name Dalarna Media Arena type invited competition task University Library + Plaza client Högskolan Dalarna, Falun Municipality size 3000 m2 year 2010 collaboration Sou Fujimoto, Topotek1, Rambøll A/S and Bosch & Fjord The new library, placed centrally at the Dalarna university campus, is organized as a ”spiral of knowledge”. The sloping terrain continues in a ramp through the building. Wrapping ..
This visitor centre by Danish architects EFFEKT will have a series of ramped green roofs and sit at the heart of the Hareskoven forest in Copenhagen. The Nature Centre will cover a thousand square-metres and house research facilities, exhibition spaces, rentable rooms and a café. The star-shaped plan is inspired by a series of hunting pathways created by a former king that disperse from two poin..
Denmark-based Henning Larsen Architects have won first prize in an invited competition to design the Batumi Aquarium in Georgia. See more images and architect’s description after the break. Architects: Henning Larsen Architects Location: Batumi, Georgia Project Team: Louis Becker (design director, partner) Anders Park (project manager), Viggo Haremst (design responsible), Michael Sørensen and Ja..
Cultural Stage The Port of Amsterdam commissioned Roos Burger & Yvon Yzermans, two collaborating art historians, to develop a cultural facility in Houthavens West. The Port wants to improve the attractiveness of the area to the public by realizing a cultural meeting place in the transforming area between city and port. The idea of NL Architects is to construct a flexible ‘base’ that can facilita..
name Flintholm SPARK type invited competition task public building client frederiksberg municipality size 4.000 m2 (phase 1) + 2.000 m2 (phase 2) + 6.000 m2 (commercial) year 2010 collaboration mvrdv, sla, søren jensen consulting engineers, imitio, max fordham, winie ricken The building is a new urban typology with its mix of community centre, exhibition and performance, playground, park and hea..
French architects Studio Bellecour have completed a pair of office buildings near Toulouse, France, wrapped in aluminum fins and connected by a twisting concrete element. The horizontal fins curve around all sides of both offices to prevent overheating in the summer and reflect light back into rooms during the winter. Between the two volumes sits a half-raised courtyard with landscaped gardens a..
This wavy wall forms the east facade of an information centre designed by BCHO Architects at a Korean concrete factory. Called Hanil Visitors Center and Guest House, the information centre aims to educate visitors about recycling concrete and demonstrates different options through its own construction. Four openings in the eastern wall allow glimpses of how the concrete is produced in the factor..
The Glasshouse is an arts, conference and entertainment centre in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, that has been designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects. The Glasshouse: Arts Conference and Entertainment Centre comprises a 600-seat performing arts theatre, a 600m2 Regional Art Gallery, a studio theatre, conference facilities and a community workshop located in the centre of Port ..
American architects Space International have completed this gallery cantilevered over a row of existing garages at the MAK Centre for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles. Polycarbonate panels with an aluminium frame retract to create an open facade and afford views of the neighbouring 1939 Mackey Apartments designed by the late Rudolph Schindler. The garages below have been renovated into studios fo..
Architecture photographer Michael Schnell shared with us his interior photos of the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, designed by Austrian architects Delugan Meissl. The project was completed in 2008, after being awarded with the 1st prize in a 2-stage competition back in 2005. The exhibition space we see on these photos in contained by a monolothic volume supported by a steel structure, whi..
