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The website features a selection of the best new visitor centre building designs around the world, by respected designers.
In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary architecture projects on this international website. Our focus is on internationally-significant architectural works.
Architects: HASSELL. The Wool Resource Centre includes a library, a showroom and an events space for visitors to develop and enhance their education on wool. There are six separate zones including open-plan workspaces, a meeting room and an auditorium.
Design: Matteo Cainer Architects. The design of the new educational, conference and seed production complex, responds both to the site as well as the orientation and geometries of the existing buildings.
Design: ONZ Architects & MDesign. The Çaycuma Science Center Architectural Competition was an open architectural competition organized by Çaycuma Municipality, a town in the Black Sea region of Turkey.
Design: Uostamiescio projektas. On the top of the building the roof cafe with a terrace was designed offering a view to the Curonian lagoon and the Baltic sea. Over the dolphin living space the sunroof was installed, dropping the maximum amount of light into the pool area.
The BBC report that it is the biggest launch Belfast’s waterfront has seen in a 100 years. The last one was the Titanic itself. Now a century later the slipways are dominated by the imposing Titanic Belfast centre designed to commemorate the most famous vessel ever built.
Design: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter
The vision of a world-class tourist attraction in Ilulissat has come one step closer to realization with the selection of Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter’s proposal for an Icefjord Centre.
Purcell beat Carmody Groarke, dRMM, Eric Parry Architects and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in this architecture competition: they “demonstrated the deepest understanding of the site and context” with a “crisp, integrated and compelling” design.
Design: Heneghan Peng Architects. New photos of this uncompromising building on the north coast of Northern Ireland, designed “to blend in to the natural rural environment via re-establishment of the ridge-line by use of a part buried structure”.
Images of designs by the five finalist teams selected to develop concept designs in the second stage of this architecture competition: Carmody Groarke, dRMM, Eric Parry Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Purcell.
Design: Purcell, architects
Design team leader appointment on this project in Larkhill. The building is to be a sustainable new home to share the heritage of Salisbury Plain and display internationally significant collections.
Design: Grant Associates
National Trust opens new Welcome Centre for Mottisfont set within a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and featuring a landscape strategy by Grant Associates.
This is a two-stage design competition; at the first stage, expressions of interest are sought; at the second, designers will be asked to respond to the church’s vision for an integrated scheme, incorporating a range of facilities within a building or buildings.
Design: Snøhetta / White Arkitekter. The cultural center is part of an urban development project: the City between Bridges. The new development is seen as an important catalyst for Umeå’s urban regeneration, and it aims to create a cultural area along the river Ume.
Sir David Attenborough, President Emeritus of The Wildlife Trusts (NWT), and BBC Presenter and Ambassador for NWT, Ben Garrod, joined Norfolk Wildlife Trust in celebrating the official opening of the Simon Aspinall Wildlife Education Centre.
Norway, a country that generates more than 80% of its electricity from hydropower, has added to its renewable repertoire in the guise of a beautifully Kebony-clad 30GWh plant.
The commission to create Loch Leven Viewpoint was part of the last phase of work to complete the final section of the 13 mile heritage trail circuit around Loch Leven.
Stage one of the project to revitalise the Old Mine in Wałbrzych (Lower Silesia region, Poland) has been completed and the facility is now open to visitors.