Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan

Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan

Why have the most exciting theatrical events of the past 100 years taken place outside the spaces formally designed for them? Can architecture transcend its own dirty secret, the inevitability of imposing limits on what is possible?

Shima Kitchen: Teshima Island Building, Japan

Shima Kitchen Building

Design: Atelier Ryo Abe – Shima Kitchen was a renovation project to create a venue for arts and dining from an old vacant house in a village on Teshima, a rural island in the Seto Inland Sea of Western Japan.

Changsha Meixihu International Culture Centre

Changsha Meixihu International Culture & Art Centre

Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The International Culture & Arts Centre embodies a unique variety of civic nodes and spaces: A Grand Theatre, a Contemporary Art Museum, a Multipurpose Hall and supporting facilities.

Open Gate Art Platform in Suncheon, Korea

Open Gate Art Platform

Design: Matteo Cainer Architects. The proposal for the new Suncheon Art Platform is strategically placed amidst historical and cultural trails of the old Suncheon Wall, acting thus as a new cultural hub and gateway for the Old City.

Arnhem Museum in Holland Building

Arnhem Museum

Design: Benthem Crouwel Architects. The jury voted unanimously for the vision proposed by Benthem Crouwel Architects for the renovation and expansion of Museum Arnhem.

Tippet Rise Art Center Buildings in Montana

Domo, designed by Ensamble Studio, installed at Tippet Rise Art Center

Poised on the ridges and rolling fields where the Beartooth Mountains touch Montana’s big sky, this new building will open to the public on June 17, offering a “uniquely resonant experience of great classical music, nestled among sculptures and buildings that hug the land like natural formations.”

Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

Design: Zaha Hadid Architects – the 85,000 sqft Rosenthal Center was the first U.S. museum designed by a woman and hailed by the New York Times as “the most important American building to be completed since the cold war.”

Indian Heritage Centre Singapore

IHC

Architect: Robert Greg Shand Architects and Urbnarc. The National Heritage Board wanted a sustainable contemporary building that would embrace the vibrant streetscape of the area and its people.

Lotus Square Art Center Zhuhai

Lotus Square Art Center

Design: Raynon Chui Design. The site is located at the Northeast corner of Hengqin Island in Zhuhai, within close proximity of the Shizimen Commercial District. The site’s Northeast is in close with the sea and enjoys excellent sea view and view resources

Akademie der Künste Berlin exhibition

Security Breakdown New York

An Exhibition on Design Possibilities for Public Space through Civil Intervention. ‘DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space’ presents “options available to the public in shaping its own cities. Increasingly critical citizens are demanding the right to have a say in decisions that affect public space.”

National Arts Centre in Ottawa Building: NAC

National Arts Centre in Ottawa Building: NAC

The National Arts Centre in Ottawa Building marked the start of its architectural rejuvenation with a groundbreaking ceremony. The $110-m project is one of the largest capital investments by the Government to celebrate the country’s 150th anniversary.

School for Artists in Shoreditch, East London

School for Artists

Design: Walter Leone Arquitecto. The aim of the project is to build an artistic educational ensemble integrated to the local community through different elements and designs. To do so, an additional arrangement is suggested.

Tippet Rise Art Center Buildings, Montana, USA

Tippet Rise Art Center

Poised on the ridges and rolling fields where the Beartooth Mountains touch Montana’s big sky, the new Tippet Rise Art Center will open to the public in summer 2016, offering local residents and international visitors a uniquely resonant experience of great classical music, nestled among sculptures and buildings that hug the land like natural formations.