(senhormario– flickr/creative commons license) Lelystad in Netherlands is receiving a huge revitalization in its town center, and the Agora Theatre by Ben van Berkel with UNstudio is the crowning piece. The expression of change in the theater’s kaleidescopic form is …
(Reading Tom– flickr/creative commons license) The aim is for this gentle, sculptural building built on the prominant Liverpool harbor to become the word’s top museum about a city. It will showcase the city’s musical and artistic achievment, expecting to …
By Arup Associates, in a remote region high in the Indian Himalayas west of Tibet, Ladakh India. Built under the patronage of the Dalai Lama, this school has enormous cultural and regional significance, as well as environmental standards and international …
(FHKE– flickr/creative commons license) Juxtaposed to the old 1933 “Temple to Art” in Kansas City is a new addition by Steven Holl Architects, called the Bloch building. As one proceeds from the old building, five glass lenses manipulate the visitors’ …
(Simon_sees– flickr/creative commons license) The Australian Institute of Architects’ awarded this project and remarked it is “a careful reworking of a significant modernist building…” and “This is a strong reworking of an important building and shows how existing building stock …
(petermcottle– flickr/creative commons license) The UC campus in San Diego has some amazing architecture. The Atkison Hall, a high-tech research home for the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) opened in 2005 with 900 researchers and staff from …
(roryrory– flickr/creative commons license) Alfred Berger & Tiina Parkkinen out of Vienna conceived of cooperation among various embassies in Berlin by combining structure and organization into an overall plan with Nordic overtones. Five embassies are organized in a star-shaped plan, …
(Javi sas– flickr/creative commons license) The most impressive project I’ve seen this year is the Caixa Forum in Madrid Spain by Herzog & de Meuron. As the new headquarters of the cultural centre of the “la Caixa” Foundation in …
(alvarolg– flickr/creative commons license) Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón designed this winner of the Mies van der Roh award. In the MUSAC in Leon, each exhibit is seperate and interconnected for various activities. A wide space full of variuos …
(John Pavelka– flickr/creative commons license) Foreign residents in Pyongyang say that the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel has resumed construction after 16 years. The Orascom group has been active in installing glass panels and installing telecommunications devices. Many call the bleak totalitarian …