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Visitor Centres Architecture : Buildings

Major Architectural Projects from around the World.

post updated 11 February 2025

Visitor Center – Latest Designs

Apple Park Visitor Center, Northern California, USA
Apple Park Visitor Center in California

November 27, 2023
Ozarks Education Center, OEC, Bull Shoals Field Station (BSFS) for Missouri State University, Cedarcreek, Arkansas, USA
Architects: BNIM
Ozarks Education Center Arkansas USA
photo : Kelly Callewaert
Ozarks Education Center, Arkansas, USA
The Bull Shoals Field Station is an existing research location for Missouri State University (MSU) students located within the Ozarks on the shores of Bull Shoals Lake and within the Drury-Mincy conservation area. To address the increasing demand for educational opportunities within the college and other organizations at the Bull Shoals Field Station, the Missouri State University Ozarks Education Center provides a new location for education and research by MSU faculty and students, other universities, visiting high school students, and non-profit organizations.

4 July 2012
Giants Causeway Building, Northern Ireland
Design: Heneghan Peng Architects
Giant’s Causeway Building
photo : Marie-Louise Halpenny
Giants Causeway Building
This new building is located in a landscape of cliffs formed by hexagonal basalt stones. The visitor centre building helps to manage the beautiful and fragile landscape and is a resource to those who visit the site.

3 May 2012
Domkyrkoforum Visitor Centre, Lund, Sweden
Design: Carmen Izquierdo
Lund Building
photograph : Åke E:son Lindman
Domkyrkoforum Visitor Centre
The new Domkyrkoforum visitor centre, facing the Cathedral in the Swedish city of Lund, uses Aurubis Architectural’s Nordic Brass panels to create a series of contemporary forms, generating new vistas and public spaces within its historic setting.

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Visitor Centre Building – Recent Project

Pannonhalma Visitors Center, Hungary
Design: RS | Roeleveld – Sikkes Architects
Pannonhalma Visitors Center
photo : Tamás Bujnovszky, János Szentiváni, Hans Molenkamp
Pannonhalma Visitors Center
The monastery has been a beacon for culture and crafts for over a thousand years. The monastery grounds of the Benedictine order house the finest examples of religious art, crafts and architecture. It has been inscribed into the Unesco World Heritage List in 1996.

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Visitor Center Building – Recent Design

July 3, 2009
United States Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, DC, USA
Design: RTKL Architects
U.S. Capitol Visitor Center
photograph © RTKL.com/David Whitcomb
United States Capitol Visitor Center
As the seat of the nation’s legislative branch, the U.S. Capitol is one of the most visited historic buildings in the world. With knowledge garnered from a dozen years of work with the Architect of the Capitol, RTKL designed a facility that enhances visitor reception experience and education, strengthens building security and the U.S. Capitol‘s functionality while preserving an atmosphere of free public access for the more than three million visitors who tour the U.S. Capitol annually.

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Visitor Center – Recent Design Competition

Newark Visitor Center Project, New Jersey, USA
Newark Visitor Center Competition
NVC was an international design competition. The partnership of AIA Newark & Suburban, Emerging Professionals and the Young Architects Forum invited designers from all over the world to find innovative, visionary and compelling proposals for Newark, New Jersey’s Visitor’s Center.

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Visitor Centre Buildings

Featured Visitor Center Architecture, alphabetical:

Alnwick Castle Gardens Visitor Centre, Northumberland, northeast England, UK
Hopkins Architects
Northumbrian building
building photo © Adrian Welch
Alnwick Castle Visitor Centre

City of London Information Centre, England, UK
make architects
City of London Information Centre
image © make architects practice
City of London Information Centre

Culloden Battlefield Memorial Centre, near Inverness, Northern Scotland, UK
Gareth Hoskins Architects
Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centres
photo © Ewen Weatherspoon
Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Scotland

Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre, Yorkshire, northern England, UK
Edward Cullinan Architects
Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre
picture © Adrian Welch
Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre

Giant’s Causeway Visitor Facilities, Northern Ireland, UK
heneghan.peng.architects
Giant's Causeway Visitor Facilities - Visitor Centres
picture from the National Trust
Giants Causeway Visitor Centre

NYC Information Center, New York City, NY, USA
WXY architecture + urban design
NYC Information Center
picture from SGLA
NYC Information Center

Petra Visitors Centre, Jordan
Design: Edward Cullinan Architects
Petra - Visitor Centres
picture from architects studio
Jordan building

Snowdon Summit Visitor Centre, northwest Wales
Design: Ray Hole Architects
Snowdon Summit Visitor Centre
picture from architect firm
Snowdon Summit Visitor Centre

More Visitor Centres Buildings online soon.

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Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington, Northumberland, Northeast England, UK

Design: RMJM Architects
Woodhorn Colliery Building - Visitor Centres
image : Keith Hunter
Woodhorn Colliery

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Contemporary Visitor Centres Architecture – no images/links, alphabetical:

Cardiff Bay Visitors Centre, Cardiff waterfront, south Wales
1990
Design: Will Alsop Architect

Arctic Culture Centre, Norway
Design: a-lab
Arctic Culture Centre
picture from architect office
Arctic Culture Centre

Scottish Visitor Centre Buildings:

David Douglas Centre, central Scotland

Scottish Timber Building - Visitor Centres
picture from Cowco
David Douglas Centre

Water of Leith Visitor Centre, Edinburgh
Design: Malcolm Fraser Architects
Water of Leith Visitor Centre

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