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Reimagining the Role of Culture: Manifesta Announces 15th Biennial in Barcelona, Spain

April 10, 2024

Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana has unveiled a decentralized biennial event spanning across the landscape of Barcelona. Taking place from September 8^th to November 24^th, this edition of Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, introduces a regionalized strategy. Famous for its avant-garde exploration of global challenges through cultural lenses, the approach aims to empower citizens in catalyzing a socio-ecological transformation across Catalonia. The event aims to reimagine the role of culture in societal transformation through art, dialogue, and collective action.

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Unveiling New Images of Snøhetta's Spiraling Shanghai Opera House

November 08, 2023

Snøhetta has just released construction images showing the progress on the studio’s long-awaited Shanghai Grand Opera House in China. With its iconic fan-shaped roof, the firm has been commissioned the scheme in 2019 following an international design competition. The project is set to be completed in 2025, seeking to attract a broad audience for traditional, classical, and experimental performances.

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A Cultural Incubator in Indonesia and a Spiraling Gallery in South Korea: 8 Unbuilt Cultural Centers Submitted by the ArchDaily Community

February 19, 2023

This week's curated selection of Best Unbuilt Architecture highlights cultural centers by the ArchDaily community. From a spiral- gallery symbolizing the Jinju culture in South Korea, a building devoted to Irish culture to a gallery to serve as a cultural incubator for Indonesia, this round-up of unbuilt projects showcases how architects, community, and institutions team up to promote culture, arts, history, and reflection.

Featuring the firms Id lab architecture , Oxo arc , Atelier of spatial matters , ddrlp, Brno Architectural studio AOSI, Nir Shmueli Studio, Macary-Bensh Architecture , MZ Architects, and Studio BANAA, the following list explores cultural centers at different scales and varying stages of their development. Whether competition-winning projects or ongoing planned execution, each project gathers neighborhoods, arts organizations, private facilities, government-sponsored or activist-run.

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Beirut, One Year Later: People-Driven Reconstruction Efforts Midst Devastated Nation

August 05, 2021

Exactly a year ago, on August 4, 2020, the third-largest non-nuclear explosion ever-recorded destroyed almost half the city of Beirut, ripping through the port and the eastern part of the capital. One of the biggest urban tragedies of modern times, killed more than 200 people, wounded thousands, and left an estimated 300,000 people homeless, damaging over 80,000 commercial, residential and public spaces. Felt across neighboring countries, the blast stripped the city’s constructions of their cladding, framing, and glass elements, while completely tearing down other buildings, leaving around US$15 billion in property damage, in times of Covid, political and social unrest, and economic collapse.

One year later, so little has changed. One year later, it only became harder for the people of Beirut. One year later, everything in the city still reminds them of that day. Major questions remained unanswered, no rescue or action plans have been taken by governmental institutions, instead, civil society rose to take into their own hands, reconstruction efforts, in the total absence of the state.

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Miralles Tagliabue EMBT Wins Competition to Design Shenzhen's Conservatory of Music

March 26, 2021

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, directed by Benedetta Tagliabue, has won the international competition to design the Shenzhen Conservatory of Music, one of the city's 10 new era cultural buildings. Characterized by the dialogue generated with its surroundings, the complex integrates music and art in nature with a proposal of organic and sustainable architecture.

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Aldeburgh Music Creative Campus / Haworth Tompkins

January 19, 2021

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Architects: Haworth Tompkins
Year: 2009
Professionals: Applied Solutions Limited, Babel Limited, Charcoalblue, Haymills, PFB Construction Management Services Ltd., +3

Equestrian Centre / Carlos Castanheira + Clara Bastai

October 04, 2020

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Architects: Carlos Castanheira, Clara Bastai
Year: 2012
Professionals: Carmo, Carpintaria C.Silva Lda, Henriques & Rodrigues Lda, Diâmetro & Cálculo Engenharia Lda., HDP Gabinete de Serviços e Projectos de Engenharia Civil Lda

Shigeru Ban and Ole Scheeren to Create New Art and Cultural Destination in Hangzhou

September 25, 2020

Shigeru Ban, Pritzker Prize-winner, and Ole Scheeren, RIBA silver medalist, were appointed for the Hangzhou Wangjiang New Town master plan. Creating new art and cultural destination in the historical city, the project in collaboration with New World Development and K11 Group seeks to build a landmark that meets the needs of the new generation.

Beirut: Between a Threatened Architectural Heritage and a Traumatized Collective Memory

September 02, 2020

It only took a couple of seconds to destroy 40% of the city of Beirut on August 4^th, 2020. A couple of trivial seconds were enough to determine the fate of the urban and social fabric of the Lebanese capital and its architectural heritage. Years and years of accumulated cultural assets fell instantly in distress, causing more harm than the infamous 15-year civil war. These seconds have erased the past, present, and destroyed future aspirations.

Hit right in its rich cultural center, the blast of the port shook the northeastern side of the Lebanese capital, leaving the neighborhoods of Mdawar, Rmeil, Gemmayze, Achrafieh, Mar Mkhayel, Karantina, and Geitawi, severely hurt. According to the UN Development Programme (UNDP), 200,000 housing units were affected by the explosions, with an estimated 40,000 buildings damaged, of which 3,000 were severely damaged.

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Roof & Mushrooms Pavilion / nendo + Ryue Nishizawa

August 19, 2020

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Architects: Ryue Nishizawa, nendo
Year: 2013

Christensen & Co. Imagines Viby Library and Cultural House in Denmark

July 07, 2020

Christensen & Co. Architects has designed a brand new culture house and library for the small town of Viby, in Denmark. Conceived as a sort of living room for the city, the project will be a “place for lingering and staying”, introducing social zones and an open architecture to the urban space.

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Media Library in Bourg-la-Reine / Pascale Guédot Architecte

July 04, 2020

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Architects: Pascale Guédot Architecte
Area: 2000 m²
Year: 2014
Professionals: Batiserf

Arquipélago Contemporary Arts Centre / João Mendes Ribeiro + Menos é Mais Arquitectos

July 03, 2020

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Architects: João Mendes Ribeiro, Menos é Mais Arquitectos
Area: 12914 m²
Year: 2014
Manufacturers: J. Pinto Leitão
Professionals: Quaternaire, SOPSEC SA, Cariátides, GET, Raul Serafim & Associados

MAD Reveals the Shenzhen Bay Culture Park Masterplan

June 25, 2020

MAD Architects has unveiled its design for the Shenzhen Bay Culture Park along the waterfront in Shenzhen, China. The masterplan puts in place a 51,000 square meters cultural complex that includes the Creative Design Hall, the Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum, and a vast public green space.

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Clock Museum Of the Cultural Revolution / Jiakun Architects

May 31, 2020

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Architects: Jiakun Architects
Area: 3885 m²
Year: 2008

Fine Arts Museum of Asturias / Francisco Mangado

May 26, 2020

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Architects: Francisco Mangado
Area: 11142 m²
Year: 2014
Manufacturers: Dynamobel, Saint-Gobain, Jofebar, Parquets ROMAN, Plaka, +2Viabizzuno, Weber-2
Professionals: SEDES S.A.