Chicago-based architects WEATHERS shared with us their proposal for the Museum of World War II in Gdańsk Competition, which they designed with OOS. See more images and architect’s description after the break. The proposal for the Polish city’s WWII museum addresses the issues of the site as it pertains to local adjacencies (vehicular and pedestrian access, programmatic access, and views) as well..
Architects: Norman Foster, Foster + Partners Location: 257 Bowery, New York, USA Co-architects: Adamson Associates Client: Sperone Westwater Consultants: Buro Happold, Sciame, Edgett Williams, JAM Consultants Inc. Project Year: 2008-2010 Photographs: Nigel Young Nearly 35 years after its conception, Sperone Westwater continues to exhibit the work of prominent artists of diverse nationality and a..
New York architecture practice Axis Mundi have designed a conceptual extension to the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, featuring a giant lattice structure. The existing museum is a 1960s concrete building by Marcel Breuer and Axis Mundi claim the extension’s exposed concrete frame would be a continuation of Breuer’s brutalist aesthetic. The extension would have an irregular floor pla..
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of three health centres in Madrid by Spanish architects Estudio Entresitio, all with identical floor plans but executed in different materials. San Blas, Usera and Villaverde were all built on previously unused sites surrounded by social housing. Usera is clad in perforated metal panels with a gold finish. San Blas is a concrete cons..
Istanbul-based outfit Nuvist Architecture & Design have shared with us their entry to the Izmir Opera House Competition. Art has a great role in showing what happens in human beings' life. Soul, intelligence and the emotions are the reflections of the community, and Art forms the social identities of communities. It also shows us the difference between the various social identities. Global influ..
NOVAE Architecture has been recently selected as one of the 10 Young Italian Architects under 35 at the “Architects Meet at Fuori Biennale”, for the Venice Biennale. For the event, they presented their project “Teritorial Dissonances”. More images and architect’s description after the break. The theme of the urban border (social, cultural and physical )apparent inherent identity with the attitud..
Photographer Luke Hayes has sent us a selection of photos of the MAXXI_National Museum of the XXI Century Arts in Rome by architect Zaha Hadid. The 27,000 square metre centre is Italy’s first national public museum of comtemporary arts and features two museums – MAXXI Art and MAXXI Architecture. All photos here are copyright Luke Hayes and used with permission. Please see our copyright notice. S..
Portuguese photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of this museum for modern art in South Korea by architects Álvaro Siza, Carlos Castanheira and Jun Sung Kim. Mimesis Museum has a flowing concrete form that wraps around a central courtyard, and was inspired by a sketch of a cat that Siza drew upon arriving at the site. The three-storey building has services in the basement, gal..
The jury for the Museum of the Second World War Competition in Poland have recently announced the winner. Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat received 1st Prize and will design the new museum in Gdańsk, the city where the war broke out. 2nd Prize was awarded to Polish architects Piotr Płaskowicki & partnerzy Architekci and 3rd Prize to Greece-based BETAPLAN S.A. The Jury is of the opinion that the d..
CLIENTE Ciudad de Montreuil EQUIPO Dominique Coulon, arquitecto Steve Letho Duclos, Director de Proyecto Sarah Brebbia, Arnaud Eloudyi, Olivier Nicollas, Arquitectos de proyecto Agence Bertrand Meurice Architecte, Jefe de Obra Philippe Clément, BATISERF, Ingeniero Estructural G. Jost, Ingeniero Mecánico E3 Economie, Presupuesto ESP, Acústico PROGRAMA Teatro (400 butacas) y sala de ensayos. AREA:..
