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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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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: 3XN, Cladding, Museum, Stair, UK, Waterfront architecture
3XN Architects have recently completed the Museum of Liverpool. Traditional facades often deal with interruptions – windows for example. I wish to create a holistic kind of architecture, and a patterned façade ties the building together into one sculptural entity. By creating the pattern into a relief, as we did with the Museum of Liverpool, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Allied Works, Canada, Performing Arts Center, Theater
It was important to us to respect the King Eddy, while reclamation and restoration is certainly necessary, we didn’t want to scrub it too clean. We don’t want to scare the ghosts away. Brad Cloepfil, founder of Allied Works Architecture Allied Works was selected to design the National Music Centre of Canada following an international [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Japanese architecture, Lattice screen, molo, Museum, Waterfront architecture
In 2001, Stephanie Forsythe + Todd MacAllen of molo were shortlisted for an international architectural competition for the city of Aomori. Their first trip to Japan took them to Tokyo University to present models and drawings to Tadao Ando, Jean Nouvel and city officials. In Japan, we’ve been given intimate experiences of true design: a [...]
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