Rick Mather Architects of London have completed an extension to the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford University in the UK. The new building comprises six stories, which hold display space, a new entrance, an education centre, conservation studios and a rooftop terrace. The project combines double- and single-height gallery spaces connected by a series of walkways and two main st..
Architect: AMP Arquitectos, S.L. Location: Playa de las Americas, Adeje, Tenerife, Spain Collaborator: Andreas Weihnacht (arquitect), Esther Ceballos (arquitect), Ana Salinas (arquitect), Rafael Hernandez (master builder), Andres Pedreno (master builder) Project year: 2005 Strcutural Engineers: Victor Martinez, Juan Jose Gallardo Services Engineers: Milian Associats S.A., Audioscan Contractor: C..
Location: Dallas, USA Architects: Foster + Partners Team: Norman Foster, Spencer de Grey, Stefan Behling, Michael Jones, James McGrath, Bjørn Polzin, Laszlo Pallagi, Morgan Fleming, Leonhard Weil, John Small, Ingrid Sölken, Hugh Whitehead, Francis Aish Client: AT+T Performing Arts Center Collaborating Architect: Kendall Heaton Associates Main Contractor: Linbeck Construction Acoustician: Sound S..
Italian based Stefano Boeri Architetti shared with us their latest project: The requalification and recovery of the ex Military Arsenal on the island of La Maddalena, Italy. This project includes a hotel, a congress centre, a conference building, two large exhibition and commercial spaces and a quay for 700 boats. It was conceived as the central point of the G8 summit at Maddalena, event that wa..
Architects: A2RC Architects Location: Brussels, Belgium Client: Palais des Congrès sa and SPF Artist: Arne Quinze Budget: 60,000,000 € Area: 52,000 sqm Competition year: 2000 Project year: 2002-2006 Construction year: 2006-2009 Photographs: A2RC Architects An audacious architectural proposition to the city offers a newfound visibility to the former “Palais des Congrès” by means of a poetic emble..
Los Angeles-based architect Marcelo Spina of architectural practice Patterns has completed an art gallery on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. Called PRISM, the project is a three-storey gallery space designed to showcase work by new artists. The building incorporates exhibition space, film-viewing and lecture areas, and a bookshop. The facade is made of a polycarbonate resin-based composite, which..
Site: Vitoria, Spain Architect: Francisco José Mangado Beloqui Work direction: Francisco José Mangado Beloqui Collaborators: Architecture: José Mª Gastaldo, Richard Král’ovič, Eduardo Pérez de Arenaza. Structural engineering: NB 35 SL (Jesús Jiménez Cañas / Alberto López) Ingenieros. Installations engineering: Iturralde y Sagüés ingenieros / César Martín Gómez. Acoustic engineering: Higini Arau...
Architects: Chiasmus Partners Principal Architect: James Wei Ke, Hyunho Lee Project Team: Oscar Ko, Gu Yun Duan, Feng Bo Client: Beijing Modern Dance Company Location: Beijing, China Program: Performance Hall, Practice Hall, Saloon Project years: 2008-2009 Photographer: Chiasmus, Jenny Hung The Red Diamond was until recently used as an old factory complex in the historic DongCheng district of Be..
Architects: ACXT Location: Derio, Bizkaia, Spain Project Architects: Gonzalo Carro & Javier Pérez Uribarri Collaborator: Carlos Miguel Guimaraes Project Development: Gonzalo Carro & ATHOS (Pedro Berroya, Aitziber Goikoetxea) Structure: Javier Eskubi, Amaia Oyón, Ángel Gómez Project Area: 2,600 sqm Budget: 2,600 sqm Design year: 2006–2007 Construction year: 2007–2009 Photographer: Aitor Ortiz BTE..
Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photographs of a community centre near Avelgem, Belgium, designed by Belgian architects Dierendonck Blancke. Dierendonck Blancke collaborated with architects Stefaan Onraet, Tom Callebaut and Jonas Desmyter to design the centre, built on an existing slope on the border of a nature reserve in a small village. The concrete building consists of a theatre, a..
