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Neri&Hu Design and Research Office have designed what they hope will become a cultural hub as Shanghai develops. The building stands out due in part to its floating canopy of wood sticks hovering over the three-story atrium which transforms the space into a forest.
Building design by Reiulf Ramstad Architects anchored in and inspired by the history and culture of its location. Its architecture conveys its modern function, giving a rich cultural and architectural experience.
Plans drawn up by Manchester-based architects SimpsonHaugh and landscape specialists Planit-IE to create a new urban quarter that reflects Manchester’s status as a truly global city. Masterplan by Will Alsop’s aLL Design.
Design: China northwest architecture design and research institute. Using the space transition and restriction of Okimichi, drawbridge and green within the principle of limited developing and utilization, the outer plaza of South Gate design captures the iconic gesture of Xi’an South Gate.
Design: Büro Koray Duman. Inspired by historic Islamic Cultural Centers – Kulliyes, the design implements the horizontal experience of inner alleys connecting various civic functions
Design: TengYuan Design Institute Co. In this project, we hope to establish a linkage between architecture and nature as well as architecture and culture in a simple and plain way. Just as art and literature both have sketches, this project is a construction sketch to some extent.
Design: Architectural Design and Research Institute of South China University of Technology. Northeast Asian Culture and Art Museum Complex, with the land used for its construction in Changchun Airport Economic Development Zone.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects featured in today’s Google Doodle – the design of this intriguing building is a departure from the rigid and often monumental architecture of the former Soviet Union that is so prevalent in Baku. Instead, the building aspires to express the sensibilities and diversity of Azeri culture.
Design: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc. Drexel University’s Hillel House is sheathed in local red brick as textured fabric draped in an abstract menorah that terraces down to the street, and arranged on four interconnected levels
Design: DP Architects. SCCC is designed as a respectful complement to its neighbour, the gazetted Singapore Conference Hall, adopting a clean and subtle approach to form a coherent composition.
Gastronomy at KSEVT, developed as part of the AA Visiting School nanotourism in Vitanje, Slovenia, 2016. The next Architectural Association School of Architecture event takes place on 28 April – 13 May 2017.
The JACC building design in Kuwait is by SSH: it will showcase performing arts and create a world class theatre quarter in a spacious parkland setting. The cultural district will include theatres, concert halls, cinemas, conference and exhibition halls and a library archive.
Design: Boogertman + Partners Architects. The circular form symbolises the simplicity embodied in the basic cycle of nature. The form, embedded within ethereal forest physically manifests the notion of ‘walks and talks’.
Design: Flores & Prats Architects + Duch-Pizá. The new Cultural Center Casal Balaguer, designed by flores & Prats with duch-Pizá, is completed. The project is a renovation of a historical house in the center of Palma de Mallorca.
Design: VALENTINY hvp architects. In the forest and wood region of Eifel, the cross-border mountain range in Rheinland Pfalz and Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany, timber construction has a very strong tradition.
Design: Radionica Arhitekture; Ured ovlaštene arhitektice Vanja Ilić. The building is a path which the visitors climb to overcome the elevation difference of around 20m, from the access road to the plateau, on which the Vučedol culture archaeological findings have been discovered.
Design: OMA, architects. £110m flagship cultural building wins Planning Permission: the city’s cutting-edge arts venue aims to take a radically new approach to cultural production and performance.