Browsing Tag »Visitor center«
→ November 15, 2009
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.
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Tags: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Courtyard architecture, ESD design, Landscape architecture, USA architecture, Visitor center, Wood
→ December 27, 2008
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.
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Tags: ESD design, Europen architecture, Timber, Visitor center
→ December 4, 2008
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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Tags: Australia NewZealand architecture, Features, Landscape architecture, Visitor center, Wood