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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.
Design: 3XN
A 3XN designed IMAX theatre, retail and creative offices complex will be an iconic contribution to the 15 billion yuan (USD$2.4 billion) DreamCenter entertainment district on Shanghai’s West Bund. The DreamCenter building is being developed by DreamWorks Animation together with partners, CMC Capital Partners and Hong Kong developer Lan Kwai Fong Group.
Design: Reiach and Hall, architects. The highly-anticipated new visitor centre – which is due to open on 1 March, ahead of the 700th anniversary of the battle on 23 and 24 June – uses cutting-edge technology to bring the battle to life for visitors, offering an experience which is unlike any other available in the UK. State-of-the-art installations are used to interpret and explain the events which led up to the battle, and its consequences.
Design: gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. Groundbreaking ceremony for the new construction of the German Service Centre in Foshan, a city in the south of China. this competition which was open to German architectural practices with a Chinese partner.
Architecture firm Goettsch Partners designs new resort and meeting destination on China’s Hainan Island in Haitang Bay. Developed by Poly Real Estate Group, the complex features a 729-key resort hotel and serviced apartment tower, a 28,000-square-meter International Finance Forum convention center, a series of connecting retail buildings, and a modest visitors center.
Samoo Architects & Engineers recently unveiled the design for the new National Research Center for Endangered Species which is to be located in Yeongyang-gun, one of the cleanest environmental areas in Korea. The complex is aimed to provide a hub for the study, education, and research on rare plants and animals of the Korean peninsula.
Shell Centre developers seek permission for Marks Barfield Designed Visitor Pavilion. Canary Wharf Group and Qatari Diar, the joint venture developers of the Shell Centre site on London’s South Bank, have submitted a planning application for a temporary visitor pavilion to support the redevelopment of the area.
Denton Corker Marshall’s new Stonehenge Visitor Centre opens its doors on 18th December, inviting more than one million visitors every year to experience the transformed ancient site.
Located 1.5 miles to the west of the stone circle at Airman’s Corner, just within the World Heritage Site but out of sight of the monument, the new visitor centre is designed with a light touch on the landscape – a low key building sensitive to its environment.
FRAC Centre Orleans, France building, architect, events info & images – by Jakob+MacFarlane – Le Frac Centre et la Maison de l’Architecture du Centre architecture exhibition designs
The Turbulences FRAC Centre, Orléans Contemporary Art Building, French Architecture The Turbulences FRAC Centre, France Orleans Building Development – design by Jakob+MacFarlane Architectes 25 + 2 Sep 2013 FRAC Centre Opening Design: Jakob+MacFarlane Architectes Location: Orléans, France The Turbulences FRAC Centre Orléans The Regional Fund for Contemporary Art in the Centre region (FRAC Centre) opens … Read more
The iconic Kemenes Volcanopark Visitor Center lies 200 km West of the capital Budapest, and has been realised following a national architectural contest announced in 2009 by the Celldomolk City Council, when Foldes Architects celebrated their winning entry from the competing 44 projects.
Construction is underway on the new Washington State University visitor center designed by the design-build team, Olson Kundig Architects and Sellen Construction.
Jacobite Cruises’ Loch Ness visitor centre project designed by cameronwebsterarchitects (Glasgow) has been suspended. Jacobite Cruises was given full planning permission in 2011 for the £2.5m visitor centre building at Brackla.
The two-storey building is built partly into the hillside to reduce its scale and has a calm contemporary appearance and open plan as a foil to the highly decorated and hierarchical Scottish Baronial architecture of Sir Walter’s masterpiece.
Great Fen Visitor Centre, Cambridgeshire Design Competition – contest by RIBA Competitions – Southeast England architecture development
Designing the Newark Visitor’s Center meant bridging between opposing forces. On the one hand, there was a need to address the adjacency to the metropolitan center of NYC and its main transportation Hub – the Penn Station.
Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre Limpopo: This building has been shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2013.
New visitor facilities at the Giant’s Causeway, a World Heritage site, a stark building by heneghan.peng – international competition winning design.