Cape Town World Design Capital 2014: Buildings
October will see the announcement of the winner of World Design Capital 2014, and Cape Town is the first African city ever to have made it onto the shortlist.
Cultural Centre buildings
Cultural Centre buildings and architects
e-architect select major cultural centre buildings from around the World. Discover cultural center architecture projects information, news and pictures. Source the best new culture building designs globally.
We feature a selection of the best new culture facilities around the globe.
CCRC Singapore, Civic & Culture Centre Building
The design for the Civic, Cultural & Retail Complex does not present one singular expression to describe the project; instead it celebrates the rich and numerous activities inside.
La Gaîté lyrique – Paris Cultural Building
At the confluence of past and future, here is the new Gaîté lyrique. This historic place, echoed with the sounds of so many familiar melodies that are part of our common cultural landscape
Cultural and Contextual Identity: Nigel Henbury
Cultural and Contextual Identity. A group of projects presented this week catch the eye, as expressions or solutions to different contexts across three continents and several climate zones.
Kunsthaus Weiz: Austrian Cultural Centre
The community lacked an adequately meeting hall. Through the erection of a new fire station at the edge of Weiz a site at the heart of the town became available, directly opposite the headquarters of the local industrial giant
New Cultural Center Pozuelo de Alarcón
FÜNDC, Spanish architecture and urban planning office, just finalized the largest urban intervention of the last decades made on Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid
Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Osoyoos, BC
The Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre is designed to be a specific and sustainable response to the building’s unique context—the unusual Canadian desert found in the South Okanagan Valley in Osoyoos, British Columbia.
Cultural Complex Longgang District Shenzhen
Mecanoo architecten has been selected by the district government of Shenzhen to design a new cultural complex in Shenzhen. The design comprises a public art museum, science museum, youth centre and a mega bookstore totaling 90,000 m².
An Gaelaras, Northern Ireland, Derry Architecture
An Gaelaras – Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin – is a cultural centre for the Irish language, and is situated on an unprepossessing narrow landlocked site in Derry. It is a sculptural intervention featuring an intriguing vortex plan that draws the visitor inwards and upwards.
Cultural Centre Albania Mosque Complex by BIG
BIG, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Buro Happold, Speirs & Major, Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, and Global Cultural Asset Management are today announced as the winning team of the international design competition for a new 27.000 m2 cultural complex in Albania.
Cultural Architecture: Architectural Culture
Cultural Architecture – architectural discussion by Mehri Mohebbi, Iran – international architectural culture article: museum mostly dedicated to the contemporary arts, a library in a humid climate, and cultural heritage in danger
Cultural Center Ranica, Bergamo Building
Ranica, a small medieval town in the outskirts of Bergamo, Italy, can now enjoy a piece of contemporary architecture: the new Cultural Center by DAP studio and Paola Giaconia.
Russian Cultural Centre Paris + Orthodox Worship
Russian Cultural Centre facilities in Paris include a church, lodgings, library and a public garden. The Russian Orthodox Center is located in the 7E district.
Seven Chambers Dalian, China building
As time defines history and events turn into memories, time itself again stands in the way to recall both as the constantly changing subjectiveness of presence determines the perspective of view onto the past.
Worms Culture & Conference Center: Wormser
Worms’s new Culture and Conference Center – designed and built by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) – along with the refurbished Spiel- und Festhaus theater will open with a special festival week marking the end of nearly three years’ construction.
KSEVT Vitanje Building, Slovenia Cultural Center
With its program, The Cultural Center of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) will supplement the local cultural and social activities of the Arts Center in Vitanje: KSEVT Vitanje, Slovenia, by various architects.
House of Culture and Movement Frederiksberg
The City of Frederiksberg, Denmark, the Danish Foundation for Culture and Sport Facilities and Realdania announced MVRDV and ADEPT winner of the House of Culture and Movement competition in Frederiksberg, Denmark