The Italian team’s “Tree of Life” proposal is an energy-independent four-block community hub that features an expansive open courtyard space. The project includes a 12,000 square meter main pavilion and smaller exhibition and institutional spaces positioned along the 325-meter-long Cardo. The building will be divided into four blocks connected by bridges for easy circ...
Three Italian design firms--Simmetrico Network, Arassociati Architecture, and landscape architecture studio AG&P--recently unveiled renderings for Azerbaijan's Milan Expo pavilion. Flanked by wavy horizontal timber louvers, the pavilion consists of four levels, each intersected by giant glazed and metal biospheres. To keep with the 2015 World Expo's theme of "Feeding the...
SoNo Arhiteki won the bid to design the Slovenian Pavilion for the 2015 Milan Expo. Inspired by the expo’s theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” SoNo Arhiteki based their sawtooth pavilion off the slogan “I FEEL SLOVENIA. Green. Active. Healthy.” The wood-clad geometric design is reminiscent of a cultivated field symbolic of the country’s diverse landscape. The p...
The theme of Expo Milano 2015 is a humble theme that is intrinsic in its respect for Mother Earth, one cognisant of the unsustainable consumption of the world’s resources in its demand for food, seeking a redress to ensure that the ability of future generations to feed themselves will not be compromised. This powerful statement underpins the design of the Malaysian Pa...
The new arena and landscape masterplan will redevelop the paved piers into an active public waterfront space along the bay. The architecture will allow visitors to see inside the Golden State Warriors practice facility and the arena during games and performances. 125-foot tall arena and concert venue wrapped in glass and slit along the side to allow for an outdoor conco...
National Museum of Marine Science and Technology breaks ground in Keelung A ground breaking ceremony has been held for Taiwan’s new National Museum of Marine Science and Technology (NMMST), attended by the Deputy Minister of Education and the city mayor of Keelung. The largest aquarium in northern Tawian, it will provide an exciting destination for visitors of all age...
The planned site, with a total area of 37,934 m², is located at the intersection of roads visiolinja and huhtakalliontie in a suburb of the city of oulu, finland. giving the simple shape natural properties in the form of a shell avoids a boring and attractive façade, attempting to harmoniously integrate the object into the environment. The structure is divided into tw...
Perforated and panelled woodwork line four acoustic rooms designed by architecture studio Adept for a museum in a former broadcasting house in Copenhagen (+ slideshow). Adept was asked to refurbish the exhibition spaces of The Danish Music Museum, adding four practice rooms specifically tailored to different instrument groups, as well new display cases for a collection ...
The former coal mine Zeche Zollverein, an area of 100 ha, was announced world heritage by UNESCO in 2002. OMA was commissioned to develop a master plan for the site with the goal to add a large quantity of program in order of Entwicklungs-Gesellschaft Zollverein mbH (EGZ) to reinforce the historical context and to re-use the area.Within this master plan OMA designs toget...
Came one day a client who offered us a business. He wished to have an atelier which can be used also as a gallery to present his work of ceramic art, which he made for pleasure. With mere 1.5 million yen(=11,000 euro)which he saved to originally purchase a business-purpose Toyota Collora sedan to spare as total budget, we started our project. 1.5 million yen. Ridiculousl...
The location on the site is oriented to allow views towards the water from etelainen makasiinukatu as requested and to have the main access from the north, where the main pedestrian flow originates. with respect to these requirements, paolo venturella has devised ‘guggeneight’, a proposal that takes the different functions of the program and divides them into two main gr...
the design manifests as a series of massive structural rings, stacked upon and intruding into one another to bridge over to the sunken public plaza in the water. circulation is situated along the periphery of the rings leaving the center open for various large exhibition spaces, similar to new york’s guggenheim but on a more horizontal plane. the rings allow for eas...
Located in the mapo district of seoul, the project is one of the earlier realized buildings by korean architect moon hoon, and represents his ability to express disparate functional elements with diverse formal and material qualities. this includes a wood shingle-clad bedroom volume extending from the main mass, as well as a metal-skinned element on the back façade that ...
As part of the rehabilitation project for the buildings of the Real Vinícola complex, in addition to insertion of Casa da Arquitectura, Guilherme Machado Vaz Arquitectos has designed the Jazz Orchestra of Matosinhos in Porto. This wing has spaces for rehearsals, offices, social rooms, training rooms and recording rooms with varying capacity depending on the needs. The pr...
The Sculpture Solhjulet was erected in the town of Give in Denmark. The Sunwheel compromises of a wheel made from Macalloy 460 Stainless Steel bars and glass.
The Soft Dome is an installation designed for the National Museum of Singapore. It takes place in the Rotunda space of the Museum, for the Children’s Season around the theme «connections» during June and July 2017. Children’s Season Singapore (CSS) 2017 is an annual festival organised for children aged 3 to 12 years and their families during the May/June school holiday ...
The Colombian architecture office Ruta 4 designed Casa Ensamble Chacarrá. With emphasis in use of local materials and community construction, the project seeks to be “a place for diversity and culture” in a neighborhood where hundreds of families have had to come displaced by the internal conflict of the country. Chacarrá is a gesture of repair, or rather the claim to a ...
IK LAB Gallery, a new arts and cultural space set amidst the Mayan jungle of Tulum, Mexico, turns this conventional format on its head by radically redefining the relationship between art and its physical environment. Located on the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, within the pioneering Azulik ecological resort, the gallery was conceived by Santiago Rumney Guggenh...
The Cheongsando Slow Island Trip Centre was designed by Seoul-based OUJAE Architects as a visitor complex on the grounds of an old abandoned school. The complex located on Cheongsando, a small island an hour's boat ride from Wando Port at the south end of the Korean Peninsula. It includes holiday apartments, campsite facilities and a farm shop.Cheongsando was designated...
‘quantum’ is a museum and exhibition center designed to host the forefront in product design as well as all important and iconic works created over the years.the three-floor building with two asymmetric bodies is connected through tunnels. made of steel and concrete, the structure has an external shell with a fractal pattern of an aluminium alloy or other light material ...
The Jomon ruins excavated in Miyahata, in the Fukushima Prefecture, made it mandatory to build a museum that could accommodate the research, investigation, exhibition and educational needs of the Jomon studies. Furuichi and Associates architecture firm conceived a building that faces and interpret some of these significant ruins. The Jomon Period – around 100 B.C. – was...
Japanese architecture studio Furuichi and Associates recently completed one such example with the Miyahata Jōmon Museum, an institution dedicated to the study and exhibition of prehistoric Japanese hunter-gatherer society. Located in Fukushimashi, the museum features an impressive origami-like timber ceiling that evokes a cavernous feel inspired by the Jōmon people’s use...
the onassis reservoir is located near some of new york’s most important cultural institutions and provides a prime location for DFA‘s proposed tower. the underutilized 106-acre reservoir occupies one-eighth of the park’s total area and is 40-feet deep, with approximately 1 billion gallons of stagnant, contaminated water. DFA’s innovative design proposes a smart, unconve...
at the chicago architecture biennial, pezo von ellrichshausen explores its ongoing interest in multiples. the chile-based studio, led and founded by mauricio pezo and sofia von ellrichshausen, underscores their embracement of art and architecture projects by organizing a monumental grid of 729 framed watercolor studies on the wall, demonstrating an almost mathematical ob...
Studio Fuksas has been chosen to develop the preliminary design of the "Australia Forum", a new and expanded convention center in Canberra On the other side of the world, a nine-member judging panel unanimously rewarded the Italian excellence selecting Rome-based architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas with Guida Moseley Brown Architects to design a new and expand...
The complex is located in a typical working class neighbourhood. The brief was to design a coherent whole for the three components and bringing together the various users. The Community Centre is the so called "living room" of the district and is designed to bring the indigenous and new residents of the neighbourhood together. In addition, the building acts as a catalyst...
Begues, a municipality located in Garraf Natural Park, required a library, a community centre and a multipurpose theatre. To carry out the project, entrusted to Calderon-Folch-Sarsanedas Arquitectes, a triangular plot which goes along the edge of Begues Stream was arranged. The design process has crystallised a chain of synergies among organisations, administrations, t...
Hebburn Central was designed by local firm FaulknerBrowns Architects to provide the town of Hebburn in South Tyneside with facilities including a library, dance studios, events spaces, a swimming pool, a fitness suite, a sports hall and public sector customer services. The 5,800-square-metre building is part of a wider regeneration project for Hebburn, which struggled...
Cooke Fawcett has created a new viewing gallery and kiosk for Bold Tendencies, the arts space on top of a multi-storey car park in Peckham, London. The 3.5 meters-wide raised platform spans the entire width of the car park, with its steel support beams cantilevered at both ends. Two staircases at either side provide an elevated promenade and on the northern tip the balus...
The building performs the following functions: It contains editorial departments of different web-based companies, the newspaper Ningbo Ri Bao, a national media plattform and auxiliary areas of multi-function. The mainstructure is given by two towers, connected to each other with bridges covering different functions. The curve-shaped surface in the north-east and the...
The project "Earth of Taiwan" proposes a series of floating parks, which cap the towers, creating a promenade while the museum slides under a topographical gesture. The whole project appears as a vertical extension of the park. It is generous in a way that it "gives more than what it takes": producing electricity, bio fuel, fruits, fruit juices, culture, entertainmen...
Architecture for Primates In 1999 iph commenced designs for the new Orang-utan exhibit, prototyped, constructed and re-assessed the designs in conjunction with the Perth Zoo’s primate team. This project created a facility that provided a stimulating arboreal-like environment for our nearest biological relations and provided interpretation of their physiology, intellige...
The monolithic building sits on a site which was part of the Raadi Manor area, owned by an aristocratic family of German descent. In 1940, a large part of the property was used to build a Soviet air base. Fifty years later, DGT’s design is expected to restore the area’s cultural significance while referencing its turbulent history. The 350-meter-long (1148-feet) buildin...
Riga-based studio Mailitis Architects completed the project for an amphiteatre dedicated to levitation performances on the hillside of the sacred Songshan Mountain in Central China. This mountain is known as a spiritual “Centre of Heaven and Earth” and is home to the Shaolin Monastery, traditionally considered to be the birthplace of Zen Buddhism and Kung-Fu martial arts...
The temporary 712-foot-tall (220-metre) Central Park Tower would sit in the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, a 106-acre man-made lake that encompasses one-eighth of the park's area and contains one billion gallons of contaminated water. "Aside from supplying water to the pool and Harlem Meer, the Reservoir sits stagnant and fenced off due to its current state as ...
Hub 67 is a community centre in Hackney Wick, constructed with recycled material from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The building is designed for three to five years use and embraces a temporary and recycled aesthetic adding to the local architectural palette with a high quality design. The facade and a central chandelier were designed and built with the...
