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Project • By lamatilde • Exhibition Centres
Genoa’s Aquarium – Cetaceans Pavilion
The new Cetaceans Pavilion of Acquario di Genova (Genoa’s Aquarium) is an educational and experiential journey that leads visitors on the discovery of the Pelagos Sanctuary – the Mediterranean waters that are the most densely populated by cetaceans, protected by an agreement between Italy, Monaco and France.The setup project we designed with TODO creates a complex exhibition system in which a variety of media come together in harmony to tell stories across different spaces, integrating the thrill of an immersive experience with the precision of scientific information.The outcome is an itinerary with great visual rhythm, where visitors are surprised by unexpected points of view. Animals are the sole protagonists at the new Cetaceans Pavilion... More
Project • By Todd Davis Architecture • Private Houses
35 Liberty
This completely renovated Victorian residence, originally built in 1885, is located in San Francisco’s Liberty Hill Historic District. Unlike the oft-depicted “painted ladies” of Steiner Street, whose palette of exterior hues can exceed ten different paint colors on a single home, this remodeled traditional dwelling utilizes a monochromatic black scheme to emphasize form-a rare aesthetic dialogue in the American Victorian tradition. Due to code restraints, very little of the original design was altered on the street-facing portion of the residence. Instead, anew addition was added in the rear, facing away from Liberty Street. The exterior of this new portion is painted white, and features horizontal timber cladding that mirrors the 188... More
Project • By AFAA architecture • Offices
Sky 56
PROJECT ORIGINIn 2010, to relocate their respective regional headquarters, Icade and Linkcity independently asked Greater Lyon for a site in the centre of the Part-Dieu business district.Through the Lyon Part-Dieu Société Publique Locale (SPL), Greater Lyon proposed that the two organisations associate to facilitate the construction of a high-rise building in the south of the district undergoing urban regeneration (new street - rue Mouton Duvernet, extension of the Esplanade du Dauphiné, bicycle path and new pedestrian axis towards the train station, etc.). Plots 5 and 6 were chosen and consolidated to initiate the SKY "56" project.Subsequently, in 2011 Icade and Linkcity launched a private competition won by Chaix & Morel et Associés a... More
Project • By Kevin B. Howard Architects • Private Houses
Home 901 in Sabino Springs
There are only a few instances in an architectural career where a client and an architect’s vision unify into an immaculate and complete expression of art and architecture. We were very fortunate to work with a couple who, devoted to the ideals of minimalism’s stark allure, asked us to design a house in the foothills of Tucson, Arizona, located in the profoundly diverse Sonoran Desert. The owners’ refined sense of contrast required a “modern, minimal home: a pristine box that seemed to have landed in the desert.” The house’s hillside location required that we take advantage of the boundless vistas while protecting the owners’ carefully curated collection of art and modernist furniture as well as the desert itself. These diverging conditions... More
Project • By Renzo Piano Building Workshop • Courthouses
Paris courthouse
Since the Middle Ages, Parisian justice has been dispensed from the famous building that surrounds the Sainte-Chapelle on the Île de la Cité. However, over the years, an increasing shortage of space has resulted in many of its offices having to be transferred to a multitude of locations across the city. The new Paris law courts, built beside the Porte de Clichy, will enable the judicial institution’s courtrooms and offices to be reunited in the same building. The historic seat on the Île de la Cité will continue to house important and symbolic activities such as the Court of Assize (Criminal Court), the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court.When the competition was first launched, the French government suggested dividing the law courts int... More
Project • By Kleinewelt Architekten • Wineries
Gay-Kadzor Winery
The Gai-Kodzor Winery (Russia, KrasnodarskyKrai) has been completed. General Designer of the building is the architecture bureau KleineweltArchitekten. The 1,500 sq.m.multifunctional complex is located halfway between Anapa and Novorossiysk, the sunniest spot of Russia just 5 km away from the sea. Apart from being a production facility, the project is to combine museum, education, hospitality and entertainment functions.
The project is truly innovative. The traditional wine producers in Spain, France and Italy have long been using modern architecture as an attractor. Construction of this type of buildings appealed to Frank Gehry. Norman Foster, Santiago Calatrava, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Christian de Portzamparc and the current win... More
Project • By Peter Zumthor & Partner • Parks/Gardens
Fondation Beyeler’s extension
On Thursday, May 4, 2017, the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is presenting the project for the extension to the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel. The extension will be constructed on the previously private land of the Iselin-Weber Park, which adjoins the Fondation Beyeler. A new public park will thus be created in the heart of Riehen. The Fondation Beyeler will thereby create a group of museum buildings that satisfies the needs of a visitor-friendly museum. The size of the parks will be doubled.
In the 21st century, a museum is a place for human beings and no longer just for objects. It is a social space in which visitors can have experiences on their own or together with others. People come to a museum for education, entertainment, rec... More
Project • By Renzo Piano Building Workshop • Museums
The Whitney Museum of American Art at Gansevoort
The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Due to open in 2015, the project will substantially enlarge the Whitney’s exhibition and programming space, enabling the first comprehensive view of the Museum’s growing collection, which today comprises more than 19,000 works of modern and contemporary American art. Founded in 1930, the Whitney moved to its current Madison Avenue home, designed by Marcel Breuer, in 1966. At the time, its collection numbered some 2,000 pieces of 20th-century American art, so its nearly 100-fold expansion needs space to flourish. The new museum is to be situated in New York’s vibrant Meatpacking District. Fronting onto Gansevoort Street, the site lies between the H... More
Project • By Renzo Piano Building Workshop • Art Galleries
Center for Contemporary Art
The project was presented by Antonio Belvedere, a partner of the architectural studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop, by Chief Architect of Moscow and curator of the section Sergey Kuznetsov, and by the director of the Russian Foundation V-A-C, Teresa Iarocci Mavica.
In the project by Renzo Piano the power plant building erected in 1904–1907 will be preserved and refurbished to host expositions. The central nave or the machine room gallery, with the dimensions of 100×13 meters and the height of 22 meters, will become fully open and will serve as an exposition area as well as other smaller spaces of the power station.
“We decided to preserve the old building as much as possible and to create inside a kind of a street around which all ex... More
Project • By Luigi Rosselli Architects • Apartments
Duplex & the City
Equivalent to the brownstones of New York, this interwar duplex is a humane scale solution to housing in the Sydney city fringes.
Shoulder to shoulder with other apartment buildings, the original 1920s two-storey flats were transformed into a four storey block with a basement carpark and cellar, a ground floor garden apartment and a two-storey penthouse.
Just forty-percent of the existing structure was demolished, mainly the dysfunctional rooms at the back of the property, which were replaced by a modern four-storey structure.
The front of the property, with its original Queen Anne leadlight windows, liver toned brickwork and timber shingles, was left intact to preserve the building’s consistency with the prevailing style o... More
Project • By Renzo Piano Building Workshop • Theaters
Jérôme Seydoux - Pathé Foundation
The art of inserting a building into an historical city block means engaging in an open, physical dialogue with those already there. Building onto an extant structure also presents an opportunity for a more widespread renovation project, a reclaiming of space. The new headquarters of the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé is an unexpected presence, a curved volume one glimpses floating in the middle of the courtyard in which it sits, anchored on just a few supports. On the ground, there is a stand of birch trees, a floral island set in the dense mineral context of the city.
The Fondation Jerôme Seydoux-Pathé is an organization dedicated to the preservation of Pathé’s heritage, and to the promotion of the cinematographic art. Its new headquar... More
Project • By Hunter Douglas Architectural • Apartments
Central Saint Giles
NBK’s Ceramic colourful, glazed ceramic façade elements enables world famous architect Renzo Piano to create exciting new architecture. With Central Saint Giles, located between Oxford Street and Covent Garden, a new urban highlight, sets new façade standards.
Renzo Piano designed 20 bright coloured multi-storey front façades which, set at angles, create a stunning play with colours. Rarely a place for working and living was accompanied with so much architectural vitality. This confirms the formula: attractive built environment, attractive location.
Although the style of the architecture at first sight looks 18th century, the façade is made from glazed ceramic elements, made with beautiful precision and assembled with technically adv... More
Project • By bureau SLA • Military buildings
Marine Base Amsterdam Building 27E
Transformation of an army building into a public placeThe Marine Base in Amsterdam has been a restricted military area for centuries, located in the heart of the city. In January 2015, the compound has begun a gradual transition towards a more public program. The departure of the designated marine units will be completed in 2018. Building 27E, a former education facility, is the first building on the site to be renovated for a public program. It had recently been dismantled and stripped down to a bare concrete skeleton.In June 2014 The Central Government Real Estate Agency commissioned bureau SLA to present a design accommodating new uses within the building. To host the Dutch Presidency of the European Union, taking place during the first... More
Project • By MAD Architects • Apartments
UNIC
‘UNIC,’ MAD Architects’ first built project in Europe, is nearing completion. Led by Ma Yansong, MAD was awarded the project in 2012 through an international design competition in collaboration with local French firm Biecher Architectes. Located in Paris’ 17th arrondissement, Clichy-Batignolles is a newly developing area of the city. ‘UNIC’ emerges as part of the mixed-use masterplan envisioned adjacent to the Martin Luther King Park – a 10-hectare green space. Unlike the static Haussmann apartment blocks that define Paris, MAD’s project is characterised by its interaction with nature in the urban environment. Its undulating floor plates form a series of terraces, creating dynamic spaces withi... More
Ospedale del Mare
THE BUILDING AND RECEPTION FACILITIES OF THE OSPEDALE DEL MARE (HOSPITAL OF THE SEA)
The outcome of a project developed by the architecture firm IaN+, the new reception areas of the Ospedale del Mare in Naples, Italy were opened in March 2015. A new public square joins the city to the hospital accompanying people inside a building which distributes the access and service IN NAPLES, ITALY, DESIGNED BY IAN+, HAVE RECENTLY OPENED functions around a bright entrance hall split over three levels.
Colored light invades the large hall where the space seems to widen and deform, expanding the horizontal plane along paths that diagonally cross the surfaces of the two underground floors. The project to create the reception areas of the Ospedale de... More