The mission of the International Criminal Court currently involves member countries collaborating with the aim of acting as a solid fort against inter-country crime at the highest level of offense. The formal expression of the International Criminal Court avoids association with its immediate built environment and instead utilizes the morphological potential of the terrain. A formal entrance square, and an equally as formal on site hedge garden, are both accessible to the public and together amplify the project's cooperative spirit. The enormous entrance elevation of the building turns towards the city, and in doing so, creates an iconographic image in front of which media coverage and press gatherings are anticipated. Four vertically extruded cones denote the building's courtrooms, forming the epicenter of its legal organization, set amongst a sequence of other interior voids laced with workplaces.
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