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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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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Germany, MenoMenoPiu Architects, Museum
The transparency makes the continuity between inside and outside, the outside comes inside and vice-versa. An eclectic conquest of the space makes the building not a barrier but a dynamic urban link, crossed by a linear flexible path across Bauhaus history. The idea of creating a new unity by the marriage of many arts and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Color architecture, Italy, Library, Random pattern
MedaTeca library| information| spare time The new cultural hub of Meda designed by Alterstudio Partners On 10th April 2012 MedaTeca opens to the public; the new library of Meda’s township designed by Alterstudio Partners, a modern cultural hub of more than 1.900 sq. m. entirely devoted to culture, information and spare time, connected with others [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Auditorium, Concrete, Switzerland, Valerio Olgiati
The placement of the new auditorium creates a new central square within the overall structure of the Plantahof agriculture school. The high façade holds together the new piazza. The inner space of the auditorium lies in half-light. Two windows facing each other define the inner space and allow for a view from the new piazza [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: LEED, Library
Designed by THA Architecture in collaboration with Karin Payson A+D, this new library replaces an outdated facility, completed in 1969, with an enhanced neighborhood branch that celebrates the community’s unique history and culture. The 9,000-square-foot library is part of San Francisco’s voter-approved Branch Library Improvement Program, and is one of only eight new facilities from [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, Norway, Perforated, Religious architecture, Visiondivision
Spire is Visiondivision‘s competition entry for a new church in the small town of Våler, Norway. The church in the small town of Våler in Norway burned down and a competition was held to build a new one. We joined the competition with the following entry. It is in the rural church that the people [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Fluid form, Landscape architecture, Norway, OOIIO Architecture, Religious architecture, Timber
A few years ago, the inhabitants of Valer, an quiet Norwegian village not too far from Oslo, surrounded by forests and close to the Swedish border, watched how sadly their ancient wooden church was on fire and got totally destroyed. This is why at the end of 2011, they decided to invite architects from all [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Delugan Meissl, DMAA, Museum, Waterfront architecture
EYE, the new Dutch film museum, opens to the public on 5 April 2012 in its brand-new building designed by the Vienna-based firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects. The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area is bursting with activity in 2012. After a multi-year renovation project, the Stedelijk Museum will reopen with an eye-catching new façade. And the redevelopment [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Norway, Religious architecture, WE Architecture
The beautiful Vaaler church from 1805 burnt down in the spring of 2009. We have designed a new church as a symbolic landmark to succeed the old building. The new Vaaler church is placed further east from the placement of the old church, marking the historic axis with its tower. The new building is designed [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Hong Kong, Nomad Office Architects
Heritage Revitalization in Hong Kong Heritage is a socio-cultural resource, which the Hong Kong citizen is drawing on to help define an identity, both connected to and distinct from mainland China. Heritage revitalization is primarily software driven and its operating model should reflect the social needs and benefit at time rather than only upkeep architecture [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Coop Himmelb(l)au, Fluid form, Germany, Museum, Photography, Veronica Morales
Veronica Morales shared with us her photography of BMW Welt by Coop Himmelb(l)au in Munich. The architect Prof Wolf D. Prix and his agency, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, were able to visualize the expectations of BMW In the shape of gigantic cloud developed from a twisted Double Cone of steel and glass, and made accessible to visitors. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Competition, Landscape architecture, Norway, WE Architecture
Elements is a Pilgrim Center located in a scenic mountain landscape in Western Norway. Elements is a visitors’ center in close connection to the wooden church, “Røldal stavkirke”, from the 13th century. Røldal Stavkirke is one of the best preserved wooden churches in Norway and the church is the most frequent pilgrimage destination in the [...]
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