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Visitor Centres Architecture : Buildings

Major Architectural Projects from around the World

post updated February 27, 2024

Visitor Center – Latest Designs

November 27, 2023
Ozarks Education Center, OEC, Bull Shoals Field Station (BSFS) for Missouri State University, Cedarcreek, Arkansas
Architects: BNIM

photo : Kelly Callewaert
Ozarks Education Center, Arkansas, USA
The Bull Shoals Field Station is an existing research location for Missouri State University (MSU) students located within the Ozarks on the shores of Bull Shoals Lake and within the Drury-Mincy conservation area. To address the increasing demand for educational opportunities within the college and other organizations at the Bull Shoals Field Station, the Missouri State University Ozarks Education Center provides a new location for education and research by MSU faculty and students, other universities, visiting high school students, and non-profit organizations.

Giants Causeway Building, Northern Ireland
Design: Heneghan Peng Architects

photo : Marie-Louise Halpenny
Giants Causeway Building – 4 Jul 2012
This new building is located in a landscape of cliffs formed by hexagonal basalt stones. The visitor centre building helps to manage the beautiful and fragile landscape and is a resource to those who visit the site. The design for the visitor centre was the subject on an international architectural completion in 2005. An international jury selected the winning design from 201 entries.

Domkyrkoforum Visitor Centre, Lund, Sweden
Design: Carmen Izquierdo

photograph : Åke E:son Lindman
Domkyrkoforum Visitor Centre – 3 May 2012
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.

Visitor Centre Building – Recent Project

Pannonhalma Visitors Center, Hungary
Design: RS | Roeleveld – Sikkes Architects

photo : Tamás Bujnovszky, János Szentiváni, Hans Molenkamp
Pannonhalma Visitors Center
The monastery has been a beacon for culture and crafts for over a thousand years. The monastery grounds of the Benedictine order house the finest examples of religious art, crafts and architecture. It has been inscribed into the Unesco World Heritage List in 1996.

Visitor Center Building – Recent Design

United States Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, DC, USA
Design: RTKL Architects

photograph © RTKL.com/David Whitcomb
United States Capitol Visitor Center
As the seat of the nation’s legislative branch, the U.S. Capitol is one of the most recognizable and visited historic buildings in the world. RTKL was commissioned to design a 580,000 SF multi-function facility, the largest single building effort constructed on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.
While officially called the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, it encompasses not only visitor screening and orientation functions, but also several other components critical for the operations of the U.S. Capitol.
With knowledge garnered from a dozen years of work with the Architect of the Capitol, RTKL designed a facility that enhances visitor reception experience and education, strengthens building security and the U.S. Capitol‘s functionality while preserving an atmosphere of free public access for the more than three million visitors who tour the U.S. Capitol annually.

Visitor Center – Recent Design Competition

Newark Visitor Center Project, New Jersey, USA
Newark Visitor Center Competition
NVC was an international design competition. The partnership of AIA Newark & Suburban, Emerging Professionals and the Young Architects Forum invited designers from all over the world to find innovative, visionary and compelling proposals for Newark, New Jersey’s Visitor’s Center.

Visitor Centre Buildings

Featured Visitor Center Architecture, alphabetical:

Alnwick Castle Gardens Visitor Centre, UK
Hopkins Architects

building photo © Adrian Welch
Alnwick Castle Visitor Centre

City of London Information Centre, UK
make architects

image © make architects
City of London Information Centre

Culloden Battlefield Memorial Centre, UK
Gareth Hoskins Architects

photo © Ewen Weatherspoon
Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Scotland

Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre, England
Edward Cullinan Architects

picture © Adrian Welch
Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre

Giant’s Causeway Visitor Facilities, UK
heneghan.peng.architects

picture from the National Trust
Giants Causeway Visitor Centre

NYC Information Center, New York, USA
WXY architecture + urban design

picture from SGLA
NYC Information Center

Petra Visitors Centre, Jordan
Design: Edward Cullinan Architects

picture from architects
Jordan building

Snowdon Summit Visitor Centre, Wales
Design: Ray Hole Architects

picture from architect
Snowdon Summit Visitor Centre

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Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington, Northumberland, Northeast England, UK
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Design: RMJM Architects

image : Keith Hunter
Woodhorn Colliery

Visitor Centres Architecture – no images/links, alphabetical:

Cardiff Bay Visitors Centre, Cardiff waterfront, Wales
1990
Design: Will Alsop Architect

Arctic Culture Centre, Norway
Design: a-lab

picture from architect
Arctic Culture Centre

Scottish Visitor Centre Buildings

David Douglas Centre, central Scotland
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picture from Cowco
David Douglas Centre

Water of Leith Visitor Centre, Edinburgh
Design: Malcolm Fraser Architects
Water of Leith Visitor Centre

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