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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Hong Kong, Religious architecture, Waterfront architecture
Hong Kong-based architectural firm BREAD studio has designed the “Floating Eternity” – Offshore cemetery. The proposal resolves the cemetery shortage problems the over dense city of Hong Kong is currently facing. Death is an inevitable stage which everyone needs to go through. Yet, they become the two major social challenges now in Hong Kong. With [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: China architecture, Fluid form, Religious architecture
It’s a contemporary Buddhism temple based on the concept of reincarnation. The essence of Buddhism’s Sutra is so called “formlessness”. Based on this, the form searching of the architecture becomes the path from the beginning to the end. The prototype of Buddhism’s temple is from ancient time and based on ancient tectonic and space defining [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Interior, Selected Tags: Austria, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Random pattern, Religious architecture, x architekten
Austria-based architectural firm x architekten designed the OASE located in Linz, Upper Austria. Task: The temporary centre of pastoral care in the diocese of Linz, located on the steel company voestalpine’s site, was built decades ago and had to be pulled down due to its poor condition. The new building is designed to create good [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: BIG, Competition, Cultural center, France, Perforated
Team BIG+FREAKS freearchitects, dUCKS scéno, Khephren Ingénierie, VPEAS, ALTO Ingénierie, Vincent Hedont, PBNL, Mryk & Moriceau, Ph.A wins the competition to design a new 12 000 m2 cultural center on the riverfront of Bordeaux, merging three cultural institutions into one single building. The new Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en Aquitaine, MÉCA, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Installation Tags: Competition, Pavilion
Ubicuo Diseño + Deriva Colectivo proposed the Architecture Pavilion for the competition of Arhitekton magazine. + Project statement Our intention was to forget about formal aspects of the skin of the pavilion, we were interested more in what could happen inside of that relatively small container (12.0 x 3.60 x 4.0 mts), in their surroundings [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Kokaistudios, Library, Random pattern
Kokaistudios has been announced as the winner competition for the new Tsinghua University Law Library located in Beijing, China. The proposal stands out amount the final 5 competing firms including ECUC, RTKL, Zaha Hadid Architects and Zhubo Design Group. The project proposes a reflection on the role of void in structuring functions and programs within [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: 3XN, Art Gallery, Fluid form, Library, Norway, Theater, Waterfront architecture, White
Elegance and conviviality merge under The Arch in Mandal, Norway Historic white wooden houses, charming narrow streets, a river running though the center and beach and forest nearby. The town of Mandal is the essence of southern Norwegian idyll. Danish practice, 3XN, has designed the town’s new cultural center, a project which required great sensitivity [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Max Dudler, Refurbishment / Extension, Switzerland
Historically significant Hambach Castle has been modernised and extended for restaurant use by architect Max Dudler. Max Dudler’s idea was to turn the accessible castle wall into a usable space. This he achieved through his choice of building material – using the same type of stone for the facades as had been used for the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: aceboXalonso, Concrete, Glass, Museum, Spain
This building is the result of a first prize in an open international competition in order to develop two different buildings on one plot. Mixing both programs into a single shape we obtained an strange concrete tree-like shape that contains in its interior the Dance School, and the surrounding space becomes a Museum. Later, this [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Cladding, Color architecture, Concert Hall, Concrete, Cultural center, Refurbishment / Extension, Skin, Tetrarc
On the “île de Nantes”, La Fabrique takes place on one side of the previous Dubigeon warehouse, near the Alstom warehouse ( the upcoming centre of the “Quartier de la Création”) and the old shipyard turned to great gardens. This context gave Tétrarc the opportunity to gather the recalls of a place abandoned by History [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Ake E.son Lindman, Auditorium, Cladding, Concert Hall, Concrete, Fluid form, Performing Arts Center, Random pattern, Sweden, Wingardh arkitektkontor
Spira has four different performing arts venues: a main concert hall that seats 910, a 450-seat theater, a 200-seat black box, and a 200-seat café stage. The building is situated on an artificial peninsula jutting out into Lake Munksjön, right in the center of downtown Jönköping. The layout follows from a foyer that opens to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: aceboXalonso, Angel Acebo & Victoria Alonso, Architectural video, Lighting concept, Museum
Shared by animation studio 24studio, this is their latest audio-visual production of the project National Museum of Science and Technology in La Coruña for architects Angel Acebo & Victoria Alonso. + Project facts Nacional Museum of Science and Technology La Coruña. Spain Client: FECYT (FUNDACION ESPAÑOLA DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA) Architects: Angel Acebo & Victoria [...]
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