Archive for: public facilities

Zaha Hadid’s Riverside Museum wins European Museum Academy Micheletti Award 2012

Zaha Hadid’s Riverside Museum wins European Museum Academy Micheletti Award 2012

Riverside Museum, Glasgow has been named the most innovative museum in the fields of technology, labour and social history by the European Museum Academy. Riverside...

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Office 25 Architects | Illuminated Balloon Bench

Office 25 Architects | Illuminated Balloon Bench

The Illuminated Balloon Bench appears to be lifted from the one side by a single balloon. The concept of the proposed bench is based at the idea of balance, levitation...

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Ramon Esteve | San Rafael Senior Citizens Day Centre

Ramon Esteve | San Rafael Senior Citizens Day Centre

The fluency of the spaces and the visual relations between them are the concepts that best define this project, that tries to avoid the isolation of the different...

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Lapo Ruffi + Lorenzo Santini | Calamari Union

Lapo Ruffi + Lorenzo Santini | Calamari Union

The project responds to a new demand of making a city outside of the city. How must we design places to live in contexts not yet settled? Limen in Latin means limit,...

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Neutelings Riedijk Architecten | WBC – Dutch Tax office

Neutelings Riedijk Architecten | WBC – Dutch Tax office

The Walterboscomplex houses the Central Tax Office of the Netherlands. The original ensemble was built in the 1960’s and consisted out of four office towers surrounded...

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Studio Professional Associates Ltd. | Seaside Facilities

Studio Professional Associates Ltd. | Seaside Facilities

The objectives of the proposed project depart from the direct action on the sand, through the redefinition of equipment and services of beach and accessibility of...

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Sala Ferusic Architects | L’H2O

Sala Ferusic Architects | L’H2O

‘El Repartidor’ fountain, right in the middle of the square, used to bring water to five different points of the city of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat in Barcelona....

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Superunion Architects | Istanbul DPEC

Superunion Architects | Istanbul DPEC

On a site almost without context because of its vast scale and open development plans, the Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Centre (DPEC) represents a...

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BIG | St. Petersburg Pier

BIG | St. Petersburg Pier

The city of St. Petersburg has released the three final designs for the St. Petersburg Pier including BIG’s the Wave, conceived as a strong character on the skyline...

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heri&salli | echte fehler

heri&salli | echte fehler

.. for an art project in Bischofshofen (Salzburg – Austria) – six artists, or to be precise, architects had been invited to make their contribution to the theme...

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Resolution: 4 Architecture | 50 Murray Sky Court

Resolution: 4 Architecture | 50 Murray Sky Court

Placed on the roof of a residential highrise in downtown Manhattan, the 50 Murray Sky Court is an entertainment complex for the use of the buildings residents. ©...

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Steven Holl Architects | Linked Hybrid

Steven Holl Architects | Linked Hybrid

The 220,000 square-meter Linked Hybrid complex in Beijing, aims to counter the current privatized urban developments in China by creating a twenty-first century...

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Tabanlioglu Architects | Tripoli Congress Center

Tabanlioglu Architects | Tripoli Congress Center

The building site is located next to the Zoo Park and the woods in continuity.  The Center being the lead construction, the zone will be transforming into a Congress...

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heri&salli | Flederhaus

heri&salli | Flederhaus

The architecture office heri&salli designed on the square in front of the “Museumsquartier” /Vienna (Austria) a constructed sequence of standstill… a moment...

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OKRA | Storaa stream experience

OKRA | Storaa stream experience

The city of Holstebro has celebrated the completion of the public realm project around the Storaa stream and new cultural facilities, designed by OKRA and the Danish...

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Cerrejon Architects & Magen Arquitectos  | La Camisera

Cerrejon Architects & Magen Arquitectos | La Camisera

The origins of this Project lie in the relationship between the sports placed at the facilities and the features of the site: a 25,226 m2 plot of land with a step...

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Colboc Franzen & Associates | L’arbrisseau Neighborhood Centre

Colboc Franzen & Associates | L’arbrisseau Neighborhood Centre

The social center of L’Arbrisseau is located in the south of Lille, an area that is undergoing radical redevelopment. There is a clear political ambition and the...

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Moreno del Valle Arquitectos, SLP | Railway Control Center

Moreno del Valle Arquitectos, SLP | Railway Control Center

The building is categorical on its implantation, an auxiliary plot nearby the albacete station railways. The proposal gets presence without stridencies, with discretion. The...

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Steven Holl Architects | Herning Museum of Contemporary Art

Steven Holl Architects | Herning Museum of Contemporary Art

The Herning Center of the Arts unites three distinct cultural institutions: the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, the MidWest Ensemble and the Socle du Monde....

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A/ZC – Atelier Zündel & Cristea | Metro Gares

A/ZC – Atelier Zündel & Cristea | Metro Gares

Falling as it does into the “IGP” category of buildings, or immeuble à grande profondeur, building of significant depth, the new metro station in Rennes poses...

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