Perm Museum, Russian Architecture Competition
The skin is envisioned as a hybrid shell-like system with two-way spanning characteristics that exhibit both robustness and efficiency. Folded-plate trusses span along the first principle axis.
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Perm Museum Architecture Competition
For new museum center building for Perm Art Gallery, Perm, Russia. Organiser C:CA / Center of Contemporary Architecture, Moscow, In collaboration with Union of Russian Architects
Waterloo History Museum Ottawa building
Situating the Region of Waterloo History Museum at Doon Heritage Crossroads has provided many unique and exciting opportunities for the building’s architecture.
Pushkin Museum Moscow Building Extension
The Pushkin is the finest museum of European art in Moscow and one of the world’s great cultural institutions. Building on the experience of projects such as the Carré d’Art in Nîmes and the Great Court at the British Museum, this masterplan aims to establish a thriving cultural quarter focused on the Pushkin.
Miami Art Museum Landscape, PAMM: Pérez
Laurinda Spear recently launched a new landscape architecture practice, ArquitectonicaGEO: her young firm was selected to work with celebrated Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron on the much-anticipated Pérez Art Museum, or PAMM.
Warsaw Museum of Modern Art Competition
The Crystalline Container is an austere transparent parallelepiped protecting and revealing a strong dynamic space holding the many activities of the museum.
Ara Pacis Museum Rome: Richard Meier
Rome’s new mayor announced on 30 Apr his intention to destroy the museum building designed by Richard Meier that was only completed in 2006. Mayor Gianni Alemanno claimed it isn’t his top priority though.
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge building, England
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, UK – design by architect George Basevi – Trumpington Street architecture, historic English building built in 1837-41
Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art: Riga Building
Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art in Riga. The Latvian Ministry of Culture plans to progress its first modern gallery design by Rem Koolhaas and Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
Shetland Museum Building, Archives, Scotland
Shetland Museum and Archives, designed by BDP, has won the Gold Award in this year’s Wood Awards. The project was shortlisted in three categories, and won the Commercial and Public Access category, eventually going on to win the top prize at the award ceremony.
Museum of World Culture Gothenburg
A new major national museum including exhibition galleries, university research centre, library, 200-person auditorium and restaurant.
Downland Gridshell, Sussex Museum Building
Edward Cullinan Architects collaborated with the engineers Buro Happold and Green Oak Carpentry Company to develop this innovative, award- winning low energy structure.
Te Papa Museum, Wellington, NZ Building
Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand – design by Jasmax, architects – Architecture, key building on the habour at 55 Cable Street
Dunfermline Museum Competition, Scotland
Organisers: The Dunfermline Museum and Library Competition was advertised in 2006 and coordinated by the RIAS & Fife Council, site: adj. Dunfermline Abbey & first Carnegie Library, central Dunfermline, west Fife.
Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington Museum
Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington, Northumberland was a working pit from 1894 – 1981. It opened as a museum in 1989, using the original listed pit buildings to describe mining in Northumberland.
Museum Het Valkhof Nijmegen: UN Studio
Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, built in 1995-1998, with a program of museum for contemporary art and Archaeology, gross floor surface: 6.100 m², volume: 40.000 m³
Yakutsk Building: World Mammoth Museum
Leeser Architecture has won the international competition for the World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in the city of Yakutsk in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia in the center of Siberia.