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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: AS/D, China architecture, Exhibition, Mexico, Shanghai Expo 2010
This Mexican Pavilion was the competition entry designed by AS/D for Shanghai Expo 2010. + Project description courtesy of AS/D World fairs are showcases that deploy human advancement in regard of science, art and technology – pavilions act as platforms to exchange culture, history, experience and innovative ideas about the future. The design scheme for [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Community Center, Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects, Stone, Timber, USA architecture, Western Red Cedar
California-based architect Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects designed the Orange Memorial Park located in South San Francisco. The building is conceived as a pavilion in a park and an icon for the community. + Project description courtesy of Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects Orange Memorial Park is the most important public recreation venue [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: BAAS architects, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, FG+SG, Museum, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain
Spanish architect Jordi Badia, founder of BAAS architects has designed the Can Framis Museum located in the 22@ District, Barcelona. The project consists in restoring the two current factory buildings which are connected by a new linear block. A new courtyard therefore is formed to define an entry plaza to the project. With “Can Framis” [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Courtyard architecture, ESD design, Landscape architecture, USA architecture, Visitor center, Wood
American architect Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has designed the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center located in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. The center was organized as an U-shape to form a central courtyard, the roof tilts upward and away from the courtyard, its jagged edges celebrating the peaks of the Teton Range beyond. + Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Exhibition, Folding architecture, Francisco Mangado, Landscape architecture, Spain, Stone
Spanish architect Francisco Mangado recently has completed the Avila Congress and Exhibitions Municipal Centre located in Ávila, Spain. The project was inspired by the nature of landscape, it was designed as a sculpture carved out of the terrain. The project combines two different geometries: the most orthogonal and elongated space contains the auditoriums and main [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Exhibition, Folding architecture, Glass, Krueck & Sexton Architects, USA architecture
In Chicago, Krueck & Sexton Architects created Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies to accommodate 400-seat multi-use theater, college classrooms, library, permanent and temporary exhibition space. The faceted, folding wall of glass is an expression of light, both metaphorical and actual, which is fundamental to Jewish religious and intellectual traditions. + Design statement by Krueck & [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: AUM arquitetos, Brazil, Concrete, COR-TEN, Refurbishment / Extension
Araras Cultural Centre designed by Brazil-based AUM arquitetos, is a winning project in the national competition in 2004, the goal of the project was to restore an old railway station and transform to a cultural center. + Project description courtesy of AUM arquitetos The growth of the center east of São Paulo was supported with [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Exhibition, Fluid form, Korea, Peddle Thorp Architects, Waterfront architecture
Designed as the concept of Fluid – Amphibian Pavilion, is the submission project by Australia-based Peddle Thorp Architects for the international competition for the Thematic Pavilion of the world expo 2012 in Yeosu, Korea. The pavilion is resolved as a vessel – a floating exhibition space that can be sailed to other cities. It aims [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: COR-TEN, Museum, OVO Grabczewscy Architekci, Poland
Poland-based OVO Grabczewscy Architekci has designed the Museum Yatenga located in Silesia, Poland. The museum is proposed to house the museum of cultures of the world, an unique idea of creating the biggest eco-architectural event in Europe. + Project description courtesy of OVO Grabczewscy Architekci Yatenga – Meeting of Cultures of the World is the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Concrete, Goczolowie Architekci, Landscape architecture, Museum, OVO Grabczewscy Architekci, Pavilion, Poland
Palaeontological Pavilion and the Educational Park by Polish architectural practice Goczolowie Architekci and OVO Grabczewscy Architekci, it was designed with the idea of protecting and exhibiting the unique fossils of Triassic reptiles and fossilized amphibians found in Krasiejów. Using different concrete textures on the retaining wall in the layer-structure presents the idea of layer- structure [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Alberto Campo Baeza, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Europen architecture, Museum, Ramp, Spain
Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has designed the Andalucia’s Museum of Memory located in Granada. A very good attempt of creating the interesting spatial experience through an elliptic central court which is designed to connect 3 levels spaces via the featured circular ramp. The new building, silent in its forms, is resounding in its elements [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Education, Selected Tags: Competition, Iconic architecture, Library, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Waterfront architecture
Denmark-based Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects‘ winning proposal for the international competition to design “Urban Mediaspace”, the largest public library in Scandinavia, is part of a wider plan to regenerate the old cargo docks on the harbour front in the Danish city of Aarhus. The building’s distinctive heptagonal-shape design will be a landmark in Aarhus. Urban [...]
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