Vanity Height Study: CTBUH tower architecture

Vanity Height Study: CTBUH Tower Architecture

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has investigated the increasing trend towards extreme spires and other extensions of supertall (300-meter-plus) buildings that do not enclose usable space, and created a new term to describe this – Vanity Height

J.P. Morgan Library & Museum Access Design

J.P. Morgan Library & Museum

I love Piano’s description of the J.P. Morgan Library as “this funny place in the middle of Manhattan.” Before my first April, 2013 visit to the Morgan, I was last at the Library in 1971.

World’s Spectacular Museum Buildings News

World’s Spectacular Museum Buildings, Art and Architecture Developments, Images, Architects, Designs

World’s Most Spectacular Museum Buildings

Art and Architecture Developments across the Globe : Images + Links

29 May 2013

Art and Architecture: The World’s Most Spectacular Museums

Hamburg, May 28, 2013 – That time-honored institution, the museum, is gradually being superseded. Increasingly, instead of old-fashioned exhibition rooms, it is gigantic event and experience locations that await the visitor. More often than not designed by star architects, many museums now count among the most impressive buildings of our time. As total works of art, it is not just the treasures within that fascinate, but also the breathtaking symbiosis of exhibits and architecture.

World’s Best Museum Developments

BMW World, Munich
Worlds Spectacular Museum Buildings
photo : Anton Schedlbauer

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Worlds Spectacular Museum Buildings
photo : Michael Hierner

Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Worlds Spectacular Museum Buildings
photo : Centre Pompidou-Metz

A selection of the world’s most spectacular museums has now been compiled by a jury of building experts from Emporis, the international provider of building data. The list contains some of the most diverse museum buildings from all over the world – from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, opened in 1959, to the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.

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Morgan Library and Museum Access Design

Morgan Library and Museum Access Design

This photograph shows the Renzo Piano façade of the Morgan Library and Museum, the architect’s first New York City project where disability access was a major priority. The Morgan is arguably the most influential art and cultural collection in the United States.

Architectural Levels: Building Presence

UC Davis Art Museum Sacramento - Architectural Levels

Firstly, congratulations to e-architect on the milestone of their 200th Newsletter, a tribute to their dedication and the spirit of the world architecture community: UC Davis Art Museum, California, USA, design by SO – IL architects

Copenhagen Harbour Architecture, Denmark

Danish Architecture Centre Copenhagen Harbour Buildings

During my short stay in Copenhagen last weekend, the Danish Architectural Centre (DAC), with its current exhibition “Your Harbour” was top of my list. Being a small country with over a thousand Islands, the sea has a special place in Danish hearts

BIG Architecture: Iconic New Buildings

Greenland National Gallery of Art BIG Architecture

BIG (Biarke Ingels Group) architects, based in Copenhagen and more recently New York, are a relatively small firm (only 160 staff) but have rock star status because, when they’re involved, things are not always what they seem.

New Residential Architecture, Property Design

House Moldova - New Residential Architecture

There’s a rapturous glows inside when natural light is sensibly harnessed, especially, as diffused ambient light devoid of glare. The spaces gets transformed, the tinge and the mood alters dramatically as the earth follows its routine spin, hiding and revealing the sun through strata of clouds