Whilst researching some modern court house designs I stumbled across the Bordeaux Law Courts in France. Designed by UK architects Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners in 2005. From the first image, i was in love.
More images on http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/work/all_projects/bordeaux_law_courts/completed
After trawling through their website and reading about their design concepts I discovered they had a really clever circulation layout as well. The court rooms are floating inside the building in timber clad pods connected by bridges to administration areas on one side and public spaces on the other. The open interior spaces and articulated court rooms have inspired a concept of a court house that is open, transparent and minimal in its layout, unraveling the building and exposing it components.
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