Guangzhou Opera House: Zaha Hadid China

Guangzhou Opera House by Zaha Hadid Architect

Design by Zaha Hadid Architects – like pebbles in a stream smoothed by erosion, the Guangzhou Opera House sits in perfect harmony with its riverside location. This new building is at the heart of Guangzhou’s cultural development.

National Concert Hall Dublin, Irish Building

3XN is one of two finalists in the prestigious competition to design Dublin’s new National Concert Hall. The competition was initiated in 2008 and the shortlist of renowned architects was soon narrowed down to two competing teams lead by Danish Architects; 3XN and Henning Larsen Architects.

Kristiansund Operahouse, Norway culture house

Kristiansund Opera and Culture Centre

C. F. Møller Architects has just won the competition for the new Kristiansund Opera and Culture Centre. The company was awarded a shared first prize in the competition, now the jury has selected C. F. Møller Architects as final winner.

Dalarna Media Arena, Falun Building, Sweden

Dalarna Media Arena, Falun, Sweden, Building

Danish ADEPT, Japanese SOU FUJIMOTO Architects and an advisory team consisting of Topotek1, Rambøll A/S and Bosch & Fjord win the competition for a new library in Falun, Sweden, with the project “Dalarna Media Arena”.

Maison de Radio France, Paris

Maison de Radio France, Paris

The programme is complex: it associates working spaces with communication spaces, historical spaces with modern spaces, crossing spaces with spaces of presence, closed and open spaces.

Muziekgebouw Amsterdam: Dutch concert hall

Muziekgebouw Amsterdam: Dutch concert hall building

Music Building on the IJ is the main concert hall for contemporary classical music on the IJ in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The building opened in 2005 and is located above the IJtunnel, a ten-minute walk from Amsterdam Centraal station

Astana Kazakhstan State Auditorium

This auditorium – one of the largest in the world – was awarded to Studio Nicoletti as the result of an International restricted competition. Founded in the heart of the steppes only four years after the Independence of the Country, Astana is now a decade old new capital of Kazakhstan.