Oppenheim’s European office, based in Basel, Switzerland, has been working on a diverse set of projects in Albania, ranging from commercial and multifamily to hospitality, for over two years. Besa Museum represents one of its most prestigious yet, honoring the nation’s rich cultural heritage and welcoming spirit. With this latest institutional work, Oppenheim Architectur...
This transparent structural layer’s encapsulation of an original theatre built in 1971 protects and preserves its two distinguishing components: The brutalist architecture of Victor Prus and one of largest sculptural murals in the world by artist Jordi Bonet. Defined by its modernist design and monumental, intertwined sculpted work alongside prefabricated concrete indoor...
The Phive project, designed by Manuelle Gautrand Architect, is a dynamic public and cultural facility situated within Parramatta Square, a bustling business district in west Sydney. This structure emerged as the winning proposal from a competition in 2016, featuring a multitude of community spaces and exhibition areas surrounding the main library as well as the City of P...
The collaborative design by a+r Architects and NL Architects was selected as the winner proposal in the international competition for the temporary new home of the Württembergische Staatstheater Stuttgart. This interim structure will accommodate the Stuttgart State Opera and the Stuttgart Ballet during the renovation of their current venue, the Littmann Building. The...
The Space of Light, a meditation pavilion designed by Tadao Ando, was recently unveiled at the Museum SAN in Wonju, South Korea. A decade ago, Tadao Ando had already created the museum, nestled amidst the serene mountains of Wonju, South Korea. Today, the new addition marks Ando’s second meditation pavilion and the latest installment in his contemplative series. The ...
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos' design, the first from the Madrid-based studio in the US, features a monolithic square form placed on top of the current structure, which was designed by American architect Edward Larrabee Barnes in 1984. "The NSA proposal includes a new floating contemporary art gallery on the roof and rebalances the north and south facades, communicating th...
The 14,000-square foot (1,300-square metre) wing – known as the Louis Armstrong Center – is located across the street from the original house museum, which was once the American musician's home from 1943 until his death in 1971. Caples Jefferson Architects was commissioned to create a space that could permanently house the 60,000-piece Louis Armstrong Archive – the worl...
The owner wanted to transform this two-story building into a community art space with a composite function of exhibition and restaurant, as well as an echo of local culture. With a tight budget and an implementation period of only three months, the project was considered to require an easy and flexible approach to the space to fulfill the function and ensure quality. Co...
The shrinking of the grounds also allowed the creation of much-needed buffer areas between residential buildings and the cinema grounds, with the implementation of acoustic measures, and lastly the creation of a new connection between the surrounding residential complex and the nearby town center via Štěpánka’s Park. The old cinema´s buildings were, given the difficulty...
The Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) wasn’t born as a museum – at least, not in the flesh. Conceived by philanthropist and collector Abhishek Poddar in 2020 as India's first online-only art and photography gallery, it effectively upended the typical ‘physical-first, digital-next’ museum rulebook by assuming a bricks-and-mortar avatar earlier this month, three years af...
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed ‘Nicolas Ruinart Pavilion’, a new visitor center for Ruinart, the oldest champagne house in Reims, France. The 1,400 sqm contemporary building features natural stone and wood, and is clad in a gradient glass façade topped by a curved roof. The new project is located on a site steeped in history and is set in relation to the pr...
The Abrahamic Family House, a trio of cubic buildings, stands proudly erect on Saadiyat Island, the cultural district of the United Arab Emirates’ capital of Abu Dhabi. Beside the waters of the Arabian Gulf, the three edifices comprise a Jewish synagogue, an Islamic mosque and a Catholic church, all designed by British-Ghanaian architect Sir David Adjaye. They are titled...
URBANUS design studio introduces OCAT-B10 – The OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, an open ‘White Box’ Art Museum in Shenzhen. The museum renowned for its dedication to contemporary art in China since 2005, undergoes an impressive transformation. Originally, a two-floor factory building, B10, designed for disk production in Shenzhen OCT’s northern area, now emerges as OCAT-B...
Studio Libeskind has commenced construction on the Albert Einstein House at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a project dedicated to preserving and displaying the legacy of the renowned physicist. The architectural design of the building features a blend of twisting, curving, and angled elements that create a cubic form. Inspired by Einstein’s drawings for projective geome...
Luca Poian Forms presents its Tartu Downtown Cultural Centre, a proposal for the southern Estonian city of Tartu. The project is planned alongside the city’s ongoing adaptations to present-day social and environmental changes, and is designed to support the increasingly progressive and diverse community. Led by architect Luca Poian, the team celebrates the city’s legacy ...
This geological heritage was much on the mind of architect Steve Dumez, principal and design director at EskewDumezRipple (EDR), the firm that designed the stone-inspired $67 million expansion of the city’s Bruce Museum. “There was a vision for the project that it should powerfully connect to its place, that it grow from the site,” Dumez says. “We submitted two schemes, ...
The concrete-clad pavilion is the second structure on the campus of the museum, which is dedicated to promoting Italian art and design in the United States. Quismondo, who designed the first building on the site, worked with Baeza to expand the gallery capabilities of the institution. The pavilion is partially submerged into a sloping green hill, with entrances on eith...
Set to be built in Iqaluit, a city in the northern territory of Nunavut, Dorte Mandrup's proposal was informed by the landscape and the patterns formed in snowdrifts by the area's prevailing wind. "The design of the building is informed by the landscape and the movement of the snow and the wind," said the studio. "Drawing inspiration from the patterns formed in snowdri...
Located in Kabalagala, a central district of Kampala, the art centre was commissioned by the 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes East African artists and contemporary art. The arts centre houses four artist studios and a flexible cafe that can act as an interim gallery. It is also home to the only specialist arts library in Uganda....
Addressing social resiliency in this area, the project is designed to become a suitable place for everyone, providing an exciting space for learning, practicing, performing, and exploring. To ensure this concept will extend to the form of the buildings and evoke a sense of curiosity, they are designed organically to become an eyecatcher among the cube-shaped neighboring ...
The public life of the community is not only to meet the diversity and richness of activities but also includes the goal of spiritual reshaping. Under the trend of flat, fast, and decentralized times, we hope to use “light” as a medium to create a “daily centrality” that re-links the intimate relationship between people and between people and nature. The design extracts...
The planetarium and observatory named Orionis is a new cultural destination in the city of Douai in northern France, inspired by the elliptical and continuous movement of the stars. Situated on a remarkable site, between the adjacent Scarpe river, the archaeological museum Arkéos and a nearby residential complex, the project aims to harmoniously connect these elements an...
The first major exhibition of photography in the U.S. was held there, and pioneering collectors like Buffalo native A. Conger Goodyear made sure that the museum acquired impressive works by Cézanne, Picasso, and Gauguin. (Goodyear later cofounded and served as the first president of New York’s Museum of Modern Art.) Space to display the museum’s collection did not alway...
Roberts Projects chose the local studio to transform the brick and cinder-block building into its new home as it moved from Culver City to the mid-Wilshire district, which has seen an influx of art galleries in recent years. The architects conceived a total overhaul of the 10,000-square-foot (929-square-metre) former auto dealership, which was built in 1948 and features...
CHYBIK + KRISTOF (CHK) unveil the design of ODA Tirana, a competition entry for Tirana’s Center of Fairs and Exhibitions and mixed-use development international competition, at the heart of the Albanian capital. Inspired by ODA, the traditional space in Albanian culture for welcoming and meeting people, the mixed-use complex features residential, commercial, and public a...
The Garden house is the fruit of a unique architectural and sustainability oriented dialog between Rolf Fehlbaum (Vitra Chairman) and Tsuyoshi Tane (Paris based japanese architect – founder of ATTA – Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architect). It was almost three years ago that Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman Emeritus of Vitra, took architect Tsuyoshi Tane for a drive around Weil am Rhei...
‘The Anthropocene Museum’ by Cave Bureau is the sixth and final instalment in the family of exhibitions titled ‘The Architect’s Studio’ held at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Since the series’ inception in 2017, visitors have been able to get to know international architects who are challenging the field at its core. Over the years, this has opened up a d...
Like the looking glass used by jade collectors to provoke material imagination through closer looks, the layered apertures capture the visitors’ attention as move through the exhibition while allowing freedom for discovery. From the earliest period of European contact with China in the sixteenth century, collectors from around the world have been enchanted with enigmati...
130 William stands completed in New York City‘s financial district, marking Adjaye Associates‘ first skyscraper. Designed as a rejection of the common glass tower, the architecture takes its inspiration from the industrial heritage of the city with its facade of rhythmic, arched windows and its hand-cast concrete skin — this way, the project evokes a ‘ruin’ in the city, ...
The complex promises to be the first ground-up mixed-use gaming complex and resort located in the center of a major metropolitan city, with a casino, food hall and restaurants, theater and event space, museum and exhibition area, along with VIP areas and a 500-room hotel at the north end of the site. Beyond the built complex there will also be more than 10 acres of outdo...
US Studio Director Philip Schmerbeck and Associate Jack Brough gathered with the project team alongside local officials, press and politicians including Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland for the milestone held on site. The new architectural proposal comprises two main elements: a gallery pavilion and a reconstructed bluff that serves as its sloping base. Together they form o...
The building is based on an 8.4 x 8.4-meter grid with steel-brace concrete columns designed to resist significant seismic events. The circular columns and round mechanical funnels form an architectural landscape at ground level. The round shapes of these structural elements soften the transition between light and shadow and create a bright and safe environment by removin...
It is housed in a listed building complex from the 1930s, by architect Alexander Kropholler, which has been partly renovated, transformed, and expanded. The buildings now house a collection of 12,000 objects, several permanent exhibitions, a knowledge center with a research library, workshop space and auditorium, a museum café, and laboratories for design and prototypin...
Designed as a complementary counterpart to the Art Gallery’s revitalized original building with its 19th-century neoclassical facade, SANAA’s design for the new building responds to the unique project site with a series of interlocking pavilions that gently step down towards Sydney Harbour. The pavilions sit low and lightly on the site, following the natural topography o...
Located in South Kensington, the centre is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum's extensive Future Plan – a project involving the upgrade of its visitor facilities and galleries while also preserving its original historic structure. Gibson Thornley Architects and Purcell's involvement marks the final stage of the V&A Photography Centre project, bringing it to a total ...
Designed as a peaceful place to display art, the small gallery combines the traditional barn form with modern construction techniques. "From the distance, this building is unmistakably a barn," said Boano Prišmontas co-founder Tomaso Boano. "The small windows, large canopy overhang, wide door on the front facade, and use of industrial materials all sing from the same so...
