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Geffrye Museum funding news – proposals by Wright & Wright Architects receives £12.3million National Lottery grant. The architects “have a strong record of award-winning work with heritage buildings, sensitive sites and complex problems.”
Architects: Studio Zhu-Pei
Located in the historic center of Jingdezhen city, Jingdezhen Historical Museum of the Imperial Kiln is adjacent to the Ming and Qing imperial kiln ruins and surrounded by many ancient kilns varied in size.
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter. This new building in Molde has been selected as a finalist for the 5th Annual Architizer A+Award, and also nominated the “Wooden Building of the Year 2016” in Norway.
Centro Botín by architects Renzo Piano – a permanent home for the art, cultural and educational programmes of Fundación Botín, Spain’s most important private cultural foundation, will open in Santander on Friday 23 June,.
Architects: Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter. Conceived as a wooden palisade this new layer defines an envelope within which the museum can continue to expand, converting class rooms into new exhibition spaces as additional funds are raised.
Design: Ricardo Camacho + STROOP, architects – new photos. The reconversion of a formal garden by Kuwait Amiri Diwan was built in the early 1960’s, to celebrate the city’s modernization, and named as “Shaheed Garden” after Saddam’s Invasion in memory of the war martyrs.
Design: Coop Himmelblau, HSArchitects + GD-Lighting
Mocape’s surface materials of glass, perforated plate, and stone extend and twist along the steel structure, creating a complicated architecture full of vitality.
Design by Reader & Swartz Architects – this was a plain, utilitarian, three story brick building. It was originally constructed for the Schewels Furniture Company, in the historic downtown, in the late 1940’s.
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.