West Shanghai Workers’ Cultural Palace
schmidt hammer lassen architects have won an international competition to design a new cultural home for the city of Shanghai, China.
Cultural Centre buildings
Cultural Centre buildings and architects
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We feature a selection of the best new culture facilities around the globe.
Centro Cultural Roberto Cantoral Coyoacan
Design: Broissin Architectes. Inspired in the movement of a conductor’s baton, the building design is composed of five concrete roofs moving up and down in harmony to give shape, space and light to the project. Each roof represents a staff’s line, always straight, constant and parallel.
Cultual Center La Gota, Tabacoo Museum
Design: Losada García Arquitectos. Cultural Center La Gota is a hybrid building for exhibition spaces that aims to create a new focus of urban centrality in Navalmoral, showcasing the identity of the town.
Harbin Opera House Building
In 2010, MAD Architects won the international open competition for Harbin Cultural Island, a master plan for an opera house, a cultural center, and the surrounding wetland landscape along Harbin’s Songhua River.
Villacidro Civic Centre in Sardinia: Building
Design: 3TI PROGETTI. The design of the new Civic Centre in Villacidro is located in a site that is an important urban reference point for the city and its inhabitants, due to its history and its morphological and natural features.
Cultural Center Väven in Umeå, Sweden
Design: Snøhetta / White Arkitekter. The cultural center is part of an urban development project: the City between Bridges. The new development is seen as an important catalyst for Umeå’s urban regeneration, and it aims to create a cultural area along the river Ume.
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.
Centre for Democracy in Seoul, Korea
JDAP Design – Architecture – Planning has designed a new Centre for Democracy at Sejongdaero, Seoul as part of the Sejondgaero Historic Cultural Space Design Competition.
V-A-C Contemporary Arts & 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.
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.
La Grande Passerelle Cultural Hub, Saint-Malo
La Grande Passerelle Cultural Hub, Saint-Malo Building, France, Architect, Images, Architecture La Grande Passerelle Cultural Hub Public Building Development in Saint-Malo, France – design by Architecture-Studio 25 May 2015 La Grande Passerelle Cultural Hub in Saint-Malo Design: Architecture-Studio Location: Saint-Malo, France La Grande Passerelle, home of the main public cultural facilities of Saint-Malo, is immediately seen … Read more
Liget Budapest Cultural Centre Competition
Two world renowned architect offices ranked first in the international architectural design competition announced for the New National Gallery–Ludwig Museum.
Regent Park Cultural Centre Toronto downtown
Daniels Spectrum, the transformative cultural centre at the heart of a regenerated Regent Park community in downtown Toronto, received a Civic Trust Award at a ceremony at The Globe Theatre in London, England.
Bamiyan Cultural Centre Design Competition
Barna Architects’ focus for the design of the Bamiyan Cultural Center was to find the right form of integration from an ecological perspective, for this reason it is indispensable to understand the local inhabitants’ lives and their connection to the environment.
Wadden Sea Centre in Vester Vedsted
Wadden Sea Centre and the city of Esbjerg now announce the proposal by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter as the winning scheme for the extension and refurbishment of the Wadden Sea Centre in Vester Vedsted. Located in the southern part of Jutland, Denmark
Soumaya Museum Mexico City
Museum buildings tend to be conceived either for maximum functionality – acting as neutral containers for art – or as iconic structures that represent a city at a particular historic moment.
Three Cultural Centers and One Book Mall
Mecanoo designed the winning competition entry for a new 95,000 sqm cultural complex with a public art museum, science museum, youth centre and a bookshop, public square and parking in the Shenzhen district.