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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Concrete, Exhibition, Glass, Museum, Poland, Pysall Ruge Architekten, Stair
German architectural firm Pysall Ruge Architekten has completed the Polish Aviation Museum located in Cracow, Poland. The idea of flying, the spirit of the place, the structure of the historic airfield – the new building for the Museum of Aviation takes up these references intellectually and synthesises them into an expressive and emblematic structure. Justus [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: 3XN, Architecture Award, Competition, Concert Hall, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Ireland, Performing Arts Center, Theater
Danish architectural practice 3XN is one of two finalists in the prestigious competition to design Dublin’s new National Concert Hall. The competition was initiated in 2008 and the shortlist of renowned architects was soon narrowed down to two competing teams lead by Danish Architects; 3XN and Henning Larsen Architects. It is quite unique that two [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Master Plan Tags: Courtyard architecture, Mariusz Wrzeszcz Office, Poland, Serbia
Mariusz Wrzeszcz Office did a Block 39 competition proposal – Centre for Promotion of Science in Belgrade. + Project description by Mariusz Wrzeszcz Office A circle interrupts the rigidity and uniformity of the square gri. The fragmentation is challenged. The block 39 is an entity: a perimeter with a disk. A fluid continuum that embraces [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Contemporary architecture, Iconic architecture, USA
Alan Lu shared with us his academic project and concept just recently completed at MIT in Cambridge, MA. + Project description by Alan Lu This project by Alan Lu explores the notion of programmatic extremism in a design incubator facility where a central defined figure that contains a vertically integrated manufacturing/workloft arrangement occupies the void [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Belgium, Iconic architecture, Religious architecture
TOWER 2.0 designed by PLANCONTROL wins the first prize at the “A_TA 2010 Architecture Annual” with the contest solution for Antwerp cathedral’s second tower. Tower 2.0 is therefore very much present on its user’s minds, yet it remaining absent for those who chose not to look at it. Daniel Tellman, PLANCONTROL + Project description by [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Henning Larsen architects, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture, Nigeria
Danish architectural firm Henning Larsen Architects has won the international architectural competition for the new Calabar International Conference Center in the southeastern part of Nigeria. The Calabar International Conference Centre consists of four adjoining, sculptural volumes which are situated on top of a hill and has a panoramic view from the foyer. We visited the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Atelier 11, China, China architecture, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair
In Beijing, China-based architectural studio Atelier 11 has successfully converted the 30 years old factory building into the contemporary Inside-out Art Center. A simplistic aesthetic was adopted for the interiors of the Art Center with the intention to keep some characteristics of the previous industrial building, as a reflection to the history of the site. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: COEN!, Netherlands, Refurbishment / Extension
Dutch studio COEN! has completed the Entrance of Netherlands Broadcasting Music Centre in Hilversum, the Netherlands. The overall concept of the large, open-plan space aims to translate the identity of the organization: we wanted to translate the music into colour, patterns and a clear lay-out. Coen van Ham The monumental entrance hall of the Netherlands [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Glass, Landscape architecture, Poland, Refurbishment / Extension, Theater, WE Architecture
Theatre Of Floating Garden is an extension project for an old theater in Szczecin, Poland. The new extension will be experienced as a light roof with transparent facades, connecting all the functions of the house and acting as a pavilion in the garden. Our aim was to create an open house; a house for the [...]
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Category: Culture, Interior Tags: China, Fluid form, MET Studio
Multi-award-winning masterplanners and exhibition designers MET Studio have been commissioned to create three galleries for China’s new Ningbo Science Exploration Centre, due to open in Spring 2012. The 50,000 sq m new-build centre will house six permanent galleries in total, across two storeys, and MET Studio (in a joint undertaking between the company’s London and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Atelier 11, China, China architecture, Concrete, Construction, Religious architecture
Designed by the Chinese architecture studio Atelier 11, this is a church located in Pan Long Gu, a national scenic area at Ji County in the city of Tianjing, China. As a religious facility built for a neighboring Spanish-style residential development, the design of the church takes the reference from the European architectural language and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architecture Award, Atelier Thomas Pucher, Austria, Competition, Concert Hall, Fluid form, Performing Arts Center, Theater
Austrian architect Atelier Thomas Pucher has won the international competition for the new seat of the world renowned Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra in Warsaw. The 20.000m2 cultural centre is housed on the site of a former Veterinary Institute with existing – yet asleep – buildings and a fairy tale park. The centre inhabits a 1.800 seat [...]
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