Client: Building: BIG, Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft m.b.H. Interior: KUG, University for music and applied art, Graz Program: University faculty building Gross floor surface: 6.200 m² Volume: 31.600 m³ Site: 2.745 m² Design year 1998-2003 Construction year 2006-2008 UNStudio: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos and Hannes Pfau with Miklos Deri, Kirstin Hollmann, Markus Berger, Florian Pischetsrieder, U..
French architects Beckmann-N’Thépé and landscape designers TN+ have won a competition to remodel Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki, Finland. The proposal involves creating a large glass-domed entrance and animal viewing building on the island zoo, and bringing back polar bears after a 30-year absence. Here’s some info from the architects: – BECKMANN-N’THEPE sarl d’Architecture KORKEASAARI ZOO (Helsink..
Iwan Baan shared with us one of the latest works he photographed, the Ningbo Historic Museum designed by Wang Shu, Amateur Architecture Studio. from archdaily
3XN just shared with us their winning entry for the Randers Museum of Art, a “sculpture sitting in a sculpture garden” according to the architects, a sinuous building both open to both the town and the landscape. The red-tile façade of the exterior becomes the roof, and similarly on the inside, the floor becomes a wall, and then the wall a ceiling. From the architects: Randers Museum of Art will..
Architect: ARTEKS Arquitectura + Esther Pascal architect Location: Ordino, Andorra Architects in charge: Elisabet Faura & Ester Pascal Collaborators: Gemma Roca, Dalila Pregal, Alvaro Briceño, Malte Ruckert, Ruper Maurus, Carlos Cobreros, Cecilia Vázquez , Alex Miralles Artistic Collaborator: Victor Pérez Porro Structure: GETCE BEAL_ Xavier Beal Vilaginés Utilities: Bernabé Rodriguez Acoustics: ..
Berlin architects Sauerbruch Hutton have completed the new Brandhorst Museum in Munich, Germany. The building is clad in 36,000 ceramic rods in 23 different colours, arranged vertically over a horizontally striped, sheet-metal skin. “Between an angled view, in which the ceramic rods merge visually into a solid plane, and the frontal view, in which the mineral layer parts to let the horizontally ..
German architecture graduate Nora Graw has sent us these images of her diploma project for the film industry, located on the waterfront in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Called Animated Atmosphere, the project was completed while Graw was studying at Studio Lynn, an architecture course run by American architect Greg Lynn at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. The building contains cinem..
‘The Breeder’ gallery in ATHENS based on the greek article by Chara Tzavara for Eleftherotypia-newspaper english translation by Tina Komninou for Yatzer The famous Greek Architect, Aris Zambikos was commisioned by George Vamvakidis & Stathis Panagoulis (The Breeders) to design the ‘The Breeder’gallery and the vague and characterless 70’s building was renovated tobecome an award winning gallery. ..
Woodhead Architects designed this building over a beautiful landscape in Western Australia, integrated with it through the use of wood. The exterior spaces offer a shaded place to contemplate this landscape. The ritual burning of the Pinnacles Interpretive Centre in Western Australia, as part of its design and building process underscores the unique role of fire both culturally and environmental..
Architects: OMA + LMN Location: Seattle, Washington, USA Key Personnel: Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus (Partner-in-Charge), with Mark von Hof-Zogrotzki, Natasha Sandmeier, Meghan Corwin, Bjarke Ingels, Carol Patterson Consultants: Arup, Bruce Mau Design, Davis Langdon, Dewhurst Macfarlane, Front, HKA, Hoffman Construction, Inside/Oustide, Jones & Jones, Kugler Tillotson, Magnusson Klemenci..
