Built on a rock in the midst of South Moravia’s winemaking region, Znojmo is a compact town of Medieval fortifications, Gothic churches and neo-classical halls whose layered architectural heritage is exemplified by the two buildings the architects were tasked to convert into a wine bar and exhibition space, namely a 19th-century brewery and an adjacent technical annex co...
Constructed in 1968, the 650-seat Alliance Theater is part of the Woodruff Arts Center campus in the state capital of Georgia. For the renovation, Trahan Architects stripped the interiors of the lobby, theatre and backstage areas back to the original concrete walls. New York-based, steam-bent furniture designer Matthias Pliessnig collaborated on the design of the w...
With views across Biscayne Bay, this popular 30-acre park was redeveloped in 2013 as one of downtown Miami’s primary public spaces and includes the city’s new art and science museums. The tower’s design continues Zaha Hadid Architects’ research into high-rise construction that defines a fluid architectural expression consistent with the engineering for the entire heig...
Conceived as a commemoration to those lost in the fight against terrorism along Niger’s southern and western borders, Le Mémorial des Martyrs – the Martyrs’ Memorial – is a new public monument for the West African country’s capital that has just been unveiled by Adjaye Associates. The concrete structure is designed as a symbol against extremism combining the sculptur...
Over the years of stone mining, the manufacture has discovered numerous fossils. The manufacture decides to dedicate the headquarter building to a museum to tell the history of the fossils and the natural science of researching the fossil. There are two major challenges during the renovation process. The first one is the conflict between private headquarter and public mu...
The Wave encompasses 3563 square metres and was designed by Lacime Architects for Shimao as a cultural hub within the Binhai New Area district. Its form was developed as a nod to its setting beside the Bohai Sea, evoking a wave crashing onto the shore, while its scale-like cladding is intended to glisten like ripples of water. "The whole building resembles the wave...
The sculptural three-storey arts centre, first revealed by Steven Holl Architects in 2016, forms part of the US college's new Arts Quad and contains studios, classrooms, and offices. Winter Visual Arts Building is distinguished by its translucent, undulating upper storeys, intended to resemble a lightweight pavilion nestled amongst the campus' 200-year-old trees. T...
Using the urban geometry of old and historical part of the city was the first step of the concept design process. They injected a contemporary building to the existing typology by distorting the old geometry to fit into the project site boundary. Also, the city skyline of the Kaunas, and the order of the city building beside each other, were both inspiring for them in th...
The Library is located on the Spui 68, in the center of The Hague, the Netherlands. The main goal is to make a more inviting design, with the most notable interventions being the renovation of the entrance to the library and the café. Francine Houben – Mecanoo’s Creative Director and Founding Partner - has stated "I know Richard Meier and admire his architecture. As a...
The winning design, a timber-framed structure that gently rises from the rugged landscape a mile-and-a-half from the nearby town of Medora like a natural rock formation, was reportedly informed by the 26th president’s “commitment to environmental stewardship.” “When designing a new project, we think about how we can more give to the site or community more than is init...
While Fotografiska New York spans six floors and 45,000 square feet, Fotografiska Berlin will reportedly be even larger, covering 59,000 square feet. It is expected to open in 2022 in the Kunsthaus Tacheles, a 1908 department store that was later converted into a Nazi prison during World War II, then partially demolished, then renovated as a sprawling gallery and sculptu...
Impression Sanjie Liu is a theatrical performance made of lights, sounds and spectacular choreographies staged on a small island of the Li River in Yangshuo County in southern China. The water of the river acts as a stage, while the karst peaks, fog and moonlight become the ever-changing natural background. In this spectacular natural setting, Shanghai architectural stu...
In the outskirts of Zurich, not too far from the lake’s shores, the headquarters of Lindt & Sprüngli is a complex of buildings which have stratified over time, now welcoming a contemporary addition of the finest quality. The Lindt Home of Chocolate is designed by Christ & Gantenbein as a company museum open to the public and a research center. Within a sober, understated...
The building has been inaugurated to the public on the 6th of September, 2019. Overview In 2012, the previous-existing municipal building at Wasserwerkstrasse 127a in Zürich- Wipkingen, accommodating the Tanzhaus and the Swiss Textile School, was destroyed by a fire. In 2014 Barozzi/Veiga won the international competition carried out by the Amt für Hochbauten Züric...
In 2011 Barozzi/Veiga won the international competition for the masterplan of the new Art district in Lausanne, Switzerland – Platform 10 – and the design of the Fine Arts Museum. Located in the city centre, the project proposed a master plan for the city´s three main museums: the Museum of Fine Arts MCB-A, the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts MUDAC an...
designed for developer wildflower, the $400 million project seeks to establish a hub for the creation of film, television, augmented reality, and virtual reality. located along steinway creek in queens, the facility sits on land previously home to a steinway & sons piano storage facility, and is projected to create more than 1,000 daily union jobs.BIG’s design aims to fo...
The 1960s building was adjusted in order to house various spaces allowing the artist to work on his projects, and also organize exhibitions and other events within the same premises. Upon firstly arriving at the site, CUN Design observed that the entire space was partitioned and structured in a chaotic manner. The interior walls were decorated with panels and the ceil...
The Shanghai Garden Exhibition is located at China’s Horticultural Exhibition Area, adjacent to the China Pavilion and the Beijing Garden Exhibition, with a total area of 2,850 square meters.As a representative of Shanghai Horticulture, Shanghai Garden will reflect the top level of Shanghai’s horticultural design. With the theme of “auspicious cloud”, Shanghai Garden pre...
The new building forms the heart of a new cultural node in Yuhang, a fast-growing dis- trict in the metropolis of Hangzhou. Completed in May 2019 in collaboration with Hangzhou Architectural & Civil Engineering Design Insti- tute Co., Buro Happold Engineering, and with Bassinet Turquin Paysage and AECOM for landscape, the 70,000m2 performance venue is an unmissable pres...
located in the grey lynn neighborhood of auckland, new zealand, the house has an eerie feel and a hint of a dystopian aesthetic. the client’s many sci-fi film credits influenced the architects to design a residence with a unique spatial look and experience.the approach brought by pac studio embraces both the slope of the site and the request for a flat, north-facing yard...
the zhongshuge minhang store features the bookstore’s signature curtain that brings attention to its entrance in the middle of the building. the curtain wall clad in text welcomes people into the store and its magical experience.upon entering the bookstore, there is a delicate black book wall with groups of peg-top bookshelves under the soft light. the white spinning top...
The project, to be located along the Bass Highway, will bring together the Burnie Regional Art Gallery and Burnie Regional Museum into one facility. Terroir was appointed to design the facility by Burnie City Council after what the mayor described as “a lengthy tender process.” The council’s brief called for new facility that will be “iconic, a building of style an...
Part museum and part watch workshop, the Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet was intended both as a place to highlight the company’s 200-year culture, as well as let guests watch artisans restore historic timepieces. The approximately 27,000-square-foot pavilion subtly rises from grade along a clockwise (an obvious pun) rotation, with the load-bearing glass walls supporting...
How do we make inner silence and stillness attractive, vital and human? How do we redefine our perception of silence and its benefits? These questions were on Cedric Etienne’s mind while he was designing Still Room, a multi-purpose space in Antwerp’s Harbour. In 2018, the designer and co-founder of Studio Corkinho was looking for a new office, a place that could repre...
Lin’an Museum is the latest project by Amateur Architecture Studio, a practice founded by Pritzker-prize-winning architect Wang Shu and his wife Lu Wenyu. The small town of Lin’an, 60km west of the provincial capital, Hangzhou, commissioned the architects to design a museum to house its collection of ancient artefacts belonging to the Qian family. The project comprise...
Located in the heart of the city, the project has been developed with the concept of ‘experiencing creativity’. This refers to ‘seeing, feeling and learning’ within the museum’s space, allowing visitors to experience the creativity of the artworks on display, and providing the stimulus to pioneer a new age. Founded by Shōjirō Ishibashi, the bridgestone museum of art...
A continuation of Wutopia Lab’s design style, magical realism based on antithesis, perforated steel plates, translucent, uncertain light, color and dramatic poetry could be found in the poetry store. The former orthodox church at Gaolan Road #16 is the second batch of outstanding historical buildings in Shanghai. It was built in 1932 and was not used as church for a l...
Overlooking the banks of Shanghai's Huangpu River, the art center has attracted hoards of visitors and large cultural events since opening in March 2019. With a site area of 47,448m2, the project was envisioned as an art museum and open park that embraces public life. The tanks are surrounded by sloping landscaped meadows that connect to the street and riverside. ...
Centred around an open green courtyard, the facility will have a focus on “community integration” and will feature traditional retail offerings along with health and wellbeing amenities including a GP “superclinic” and a yoga studio. Also earmarked for the centre are a kindergarten and multi-use community spaces, with leafy and shaded public areas positioned alongside...
In November 2019, the foundation called for Adelaide-based studios and practices to tender for the project. Thirty-one submissions were made and a shortlist of nine contenders were invited to present to a selection panel chaired by arts administrator Michael Lynch. Adelaide-based practice Ashley Halliday was the runner up. The project will comprise a gallery, a restau...
When Frank Gehry was commissioned nearly a century-and-a-half later to create a tower in the city, the architect drew inspiration from Van Gogh’s felt presence in the city to design a building of an equally otherworldly vision. Luma Arles Tower, a centerpiece of the Luma Arles arts center established by Swiss collector Maja Hoffmann, is a scaly, shimmering beacon on t...
Thierry Guetta (aka Mr. Brainwash), a French street artist who gained notoriety following the release of the 2010 mockumentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, has signed a lease to temporarily transform the 26,500-square-foot space into a museum of his own after scoping out an exhibition space for over a year. “The building, which almost fell into my lap, is my Cinderella sl...
Mark Lamster, architecture critic at the Dallas Morning News, writes that the announcement, which was made by the city-owned building’s longtime tenant (and original owner) the Dallas Theater Center (DTC), comes with a “combination of optimism, trepidation, and vigilance.” Reads a statement released by DTC: “The building has been home to DTC since its opening in 19...
The 36-year-old group, formerly known as ArtCenter/South Florida, purchased a warehouse property in the city’s Little Haiti-Little River neighborhood, according to the Miami Herald, and plans to build a $30 million center boasting artists’ studios, a theater, a maker space, and classrooms for professionals and the public. “Miami’s visual arts community has grown expo...
His fantastic Wandering Museum is a roaming structure made out of two reclaimed shipping containers. The project helps bring certain works of art from the Museum of Contemporary Art throughout neighborhoods in Panama City. The project began as a collaboration between the Panama City-based Museum of Contemporary Art and Ayarza. Hoping to showcase certain pieces that ma...
Slated for the coastal Russian region of Sochi, the Hydroelectric Sculpture Gallery will harness enough wave energy to not only be 100% self-sufficient, but it will also be able to channel surplus energy back into the grid, powering around 200 nearby houses and businesses as a result. The art gallery will be located on Sochi’s coastline, where it will use the exceptio...
