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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Cladding, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Mexico, Museum, Photography, Veronica Morales
Veronica Morales shared with us her photography of The Museo Soumaya in Mexico, the museum was designed by the Fernando Romero and Mauricio Ceballos for the private art collection of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. + Photography: Veronica Morales | http://www.veronicamoralesangulo.com/ + All images courtesy Veronica Morales
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Museum, OODA, Taiwan
The competition intention was to create a pioneering and innovative design concept which will stand as a new-age landmark and a symbolic voice to the world of Taipei City new spirit. The concept form proposed emerges from a big volumetric cube in confrontation with a smaller inner structure cube – hypercube – in which is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Concrete, Landscape architecture, London, Museum, Refurbishment / Extension
C. F. Møller Architects has designed the extension of The National Maritime Museum in London, Britain’s seventh largest tourist attraction and part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. The new wing, called The Sammy Ofer Wing – named after the international shipping magnate and philanthropist Sammy Ofer, who has funded most of £36.5m extension [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: 3XN, Cladding, Museum, Stair, UK, Waterfront architecture
3XN Architects have recently completed the Museum of Liverpool. Traditional facades often deal with interruptions – windows for example. I wish to create a holistic kind of architecture, and a patterned façade ties the building together into one sculptural entity. By creating the pattern into a relief, as we did with the Museum of Liverpool, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Japanese architecture, Lattice screen, molo, Museum, Waterfront architecture
In 2001, Stephanie Forsythe + Todd MacAllen of molo were shortlisted for an international architectural competition for the city of Aomori. Their first trip to Japan took them to Tokyo University to present models and drawings to Tadao Ando, Jean Nouvel and city officials. In Japan, we’ve been given intimate experiences of true design: a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Allied Works, Art Gallery, Museum, Switzerland
ALLIED WORKS REVEALS COMPETITION DESIGN FOR NEW MUSEUM AND CULTURAL DISTRICT IN LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Allied Works was named one of eighteen international finalists to create the Pôle Muséal Lausanne, which encompasses transforming an historic train shed and industrial site into a new cultural district. As part of the competition, Allied Works created a master plan [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Exhibition, Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Museum, UK, Waterfront architecture, Zaha Hadid, Zinc
The Riverside Museum in Glasgow by world renowned architect Zaha Hadid Architects will be unveiled in JUNE 2011. Check it out our previous story here. The historical development of the Clyde and the city is a unique legacy; with the site situated where the Kelvin flows into the Clyde the building can flow from the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Master Plan Tags: Italy, KUADRA, Museum
Area 8 – The Bella island To mark the bicentenary of the death of Giuseppe Piermarini, ( Foligno, 18th July 1734 – 18 February 1808), the architect of the Scala opera house in Milan, the Minister for Art and Culture and the “National Committee for the Celebration of the Bicentenary of the Death of Giuseppe [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: City hall, Landscape architecture, Library, Museum, Norway, Waterfront architecture, WE Architecture
Notodden Townhall has decided to join several cultural functions such as a cafe, a museum, and a library under one roof; this allows the possibility of creating a building where people of different ages and interests can meet and interact. As a tribute to the history of the site, the roof of the building is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Concrete, Exhibition, Glass, Museum, Poland, Pysall Ruge Architekten, Stair
German architectural firm Pysall Ruge Architekten has completed the Polish Aviation Museum located in Cracow, Poland. The idea of flying, the spirit of the place, the structure of the historic airfield – the new building for the Museum of Aviation takes up these references intellectually and synthesises them into an expressive and emblematic structure. Justus [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Abu Dhabi architecture, Foster + Partners, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture, Museum
The design of Foster + Partners for the Zayed National Museum have been officially unveiled today by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Conceived as a monument and memorial to the late [...]
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Category: Landscape Tags: Museum
Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine has commissioned AWP to redesign the park for LaM, museum of modern, contemporary and outsider art of Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France, opening its doors the 25th September 2010. AWP is an award winning Paris based practice for territorial reconfiguration (architecture, landscape design, master planning). The Lille Métropole Museum of Modern [...]
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