International Cave Painting Centre France building
International Cave Painting Centre in France. As we leave the cave, our shadows flicker in an ascending movement towards the daylight. Further on, the sun guides our steps to the upper level.
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Visitor centre buildings designs and architects
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Tåkern Visitor Centre, Glänås Building, Lake Tåkern
All the way out where the forest ends and the reeds begin, a visitor center hovers low on piles set carefully into the water’s edge.
Stonehenge Visitor Facilities Building, England
A £27m project at Stonehenge to build a new visitor centre and close the road alongside the monument has begun. The centre will replace existing poor quality buildings that are frankly an embarrassment.
Brockholes Nature Reserve, Visitor Centre Preston
The visitor centre at Brockholes is a cluster of buildings set in a lake on a floating pontoon, which responds to changing water levels in the flood plain. The architect has broken down what is a sizeable scheme into a simple and engaging village of buildings.
Abbotsford House, Melrose home of Sir Walter Scott
The Heritage Lottery Fund announces a grant of £1million to the Abbotsford Trust that will help ensure the future of the Scottish Borders home of Romantic writer and poet, Sir Walter Scott.
Disaster Prevention Education Center, Bakirkoy
The rich culture of Turkey includes a monument to human achievement, invention, and practicality – a site called Cappadocia. More than two thousand years ago, the people of the region sought a strong, permanent and imposing shelter.
Domkyrkoforum Visitor Centre Lund building
The new Domkyrkoforum visitor centre, facing the Cathedral in the Swedish city of Lund, uses Aurubis Architectural’s Nordic Brass panels to create a series of contemporary forms, generating new vistas and public spaces within its historic setting.
History Colorado Center: Denver Museum Building
The map is located in the History Colorado Center’s four-story atrium. Weitzman and his talented team handcrafted 234 tiles, each being +- 3’ X 3’ X 7/16” in size, with a tolerance of 5/1000 of an inch, and taking over 9,000 man-hours to install—all of which comes together to form a dramatic bird’s eye view of the state.
Amsterdam Architecture Center: ARCAM
At the project of Arcam the main concept is the fold of the aluminium-zinc façade. The faces between the fold are made from glass. To keep the fold as pure as possible there has been chosen to make the fold out of one continuous material.
Istanbul Disaster Prevention & Education Centre
Vlado Valkof’s intention in the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Centre Competitio is to organize a joyful, integral space where man reconciles with nature. In addition to animate forms we have manipulated the movement in order to induce the production of new urban opportunities.
Centro Niemeyer, Avilés Building, Spain
Centro Niemeyer Avilés is currently closed and may not reopen. Oscar Niemeyer wrote a letter of support for the centre in October. More information online as developments occur.
Red Rock Canyon Visitor Center, USA
Red Rock Canyon Visitor Center consists of a new 8,000 sf. Visitor Arrival building with 44,000 sf of outdoor exhibits, a 7,000 sf remodel of the existing visitor center building to house administrative functions, and a new 1,100 sf. Visitor Contact Station.
Louvre Pyramid Building – Architect
Louvre Pyramid Building, Paris, France – design by I M Pei, architect – information + photos of the Louvre Pyramid, lobby to famous French art gallery
Parlamentarium Brussels: European Parliament
ATELIER BRÜCKNER designs visitors’ centre of the European Parliament in Brussels Beginning 14th of October, the European Parliament will welcome its visitors with a scenographically staged exhibition in 23 different languages.