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City Museum

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Project • By Processoffice • Museums

Kaunas City Museum

The renovation of Kaunas Town Hall transforms one of the city's most historically significant buildings into a modern museum space, seamlessly integrating contemporary exhibition design with architectural heritage. Dating back to 1542, the building has undergone multiple renovations, with the latest major reconstruction occurring in 1973. In this project, we not only designed the architectural adaptation of the building but also developed the exhibition itself, ensuring that both elements work in harmony to create an engaging and accessible environment for visitors. Norbert Tukaj Inspiration & Key ConceptsThe project was guided by the concept of layering history with modernity, treating Kaunas as a case study of a city while integ... More

Project • By ss67architetti | Lucia Barna | Roberto Castellani • Museums

MUSNAF | Natural History Museum

The new layout of the Museum of Natura l History and Academy of Sciences, hosted in the former "della Rosa" monastery of the Camaldolese Order in Siena, is the result of an operation with attention to the pre-existent, without ignoring the interpretation of new requirements deriving from the functional and systemic upgrades, expressed in a contemporary, restrained and wel l-ca librated language. The inclusion of the compound in the museum system of Siena since 1996 made it necessary to reorganise and modernise the exposition space by augmenting the cultural, educational and expositional aspects of the museum as a whole. Developed and implemented by a series of successive functional lots beginning in 2000, the design was initially directed b... More

Project • By line+ • Museums

Qiantang River Museum

In the last century, the urban development of Hangzhou concentrated and grew around the single center of the West Lake. Since the new century, the urban construction of Hangzhou has been moving southward along the canal system. With the continuous formation of the multi-center urban structure, Hangzhou has been formally moving toward the “Qiantang River Era” from the “West Lake Era” which has been lasting for thousands of years. Both banks of the Qiantang River are rising with unprecedented energy, endowing the culture of Hangzhou with a new spiritual core. The Qiantang River Museum is located at the confluence of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Qiantang River, overlooking the rivers joining the sea, and th... More

Project • By Pei Cobb Freed & Partners • Museums

International African American Museum

New York, United States, 2020-01-21 - On the waterfront site that was the port of arrival for nearly half of all enslaved Africans brought to North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a long-anticipated museum dedicated to telling their stories and celebrating the contributions of their descendants has at last broken ground. Proposed in 2000 by Charleston’s longtime mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., the International African American Museum (IAAM), designed by New York–based architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, is now under way. Moody Nolan, the largest African-American-owned design firm in the United States, is architect of record.  The museum is rising on what was once Gadsden’s Wharf, built b... More

Project • By E.F.ARCHSTUDIO • Auditoriums

museum of knowledge

The main problem of this project mearly khowledge  subject and also what is the difference between this museum and other museums and elaborate the concept of knowledge in how much measure? Is it just for illustraon or also it aims to produce it to other objecve that should be considered was the relaonship of project with it's background. Here in the background is le corbusier's projects. Which was our second objecves Third objecve was social sustainability subject. This site is fully containd administrave projects. And there is no space for social parcipaon so the third objecve was social leading to this site. Objecve 1. Knowledge : according to the subject of the project, this museum should differ from other museums. This is so importan... More

Project • By Gydey Valery Architect • Museums

Winds Gallery

The buildings that surround us, except for direct purpose, should carry additional functions for urban infrastructure, in our case, this is a power plant, wind research Institute and museum. In disposal of visitors it is supposed permanent exhibit a wind tunnel at on the museum, what does additional entailr students and professionals. Exposition and attractions provides ongoing engagement of visitors and income. In accordance with the master plan for the development of the city, the museum location in the immediate vicinity of the airport, connecting the city center, business district and train stations. The "Winds Gallery", motivate further development of related infrastructure for the new district.Due to the constant wind in the region, t... More

Project • By Durisch + Nolli Architetti • Offices

Historische Mitte Köln

Cologne is a museum city that attracts people from all over the world for its diversity. As a magnet with millions of visitors, the Domumfeld is both a gateway to the city and a hub for visitors to the inner city and the urban space of the Rhine. At this historically important and prominent place, a new museum island is to be built on Roncalliplatz, in the immediate vicinity of the Cologne Cathedral, the UNESCO World Heritage Site More