Design Combines Functions of Library, Life-Long Learning Center and Music Center
NEW YORK, August 4 — REX and Principal in Charge Joshua Prince-Ramus have been named the winner of the BibLLLiotheek competition to build a “Library of the Future” for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. REX partnered with landscape architects Bureau Bas Smets in entering the competition, which included both a building and master plan. Read the rest of this entry »
OBJECT: Apartment building
LOCATION: Tallinn Vana-Viru 13/ Aia 4
PROJECT: Winning entry of a closed competition
STATUS: Project
ARCHITECT: KOSMOS
The 5-story apartment building is situated on the edge of the medieval old town of Tallinn. It is not dominant from the street level, nor does it seem too high in the surrounding context. The dynamic mass of the building is situated in the northern and western side of the plot. In connection with some old historically valuable buildings,it creates an environment of small interconnected units, characteristic to the architectural whole of the old town. Read the rest of this entry »
Canadian architectural firm Diamond + Schmitt Architects has been nominated to design the 4-million new Mariinsky Theater complex’s 2000-seat opera and ballet house in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Canadian firm has been chosen from among five international and Russian competitors like Dominique Perrault. The budget for the new Theater is €295,000,000, with a projected completion date of 2011. The New Mariinsky will complement both the existing Mariinsky Theater located in Teatralnaya Square directly across the canal from the site of the new theater, as well as the new Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall, a 1,200 seat facility two blocks west which opened in 2007.
