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.

House of the Arts Portugal Building

House of the Arts Portugal Building

This bright red building disintegrates the traditional distinction between walls and roofs, using detailing, material and colour as tools to achieve this.

Ptuj Performance Center, Slovenia Building

Ptuj Performance Center - Slovenia Building

The Dominican monastery in Ptuj boasts more than 800 years of history, which is, in various degrees of apparentness, expressed in its building structure. The Dominicans came to Ptuj in the early 13th century, when they were given a plot within the city walls, at the very edge of the west corner.

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Norwich

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts New Galleries UK

A major exhibition of more than 250 objects and works of art inspired by, or produced in, East Anglia is to mark the unveiling of the refurbished galleries of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich.

Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen Contemporary Art

Peacock Visual Arts: Aberdeen Contemporary Arts Centre

Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen – design by Brisac Gonzalez Architects: controversial gallery scheme for Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen – abandoned in 2010 to be replaced by the even more controversial ‘Granite Web’ by Diller Scofidio + Renfro – appears to be back on the cards.

South Bank Centre Architecture London

On Monday April 9th Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, along with Purcell Room, will open its doors to the public for the first time since closing for refurbishment at the end of 2015.

Kilden Performing Arts Centre, Kristiansand

Kilden Performing Arts Centre, Kristiansand

Kilden, a theatre and concert hall in Kristiansand, Norway, has brought together all the city’s institutions of performing arts. Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra now has a concert hall accommodating 1200 attendees.