Pierres Vives Building, Montpellier Zaha Hadid
The Conseil Général of Hérault announces the inauguration of the first public building in France designed by Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi British architect, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2004.
Cultural Centre buildings
Cultural Centre buildings and architects
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pierresvives Montpellier, Zaha Hadid France
pierresvives brings a new dimension to public reading with its bold and magnificent flight into the future in all its possible forms. The pierresvives archives magnify memory through novel technologies; current reflections will generate the memories of tomorrow.
Ping Shan TSW Building: Leisure and Cultural
The Ping Shan Tin Shui Wai Leisure and Cultural Building in Hong Kong project is a medium-rise development having 10 main levels including one basement. It accommodates two main blocks which are a public library and an indoor recreation centre.
Raif Dinckok Kultur Merkezi, Yalova Building
Raif Dinckok Yalova Cultural Center. It is possible to say that cities are made out of different contextual layers which time by time come near each other or on top of each other, even intertwine at times and ground their specific existing states.
Yurihonjo City Cultural Center, Kadare Building
Kadare Cultural Center. This is a complex institution composed of Multipurpose Transforming Theater, Library and Community Center. Originally, this project had two sites sandwiching a road.
Building Academy Salzburg, Austria
Viscous Affiliation – New Foyer and Adaption of the Building Academy soma’s design creates a new foyer and entrance topography to the Building Academy, and adapts an existing factory hall into a cultural venue
COAM Headquarters, Madrid Architects Association
Agreement signed between the City of Madrid and the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM) to coordinate a set of actions towards the restoration of the complex of Escuelas Pías de San Antón, that had suffered a fire few years before.
Hanjie Wanda Square, Wuhan Central
Under construction – Hanjie Wanda Square is a new luxury shopping plaza located in the Wuhan Central Culture Centre, one of the most important areas of Wuhan City.
Buen Mandal Architecture, Norway – Nedre Malmø
The Arch in Mandal, Norway. Historic white wooden houses, charming narrow streets, a river running though the center and beach and forest nearby. The town of Mandal is the essence of southern Norwegian idyll.
Kuwait Cultural Centre, Sabah Al Ahmad
BDP has been appointed by the Public Authority of Housing Welfare (PAHW) to design a Cultural Centre within the arid sands of the Kuwaiti desert. The new centre will lie at the heart of Sabah Al Ahmad, a major new city.
Verdun Cultural Center Montréal building
Cultural Center in Verdun competition finalist proposal. Located in a large forested park along the edge of the St-Lawrence River, the project offers the City of Verdun a center dedicated to the performing arts.
Espacio Cultural El Tanque de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The Espacio Cultural El Tanque de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary at ARCO 2012 with a special guest: the architect Fernando Menis, author and head of the architectural restoration.
Cultural Harbour Odense, Denmark Building
Three houses on pillars in a landscape of stairs, shelves and terraces is creating a piece of the North Atlantic countries in the winning proposal for a future culture house on the harbour of Odense in Denmark. The building is set to open in 2013
Jinan Cultural Center, Shandong Province
The city of Jinan has a strategic location supported with a good transportation hub (Yaoqiang International Airport, Beijing-Shanghai and Jinan-Qindao high-speed train lines, several important highways and an important transport artery that passes through the city).
Atlanta History Center, Georgia Building
The story of the phoenix is a well-worn metaphor for the history of Atlanta. Reborn from its own ashes, the mythological bird symbolizes reinvention, difficulties and breakthroughs, a resurgent spirit and a shining unwritten future full of hope.
Pabellón Cultural de la República, Los Cabos Building
This amazing group of buildings was designed by Juan Pablo Serrano Orozco and Rafael Monjaraz Fuentes in association with Serrano Arquitectos Asociados.
The Trutnov UFFO: Czech Building of Year
Along with four other buildings it has been proclaimed The Building of the Year 2011 by the jury consisting of renowned architects. UFFO succeeded in a competition of 42 other buildings