World Architectural News April 2011 : Buildings across the Globe, Images
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Museo Soumaya, Mexico : FREE | Fernando Romero EnterprisE
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The shell of the building is constructed with 28 steel curved columns of different diameters, each with its own geometry and shape, offering the visitor a soft non-linear circulation all through the building. Located at each floor level, seven ring beams provide a system that braces the structure and guarantees its stability.
Metropol Parasol, Seville, Spain : J. MAYER H. Architects – completion news
photo : Fernando Alda
The “Metropol Parasol” scheme with its impressive timber structures offers an archaeological museum, a farmers market, an elevated plaza, multiple bars and restaurants underneath and inside the parasols, as well as a panorama terrace on the very top of the parasols. Realized as one of the largest and most innovative bonded timber-constructions with a polyurethane coating.
Jeongok Prehistory Museum, Korea : X-TU
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Wadi Rum Lodges, Jordan : Oppenheim Architecture + Design
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Cathedral Fold, Strasbourg, France : Axis Mundi Design
picture from Axis Mundi Design
Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture, China : Steven Holl Architects
picture : Shu He
RATP Formation Center, Paris, France : Stephane Maupin Architectes
image : Cécile Septet
Vantone Center, Tianjin, China : AS+GG
image : AS+GG
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel : Preston Scott Cohen
Ohad Matalon Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Mies van der Rohe Awards News : Neues Museum wins – David Chipperfield
photograph : Ute Zscharnt
Cidade da Musica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil : Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
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Liberty Plaza, Mexico : Richard Meier & Partners Architects
courtesy of Richard Meier & Partners Architects
Las Arenas Barcelona, Spain : Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
picture : Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
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