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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Community Center, David Wakely, Lattice screen, Refurbishment / Extension, Timber, USA architecture
For decades, the residents of Yountville, California, a rural town in Napa County, relied on a small 1920s-era community hall and a hodgepodge of rented spaces to host community events. The hall was in need of renovation, ill-equipped to support art classes and lacking in outdoor recreation spaces. In addition, the town had outgrown its [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Korea, Performing Arts Center, Sanzpont, Theater, Waterfront architecture
Proposal made by the twin brothers of sanzpont [arquitectura] for Busan Opera House Competition. The concept of design is based on the philosophy of Korea, the balance of opposites, the Um-Yang. The fundamental idea is to create an iconic building that represents the culture in which it is immersed, to remind the native people where [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Cladding, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Mexico, Museum, Photography, Veronica Morales
Veronica Morales shared with us her photography of The Museo Soumaya in Mexico, the museum was designed by the Fernando Romero and Mauricio Ceballos for the private art collection of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. + Photography: Veronica Morales | http://www.veronicamoralesangulo.com/ + All images courtesy Veronica Morales
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Museum, OODA, Taiwan
The competition intention was to create a pioneering and innovative design concept which will stand as a new-age landmark and a symbolic voice to the world of Taipei City new spirit. The concept form proposed emerges from a big volumetric cube in confrontation with a smaller inner structure cube – hypercube – in which is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Korea, OODA, Performing Arts Center, Theater, Waterfront architecture
Designed by OODA, the scheme engages with the natural topography, articulating a multi-levelled building and integrating the different cultural activities and program seamlessly. The dominant flow circulation, flexibility and concept strategy enables full accessibility. The design concept creates spaces that blur the difference between building and landscape, intensifying the fluidity between interior and exterior spaces, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Korea, Performing Arts Center, Peter Ruge Architekten, Theater, Waterfront architecture
The city of Busan plans to build a new opera house as a new symbol and multifaceted center for culture events and performances for the inhabitants and visitors on their gorgeous waterfront. Peter Ruge Architekten designed in their brand-new competition entry the opera house as new unique landmark to combine the awesome geographical situation of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Coop Himmelb(l)au, Fluid form, Religious architecture
The world-renowned architect Coop Himmelb(l)au has recently completed the Martin Luther Church Hainburg in Austria. The play with light and transparency has a special place in this project. The light comes from above: three large winding openings in the roof guide it into the interior. The correlation of the number Three to the concept of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Concert Hall, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Orproject, Performing Arts Center, Theater, Waterfront architecture
Orproject is pleased to present Anisotropia, a proposal for Busan Opera House. A FROZEN PIECE OF MUSIC Anisotropia, the design for the new Busan Opera House, is based on Klavierstück I, a composition for piano by Orproject director Christoph Klemmt. It is based on a twelve tone row which is repeated and altered by the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Courtyard architecture, Creative design, Landscape architecture, Mirror
The design was prompted by the idea of an exibition space forming an integral point of the large Kamberovic Park alongside the River Bosna, in the centre of the town of Zenica. The concept was based on a deterministic approach to history – as a series of causes and consequences, while avoiding falling into a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architectural video, Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Spaceworkers
A “factory” for the city … A space to do things …. anything! Simply do things … Communicate. Communicate with the World … Know … Learn in a fun way! A building that needs to dialogue with the city. An organic block, which gently lands on a square … A kind of constant sensory challenge [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Brooks + Scarpa, ESD design, Landscape architecture, USA architecture
We believe that environmental sustainability, economic concerns, and quality design are not mutually exclusive. A symbiotic relationship exists between them, which results in new discoveries and spatial qualities that nurture people. The Interpretive Center is designed to tread lightly on the earth and meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Concrete, Landscape architecture, London, Museum, Refurbishment / Extension
C. F. Møller Architects has designed the extension of The National Maritime Museum in London, Britain’s seventh largest tourist attraction and part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. The new wing, called The Sammy Ofer Wing – named after the international shipping magnate and philanthropist Sammy Ofer, who has funded most of £36.5m extension [...]
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