The design also includes a daycare center, a bookstore and a place to allow its visitors to spend more time, it acts just "like a park". Named SDC Dental Clinic, the building, covering 163-square-metre area, is situated on a site in Akiba town, Tsubame city, Niigata prefecture, in a neighborhood with a nursery, elementary and junior high school. The neighborhood is f...
The design of the approximately 10,000-square-metre big school complex is designed as "a creative approach" to develop further the type of cluster school in which the associated outdoor spaces become an integral part of the spatial organization. Within a stringent structural grid, a flexible learning landscape has been set up, meeting today’s pedagogical requirements...
CHIZA Architecture Bureau, founded by Chingiz Agharzayev and Zaki Jabiyev, has developed a multifunctional building that follows the same architectural language "deconstruction style" with the Heydar Aliyev Center and Baku Congress Hall in which the proposal will be close to these buildings. Dubbed as Banquet Hall, the 7,121-square-metre building is located on the Ala...
According to an article of GloucestershireLive, the 5,000-seat wooden stadium, which aims to be carbon neutral or carbon negative, received planning permission by six votes for and four votes - which was held on December 18, 2019. Zaha Hadid Architects first released its concept design in 2016 and the new stadium, with its sinuous form, aims to be the world's greenes...
Called MARe - The Museum of Recent Art, the 1,580-square-metre museum is situated on a corner plot - and from far away, it is perceived like a small apartment but when you come closer, its irregular facade gives an intimate feeling to enter the building. To form its concept, the studio benefitted from this question: "How to produce architecture in a city described by ...
Called Forum Groningen, the 17,000-square-metre building serves as a multifunctional building in the center of Groningen. NL Architects' building, also described as a cultural department store that is filled with books and images, offers exhibition spaces, movie halls, assembly rooms, restaurants. The forum aspires to become a platform for interaction and debate, a "...
Named Architecture Library Chulalongkorn University, the library, covering a total of 1,260 square meters, is located at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The aim of the project is to reinterpret learning spaces in libraries by adapting them in the digital age. In this regard, the architects asked: "In the near future, will we still read physical boo...
The new redevelopment plans will transform the 1970s administration building into a church campus in Nuremberg, Germany. The new church campus will generate space for encounter, communication, research and education. The transformed external architectural language creates a more public and civic identity for the new building. The 38,000-square-metre new development o...
Designed by The Design Institute of Landscape and Architecture China Academy of Art, Wangwei studio, the school was designed to address to China’s rural schools which are disappearing with the rapid speed of urbanization process. Covering a total of 2,604-square-metre area, the school, named Fuwen Primary School Reconstruction, is one of disappearing schools in China....
Named Fantasy Forest / Meitao Ceramics Sales Center, the 2,000-square-metre center is located in Foshan, Guangdong Province. The designers explain the project: In this age with increasing sameness, It's time for us to make difference! Let's have a romantic, fashionable, and fantastic dream! The design of this project is inspired by the natural beauty, vegetation...
Throughout the warehouse-style building’s three levels, these striking display rooms mingle with fully-glazed research laboratories, workrooms, and interactive learning alcoves, giving visitors visual access to the preservation process, and encouraging a more accessible educational environment. According to the museum’s director, Julie Stein, transparency was central ...
It was revealed by Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga, president and director of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC), on December 11 that WEISS/MANFREDI has been selected to lead the master planning team. “We are excited to move forward with Marion [Weiss], Michael [Manfredi], and their remarkable team,” said Bettison-Varga in a press release, “as we work tow...
Leading the charge in this new adaptive reuse application is Balbek Bureau. The Kyiv-based interior architecture firm recently completed 906 World Cultural Center, a multifunctional startup incubator, events space, and co-living concept that occupies a former church in the heart of San Francisco. The complex serves as a launchpad for the development of young companies, e...
One such destination is the Seattle Aquarium, a nonprofit and marine research center along its Western shore that has been delighting over 800,000 visitors a year since 1977. In 2015, the city council supported an ordinance to contribute $34 million to add a significant addition to the aquarium in the form of an “Ocean Pavilion” dedicated primarily to the exhibition of s...
On April 2+3, Facades+ is returning to New York in a robust two-day dialogue focused on the materials and techniques driving the next generation of enclosure design and engineering. This year, CetraRuddy founding principal John Cetra collaborated with The Architect’s Newspaper to develop a robust program featuring architects, contractors, engineers, and fabricators. T...
The Wiki Tribe Park complex was planned and designed by architects, but the project was organized in a way that would let entire families take part in the construction process. Using a modular system enabled not only the adults to take part in building the cabins, but it even allowed young children to learn the basics of green building. The cabins’ walls were cut thro...
The undulating shape of the organic building would also reflect site-specific conditions so as to optimize passive solar conditions and use of sustainable systems such as rainwater collection and tidal wave energy generation.The international design competition, which was hosted almost a decade ago, was created to address the need for tsunami research and preparation in ...
The BZB saunas are the ultimate DIY project for those needing to unthaw during the freezing winter months. Costing between $5,000 and $14,950, the ready-to-assemble sauna kits come in a variety of styles, such as barrel, oval and igloo-shaped. The kits also come in different sizes, from a tiny, two-person sauna to a larger structure that fits up to eight people. The s...
The installation comprises 2 almost identical red ribbons which are carefully bent in order to create an artificial and continuous topographical profile providing activities such as seating features, swinging objects, sliding ramps, slopes and mini amphitheaters among others. Taking advantage of the highest bends of the ribbons, green & blue functional boxes were pl...
The Cinéma les VARIETES, the historical temple of art and essay cinema, has revived its spotlight on the Canebière in Marseille. The architectural concept focused on the theatricalization of the city’s public’s journey to the halls. The façade has been refurbished, with new wood joinery matching the 19th century style that saw the birth of this place dedicated to th...
Growing Up captures everyday elements fundamental to Hong Kong, embedding and cultivating them within the fabric of soon-to-be major arts and cultural center. A large sloped roof is supported by a series of timber columns that, like the seedlings in the adjacent nursery park, grow from an intimate human scale to the harbor scale. A stepped landscape below, reminiscent of...
Since ancient times, its landscape and numerous historical sites have attracted many ancient writers and calligraphers. Until today, Chongqing is still a city of attraction to everyone.Located on the 3rd and 4th Floor of Zodi Plaza, Yangjiaping, the Chongqing Zhongshuge greets visitors with a simple glass facade covered with text. Once inside, scattered “lampshade-shape...
The ‘desert rose’ is a rock formed when minerals crystallize in the crumbly soil just below the surface of a shallow salt basin. The system of interlocking disks surrounding the historic palace like necklace looks as if it’s been propagated organically. It incorporates exhibition spaces that fan out in an elliptical circuit around a central court, the Howsh, where outdoo...
the new intervention, measuring 115,000 ft2 (10,683.85 m2), will be built in the heart of the city and intends to become a new cultural landmark for the area and the community. with a diverse program over five floors, the building is envisioned to create a ‘new public commons and knowledge center’ for a contemporary urban context. the new library is positioned at the ...
built using timber, the project showcases the structural possibilities of the material in an effort to encourage a new era of environmentally-friendly construction.biobasecamp has been designed by studio marco vermeulen as a starting point of exploration for designers and clients towards the possibilities that this ‘concrete of the future’ offers. the pavilion gives arch...
the project is composed by CROX in two parts: the undulating green hills and the ‘floating’ architecture that rests on top. within the latter volume, the space contains exhibition halls as well as a rooftop garden and viewing terrace, allowing visitors to enjoying panoramic views across the lake. the lower part of the museum, or ‘mounatins’, blends and extends into the s...
slated to open in 2023, the infinity loop-shaped building comprises of three levels that will accommodate 1600 students, bringing them together upon the backdrop of a continuous landscape that merges both inside and out.LAVA based the structure on the spatial typology concepts of american futurist david thornburg and takes into consideration the educational paradigms of ...
designed by trace architecture office (TAO), ‘haikou huandao middle school’ seeks to create a nurturing environment that celebrates creativity and interaction rather than examination-oriented objectives.as the site is surrounded by high-rise residential buildings in haikou’s city center, TAO developed a somewhat introverted design. the playground is placed centrally, whi...
as previously reported, the institution will show a series of exhibitions in collaboration with paris’ centre pompidou as part of a cultural collaboration between china and france. located on the shanghai corniche, an 8.5 kilometer (5 mile) frontage on the northern bank of the huangpu river, the new art gallery forms part of a larger cultural district for china’s biggest...
designed by heatherwick studio, the project is located in a residential area 20 minutes from the city center, in close proximity to the M50 arts district and a public park. the development is split over two plots of land connected by a narrow government plot and incorporates several historic buildings. designed by heatherwick studio for the developer tia...
the 26,000 square meter project, which is the first to be realized as part of the site’s redevelopment plan, contains a large central common space, or ‘city room’, designed to reflect the changing social nature of the workplace. ‘the science park model of the 1990s, with buildings isolated from one another by un-utilized landscape is no longer adequate f...
the winding gallery offers a journey through a series of unique, encompassing environments including architectural space, music, poetry, archaeological objects, commissioned artworks, monumentally-scaled art films, and more. together, the eleven galleries take visitors from the formation of the qatar peninsula millions of years ago to the nation’s present. giving voice t...
They are used to accompany the story of the Lampedusa objects, brought from the numerous trips that Dorothée Thébert and Filippo Filliger have done to the island. These “objects of mediation” put a material distance between the found objects, and the own bodies of the performers. They are presented as a kit of parts ready to be utilized in a more or less free manner by...
We will fully use it, and protect it simultaneously. So without touching the rock is the fundamental design attitude. The perception of the space inside of the pigsty is like someone embracing the rock. It’s purely the place to great with the rock. This perception indicates that it will be an introvert space, no necessary to flow outside into inside.
To achieve this, the existing historical building from 1605 was extensively renovated in a first construction phase and the permanent exhibition was redesigned. Phase two comprised an extension building, located on the directly adjacent, 45-degree sloped lot which leads down to Ruhrstrasse and the Ruhr River. This new sculptural construction, whose ground floor lies near...
Designed to blend in with the pitched rooflines of the surrounding rural structures the pool was built as part of an upgrade of a former 1980s water park by Ljubljana-based studio Enota. Named Termalija Family Wellness, the pool is the latest in a series of developments at the spa with the overarching aim of better connecting the centre with the surrounding natural la...
