Our friends from Mass Studies sent us their design for the Korean Pavillion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. The Korean Pavillion is situated in Zone A, directly neighboring the Japan Pavillion and the Saudi Arabia Pavillion, and in close proximity to the China Pavilion. The site is around 6000m2, and it is one of the largest lots within the expo compound. Located on the perimeter of the zon..
In late 2008 the City of Punta Umbria, located on the coast of Huelva, Spain, organized a Competition for a Congress, Exhibition and Fairs building. MRDP Arquitectos sent us the winning entry. The results: 1st Prize: FARO; MRDP Arquitectos | María Romero y Daniel Pérez 2nd Prize: CÓNCAVO-CONVEXO; Joaquín Aramburu y Asociados 3rd Prize: BI.VALVO; JOSÉ ÁLVAREZ CHECA The plot is 7500 sqm, the maxim..
Last Friday, Bustler posted the news of Italian architect Alberto Catalano of Teknoarch winning the international competition to design Lebanon’s new Arts and Culture House. Here’s another competition proposal by Copenhagen-based firm JAJA Architects. The title of the concept is “Culture Bazaar”. “Culture Bazaar” by JAJA Architects This is how JAJA describe the project: The Culture Bazaar is a p..
Architects: Studio Tam associati Location: Soba (Khartoum), Sudan Project Team: Raul Pantaleo, Simone Sfriso, Massimo Lepore, Sebastiano Crescini with Pietro Parrino and Gino Strada Feasability project: Gino Strada, Eniliano Cinelli, Fabrizio Fasano, Andrea Cioffi Program coordinator: Pietro Parrino, Rossella Miccio (Emergency NGO) Consultants: Francesco Steffinlongo (structural engineering), St..
Japanese architect Shuhei Endo sent us some impressive images of his latest project: the Guangzh Culture Center in China. from archdaily
New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects will open in June. The museum will provide a permanent house to archaeological treasures from the Acropolis. Top image: main entrance lobby. Photo by Nikos Daniilidis. Above: exterior. Photo by Christian Richters. Glass walls will allow exhibits to be viewed in natural light, as they would have been seen in ancient ti..
Here are new images of architects Herzog & de Meuron’s extension to the Tate Modern art gallery in London, which was recently granted planning permission. More details plus images of the architects earlier design for the extension in our earlier story. The extension will add a new wing and also convert underground tanks (below), previously used to store oil for the former power station, into new..
Last week, Bustler reported on the winners of the international competition for the new Munch Area in Oslo’s waterfront neighborhood Bjørvika. The proposal “Yin Yang” by New York-based architecture firm REXwon the second prize in this competition (together with the proposal“Girls on the Bridge” by Christ & Gantenbein, Switzerland and LieØyen Arkitekter, Norway). Here’s a closer look at REX’s con..
Yesterday, Bustler announced that the proposal by SPAN & Zeytinoglu has won the architectural competition for the design of the Austrian Pavilion at the Shanghai EXPO 2010. Here’s another noteworthy entry by Vienna-based studio Architects Collective that made it into the round of finalists. The title of the entry is “Waltz Me!”. Rendering of Architects Collective’s entry for the Austrian Expo Pa..
Just a few minutes ago, Bustler posted the news of Italian architect Alberto Catalano of Teknoarch winning the international competition to design the new House of Arts and Culture in Beirut, Lebanon. Here’s another very exciting entry for this international competition by Portuguese studio Kaputt! that was awarded an Honorable Mention. Kaputt! was founded in Lisbon in 2004 by eight young archit..
