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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: Color architecture, Germany, Gnädinger Architekten, Refurbishment / Extension, Visitor center
German architectural firm Gnädinger Architekten has converted a former textile factory into a Visitor Center – “Haus des Gastes” located in Beeskow, Germany. The project comprises a new modern building and a restored historic industrial complex which are connected by a glass bridge. + Project description courtesy of Gnädinger Architekten A former textile factory was [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Courtyard architecture, ESD design, Landscape architecture, USA architecture, Visitor center, Wood
American architect Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has designed the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center located in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. The center was organized as an U-shape to form a central courtyard, the roof tilts upward and away from the courtyard, its jagged edges celebrating the peaks of the Teton Range beyond. + Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: ESD design, Europen architecture, Timber, Visitor center
Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, designed by Gareth Hoskins Architects, is a result of wining competition which was held by the National Trust for Scotland in 2004. This project is to memorize the last land battle within the UK where King George II’s troops defeated Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite supporters in 1746. The landscape-hugging [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Features, Landscape architecture, Visitor center, Wood
How do architecture bring your awareness of Aboriginal culture in response to its history and environment? What happens when architecture considers itself a small component of a larger system, as opposed to a self-referential all-encompassing whole? Let’s have a dialogue with The Pinnacles Interpretive Centre, which is designed by Woodhead.
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