The size of city and infrastructure projects is such that they cannot be tackled from any single professional specialism, and that need is our greatest virtue.

The inclusion of new environmental and sustainability criteria in projects marks a step further towards the growing demand for teams with highly diverse areas of knowledge and specialisation: landscape architects, urban planners, sociologists, cultural actors, ecologists, etc. are key teams when it comes to taking on long-term projects.

The way forward is to continue to share our projects and those of other studios with the utmost professional respect for everyone’s knowledge. Examples such as renewable energy generation and zero energy balance, water-cycle management, environment-friendly building procedures and building circular-economy criteria into our projects have become a common practice in recent years.