You are here: Home » Architecture » Culture
Category: Culture
Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Cladding, Community Center, Concrete, Ecker architekten, Germany, Stair
German architect Ecker architekten has designed a Community Center located in Zimmern, Germany. The project was awarded Beispielhaftes Bauen (2007) and guter Bauten (BDA 2008). + Project description courtesy of Ecker architekten Built to house cultural events in a town with active club membership, this hall also hosts sporting events and seasonal festivals. A composite [...]
Continue Reading
Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: AH Asociados, Concrete, Europen architecture, Landscape architecture, Religious architecture, Spain, Stone
Project “Renovation of Arantzazu 2001” designed by Spanish architecture studio AH Asociados, is a Franciscan Sanctuary located in Gipuzkoa (Spain) between ravines, rocky mountains and rivers. + Project description courtesy of AH Asociados The Sanctuary of Our Lady Arantzazu is located in an exceptional natural enclave at the foot of the Urbia open field, between [...]
Continue Reading
Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Mobile architecture, Moorhead & Moorhead, Religious architecture, USA architecture
Mobile Chaplet is one of six portable spaces for reflection commissioned to travel to rural communities around the state of North Dakota as part of the Roberts Street Chaplet Project. The conceptual starting points for Mobile Chaplet were the covered wagons that transported settlers to the Midwest, as well as the vaulted forms of traditional [...]
Continue Reading
Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Concrete, Landscape architecture, Religious architecture, Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office, Spain
Chapel in Valleacerón, designed by Spain-based architect S-M.A.O. Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office, featuring the geometrical folds in relation to its surrounding and the spaces. + Project description below courtesy of S-M.A.O. Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office The idea of situating and relating a series of objects in the landscape – Dwelling, Chapel, Hunting pavilion and Guard´s residence – [...]
Continue Reading
Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: dmp Architects, Features, Fluid form, Korea, Performing Arts Center, Waterfront architecture
Korea-based dmp Architects has proposed an iconic building for Seoul Performing Arts Center located in Nodul Island, Seoul, Korea. The goal of the project is to bring a new life to Han River and Nodul Island which has been forgotten by people of Seoul nowaday. A very good design approach of creating a dramatic roof [...]
Continue Reading
Category: Architecture, Culture, Education Tags: ESD design, Green architecture, Israel, Lattice screen, Museum, SO Architecture
The honorable mention award project Umm el-Fahem Museum for Contemporary Arab Art, designed by Israel-based architect firm SO Architecture. + Design Statement courtesy SO Architecture The Function of the Museum Today, in the third millennium, amid the daily reality and worries about war and economic hardship, a museum of contemporary art will be built, and [...]
Continue Reading
Category: Architecture, Culture, Landscape, Selected Tags: China architecture, Exhibition, Features, Plasma Studio, Waterfront architecture
Flowing Gardens, designed by London-based Plasma Studio for the International Horticultural Fair in Xi’an, China. Circulation is the key idea to develop the whole scheme, the circulation flow begins as a single stream, and then broadens, branching out to form the borders of garden spaces. The gate building is placed at the junction of those [...]
Continue Reading
Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Art Gallery, Contemporary architecture, Features, Glass, Lattice screen, Museum, Renzo Piano, USA architecture
© The Art Institute of Chicago, Ph. Campbell © Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Ph. Charles G. Young, Interactive design architects © Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Ph. Charles G. Young, Interactive design architects The Modern Wing at Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano, a world renowned Italian architect and recipient of the [...]
Continue Reading
Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: David Chipperfield, Glass, Museum, USA architecture
A new 8,000 m2 Anchorage Museum Expansion designed by UK-based firm David Chipperfield Architects will be opened to public on 30 May 2009. Five distinct linear volumes vary in height and length arranged along the western face of the existing building, creating an interesting skyline to the west side of the existing museum. The glass [...]
Continue Reading
Category: Architecture, Culture, Installation, Selected Tags: Cladding, Color architecture, Features, Germany, modulorbeat, Pavilion, Perforated, Skin
This golden structure is a temporary pavilion designed by Germany practice architect modulorbeat, use of striking color for perforated skin has successfully drawn our attention, while creating a new street images to the city. + Project description below provided by architect, modulorbeat switch+, a golden pavilion for sculpture projects muenster 07 The switch+ information centre, [...]
Continue Reading
Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: BIG, Mexico, Museum, Rojkind Arquitectos
BIG architect has shared with us their winning New Tamayo Museum presentation panels. From the panels, you can see the plans, sections, elevations, diagrams, details, facade pattern and perspectives. For further information of the project, visit our previous post – New Tamayo Museum | BIG + Michel Rojkind. + Special thanks to Daria Pahhota
Continue Reading
Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Aquarium, Behnisch, Cladding, Europen architecture, Features, Fluid form, Germany, Museum, Skin, Waterfront architecture, White
Germany-based architecture and planning firm Behnisch Architekten has designed a very large public aquarium in the German city of Stralsund – Ozeaneum German Oceanographic Museum. The new museum is an open structure flooded from all sides by light, similar to the way stones in the sea near the water’s edge are flooded by the surrounding [...]
Continue Reading
