Performing Arts Center World Trade Center, NYC

World Trade Center New York

Henning Larsen Architects is one of three finalists in the international competition that featured the world’s greatest architecture firms. Danish design – recognized for its sophistication, integrity, and quality – is currently having a wide influence on cities and cultures throughout the world.

FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St. Catharines

FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St. Catharines

Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects. Four-theatre complex completes cultural hub in Niagara region: a bold urban renewal project that provides a new centre for the performing arts as well as an arts learning environment is set to open in downtown St. Catharines.

Multifunctional Theater in Mont-Laurier, Quebec

Multifunctional Theater in Mont-Laurier, Quebec

Multifunctional Theater in Mont-Laurier design by Les architectes FABG. Located in the Laurentian Mountains, 250 kilometers northwest of Montreal, Mont-Laurier is a small town where the forest industry still plays a centralrole despite a declining demand for lumber.

V-A-C Contemporary Arts & Culture Centre

V-A-C Contemporary Arts and Culture Centre

Renzo Piano Building Workshop to redesign 2 hectares of the city, converting a historic power station, situated on the banks of the Moskva river, into a new venue for contemporary arts and culture.

Southbank Centre Archive Studio in London

Southbank Centre’s Archive Studio

Architects: Jonathan Tuckey Design. From October, Southbank Centre will be refurbishing the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery, opening up access to their collections and uniting the story of the Festival Site.

Factory Theatre Manchester Building

Manchester’s £110m Factory Theatre takes a big step forward with architects set to be appointed. Architects for Manchester’s new £110m Factory Theatre will soon be appointed.

National Arts Centre in Ottawa, NAC building

Kipnes Lantern, National Arts Centre Ottawa building

The next stage of renewal at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa will be unveiled on New Year’s Eve. The Kipnes Lantern is a three-storey, multi-sided signature element of the NAC’s architectural rejuvenation, a $225-million project by Diamond Schmitt Architects.

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown

The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown

Design: Selldorf Architects, New York – The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown opened its expanded and reconceived 140-acre campus on July 4, 2014. The multi-phase project, nearly fifteen years in the making, reconceptualizes the visitor experience of the Clark.

West Kowloon Arts Pavilion 2013, Hong Kong

Westkowloon

Design: Atelier Zündel Cristea. This building design envisions the Arts Pavilion as a place combining leisure and art, in creating a popular spot welcoming to all.

The architects designed a space for learning, relaxation, and discussion; an architectural and cultural icon in the heart of the park.

Akhriev Art Studio in Tennessee

Akhriev Art Studio 6

Hefferlin + Kronenberg Architects received an AIA award of excellence for the design of an art studio and apartment in a redeveloping downtown neighborhood of Chattanooga called the Southside District

ArtA Kunstencluster Arnhem, The Netherlands

ArtA Kunstencluster Arnhem 13

Design: NL Architects. ArtA will be an exciting mixture of public functions: a ‘sandwich’ of cinema, square, museum and park: Art House, Art Square, Art Show, Art Park. By pushing this programmatic sandwich down on one side the roof becomes accessible. At the same time the building opens up to the river.

WKCDA Arts Pavilion, Hong Kong Design Contest

WKCDA Arts Pavilion

Design: XML Amsterdam (NL). For the West Kowloon Cultural District competition in Hong Kong, XML designed a new Arts Pavilion. By reimagining the classical Miesian pavilion typology of a glass box and roof, the XML proposal sets out to create a pavilion that offers two distinct types of exhibition spaces. Under a large canopy, a glass-enclosed box offers a 4.5meter high unobstructed space, that can be adapted to an infinite amount of layouts for the exhibition of painting, sculpture, video, photography and other media.

West Kowloon Arts Pavilion, Hong Kong

West Kowloon Arts Pavilion 2

Design: VPANG architects ltd + JET Architecture Inc + Lisa Cheung. WKCDA announces the results of the Arts Pavilion Design Competition.

The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) have announced that VPANG architects ltd + JET Architecture Inc + Lisa Cheung, have been appointed to design the Arts Pavilion in the West Kowloon Cultural District, after achieving first prize in a single stage international design competition.

Culture and Art Center Qingdao City, China

Steven Holl Architects has been selected by near unanimous jury decision as the winner of the new Culture and Art Center of Qingdao City competition, besting OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects

Lunder Arts Center Building: Porter Square

Lunder Arts Center Building: Porter Square

Bruner/Cott & Associates, a design firm with emphasis on large institutional projects and urban development, announces that construction is underway on Lesley University’s Lunder Arts Center in Porter Square, Cambridge.