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Design: ARM Architecture. “One of the big strategic objectives for the city was that the building actually be iconic, to be a landmark building. And I think you can say that they’ve achieved that quite successfully.”
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects / Architectus / Andronas Conservation Architects – designs unveiled for $88 million redevelopment plan, returning 40% more space to public use
Architects ACME were appointed to design a new town square, a sculptural entrance to the mall (the Shard), a library and civic centre, the David Jones department store, and a Multi-story carpark.
Design: Sanjay Udamale Architects. This building houses one of the India’s largest libraries of Science, Engineering and Technology. Located in the heart of the campus it is surrounded with lush greenery.
Design: Boogertman + Partners Architects. The circular form symbolises the simplicity embodied in the basic cycle of nature. The form, embedded within ethereal forest physically manifests the notion of ‘walks and talks’.
A major step forward in the restoration of the Mackintosh Library was marked today, 3 February 2017, with the appointment of Laurence McIntosh to construct a full-size prototype of a library bay.
Design: NOMA Arkitekter. Architects Vincenzo Marchese and Petter Nordahl have recently created an eye-catching library, clad in sustainable Kebony wood, by converting the second storey of a garage in Vestfold, Norway.
Design: Bruno Gaudin & Virginie Brégal Architectes. This historical site has just reopened after ten years of complete building renovation by the architects Bruno Gaudin and Virginie Brégal.
Design: bblur architecture and CZWG. A dynamic team of architects, designers and consultants are celebrating the completion of the £22m cultural hub project, The Curve, located in the centre of Slough, Berkshire, UK
By opening up the building to promote its special collections to the wider public, Wilkinson Eyre has also addressed the building’s identity and related it more closely to its immediate context by improving its perception and approach.
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. The main part of the library will float above two pavilions that will house a 1200 seat performance venue, exhibition and events space and a children’s library, that will all open up towards a series of landscaped courtyards and gardens.
This cultural centre building design by Bennetts Associates Architects provides two theatres, a cinema and a public library in the historic centre of the city. It incorporates the listed shell of a former Odeon cinema and a new brick and translucent glass extension.
Design: Architecture Patrick Mauger
The aim of the new multimedia library building, built at the same time as the Maison du Temps Libre, is to provide the town with a new boost to its cultural life.
Design: DRDH, architects. Two new civic buildings or this town 100km inside the Arctic Circle. The architecture stitches into the existing urban fabric, playing off the link to the town centre and nearby harbour.
Design: Studio Archohm, architects
‘To rebel with a cause’; The big concrete central library of the Shoolini University in Solan overlooks a beautiful green valley. The building physically manifests the philosophy of this biotechnology campus.
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects: The 1,500 sqm library building provides the Highlands’ community with a distinctive landmark which underlines that this new creative centre for learning is open and accessible
Architect: ZAO / standardarchitecture / Zhang Ke. A small-scale architecture project that enriches bonds amongst communities and revives Hutong life. The courtyard is about 300-400 years old and once housed a temple building.