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Architecture competition winners news – this design contest received 268 registrations from all around the world. It demanded a stimulating and exciting approach towards the design of a building on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.
Design: Radionica Arhitekture; Ured ovlaštene arhitektice Vanja Ilić. The building is a path which the visitors climb to overcome the elevation difference of around 20m, from the access road to the plateau, on which the Vučedol culture archaeological findings have been discovered.
Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Crystal Cloud of Knowledge: The future society will be a society of knowledge. However this knowledge can hardly be split into clearly defined fields. Innovations develop within interspaces, within indistinctness, within the overlapping and hybridising.
Design: casanova+hernandez architecten. Shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe 2017 Awards: the new building opens a new generation of contemporary museums in Albania, not only restoring the Albanian cultural heritage, but also forming an attraction for visitors.
Transforming a former German WWII bunker, within the protected shorelands of Blåvand the new building has four main volumes, housing four independent institutions: a bunker museum, an amber museum, a history museum and a special exhibitions gallery.
Design: Graeme Massie Architects
The new building design stems from both an understanding of its role as a civic building in a historic European capital city and its need to respond to the requirements of a twenty-first century museum.
Design: Richard Olcott / Ennead Architects
One of the largest art museum campaigns in the US, the building expansion includes the addition of a 40,000 sqft wing along with 17,500 sqft of renovation to adjacent structures.
Architects: Snøhetta. Building extension based on idea of art hovering above a transparent base. The new space houses a children’s workshop at ground level with floor-to-ceiling windows, located under a cantilevered hall covered in a dynamic metal façade.
Design: Fentress Architects and Machado Silvetti, Architects. $150 m renewal and expansion of Gio Ponti’s only building in the US, one of the first high-rise art museums, to be completed in time to mark its 50th anniversary in 2021.
Architects: West-line studio. The Red Army Memorial Museum is situated in the rural Bing’an Warf, a shoal in the middle of the Chishui river, on the border between the regions of Guizhou and Sichuan, in South-West China.
Design: GLCRM and Provencher_Roy Architects
A new reception pavilion plus preservation of historic Parliament Building designed by Eugène-Étienne Taché.
Design: Purcell, architects. News on this major transformation of the historic fabric of the Grade II* listed buildings and upgarde in the experience of visiting.
Museo del Prado expansion design by Gluckman Tang Architects, the only US architectural practice out of eight finalists in an international competition featuring the world’s foremost architecture firms.
Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, architects. New photos, taken by Duccio Malagamba, feature Shenzhen’s new cultural meeting point and a venue for architectural exhibitions by architect Wolf D. Prix.
Architects Foster + Partners and Rubio Arquitectura have won the international competition to rejuvenate and restore the historic Hall of Realms as a new addition to the Museo del Prado campus in Madrid.
Architects: Melbourne Design Studios (MDS). This concept project creates a ‘connector’ between the existing Alvar Aalto Museo and the Cen-tral Museum of Finland in Ruusupuisto, inspired by Alvar Aalto’s architecture, paintings and design philosophy.
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. The ARoS Aarhus Art Museum’ (DK) ambitious €40 million expansion plan, Next Level, was suggested in 2015 and now the design of what will be the biggest art gallery project by American artist James Turrell has been revealed.