mass. The spaces for discussion and interaction have a flavor of informality in terms of materials and feelings. The vibrant murals at the mid-landing set a thirst for being different and innovative.” Jury member, Rethinking the Future Awards
  • First Prize, Rethinking the Future Award

CLIENT Monterrey Institute of Technology (Monterrey Tec)
PROGRAM Institutional Office Spaces, Exhibition, Auditoriums, Meeting Rooms, Classrooms and Amenities
AREA 8,000 m2 / 86,000 sf
COST $2 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Oficina de Arquitectura
CONSULTANTS Arup
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MED

WISH

170 M MIX-USE TOWER, SHANGHAI, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2014/2018

WISH is a dreamlike place constructed on three symbols that emerge from three platonic shapes. Earth’s Abundance in the form of a wharf garden, a square man-made floating platform that connects to the mainland through an embroidery parterre. Earth’s Pulse in the form of the building bun, a 160-meter diameter disc that eclipses with the sun early in the morning and late afternoon. And Earth’s Threshold, a triangular gate where the natural meets the supernatural.

CLIENT Shanghai Harbor City Development Group Co. Ltd.
PROGRAM Hotel, Service Apartments, Exhibition, Conference and Retail
AREA 164,000m2 / 1,760,000 sf
BUDGET $300 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Thornton Tomasetti, Rainer Schmidt Landscape, Lerch Bates
YEAR 2014
CATEGORY MAX

CHANGE

COUNTRY PAVILION, CONFIDENTIAL,
INVITED COMPETITION 2022

To signal true innovation and prosperity for all, we must enter an era that moves away from a planet that depletes resources to one that lives in harmony with them. The pavilion in the desert is a vertical museum. The access floor is a monumental open space that can accommodate 5,000 people. A series of amorphous volumes stack inside the tower and contain all the gallery spaces. A series of platforms distributed at different heights along the tower’s shaft serve as vestibules to the exhibition rooms as well as sculptural spaces. The materiality of the façade has a geological character to establish a contextual relationship to its indigenous landscape.

CLIENT Confidential
PROGRAM Confidential
AREA 50,000 m2 / 540,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Buro Happold, Werner Sobek, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Creative Measures, Gordon Linden
YEAR 2022
CATEGORY MAX

GRANTOKYO STATION

MIX-USE URBAN COMPLEX, TOKYO, JAPAN,
COMPLETED 2007

Yeasu is the eastern entrance to the city’s main train station, Tokyo Station. While the original entrance is designed to symbolize history, the Yeasu redevelopment sets a new symbol of the city’s future. Two high-rise towers, shopping areas, pedestrian decks with large roofs, and a station plaza are integrated in a landscape that expresses the four seasons. A grand canopy marks the new entrance.

CLIENT East Japan Railway Company, Mitsui Fudosan Co.
PROGRAM Office, Retail and Train Station
AREA 346,000 m2 / 3,700,000 m2
COST $1 B USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Murphy/Jahn
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, RSLA
YEAR 2007
CATEGORY MAX

UNION PAY

180 M HEADQUARTER TOWER, SHANGHAI, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION 2016

The challenge was to create an office tower for contemporary users’ expectations with a building code that limited the use of glass in the enclosure to a maximum of 40%. By varying the heights of the façade’s black horizontal spandrels, the façade becomes more transparent as the building gets taller and playfully directs the views. On the higher floors, the viewing angle opens towards the street below, while lower floors get to see more sky. A stepped base integrates the building in the scale of its context makes the building accessible, and beyond its office program, better becomes a large, densely tree-lined public space.

CLIENT China Union Pay
PROGRAM Headquarters and Retail.
AREA 90,000 m2 / 970,000 sf
BUDGET $200 M USD
STATUS Competition Entry 2016
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, Rainer Schmidt Landscape
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MAX

VEER TOWERS

150 M RESIDENTIAL TOWERS, LAS VEGAS, USA,
COMPLETED 2012

“[…] They lean at 5 degrees, hence the name. Actually, it’s not a tour: the buildings are not yet open. A few journalists and the PR team mill around on the access road in front of the buildings, which are easily the best things about CityCenter. They are at once robust and delicate. There’s no reflective glass. This is unheard of in Vegas. […]” Marc Lamster, Architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, February 2010

CLIENT MGM Mirage
PROGRAM Residential Towers, 670 Units.
AREA 1,200,000 sf / 111,000m2
COST $400 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Adamson Associates
CONSULTANTS Flack and Kurtz, Halcrow Yolles, Israel Berger Façade Consulting, Gensler, RWDI, ALT 
YEAR 2012
CATEGORY MAX

CULINARY INSTITUTE OF MEXICO

MIX-USE, PUEBLA, MEXICO,
PROPOSAL 2019

In 2010, UNESCO inscribed Mexican Cuisine on their Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This mixed-use complex is programmed around a series of unique culinary experiences, reflective of the significance of food in the Mexican tradition, where the kitchen is a cultural space, where exploration, innovation, and life experience are shared. As such, the culinary school as the most important building in the complex is designed around and over an atrium-esplanade that brings all the students together in a public forum to share their creations and engage the community at large, just as the kitchen does for a House. 

CLIENT Culinary Institute of Mexico
PROGRAM Culinary School, Office, Residential, Retail and Hotel
AREA 180,000 m2 / 1,940,000 sf
BUDGET $360 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MAX

JAPAN POST TOWER

200 M OFFICE TOWER + SHOPS, TOKYO, JAPAN,
COMPLETED 2015

“Japan Post Tower is about the parallelism of two prominent forces in Japanese culture: tradition and innovation. The building envelope sustains an ecological model firstly by programmatically reinventing and reusing the existing podium and secondly by the use of a sophisticated skin that reduces significantly its carbon footprint. The ever-changing nature of the ‘origami’ skin at its North Face has quietly redefined the character of the north Plaza in the heart of the Marunouchi district.” Bustler interview of Francisco Gonzalez Pulido, March 2013

CLIENT Japan Post Holdings Real Estate Division, Co. Ltd
PROGRAM Office, Retail + Headquarters
AREA 180,000 m2 / 1,900,000 sf
COST $1 B USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT MJS
CONSULTANTS MJS
YEAR 2015
CATEGORY MAX

THOMPSON CENTER

MIX-USE + ADAPTIVE REUSE,
CHICAGO, USA,
COMPETITION – EDITOR’S PICK 2021

The Thompson Center was reinvented from a derelict landmark into a container of urban life. It demonstrates how cities can reimagine their existing assets into sustainable contributors to their urban infrastructures.

CLIENT N/A
PROGRAM Mix use
AREA 150,000 m2 1,600,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Buro Happold
YEAR 2021
CATEGORY MAX

QIANTAN ENTERPRISE WORLD PHASE II

100 M OFFICE TOWER AND MIX-USE COMPLEX. SHANGHAI, CHINA,
COMPLETED 2019

Two towers frame four low-profile pavilions in this new urban complex for China’s headquarters for Land Rover, spec offices, and showrooms with retail and restaurants at the bridge level. Designed as a kind of walled city, the complex is both transparent and has a gate, with open space at its heart, a contrasting sanctuary to the bustling city outside. The façade’s custom fritted glass emulates bamboo in a playful, contextual break from the rigorous and cartesian building’s composition, and serves as an energy-efficiency device for shading and privacy, as well as a metamorphic tool that transforms the buildings as the weather changes.

  • 2019 Iconic Awards

CLIENT Shanghai Binjiang International Tourist Resort and Development Co. Ltd.
PROGRAM Office, Land Rover Headquarters and Retail
AREA 83,000 m2 / 900,000 sf
COST $120 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Rainer Schmidt, WSP, Lerch Bates, ALT, RWDI
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MAX

INTERLOFT

HEADQUARTERS, SHANGHAI, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION 2019

A great city is like a park. Working in the park would be the dream of urban life. Interloft is a small corporate campus where the buildings’ geometry and façade maximize a visual connection to nature. Each building presents a central open-air courtyard linked via public gateways to its surroundings, promoting social interaction within and beyond the campus. The prototypical building shape is a series of stacked narrow slabs shaped as alternating knots that allow daylight and cross ventilation from the exterior façade and the interior atrium formed by the courtyards.

CLIENT Shanghai Zhou Jiadu Community
PROGRAM Headquarters, Office, and Retail
AREA 70,000 m2 / 750,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MAX

AGUAMARINA TALISMAN

135 M MIX-USE TOWER, MAZATLAN, MEXICO,
INVITED COMPETITION 1ST PLACE – COMMENCED 2022

Aguamarina Talismán is born from the ancient legend that the aquamarine stone would keep those at sea fearless and safe. Aguamarina Talismán is about living with the sea. Its design is an expression of movement and beauty in the functional, from its sculptural façade, morphology, aesthetic, and color, to the largest spaces and smallest details.

CLIENT Grupo Alerta S.A de CV
PROGRAM Residential Tower, 501 condominiums, 176 Key Hotel and Shops
AREA 130,000 m2/ 1,400,000 sf
COST $160 M USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS ADC, ALBA, EDCO
YEAR 2021-2025
CATEGORY MAX

REX 2030

MASTERPLAN, CONFIDENTIAL,
INVITED COMPETITION 2022

Little is more important to global humankind today than finding hope and a new paradigm for city-building on a planet challenged by the climate crisis. This masterplan for an EXPO introduces a symbiotic relationship between humans and nature in which the legacy becomes a self-sustainable ecosystem. Emulating the landscape of the northwest part of the country, an X is carved in the land into which are placed exhibition centers, and oasis environments exposing the natural resources of the below-grade levels of the desert. The EXPO pavilions sit lightly atop, designed to be repurposed, recycled, and reimagined. The legacy of this 6-month event becomes the largest urban ecological park in the world, a long-term strategy for a new type of city center, instead of the usual abandoned industrial park.

CLIENT Confidential
PROGRAM Confidential
AREA 6 Km2 / 65,000,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Buro Happold, Werner Sobek,
Martha Schwartz Landscape, Creative Measures, Gordon Linden
YEAR 2022
CATEGORY MEGA

1KT
1000 M TOWER, CONFIDENTIAL, PROPOSAL

CLIENT Research Project
PROGRAM Vertical City, office, residential,
cultural, educational, institutional.
AREA 350,000 m2 / 3,760,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CATEGORY MEGA

NAICM

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2023

The triangular figure of the terminal building is inspired by the design of a Delta Wing built from 300 identical and modular interconnected umbrellas. Each 36 x 36-meter inverted umbrella provides shelter, braces the building from earthquake forces, filters natural light, captures water and by reflection emanates light, transforming the whole roof into a giant urban lantern at night. Beyond being an efficient mass transportation machine, the building’s energy consumption is reduced by 46%.

CLIENT Government of Mexico
PROGRAM 80 million Passenger Terminal
AREA 450,000 m2 / 4,850,000 sf
BUDGET $5 B USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, WSP, Mario Schjetnan
YEAR 2023
CATEGORY MEGA

EMERGENT

360 M + 180 M OFFICE TOWER COMPLEX, WUHAN, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION 2017

Just like chiseled, stepped cuts protect regal yet brittle emeralds from chipping during faceting, the triangles that form Emergent’s façade inspire the building’s shape and reinforce its structural direction. The geometry expresses structural optimization. The façade surface kinks in and out establishing a bond that gives the buildings a unified image in the skyline.

CLIENT Wuhan Development Group
PROGRAM Office, Headquarters and Retail 
AREA 180,000 m2 / 1,940,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT CNADRI
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, WE Engineering, Lerch Bates
YEAR 2017
CATEGORY MEGA

SHENZHEN GATE

200 M + 100 M + PODIUM MIX-USE COMPLEX. SHENZEHN, CHINA,
COMPLETED 2020

Three connected buildings create a multimodal neighborhood as a gateway to the city’s key business districts. Two mixed use towers of different heights and architectural identity are connected by a ground level building that houses the 20th largest train station in China. The towers stand apart in Shenzhen’s Sea of glass, steel, and concrete, with lush public spaces cut into their heights every 50 meters.

CLIENT Shenzhen Metro Group and Vanke
PROGRAM Residential, Office and Retail
AREA 240,000 M2 / 2,580,000 sf
COST $360 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT CNADRI
CONSULTANTS RWDI
YEAR 2020
CATEGORY MEGA

GDL-T2

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, GUADALAJARA, MEXICO,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2019

Airports are complex systems under one roof, living organisms that must be designed as frameworks for adaptability. GDL-T2’s clear organization and layered geometric structure provide a legible and efficient journey for passengers and crews under one unified grand roof whose 72-meter spans soar safely and unencumbered. Embracing the local culture, ramps on the airside are outside, covered by porticos, where passengers can breathe fresh air right up to boarding.

CLIENT GRUPO GAP
PROGRAM International Airport Terminal 2 l
AREA 130,000 m2 / 1,400,000 sf
BUDGET $350 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MEGA

GUANGZHOU INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL CENTER

320 M OFFICE TOWER, GUANGZHOU, CHINA,
COMMENCED 2017

GICC is not a formal exploration. It is a systemic and technical solution to reduce material resources and energy consumption and use its optimized structural system to form the building’s shape and open its panoramic views. And still, the skyscraper’s manipulated mass and the interplay between solid and void form a distinct scale and identity both at grade and in the skyline.

CLIENT Guangdong South Square Development Co. Ltd
PROGRAM Office, Retail + Headquarters
AREA 150,000 m2 / 1,600,000 sf
COST $3600 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT Guangzhou Design Institute
CONSULTANTS RBS, South China University of technology, RFR, Lerch Bates, MICK and Grandsight
YEAR 2017-2025
CATEGORY MEGA

DECC

EXHIBITION + CONVENTION CENTER, DOHA, QATAR,
COMPLETED 2016

An Exhibition Hall is to the city as an airport is to a country. Both present a polaroid of their technology and culture to a global audience with long-term impact. In the new Doha Exhibition and Convention Center, a monumental floating blade roof floats above seven Exhibit Halls and adjacent conference rooms that can combine into one single hall, making it the largest single hall in the world at 35,000m2, or function independently as five halls with partitions down. Circular skylights flood the halls with natural light; black-out shades provide control. A 270m long lobby with a full height, cabled- stayed façade offers panoramic views of Doha’s new downtown.

CLIENT Qatari Diar
PROGRAM Exhibition and Convention Center
AREA 220,000 m2 / 2,360,000 sf
COST $1 B USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn + Francisco Gonzalez Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT JAHN
CONSULTANTS MKA, WSP, Werner Sobek, L-Plan, Yan Kersale, RWDI
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MEGA

ART-2

200 M FOUR TOWER URBAN COMPLEX, RIYADH, KSA,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2019

Contortionism in architecture is sexy when it originates and yields a cultural, environmental, and technological revolution. The block stacking signals a change in program. The shift relates to orientation towards cardinal, symbolic, and urban targets, while the façade folds in and out to shield the building from direct sunlight and sandstorms while maintaining views. The light color and dynamic shape of the second skin is a cultural reference to Arabian clothing.

CLIENT Mabanee Company and Al Fozan Holding Group
PROGRAM Office, Hotel, Long Stay Apartments and Condominiums.
AREA 260,000 m2 / 2,800,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MEGA

HARMONY BRIDGE

2000 M BRIDGE AND LINEAR PARK, GUANGZHOU, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2016

A bridge at the intersection of the technical and the natural. Inspired by sound and harmony. Spaces for flowing and spaces for pausing. Moving, gathering, connecting. Unifying people to each other, their city, and their culture. Each of the bridge’s 13,000 wood ribs are connected to the main structure with large springs that translate the cars’ vibrations into a massive percussive sound. The ribs’ distinct angular shapes resonate in different frequencies that subtly turn the two-kilometer journey into a rich sensorial experience.

CLIENT City of Guangzhou
PROGRAM Bridge, Gardens and Linear Park
AREA N/A
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MEGA

LEATOP PLAZA

305 M OFFICE TOWER, GUANGZHOU CHINA,
COMPLETED 2012

The first LEED Gold Certified Building in South China, Leatop Plaza is a square tower whose hybrid structural system eliminated 30% of the structural weight. The vertical shingles that form the façade not only give the building a timeless elegance and shimmering quality, but also act as brises-soleil while their intersections allow indirect natural light to penetrate the large floor plates. The Ground and Sky lobbies employ a more transparent glass curtain wall than the tower to increase street-level visual porosity and create a distinctive presence in the skyline.

“Selected among the most beautiful buildings in the world in 2013 by both a Jury and a community. Leatop Plaza flaunts a broad range of ‘beautiful’ from jagged facets to material light that make our hearts pound.” Beautiful, 2013

CLIENT Guangdong Leatop Real Estate Investment
PROGRAM Office
AREA 119,000 m2 / 1,280,00 sf
COST $160 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT Helmut Jahn and Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT SCUT
CONSULTANTS MKA, WSP, Lerch Bates, HH Angus, Yan Kersale, RWDI, ALT
YEAR 2012
CATEGORY MEGA

SHENZHEN WORLD EXHIBITION CENTER

CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTER COMPLEX AND MASTERPLAN, SHENZHEN, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2016

To plan what was envisioned to be the largest conference and exhibition complex in the world, modular elements, through repetition and clever configurations provided logic and order to the massive scale. Interconnected modular elements generated super modules, the super modules, clusters, and the clusters, urban systems. Each exhibition hall became a super module; three halls formed a cluster around a triangular courtyard. The clusters were organized along a pedestrian promenade forming a system of rich urban experiences. The whole would be assembled as a giant puzzle made from a few pieces that fit effortlessly.

CLIENT ASM Global
PROGRAM Exhibition, Conference, Hotel, Office, and Retail
AREA 500,000 m2 / 5,400,00 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Transsolar, Rainer Schmidt Landscape
YEAR 2016
CATEGORY MEGA

FACET

360 M OFFICE TOWER, SHENZHEN, CHINA,
INVITED COMPETITION – SECOND PLACE 2017

Tallness has become an instrument towards expedited density, with technological progress and innovation as its byproducts. But how can it go beyond branding a city’s skyline and recognize the existence of a place? Here, a public podium that dilutes the boundaries of private and public space gives the tower an urban significance at the ground level, marking the building’s identity as much as its peak stands it apart in the skyline.

CLIENT Shenzhen Urban Construction and Development Group
PROGRAM Office, Headquarters, Bus Station, and Retail
AREA 180,000 m2 / 1,940,000 sf
BUDGET N/A
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT CNADRI
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, WE Engineering
YEAR 2017
CATEGORY MEGA

FELIPE ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2022

“Francisco Gonzalez-Pulido’s monumental, new iconic airport for Mexico City is guided by the principles of modularity, lightness of materials, use of efficient and high-performance systems, layout and circulation patterns derived from a data-driven scientific approach, resiliency, exceptional energy performance, and ease of operations and maintenance.”

Global Design News, November 2021

  • 2021 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

CLIENT Government of Mexico
PROGRAM 84 million Passenger International Airport Masterplan And 20 million Passenger Terminal
AREA 220,000 m2/ 2,350,000 sf
COST $3.75 Billion USD
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
CONSULTANTS Prohabita, ADPI, EMI, SEDENA
YEAR 2021
CATEGORY MEGA

DIABLOS ROJOS STADIUM

BASEBALL STADIUM, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO,
COMPLETED 2019

‘Emerging as the new distinctive landmark of Mexico City and being the first stadium to be built in the capital in the last 50 years, the Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium is positioned as one of the largest and most modern ball parks in Latin America; where functionality, service and the conjunction between art and sport rise as distinctive banners of the property.’ Francisco Rojas, Director of CDAHH

As we stand, silent and in shadow, the crosswind subtly reminding us we are outside, the stadium, this place, tells us of its roots and transports us with an unexpected feeling of transparency and openness. It is designed to express the many layers of this vast leading metropolis steeped in a rich culture, connecting to its people, rewriting a new future after every game.

  • 2020 American Architecture Awards
  • Re-Thinking The Future Awards
  • Blueprint Awards
  • Architecture MasterPrize
  • Golden Trezzini Awards

CLIENT Alfredo Harp Helu
PROGRAM 20,000 seat Baseball Stadium
AREA 80,000 m2 / 860,000 sf
COST $150 M USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP + Taller ADG
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP + Taller ADG
CONSULTANTS Werner Sobek, Precsa, Izquierdo, WE Engineering, CYVSA, Bemlo, Garza Maldonado, L-Plan, L+F, Musco, Populous, Entorno, RWDI
YEAR 2019
CATEGORY MEGA

SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTER

200 M + 180 M + 160 M HEADQUARTER OFFICE TOWERS, SHANGHAI, CHINA,
COMPLETED 2021

“ATELIER FGP’s latest building complex design is based on functionality and simplicity. Three buildings united in one powerful unit while reflecting the identity of three beacons of Finance where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

Global Design News, Summer 2022

  • AIA Design Excellence Award
  • American International Awards
  • AIA chicago
  • Golden Trezzini Awards
  • Rethinking The Future
  • CTBUH

CLIENT Shanghai Stock Exchange,
China Financial Futures Exchange
and China Securities and Clearing Corporation.
PROGRAM Headquarters, Office, Museum,
Performance Hall, Exhibition, Conference and Retail
AREA 550,000 m2/ 6,000,000 sf
COST $2 B USD
DESIGN ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP + JAHN
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT SIADR
CONSULTANTS  Werner Sobek, WSP, Rainer Schmidt Landscape, L-Plan, Lerch Bates, Yan Kersale, RWDI
CATEGORY MEGA
YEAR 2021

AGUAMARINA TALISMAN

RESIDENCE, CHICAGO, USA
COMPLETED 2020

‘How we welcome others, how we welcome light and natural elements into a place makes it extraordinary.’

Interview in Modern Luxury / Chicago Social, November 2021

CLIENT Private
PROGRAM Interior Renovation
AREA 6,000 sf/ 560 m2
COST Confidential
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2020

AGUAMARINA TALISMAN

RESIDENCE, CHICAGO, USA
COMPLETED 2020

‘How we welcome others, how we welcome light and natural elements into a place makes it extraordinary.’

Interview in Modern Luxury / Chicago Social, November 2021

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CLIENT Private
PROGRAM Interior Renovation
AREA 6,000 sf/ 560 m2
COST Confidential
ARCHITECT ATELIER FGP
YEAR 2020