uvre lens by SANAA, imrey culbert and mosbach paysagistes
Construction has begun for the louvre lens atop an abandoned mine field near the cityof lille in northern france. Co-designed by tokyo-based SANAA, New york-based imrey culbert,and Paris-based mosbach paysagistes, the new branch of the louvre will span 300,000 squarefeet of new construction, devoting over 75,000 square feet of galleries and visitable storage areas for hundreds of treasures from the louvre’s collection. Read the rest of this entry »
The new Miami Art Museum at Museum Park
Herzog & de Meuron
Park view
© Herzog & de Meuron, visualization by Artefactorylab
NEW AND EXPANDED MIAMI ART MUSEUM
WILL OPEN IN 2013
Completed Herzog & de Meuron Design Unveiled Read the rest of this entry »
Photo courtesy Terry Pawson Architects
Terry Pawson Architects’ VISUAL & the George Bernard Shaw Theatre provides Ireland with a significant new arts space to showcase contemporary visual arts and theatre of national and international importance. Unique to Ireland, the new building features an expansive gallery space with a ceiling height of12m to accommodate large-scale sculpture and installation, the scale of which has not been easily accommodated in Ireland to date. Read the rest of this entry »
image courtesy Herreros Arquitectos
Spanish firm herreros arquitectos won first prize forin the international architectural competition for the munch museum in Oslo, Norway. Following is the jury verdict;
Lambda ( Herreros Arquitectos) creates a generous invitation both to the museum and to the public access of the area in general. the location of the museum on paulsenkaia leaves the area south of the opera open to a public park and recreational landmark in the middle of the bay overlooking the fjord, in close contact both with the opera and the museum. the project strengthens the river mouth, opens the landscape and gives public access to both sides of the river all the way out to the fjord. Read the rest of this entry »
All perspective & diagram from 3GATTI Architecture Studio
“Car Experience” is a project for a building to be dedicated to the automobile: the car as an object of desire, a world to explore, a technology to study, an article to display and a means to travel around the building.
Here the world of the automobile intersects with the human and organic world creating a new tectonic structure with methods differing from the usual flat open spaces, squares… all on a human scale. Here everything is geared to the automobile – the car is the point of reference.
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Project Owner: Bangkok Metropolitan Administration
Designed by: RGB Architects
All Photos and article by : Abhichart Koomrampai (Some right reserved)
Fully opened on July 27, 2008, sponsored by Bangkok Metropolitan Administrator, The Bangkok Art and Culture Center have been a remarkably landmark of Thai awareness of Art in an international arena. Situated at Siam – Pathumwan intersection center of Bangkok shopping area, it’s also the teenager gathering space for about three decades. It’s hard to find any activities that are free of charge around here. Read the rest of this entry »
Architectural Designed, Images from UNStudio MOMEMA is situated on Art Island part of Culture Village, on the banks of Khor Dubai (Dubai Creek) the museum has a striking design by world renowned architects, UNStudio, which brings together elements of the sea and Dubai’s tradition of seafaring. Here is from Ben van Berkel about the Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art Read the rest of this entry »
