Barcelona Meeting Point

The architect and urban designer Dominique Perrault rapidly earned himself an international reputation by winning competitions to design the French National Library in 1989 and the Olympic velodrome and swimming pool in Berlin in 1992. He is currently working on a number of large urban projects all over the world, including the expansion of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the creation of the Olympic tennis stadium in Manzanares Park in Madrid, the masterplan for the centre of Donau-City and two 200 metres tower in Vienna; the new auditorium for St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre, and the EWHA women's university campus in Seoul, Korea.
As well as these large prestigious projects, Dominique Perrault works on smaller projects too. In France he built the Hotel Industrial Jean-Baptiste Berlier in Paris, the Aplix factory near Nantes and a multimedia library in Venissieux. In Austria he has altered the skyline in Innsbruck's historic city centre by creating a genuine urban island comprising the town hall, shops and a hotel. In Italy,
following his redesign of the Piazza Gramsci in Cinesello Balsamo near Milan, he is currently redesigning Naples' Piazza Garibaldi for the Metrapolitana di Napoli, and building a pedestrian bridge in Palermo. He has recently won numerous competitions in France, Italy and Spain.