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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: L3P Architekten, Museum, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, Stone, Switzerland
Swiss architect L3P Architekten has converted a castle-tower to the Vertical Museum. The castle-tower is under historical monuments’ protection and is a distinctive landmark in the region of Zurich. The tower is 21 metres high, the walls being up to 3 metres thick, and the interior radius averaging about 3.5 m. As old as the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: FOA, Madrid, Museum, USA, USA architecture
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, is the London-based architectural firm Foreign Office Architects (FOA)‘s first major building in the United States, and its first museum. It is approx. 34,000-square-foot with four-story structure, located at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road, the new MOCA is a flagship project of Cleveland’s emerging Uptown [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Arquitectos Anónimos, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture, Museum
Villa Fornea by Arquitectos Anónimos is a project proposed on the existing Roman ruins in Belmonte – Portugal. The architectural design was intended to create an organic building that to challenge the rigid formal arrangement of the spaces. The building results from the accumulation of silhouettes that configure a multidirectional volume rather rigid conception of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Europen architecture, Museum, Netherlands, Refurbishment / Extension, Serge Schoemaker architects
Maluku Museum (MUMA) commissioned Serge Schoemaker Architects to design a plan for the conversion and extension of the museum building. The design replaces a part of the existing building from the eighties and exploits the currently unused museum courtyard. The building costs of the MUMA extension are 1 million euro. It is expected that the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Education Tags: a10 studio, Landscape architecture, Mexico, Museum
Mexico-based firm a10studio, collaboration with Carlos Marín from lab07 and Hugo Sanchez from ENTORNO (landscape architecture consultant) designed this Agriculture Museum competition entry for the city of Culiacan (Sinaloa, Mexico). The proposal finally has been chosen as one of the finalist proposals by the government of the city. The project is an ambitious intervention for [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Mixed Use, Office, Selected Tags: DRDS, Fluid form, Korea, Modular design, Museum, Random pattern, Shopping complex, Skyscrapers
California-based DRDS, in collaboration with Ilshin Architecture and Engineering have won the Invited National pre-qualified competition to design a broadcast headquarters and cultural media facility – KNN Media Center. The project aims to become a new landmark in Busan’s Centum City, which to house a broadcast and news studio, office condominiums, retail, and a Teddy [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: BAAS architects, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, FG+SG, Museum, Refurbishment / Extension, Spain
Spanish architect Jordi Badia, founder of BAAS architects has designed the Can Framis Museum located in the 22@ District, Barcelona. The project consists in restoring the two current factory buildings which are connected by a new linear block. A new courtyard therefore is formed to define an entry plaza to the project. With “Can Framis” [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: COR-TEN, Museum, OVO Grabczewscy Architekci, Poland
Poland-based OVO Grabczewscy Architekci has designed the Museum Yatenga located in Silesia, Poland. The museum is proposed to house the museum of cultures of the world, an unique idea of creating the biggest eco-architectural event in Europe. + Project description courtesy of OVO Grabczewscy Architekci Yatenga – Meeting of Cultures of the World is the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Concrete, Goczolowie Architekci, Landscape architecture, Museum, OVO Grabczewscy Architekci, Pavilion, Poland
Palaeontological Pavilion and the Educational Park by Polish architectural practice Goczolowie Architekci and OVO Grabczewscy Architekci, it was designed with the idea of protecting and exhibiting the unique fossils of Triassic reptiles and fossilized amphibians found in Krasiejów. Using different concrete textures on the retaining wall in the layer-structure presents the idea of layer- structure [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Alberto Campo Baeza, Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Europen architecture, Museum, Ramp, Spain
Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has designed the Andalucia’s Museum of Memory located in Granada. A very good attempt of creating the interesting spatial experience through an elliptic central court which is designed to connect 3 levels spaces via the featured circular ramp. The new building, silent in its forms, is resounding in its elements [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Glass, Museum, Research, UK
The new phase 2 of the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum by C. F. Møller Architects had the grand opening on 14 September 2009 and unveiled to the public on 15 September. The new Darwin Centre features a huge eight-storey concrete cocoon surrounded by a glass atrium, this iconic form expresses the enormous [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architecture Award, Brazil, CHN arquitetos, Cladding, Landscape architecture, Museum, Perforated, Skin, South American architecture
Bazil-based architectural firm CHN arquitetos has won the International Public Competition for the Architectural Project of the Exploratory Science Museum – Campinas, Brazil. The surface of the facade is created from the idea of infinity: a reference to the essence of its form, recognizable from its cosmological scale to its most minimal. CHN arquitetos + [...]
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