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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Spain
Last week, Lamp Lighting Awards 2011 for ARCHITECTURAL EXTERIOR LIGHTING has been awarded to Gran Casino Costa Brava. (Please click here to the award page) the use of light as a projective tool, another element of architecture both in its natural and artificial angle that is effectively integrated in the structure itself and generates threedimensionality [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Allied Works, Art Gallery, Museum, Switzerland
ALLIED WORKS REVEALS COMPETITION DESIGN FOR NEW MUSEUM AND CULTURAL DISTRICT IN LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Allied Works was named one of eighteen international finalists to create the Pôle Muséal Lausanne, which encompasses transforming an historic train shed and industrial site into a new cultural district. As part of the competition, Allied Works created a master plan [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Courtyard architecture, Glass, Italy, Stair, Translucent
The new Cultural Center in Ranica, medieval town near Bergamo in Northern Italy, contains a public library, an auditorium, a kindergarten, and a school for dance and theater. With its 2.000 square meters, the Center is conceived as a new catalyst of urban life. Not only is the building a laboratory for education and information, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Culture, Office Tags: Courtyard architecture, dwp, Thailand
Building on the success of the first phase of this landmark design centre, in Thailand’s capital, world-class architecture and interior firm dwp further developed the masterplan for a 32,000sqm extension. Comprising multiple two-storey units that house small- and medium-sized retail outlets, the design ties together 14 buildings through a series of walkways, bridges and integrated [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Gudmundur Jonsson, Iconic architecture, Norway, Waterfront architecture
Designed by Gudmundur Jonsson Architects, Norveg is situated in the Community Rørvik which has long tradition for fishery, and represents the utmost of the Norwegian coastal culture through ages. Today there is a boat-building industry carrying on the tradition, but in a modern way. Being situated by the coast, represents in one way a challenge bringing [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Exhibition, Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Museum, UK, Waterfront architecture, Zaha Hadid, Zinc
The Riverside Museum in Glasgow by world renowned architect Zaha Hadid Architects will be unveiled in JUNE 2011. Check it out our previous story here. The historical development of the Clyde and the city is a unique legacy; with the site situated where the Kelvin flows into the Clyde the building can flow from the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: César San Millán, Refurbishment / Extension, Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura, Spain
The Sancho el Sabio Foundation, dating from 1964, is the main documentation and investigation centre of Basque culture and history. Designed by Spaish firm Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura, the proposal involves the recovery of a former cemetery and based on that, the development of the remaining building. Because the programme contemplates important storage spaces, it was [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Art Gallery, César San Millán, Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura, Spain, Translucent
Spanish firm Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura has recently completed Krea Art Centre in Spain. The solution proposed for the Art Centre is basically articulated around a dialogue between the old convent and the new building. A building-corridor winds next to the old building and goes over it to end up inside the cloister. It is conceived [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Italy, KUADRA, Random pattern, Religious architecture
As documents they recount the millennial history , ancient and modern, which is renewed in the modernity of the forms and the faith which is recalled though prayer. Enrico Tealdi As befits its central role in the community, this Church is a Landmark and point of congregation for all in the area of Piacenza. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Master Plan Tags: Italy, KUADRA, Museum
Area 8 – The Bella island To mark the bicentenary of the death of Giuseppe Piermarini, ( Foligno, 18th July 1734 – 18 February 1808), the architect of the Scala opera house in Milan, the Minister for Art and Culture and the “National Committee for the Celebration of the Bicentenary of the Death of Giuseppe [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Albania, Architecture Award, BIG, Competition, Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Martha Schwartz Partners, Perforated, Religious architecture
BIG, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Buro Happold , Speirs & Major, Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, and Global Cultural Asset Management are today announced as the winning team of the international design competition for a new 27.000 m2 cultural complex in Albania, consisting of a Mosque, an Islamic Centre, and a Museum of Religious Harmony. The capital Tirana [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Concert Hall, Glass, Henning Larsen architects, Iceland, Performing Arts Center, Random pattern, Theater, Waterfront architecture
In Reykjavik, Iceland, Harpa Concert & Conference Centre by Henning Larsen architects is nearly completed, the centre gathers inspiration from the northern lights and the dramatic Icelandic scenery. Situated on the boundary between land and sea, the centre stands out like a large, radiant sculpture reflecting both sky and harbour space as well as the [...]
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