CHYBIK + KRISTOF unveil its newly designed Private Art Gallery, defined by its shimmering facade of moveable copper tiles. The work is planned for the center of a new public square with direct access to the waters of a meandering river nearby. With this prominent waterfront position, as well as its location along a major pedestrian access between two important areas of t...
Their design firm is focused on nation-building and helping India move forward into the future. Now, they’re designing a military school that will inspire soldiers and students of the future. The Sainik School provides military training and general study to students in grades six through nine. This requires two distinct sections at the school: an academic area and the r...
New York and Beijing-based studio OPEN architecture unveils the design of its ‘sun tower’ as construction begins in Yantai. Emerging along the shores of the yellow sea, the work will stand as a beacon, and will house a ground floor, semi-outdoor theater, a winding exhibition space, and a library in the sky. These many functions will all be housed beneath a unique semi-ou...
The 760,000-square-foot film and television studio, which received planning permission last year, will be built for New York-based developer Wildflower Ltd. Wildflower Ltd is collaborating with American actor Robert De Niro, his son and real-estate broker Raphael De Niro and American film producer Jane Rosenthal on the project. According to its developers, BIG's multi-...
FlySolo The FlySolo Rehabilitation Medical Centre will provide children between the ages of 0-13 with comprehensive rehabilitation services, treating speech, language, cognitive, motor, sensory, social and emotional developmental disorders. Located near the heart of Beijing’s CBD, FlySolo seeks to empower the extraordinary and support children of all abilities through th...
Even More Charming The Monologue Museum is a slowly unfolding hand scroll. Starting from the small entrance theater where the light breaks through the corners, entering the art gallery, the quiet water courtyard slowly reveals itself along the open corridor with shifting lights, passing through the colorful yoga room to the bright art gallery (exhibition and painting roo...
Kensal Rise’s Lexi Cinema has reopened to a design by Rise Design Studio. The much-loved north London community hub and local landmark was in need of a refresh to increase capacity and refine its offering, when the locally based architecture studio led by co-directors Sean Ronnie Hill and Imran Jahn stepped in. ‘We got involved about six years ago, as this is our local...
Within the Paris 7th arrondissement conservation area, the project is the heritage rehabilitation of a listed former horticultural greenhouse and its conversion into a hospitality room. Located within the private garden of the Clinique Saint Jean de Dieu, the greenhouse enjoys a privileged landscaped environment appreciated by its users. Built in the 18th century to cu...
“The Brandenburg state government, in close cooperation with the Saxon state government, wants to give additional impetus and more momentum to structural development in Lusatia and develop it into a model region for structural change,” the state of Brandenburg says on its website. How can these goals be achieved? By counteracting the exodus of young families in particula...
The client, two dynamic ladies who were running a small pre-primary setup, approached Studio Infinity with a site where they wanted to expand their endeavors into a larger space. This new site was an old dilapidated house, set amidst a residential neighborhood. The first challenge was to fit in a school's requirements into a house with odd column-beam grid and varying o...
Located inside the area of the monumental park, the construction, designed in a circular shape in perfect modern style, was built between 1933 and 1934 by the architect Giuseppe Vittorio Ugo. Recognized as a building of particular architectural merit, the Tennis Club is today bound to the Superintendence of Cultural and Environmental Heritage. The realization of the pro...
Due to the rapidly growing employee base along with policies for bringing better and more diverse fitness programs to their users, the board of SCyF decided to build the Wellness Center that caters to sport-related activities but also gives special attention to diet education, mental health, and general wellbeing. Located at the heart of SCyF complex, this building’s fo...
The architects have been involved in the master planning and various buildings on the estate, and the aim was to reduce the impact of a new structure on the well-established gardens, informing the decision to construct the gym pavilion onto the existing concrete slab roof of an older guest cottage and storage area. The chosen position within the estate presented excitin...
Jimmy, a sports promoter who has dedicated himself to organizing soccer and foot-tennis championships within the city, recognizes the need to create a new space within his private land to establish a new social and sports link between urban and rural. La Pradería, with dimensions of 10m x 8m, seeks to be a portal that blurs the line between the exterior and the interior...
In a contemporary key and following the criteria of environmental sustainability, the project foresaw the construction of a new gym and included the expansion of a library and of teaching-dedicated spaces for the Collodi primary school. The structure, which covers 1500 square metres, has been conceived and created as a function of the strong link with the outdoor green...
The first thing you’ll notice about the northern Victorian town of Shepparton is its interminable flatness, with the topography and nutrient-rich soil of the Goulburn River floodplain contributing to the region’s reputation as the “food bowl of Australia.” The second thing is the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM). Designed by Denton Corker Marshall, it stands tall and proud on...
The Woodside Building for Technology and Design by Grimshaw in collaboration with Monash University is a landmark building for the university’s Clayton campus. Following the completion of the new Suburban Rail Loop, it will also become a gateway to the university. At first glance, the Woodside Building appears as a refined, shed-like structure set within a native bush la...
Commissioned by the département of La Mayenne, in northwestern France, it is located on the outskirts of Laval—La Mayenne’s administrative center, a town of 50,000 inhabitants with a picturesque medieval center—on a former military site that is being transformed into a sustainable neighborhood. Situated halfway between Le Mans and Rennes, La Mayenne is essentially rural,...
Populous has been tapped to handle all aspects of the renovation, including creating new social areas across three levels, replacement of aging seats, reworked outfield and bullpens, and new family and training areas for the team. The firm had previously worked with the Blue Jays to hasten a series of similar enhancements to its Spring Training facility before the start ...
Most of the buildings around the site are three to six stories raw houses in the high-density residential neighborhood. The small church plays the role as the community center. According to the Bible, before King Solomon built the first temple, believers were inspired by the image of “meeting tent”. The architect Liao converted the figurative concept of "the tent" into...
‘Catch the sound from the ocean’ is a poetic interpretation of a bookstore nestled at the foot of a mountain in Shenzhen, China. Designed by 00group, the proposal is a sculpted white building with three large openings pointing towards the sea, sky, and woods. As such, visitors can collect the sounds and sceneries from the surroundings. ‘It is like a small spiritual light...
International firm RSAA has completed the ‘chamber church‘ in China, realized as a series of layered silhouettes. Its white body stands pure against the surrounding greenery, while its facade rises up towards the sky which results in a sense of divinity. The final design takes shape as a symmetrical volume — penetrated from arcs — that gradually elevate, achieving a monu...
On the top of a small hill in Cuenca, in central Spain, Sancho-Madridejos architecture office has designed a chapel for a private client. On a rural estate among centenary holm oaks and truffle cultivation, the final project takes shape as an origami-like artwork: an angular concrete structure with its front façade rising up as a bent pyramid. The designers placed grea...
After almost a decade of construction, ‘Datong art museum‘ designed by Foster + Partners finally opens its doors to the public. The building’s sculptural form takes shape as four interlocking pyramidal roof peaks, giving the feeling that emerges from below the earth. The design team sought to assemble a new cultural destination in China in an attempt to become a creative...
The project, named Bougainvillea, was designed by the architecture firm Designing Humanity (Yash Mehta and Bruno Silva) and printing partner 14Trees. Maggie Grout, founder and CEO of Thinking Huts, envisioned a honeycomb design. Architects Bruno Silva and Yash Menta ran with that concept to create this school. Bougainvillea was developed to improve access to education i...
The pop music center in southern Taiwan by Manuel Monteserín opened its doors to the public, ten years after it won the award of an international competition. The design team sought to give a strong identity to this area, where due to its history and geopolitical situation, many cultural elements coexist and thrive. Located next to the mouth of the love river, in the p...
Emerging onto the site with its undulating slopes, the Dalezhiye kindergarten proposal by Dika Design in Leshan, China, is a 9,077 sqm architecture that dramatically blurs the scales. It is a free-form school volume that extends 62 meters on its north-south axis and 148 meters on its east-west axis. Ultimately, the project doesn’t stick to a defined identity; instead, it...
Based in Bristol, the clients for Dwelling Unit for Musicians are a cellist and double bassist who will use the space as an office and rehearsal studio. They selected AUAR’s system over other backyard-unit options because AUAR’s dwelling units can be easily customized to site and use, offering a unique structure. They also feature thermal and acoustic insulation, which c...
Within a 32-acre campus, Sanjay Puri architects has completed the design for the main administration offices of the Prestige University in Indore, India. The newly unveiled building takes shape as a staggered arrangement of green terraces, gradually stepping up to reveal the 20-meter height of the structure. The distinctive volume houses a variety of functions including...
As part of a complex research project led by italian firm NOA*, CECUCO (center for culture and community) is an ambitious design proposal without a fixed context – capable of transforming itself to adapt to anyone and anywhere. Among the infinite design possibilities, it was clear to the team which direction they had to take: designing an architecture that is not indiffe...
ABBA Arena, the newly opened home of the legendary music group’s revolutionary London show, ABBA Voyage, is not only a clever physical space to house an innovative virtual concert; it is also the world’s largest demountable temporary venue. The structure, a subtly mysterious, timber-clad, hexagonal volume placed near Pudding Mill Lane DLR station in east London, is a bra...
With its out-of-scale volume, the Xinxiang cultural tourism center in China sits as an architectural icon of the new tourism district in the city that will be dedicated to winter sports. Led by architects Qiang Zou and Mathieu Forest, the project hopes to create a solid urban indicator that unites the whole district and attracts local and regional visitors. The unusual...
GOA undertook the masterplan and design of the whole project, where Jianli Art Center acts as the gateway of the old main street, the core of the whole project. The main street of Old Changle is built during the reign of Emperor Qianlong. Paved with grey stone slabs, it extends more than 300 meters from east to west, and the art center sits at the east end. Adjoining th...
In partnership with SANAA, garage museum of contemporary art announces the reconstruction of the hexagon, a nearby pavilion originally built in 1923. The renovation will mark a significant expansion of the museum’s physical footprint in Moscow‘s Gorky park. The garage museum itself was renovated by Rem Koolhaas and OMA in 2015 (read designboom’s coverage here). The hexag...
A cantilevered rooftop plaza is the protagonist of this cultural center in Tuscany designed by Mario Cucinella architects. Called ‘palazzo senza tempo’—or ‘timeless palace’—the public building injects new life into the medieval hill town of Peccioli. ‘Peccioli is a real laboratory’, says Mario Cucinella. ‘In the project we wanted to carry on the idea that historical c...
Completed by TOMO DESIGN studio, the ‘sunac – beyond mansion’ center in Tianjin, China, comes together as an avant-garde hub from the near future. In light of the social media era and new retail movement, the project breaks the conventional image of property sales centers by blending together artistic flair, digital media, algorithms, and commercial function. This intric...
