Milwaukee Public Museum // Ennead Architects + Kahler Slater
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America. Architect: Ennead Architects and Kahler Slater. Ennead Architects and Kahler Slater unveiled in August 2022 the design for the new 200,000-square-foot museum building, set on a 2.4-acre site in the Haymarket neighbourhood of Milwaukee. Four core principles influenced the design: community, nature, education, and the preservation of the […]
Flugt – Refugee Museum // BIG
Location: Jutland, Denmark. Architect: BIG Architects. Flugt, located at the site of Denmark’s largest Refugee camp from World War II, is a 1,600 m2 museum that captures the universal challenges, emotions, spirit and stories of displaced humans. BIG has adapted and extended one of the camp’s few remaining structures, a hospital building, to create a […]
Guoshen Museum // Rocco Design Architects
Location: Shenzhen, China. Architect: Rocco Design Architects. RDA was one of three finalists in the international competition for the Guoshen Museum, part of an ongoing campaign to build new landmark cultural projects for Shenzhen. Commissioning the building, the Shenzhen Qianhai Development Corporation set three goals: the design should express the essence of traditional Chinese culture, […]
Wuxi Art Museum Building // Ennead Architects
Location: Jiangsu, China. Architect: Ennead Architects. Ennead Architects, the internationally renowned architecture firm, revealed its competition-winning design for the proposed Wuxi Art Museum in the historic port city of Wuxi, China. Set within Shangxianhe Wetland Park, the museum’s site design and architectural form closely connect and integrate the museum experience with the natural environment. It […]
Optical Glass House // Hiroshi Nakamura + NAP
Location: Hiroshima, Japan. Architect: Hiroshi Nakamura + NAP. This house is sited among tall buildings in downtown Hiroshima, overlooking a bustling street. To obtain privacy and tranquillity, a garden and optical glass façade was placed on the street side, visible from all rooms. Glass casting was employed to produce a glass of extremely high transparency […]
Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center // REX
Location: New York City, USA. Architect: REX. On what is perhaps the most significant site in the city there is to be an international cultural hub thanks to The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center (The Perelman Center), which will produce and premiere original works of theatre, dance, music, film, […]
Hamad Airport Expansion // Aedas
Location: Doha, Qatar. Architect: Aedas. HIA aims to redefine the passenger experience through a new expansion project, achieving LEED Silver Certification and GSAS 4-Star rating recognition. The project consists of two phases of development, with a central concourse and an 85m grid shell structure supported by 3 funnels. To design a humane airport infrastructure, the […]
The Cube // 3XN
Location: Berlin, Germany. Architect: 3XN. cube berlin is in a unique and highly prominent location on Washington Platz, with a spacious public square fronting Berlin’s new Main Railway Station Lehrter Bahnhof. The masterplan for Washington Platz defines the cube berlin to be a perfect cubic body with five equally important facades including the roof. 3XN’s […]
Museum of Islamic Art // I.M. Pei
Location: Doha, Qatar. Architect: I.M. Pei. Qatar Museums opened the iconic Museum of Islamic Art to the public in 2022 following a year-long facilities enhancement project and the reimagination and reinstallation of its permanent collection galleries. Flag Plaza, a new community space initiated by the Years of Culture programme, was also inaugurated. Her Excellency Sheikha […]
Kinmen Library and Art Museum // Eddea/Luis Ybarra + Leching Chiang
Location: Kinmen Island, Fukien, Taiwan. Architect: Eddea/Luis Ybarra + Leching Chiang. Kinmen Island, off the southeast coast of mainland China, is home to the Special Art and Culture Zone Base, formerly Runan Second Camp District. The Kinmen Library and Art Museum project site is located at the foot of the hill, below the military viewpoint, […]
Freedom Museum Groesbeek Building // ZJA
Location: Groesbeek, Gelderland Province, The Netherlands. Architect: ZJA. The Freedom Museum in Groesbeek was awarded the Architecture MasterPrize in the ‘Cultural Architecture’ category in 2022. It is housed in a Shaded Dome, an innovation of Shaded Dome Technologies, a company founded by architectural studio ZJA, Royal HaskoningDHV and Polyned. The museum has a striking form […]
TIC Art Centre // Domani Architectural Concepts
Location: FuoShan, China. Architect: DOMANI Architectural Concepts. TIC Art Center is a public project that covers various aspects of design including landscape, architecture, interior, and products, encouraging citizens to participate and enjoy enriched experiences. The project has become a significant landmark attracting numerous visitors and contributing to the brand and land value in the area. […]
Dalian International Conference Centre // Coop Himmelb(l)au
Location: Dalian, China. Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au. The Dalian International Conference Center is situated in an important seaport, industrial, trade, and tourism centre located in the southernmost part of the Liaodong Peninsula in the Chinese Liaoning Province. It combines the rational structure and organization of its modern conference centre typology with the floating spaces of modernist […]
Shimao-The Wave Showroom // Lacime
Location: Tianjin, China. Architect: Lacime Architects. The project is located at Binhai New Area on the eastern coast of Tianjin, a diversified land that integrates entertainment, edutainment and culture. It follows the basic logic of “point, line and plane” to create a contemporary urban spatial sequence of man, sea and sky. The building focuses on […]
Zhengzhou Art Museum and Zhengzhou Archives // TJAD+Zeng Qun Architecture Design Studio
Location: Zhengzhou, China. Architect: TJAD, Zeng Qun Architecture Design Studio. Zhengzhou is a rapidly developing regional centre with a conflict between its urbanization process and historical memory. This project proposes to use a large-scale, powerful and complete form to fit the planning structure, forming an equivalent volume and dialogue with the two major buildings around. […]
Shenyang Taoxian International Airport Terminal 3 // CNADRI
Location: Shenyang, China. Architect: CNADRI / China Northeast Architectural Design and Research Institute. 2013 was the year when Terminal 3 was finished. T3 was expected to accommodate the 17.5 million passenger demand in 2020 with 6,430 passengers during peak hours on the basis of T1 and T2 with their current 7.5 MAP (5,130 domestic passengers […]
Jinan Cultural Centre // Architecture Studio
Location: Jinan, China. Architect: Architecture Studio. Jinan is one of the most important birthplaces of Chinese civilization and has deep roots in culture and art. It is the capital state of Qi Lu and is the intersection of Ji culture and Lu culture. The High-tech science and technology cultural centre is located in the hi-tech […]
Musée des Confluences // Coop Himmelb(l)au
Location: Lyons, France. Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au. The 2001 international competition for a natural history museum in Lyon was envisioned as a “medium for the transfer of knowledge” and not as a showroom for products. The building ground of the museum is located on a peninsula that was artificially extended 100 years ago and situated in […]
Shanghai Poly Grand Theater // Tadao Ando
Location: Shanghai, China. Architect: Tadao Ando. The Shanghai Poly Grand Theater is an impressive glass and concrete rectilinear structure with circular cuts and recesses that are accessible to the public and exposed to the air, similar to holes in a block of Swiss cheese. The building was created by Pritzker-winning architect Tadao Ando and is […]
Mt. Fuji Visitors’ Centre // Shigeru Ban
Location: Fujinomiya, Japan. Architect: Shigeru Ban. The Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre is a landmark that celebrates the mountain’s recent status as a UNESCO site and its symbolic value in Japan. It is articulated around an inversely shaped latticed cone that references the shape of the dormant volcano, providing future generations with a dedicated space […]