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NewsNews • 19 Jun 2024

ZAV Architects leverages the “grandmother’s” circular economy approach in design of Dr. Beski Science Foundation

Iranian architectural office ZAV Architects features in Archello’s 25 best architecture firms in Iran. This article highlights a recently completed Iran-based project undertaken by ZAV.   Dr. Beski Science Foundation Parham Taghioff Tehran-based architectural office ZAV Architects takes a research-driven and pragmatic approach to architecture, striving to explore themes with both a realistic and practical nature. The studio’s design for the Dr. Beski Science Foundation leverages the “grandmother’s” circular economy approach in its construction and provides a valuable community space using locally available resources.  Soroush Majidi Parham Taghioff The Dr. Beski Science... More

NewsNews • 25 Oct 2023

Cosmocité science center in Pont-de-Claix preserves the industrial memory of its location

French architectural studio Arcane Architectes (based in Grenoble) and Canadian architectural studio Cardin Julien (based in Montréal) worked in partnership on the design of Cosmocité, a new science center in Pont-de-Claix (a municipality of Grenoble-Alpes Métropole). Cosmocité is constructed on the site of “Les Grand Moulins de Villancourt” — a former water mill that has marked the industrial heritage of Pont-de-Claix since 1869. Located at Pont-de-Claix’s northern entrance, Cosmocité is considered the “cultural cornerstone” of the municipality’s urban renewal. Nicolas Trouillard Unable to be reused, the old mill was demolished in 2019. Aiming to preserv... More

Project • By SKOLNICK Architecture + Design PartnershipCommunity Centres

ROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER

Kristopher Decker, Firewater Photography   SKOLNICK and CRAIG GAULDEN DAVIS were commissioned by the Roper Mountain Science Center (RMSC) to design a new Environmental Science and Sustainability Center.  The focus of this new facility, which serves K-12 students, community organizations, families, educators, and the general public, is to promote an understanding and an appreciation of Greenville’s local natural resources, and to inspire people to seek and implement relevant solutions to environmental challenges and climate change.   Kristopher Decker, Firewater Photography   The new center includes STEAM-based student labs, flexible classrooms, an aquarium, and a teaching kitchen. SKOLNICK also led the... More

Project • By CEBRACultural Centres

EXPERIMENTARIUM SCIENCE CENTER

The substantial extension and refurbishment of the Experimentarium future-proofs the science centre as a significant cultural destination. The project doubles the exhibition area with a total of 16 interactive exhibitions and also includes a large roof terrace, modern staff facilities with visual contact to the visitor areas, a large café and a picnic-area, a convention centre, teaching facilities and a series of workshops.The aim of the design is a radical change of Experimentarium’s architectural expression. From previously being an introvert building to now appearing as an extrovert, engaging and vibrant attraction that makes its activities visible in the public space. However, this needed to happen within the footprint of the existing b... More

Project • By C.F. Møller ArchitectsUniversities

Maersk Tower extension of the Panum Complex, Unive

The extension of the Panum complex has been designed with the aim of creating the best possible environment for modern research and teaching. A parallel objective has been to create a building which will stand out as an identity-creating, sculptural linchpin for the entire Panum complex and the university's Nørre Campus (i.e. the North Campus) as a whole. The new complex is also intended to act as the generator of a positive urban development in its immediate neighbourhood and in relation to the entire city. At sixteen storeys tall, the Maersk Tower will provide the complex with a unifying and dynamic focal point in a clear and readable form. But just as a tree has its root network, the tower rests upon on a series of smaller buildi... More

Project • By YEGENA architectural design and colsultingExhibition Centres

KAUNAS SCIENCE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CONTEST

We owe the current situation of the planet We are living in to the nature first then the humankind , with all of it's positive and negative aspects. Science guides us to make this environment more livable.In our journey to the deep , while we are searching for the last stop where we can never reach , just before going down to molecule and atom , chromosome is the first common structure providing sustainability that is noticed in all of living components of this body .Therefore; Let's dedicate our building in this Science Island to the first constituent of sustainability and generate chromosome ; What this form contains are codes of the future like the DNA... The X chromosome has been located to the center of green area which is at the no... More