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.
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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.
Bardo Cultural District Algeria: Constantine building
In order to highlight the appointment of Constantine as the capital city of Arabic culture in 2015, the Wilaya Land Office launched an international competition for the design and construction of a new cultural hub in the Bardo District.
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.
Parco Degli Angeli, Peccioli Italy
Asymptote Architecture commissioned to design a new cultural project on the outskirts of Peccioli, Italy. Peccioli is a pre-renaissance hill town in the Province of Pisa, located about 50 kilometers southwest of Florence. The ‘Parco Degli Angeli’ (Park of Angels) Master Plan and architectural works by Asymptote include a collection of new buildings and parkland, a large covered 800-seat amphitheater and various interactive sculptural features.
Nine Elms Homes South Bank
Design: Grid Architects and Maccreanor Lavington. Wandsworth Council has approved plans to replace the Christies Fine Arts Warehouse in Nine Elms with a mixed use development including 510 homes and new cultural space.
Chinese Labour Union Cultural Home, Ningbo
schmidt hammer lassen architects completed design for new cultural home for the city Labour Union in Ningbo, China. The 100,000 sqm project, known as the Home of Staff, was won by the architects in an international competition. With an eclectic mix of functions, split across two separate buildings, the project is linked by a landscape park stretching over half a kilometre.
House of Music Opening, Aalborg
Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
After four years of construction, the “House of Music” in Aalborg, Denmark was ceremoniously opened on March 29, 2014 by the Danish Queen Margrethe II.
This cultural centre was designed by the Viennese architectural studio Coop Himmelb(l)au as a combined school and concert hall: its open structure promotes the exchange between the audience and artists, and the students and teachers. “The idea behind the building can already be read from the outer shape. The school embraces the concert hall,” explained Wolf D. Prix, design principal and CEO of Coop Himmelb(l)au.
Eyebeam Brooklyn, Lafayette Avenue Building
Design: WORK Architecture Company. Cultural facility as part of mixed-use development designed by Dattner Architects / Bernheimer Architecture. Eyebeam is pleased to announce the selection of WORK Architecture Company (WORKac) as the architectural firm to design Eyebeam’s future facility in Brooklyn, located at the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place.
Gold Coast Cultural Precinct, Queensland
Located on a bend of the ‘broadwater’ that forms a penicula – which clasps a lake – CRAB created a garden of surprises, yet with a simple basic organization. The scheme is spiritually and physically a collage of events – inspired by the overlaying of creative experiences of every genre and every level of formality. Layering them first, with large forms that are then carved into by the release of caves and ‘scoops’.
M+ Building West Kowloon, WKCDA Development
M+ Architecture Exhibition. design by Herzog & de Meuron + TFP Farrells. The First Architecture Exhibition of M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, China. Situated on the waterfront of the Victoria Harbour at the edge of the 14-hectare Park, M+ will be one of the first batch of arts and cultural venues to be completed in the WKCD