Competition for Izmir Opera House | 1.st Prize client: Izmir Metropolitan Municipality date: 2010 location: Karşıyaka, izmir total area: 33.064 m² Team Mehmet Kütükçüoğlu, Architect Ertuğ Uçar, Architect Mert Üçer, Architect Onur Akın, Architect Emiliano Bugatti, Architect Caner Bilgin, Architect Asistants İrem Güçlü, student Ali Can Atabey, student Technical Team - Consultants Uğur Seymen, Civi..
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater doubles the company’s previous facilities. The design by Bing Tom Architects included restoring two historic theaters, Fichandler and Kreeger, and adding a new experimental theater, Kogod Cradle. A wood and glass structure encase all three theaters topped by a sculptural and dramatic cantilevered roof. Bing Thom Architects thoughtful site desig..
A couple weeks ago, we featured STL‘s proposal for the Kaohsiung Competition. Now, Sun & Schrempp Associates have shared with us their design for a Marine and Pop Music Center driven by the wave motion of the water experienced at Kaohsiung’s marine port. More images and architect’s description after the break. Kaohsiung’s Marine port is a vital element to the city’s culture and history. It used ..
Architect: Maxwan Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan Partner in charge: Hiroki Matsuura Team leader: Jason Hilgefort Team: Hiroki Matsuura, Rients Dijkstra and Jason Hilgefort with Artur Borejszo, Leena Cho, Ignas Uogintas, Nobuki Ogasahara Client: City of Kaohsiung Program: Cultural – Pop Music Center, Marine Center, Large Performance Hall, Music Rehearsal Space, Small Performance Halls Site area: 12 ..
Architects: Suters Architects Location: Churchill, Victoria, Australia Project Team: Joshua McAlister, Ian Prior, Graeme Christianson, Scott Francis, Rebecca Brewer Building Contractor: W. Parnall Constructions Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Emma Cross The Churchill Community Hub is a contemporary community centre that co-locates services within a larger building; it allows crossover of these s..
Architects: Salto AB Location: Varbuse, Estonia Client: Estonian Road Museum Project team: Maarja Kask, Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Pelle-Sten Viiburg Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Andrés Tarto. Karli Luik The concept of the open air exhibition grounds is based on a road – while passing by, your route will be surrounded by different landscapes. The solution forms a long 8-shaped path, where functi..
Eine außergewöhnliche Holzkonstruktion charakterisiert das neue Centre Pompidou in Metz, entworfen von Shigeru Ban und Jean de Gastines. Fotos des Tragwerks und Impressionen der Ausstellungsräume sehen Sie hier. Architekten: Shigeru Ban Architects Europe, Paris und Jean de Gastines, Paris Centre Pompidou-Metz, Foto: Didier Boy de la Tour Das neue Centre Pompidou-Metz fällt schon von weitem durch..
A collective of Colombian architects have designed a memorial museum for Medellín, Colombia, to commemorate victims of conflict. Architects on the project include Juan David Botero, Maria Fernanda Vasco, Carla Cristina Gil, Jorge Adrian Gaviria, Catalina Jaramillo, Daniel Santiago Herrera, Elías José Gomez, Víctor Hugo Rodriguez, Alejandro Naranjo and Oscar Santana. Separated into three floors, ..
In an adaptive re-use project, Serie Architects, Grimshaw of London and Pysall Ruge Arkitekten of Berlin were asked to renovate four factories in Hangzhou that would form a new urban core for the city center. For Serie’s factory, the firm decided to preserve the unique16 ft tall main hall of the factory and to “accentuate the industrial drama of this massive void by restoring the concrete truss ..
With the intention of framing a new cultural center within the iconic identity of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, STL has designed a complex program that will revive the cultural atmosphere of the city for the Kaohsiung Competition which is to be submitted by January 10, 2011. More images and architect’s description after the break. The Kaohsiung harbor is truly at the heart of the Kaohsiung urban lands..
