Dutch architects UNStudio have won a competition to design a dance theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Clad in triangular panels of varying opacity, the building will be situated on a new square in the historic centre of the city. The two horseshoe-shaped auditoriums will have a combined capacity of 1,300. “An essential requirement when we were designing the auditorium was to make it possible to ..
Cloud Tower is a pavilion for open-air concerts in the grounds of a castle near Vienna, Austria, designed by the next ENTERprise - architects. Located at Grafenegg Castle along with the copper-clad concert hall in our previous story, the auditorium occupies an existing depression in the landscape, accentuated by further excavations. Visitors enter the auditorium through a corridor cut into the s..
Architect: Studio Gang Architects Location: Chicago, IL, USA Owner: SOS Children’s Villages Completion: 2008 Photographs: Steve Hall @ Hedrich Blessing SOS community center combines services for foster care families and neighborhood families in one building. SOS is an international not-for-profit agency committed to training foster parents and reuniting siblings. Multi-faceted public spaces in t..
Project data: > Client: University of Plymouth > Gross floor area: 12,600 m2 > Construction Value: 22 mill. GBP > Type of assignment: 1st prize in open international competition UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH - ARTS FACULTY The vision for the new arts building is to create a center for arts and culture that fuses both city and university campus as a core for activity and learning. A central cross point ..
The design concept of the Nevada Museum of Art creates an architecture of dynamic urban presence in downtown Reno, Nevada. The Museum frames a series of well-scaled and formed galleries, choreographed in a sequence of memorable visual experiences. The Museum's architecture is enhanced by its material articulation and invention of detail that forms a strong link to its geologic and cultural place..
German firm Architekten Schröder Schulte-Ladbeck have completed a copper-clad concert hall in the grounds of a castle near Vienna, Austria. Called the Schloss Grafengg Concert Hall and located in the grounds of Grafenegg Castle, the new building has been integrated with the castle’s existing, heritage-protected, former riding-school buildings, to which it is connected by a series of glazed lobbi..
The Melbourne Recital Centre, and its neighbor, the first permanent home for the Melbourne Theatre Company, have taken out four of the highest honors at this year’s Victorian Architecture Awards. Presented by the Australian Institute of Architects, 37 awards and prizes were announced today at a dinner on Friday, July 10 attended by over 800 guests. The recital centre and MTC buildings by ARM and..
team: zeng xiaoming, he fan, ke jun, li si, ye xiaoqin, jiao chongxia, jing suchun and zhang jingwen design: 2008-2009 construction: 2009 total building area: 5,793sqm chinese studio pei-zhu has designed the xixi wetland art museum located in a rural nature preserved near hangzhou, china. the concept stems from the interaction between building and nature. as leaves fall from trees they arrive na..
But not any kind of history, or at least not the scientific history of experts, which does not always leave room for imagination and almost always exhausts itself. We like to think of a history to call our own, and which never ends, because it lives on in each small or large finding, and in the eye of the observer, a whimsical eye that relies on what it wants to see, rather than on what it actua..
Architects: Platoon Cultural Development + Graft Architects Location: Seoul, Korea Program: Exhibitions, Bar & Restaurant, Event Hall, Artist Studios, Library Lounge, Office Studios, Workshop Room, Roof Top Bar Structure: M. Cabestany Footprint Area: 415 sqm Main hall Area: 272 sqm Project year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Platoon PLATOON KUNSTHALLE opened its doors on 11th april 2009. PLATOON KUNSTH..
