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Design: Coates Design Architects. The Bainbridge Island Gateway, a multi use office and retail anchor on Bainbridge Island, WA, features copper panels crafted by hand in Silverdale, WA using weatherizing technology developed by DMD. The facade is self-healing, and will continue to age over time.
How to generate a large-scale cultural attraction in a UNESCO World heritage site? This audacious building by architects Mauro Turin Architectes on the shores of Lake Geneva doesn’t try to fit in, but proposes a massive cantilever.
Design: Purcell
The Babcock Galleries at The National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard have opened to the public following a £4.5 million renovation led by architects Purcell and project managers Artelia.
Design: Snøhetta: Opening of National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion. On May 15, 2014, President Obama will be present for the dedication of the National September 11 Memorial Museum & Pavilion at the World Trade Center site
Tense Architecture Network wins 2nd prize (shared) in the European competition for the new Museum of the reconstructed mythical ship Argo for the city of Volos in Greece
Design: architect Renzo Piano.The new building will include more than 50,000 sqft of indoor galleries and 13,000 sqft of outdoor exhibition space on a series of rooftops facing the High Line
Exhibition design: ATELIER BRÜCKNER, Germany. The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam (Het Scheepvaartmuseum) is presenting its extensive collection of maps and atlases in a new setting.
The exhibition, “The Atlases”, is being shown in the east wing of the museum, part of the ‘object galleries’, designed by architects ATELIER BRÜCKNER and opened in 2011.
Design: BenthemCrouwel Architects. The new levitated superstructure contains exhibition space, a restaurant, a shop and the new entrance. The new building, popularly called ‘the Bath Tub’, adds over 9,000 sqm to the historic museum building. This includes programme space as well as 3,400 sqm of exhibition space
Spark’s sales gallery is located adjacent to Nanjing South Railway Station: the two storey building showcases the broad spectrum of residential and commercial space available at Vanke’s mixed use development.
Conceived as an abstracted reflection of railway track geometry this bold building is shaped by functional and conceptual considerations.
Design: Ennead Architects, LLP with GSBS. The new Natural History Museum of Utah building is designed by Todd Schliemann of Ennead Architects. The building sits on a breathtaking 17-acre site overlooking the Salt Lake Valley, its commanding profile and copper skin blending seamlessly into the foothills of the Wasatch Mountain Range. Partners Schliemann and Don Weinreich led the Ennead design team, in association with David Brems and John Branson of GSBS (Gillies Stransky Brems Smith) of Salt Lake City.
Design: Farshid Moussavi / Foreign Office Architects. MOCA Cleveland is a 34,000 sqft non-collecting contemporary art museum designed to serve as a catalyst for creativity and growth in a cosmopolitan Cleveland neighborhood
The Collection Pavilion at Shanghai Auto Museum, Shanghai-Anting, China, a permanent exhibition about the milestones in automobile development from 1900 to 1975. ATELIER BRÜCKNER created a spacious room narrative representing an exclusive parking deck which displays 39 historical cars over 2300 square metres.
Design: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Austria: EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam includes a cinematography museum formerly called Filmmuseum, founded in 1952
The Dalí Museum design by HOK, Architects on a scenic waterfront site in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. The 68,000-sqft building doubles the size of the original 1982 Dalí Museum, a one-story warehouse. Exhibits include oils, watercolors, sketches, sculptures and other works from a 2,140-piece permanent collection. The $30m building stands more than 75 feet tall and is adorned by 1,062 unique, triangular glass panels.
Design: Nizio Design International. Multimedia museum exhibitions, Poland’s most modern spaces dedicated to culture, visual arts, and family entertainment are but a part of the plans to develop the Old Mine in Wałbrzych.
Richard Meier & Partners announce opening of the new Richard Meier Model Museum at Mana Contemporary at 888 Newark Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey. The new museum designed and curated by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier includes a large model exhibition area, a sculpture exhibition area, an archive and a library that is open to students and scholars.
Design: Bente Lange Arkitekter
The A.P. Møller Foundation has made a generous donation to securing the future of the Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art by adding new building facilities.
In 2014 it’s exactly a century after the building was moved to its current location at Østerport in Copenhagen and in November, the new part of one of Europe’s oldest artists’ houses will be completed and open to the public.