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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Refurbishment / Extension, Visitor center
Camilla Hounsell Halvorsen Design and Architecture designed and transformed an abandoned brick building into a visitor centre for contemporary glass art. The center provides workshops that are organized for visits and experience of the workshop process. A ramp solution contributes to walk through the process is universally designed and available to all visitors. By making [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: 10 Design, China architecture, Competition, Fluid form, Museum
The planning museum is envisioned to be a new civic sculpture for the city located at the heart of the main the governmental district. The sculptural nature of the building ties to the existing network of sculptural elements and parks placed throughout the city. The building becomes a technological bloom as the massing opens towards [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Belgium, Exhibition, Iconic architecture, Photography, Veronica Morales
Shared by photographer Veronica Morales, the Atomium is located in Brussels, Belgium, it was designed by André Waterkeyn for Expo ’58. The Atomium stands 102 metres tall and has 9 steel spheres connected by tubes, each of them are easily reached by escalators. You can find more works of Veronica Morales Angulo here. + All [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Finland, Matteo Cainer architects, Museum, Refurbishment / Extension, Waterfront architecture
The project for the expansion of the Serlachius Museum Gösta, presents an opportunity to explore a creative relationship between the existing museum and the surrounding landscape. Through a new and distinctive poetic architectural language, where the interior unfolds as a sequence of spaces, the project develops a harmonious ensemble that blurs the boundaries between existing [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: AH Asociados, José Manuel Cutillas, Museum, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain
The project recovers the historical building into a constructive and spacious building, carried out via dialogue with a new structural form, articulated through a central area of where tradition and modernity of viticulture and wine in Navarre meet. In the old part of the building is the welcome area, with historical reminders of the past. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: China architecture, Museum
The Dalian Urban Planning Museum is designed to be the gateway to the city center redirecting several main streets to the main boulevard. The building skin consists of a careful arrangement of transparent and opaque triangular surfaces closing and revealing the interior of the museum to the urban surrounding. This simple formal strategy keeps the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architects Collective, China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, Library
The new library is designed to become the center and heart for the local community with a strong relationship to the ocean and the bay. The building is placed in a park setting and aims to be a landmark for locals and visitors and a symbol for the creative and environmentally friendly future of New [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Education Tags: Fluid form, Shine Architecture, Turkey
-Safe Enclosures for Istanbul- … It’s time to transmit calm state of mind, to keep focus… to concentrate, to gather for a common cause… a time to look for the others…to shelter life…to learn from our environments… been aware and responsive. Organization is the key. Seeking to help, find solutions and take care of the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Iconic architecture, OODA, Perforated, Turkey
This competition intent was to establish a proposal for a centre fully equipped with adequate technology and facilities in order to be prepared against a disaster that may affect Istanbul and to develop public consciousness about the disasters in general and specifically about earthquakes. Along this the centre will also be hosting relevant courses, venues [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Healthcare Tags: Cladding, Concrete, Fluid form, Library
With the new Medical Library Düsseldorf´s Heinrich-Heine-University receives a pulsating space for studying, reading, learning, inspiration and social encounter. Exactly two years after the ground-breaking ceremony, today the medical department of Heinrich-Heine-University and the University Clinic celebrate grand opening. The design for the 38 meter high structure stacks the various functions on top of one [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Cerrejon architects, Cladding, Club, Concrete, Magen Arquitectos, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain
The Casablanca Stadium in Zaragoza is a sports club and social club founded in 1948, currently has some 25,000 members and covers an approximate area of ten hectares on the southern edge of town, next to the Imperial Canal of Aragon and the natural place Pinares of Venice. The facilities can be grouped into two [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Cerrejon architects, COR-TEN, Landscape architecture, Museum, Spain
As a result of a series of contests promoted by the Town hall of Huelva for the arrangement of a series of free spaces of the City. Appears this project which poses to value the archeological patrimony of the city, ordering a space which will enhance the image from the new highway access and at [...]
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