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Sayuwon Park Visiting Center Gate / liveraniandrea

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000

From the first idea by the chairman Yoo Jaesung in 2013, it is a private park ( from 2020 open to the public) where selected architects, artists, landscaper design are invited to dialogue with the natural landscape. The site covers an area totaling 330,000 m2 and takes about three hours to look around in its entirety. The park includes architecture by Alvaro Siza, Seung h-sang (IROJE), Wook Choi, Matsunobu Kawagishi, and Jung Young-sun ( landscape architect)

Weishan Chongzheng Academy Bookstore of Librairie Avant-Garde / TAO (Trace Architecture Office)

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Background
Weishan Chongzheng Academy Bookstore of Librairie Avant-Garde is located in the west corner of Weishan Ancient Town in Dali, Yunnan. Weishan is the birthplace of the ancient Nanzhao Kingdom, and has a history of over 600 years. It still preserves the urban layout of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Chongzheng Academy was built during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty with a history of more than 500 years, and has gone through several twists and turns. In 2021, TAO was invited by the local government and Librairie Avant-Garde to repair and renovate Chongzheng Academy, transforming it into a bookstore with comprehensive functions including bookstore, exhibition, small theatre, coffee, etc. and hoping to awaken the former prosperity and vitality of the place. The design task also includes the urban design of the surrounding area. By inviting new programs, the design aims to create a new lifestyle destination that encourages everyday public participation throughout the year, bringing a positive effect to the regeneration of the old town.

Haining Natural Exhibition Center / Sens Architects

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Haining Nature Exhibition Center is a comprehensive public building within the Haining International Flower Industry Park. It can serve as an experience hall for organizing agricultural exhibitions in the park, as well as undertaking industrial docking activities and other functions. It can become a cultural and artistic center for the future development of the surrounding area. The Natural Art Exhibition Center, as a venue for various industrial activities, information exchange conferences, and cultural and artistic exhibitions, is not only an important space for showcasing the achievements of rural industrial revitalization, but also a combination of pastoral art and life culture.

Wutong Pavilion / CCDI Dongxiying Studio

韩爽 - HAN Shuang — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The project is located within Ensheng Wetland Park atop Wutong Mountain in Yantian District. Here, on one side lies the summit landscape of the Ensheng Wetland with Wutong Mountain, and on the other stretches the seemingly endless seascape of Yantian Port, reminiscent of "mystical mountains beyond the sea," alongside the continuously stacked containers within the port itself. The wonders of nature and human artifice are presented here almost simultaneously. The client's brief was clear: this pavilion must offer a view of the sea. This inspired a broader aspiration: to create a "space" where one can enjoy 360-degree panoramic views. Concurrently, we set ourselves a requirement: the presence of the architecture must not disturb the natural ground.

The Grand Canopy / MLA+

Andreas Luco — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The site is located in Xialang Village, and the village lives up to its name – the Lanshi River meanders down from the folds of Luofu Mountain, flowing past the site and stirring up layers of waves. Our first site visit took place at the end of the Spring Festival, but winter is not the "wave season" for Xialang. Both the water volume in the dry season and the number of visitors in the off-season seemed to still be rousing from their winter slumber. From snippets of conversations with local residents, we learned that unlike the loneliness we saw before, every summer, thousands of tourists flood here to wade in the stream and escape the heat – Xialang Village truly "lives off the waves".

Punangairi Visitor Centre / Sheppard & Rout Architects

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Set against the wild limestone cliffs and dense coastal forest of Punakaiki, Punangairi redefines what a visitor centre can be. Designed by Sheppard & Rout Architects, in collaboration with Ngāti Waewae, the project moves beyond tourism infrastructure to become an act of cultural and ecological restoration.

Wudang Mountain Visitor Center / Moguang Studio

Andreas Luco — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In the winter of 2023, Moguang Studio was commissioned to design a public facility for a planned guesthouse district in Longwanggou Village, Shiyan, Hubei. The program integrates light dining, a café, kitchen, and meeting functions. The site, adjacent to the Danjiangkou Reservoir, had already been leveled into artificial terraces and parking lots, erasing its original continuity with the valley and rice paddies.

Miaoli Hakka Literature Garden Visitor Center / Guu Architects & Associates

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The Tourist Center is located within the Hakka Literature Garden in Gongguan, Miaoli, a site shaped by local Hakka settlements and mining heritage. Nestled in the Houlong River valley, the center offers expansive views, with a cherry blossom scenic trail leading to the mountains and a direct outlook toward the historic mining pit across the river. The project seeks to connect natural and cultural settings.

Learning Center at the Central Campus of USTC / Heimat Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Located at the Central Campus of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), this project addresses the challenge of providing multifunctional spaces for self-directed learning, activities, and communication. The university selected a neglected corner at the easternmost edge of the campus for the site. The site is bordered by boundary walls to the east, south, and north, with a commercial building to the south, residential blocks to the north, and an elevated expressway to the east. An underground tunnel underpass connects the East and Central Campuses beneath the site.

Longyou Tourist Center / atelier tao+c

Andreas Luco — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Crossing the Bridge over the Qu River leads to Tingtangxu Village — Adjacent to the riverside road, each household in the village adopts a vernacular house with an irregular front yard. The irregular shape of the yards are usually delineated by the interwoven village paths which were set by generations of neighborly negotiations, as a spatial reflection of the rural social structure.

Renovation of Anren Liaowei Mansion Anren Tourist Center / Atelier Li Xinggang

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The Anren Tourist Center, located on the edge of Anren Ancient Town in southwestern Chengdu, is a renovation and expansion project of the Liao Wei Mansion. Originally a private residence, the Liao Wei Mansion later served as a brewery and farmer's dwelling before falling into disuse. Designated as a Chengdu historical building and protected heritage site in 2018, it has now been transformed into Anren Ancient Town's visitor center and community center. As the historical DNA of this area, the visitor center serves as the genesis of newly constructed neighborhoods, forming a new cluster of Linpan spatial communities. This project stands as a research sample of China's new town development.

Expansion of the Banco dos Cajuais Visitor Center - Aquasis / Rede Arquitetos

Valeria Silva — Sat, 24 May 2025 15:00:00 +0000

The Banco do Cajuais Visitors Center was a project carried out for the NGO Aquasis at Picos Beach, Ceará. The construction, completed in 2021, was designed as an exhibition space to showcase the institution’s projects. The growing demand for the NGO and the increasing use of the space by a diverse and expanding audience led to new needs and improvements to enhance the site's usability. Therefore, a growth plan for the complex was conceived, initially proposing the construction of an annex to the original building.

Maiji Mountain Visitor Center / ZXD ARCHITECTS + BIAD

Andreas Luco — Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

To explore the significance of Maiji Mountain culture and art, we must first consider the influence of Buddhism, and design begins from here. Circumambulatory structures are the most common and primitive form of space used for ceremonial and commemorative purposes after the awakening of human consciousness, corresponding to the Buddhist concept of reincarnation. All living things, if they do not seek 'liberation', will forever be in the cycle of life and death in the 'Six Paths', with no end. Of course, these concepts and annotations have undergone changes through cultural integration in the long river of history, especially in the process of communication and integration with the native culture of the Han ethnic group, and even in the process of modernization. They have surpassed the original meaning of Buddhism and have a more contemporary interpretation, which will foreshadow the realistic power of sustainable development and affect our life experience.

Stones Water Light / Christoph Hesse Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Visitor Centre Stones Water Light at Lake Edersee - The Stones Water Light visitor centre at Lake Edersee, Germany, offers both locals and visitors an open cultural space that fosters a balance between social and ecological sustainability. Located directly adjacent to the UNESCO-listed Kellerwald-Edersee National Park, the centre is designed as a venue for exploring regenerative thinking and action while also honoring the region's rich history.

Daguan Integrated Service Center for Rural Tourism / CADG

Andreas Luco — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The project serves as a tourism hub leveraging surrounding rural resources. After on-site surveys, the design team selected a hilly area in southern Daguan Town, originally planned for high-rise residential development. The site features rich natural vegetation and varied terrain, with a central hill and a maximum elevation difference of about 60 meters.

The Blue Insight Cave Space / 3andwich Design/Hewei Studio

Andreas Luco — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:00:00 +0000

Hidden Underground And Viewing The Vast Sea. The Blue Insight Cave Space by Donghai No.1 Road. The project is situated along Donghai No.1 Road in Xiapu, Ningde City, Fujian Province, and serves as a crucial element in the construction of Ningde's "Zero Carbon Island". The original site comprised a viewing platform and a parking lot. Adjacent to the East China Sea, it boasts a vast vista. Directly in front of the platform stands Bijia Mountain Island, rising majestically from the sea, with numerous reefs and sea caves lining the cliffs below. The sea breeze, waves, islands, reefs, and sea caves collectively create a unique coastal scenery.

Visitor Center Đalovića Pećina / ARHINGinženjering

Andreas Luco — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:00 +0000

The Visitor Center as the starting point of the tourist offer for a tour of the Đalovića Cave is being developed in a challenging location in the form of a group format. The building is the result of a response to the found context of built physical structures and the surrounding landscape, primarily the proximity of the Bistrica River and mountain peaks. The object is exposed to views from all sides, so the offered form is loose and playful. Due to the time-limited stay of visitors who are part of the tour to Đalovića Cave, the main idea was to establish physical and visual contact with the river as a dominant design factor as soon as possible. That's why the building is "split" into two parts, grouping functions so that the hall area becomes an extended terrace that overlooks the river.

Pinnacle Mountain State Park Visitor Center / Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:00:00 +0000

A new visitor center at Pinnacle Mountain State Park weaves through the trees as a structured, undulating canopy, lightly rooted into the sloping site and forming a gateway to not only Pinnacle Mountain but all Arkansas State Parks.

Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden / Ayers Saint Gross

Valeria Silva — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000

An iconic visitor center draws inspiration from nature. The Missouri Botanical Garden is a global leader in plant science research and the nation's oldest botanical garden in continuous operation. Entering a new era, the Garden engaged Ayers Saint Gross and Michael Vergason Landscape Architects to design an iconic visitor center and complementary gardens as the primary gateway for more than one million annual visitors. The state-of-the-art Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center represents a bold, transformative vision for the Garden and its mission to discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment in order to preserve and enrich life.

Suzhou Public Culture Visitor Center / Tsing-Tien Making

Valeria Silva — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Renmin Road is one of the important streets in Gusu District, Suzhou, featuring multiple public cultural venues along its route, including the Suzhou Public Cultural Centre. The Suzhou Public Cultural Centre (hereinafter referred to as the Cultural Centre) is a comprehensive cultural facility, comprising institutions such as Suzhou Art Museum; Suzhou Cultural Centre; Suzhou Celebrity Museum; Suzhou Woodcut Printing Academy; Suzhou Seal Cutting Art Academy; Suzhou Oil Painting Academy; and Suzhou Powder Painting Art Academy.

AON Building / LKSA

Hana Abdel — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:00:00 +0000

The site is located at the end of the Gyeongui Line Forest Park, featuring contrasting contexts with a 20-meter-wide road in the front and a park in the back. Accordingly, the design minimizes the number of openings toward the road, giving the building a solid and heavy mass. On the park side, the openings are maximized to create a dense visual interaction with the park's forest.

Pustevny Gateway Center / henkai architekti

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Location - Pustevny is a significant mountain point and tourist attraction on the Beskydy Mountains ridge, offering a wide range of tourist, sports, and recreational activities. Since the late 19th century, the area has been progressively urbanized due to the rise of tourism. Architecturally significant buildings have emerged in the saddle, such as shelters designed by Dušan Jurkovič and the cable car terminal by Kamil Mrva, showcasing contemporary architectural approaches. The site is easily accessible from the north by cable car from Trojanovice or by car or bus from the south via the road from Prostřední Bečva, making it a popular destination. The original secluded character of the saddle, once home to hermitages (Czech “poustevníci”, hence the name Pustevny) isolated from the outside world, has transformed into a bustling area frequently visited by less experienced tourists and those interested in Pustevny's architectural heritage.

Grande Dune du Pilat Visitor Centre Refurbishment / Aldebert Verdier Architectes | AVA

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000

The Dune du Pilat is both powerful and fragile, a source of fascination, hence the high standards imposed for its conservation and for receiving the public. The surrounding infrastructure carries the Grand Site de France label, so the restoration project had to embrace a sustainable development dynamic and welcome visitors in a quality environment. Its rehabilitation needed to live up to its exceptional nature. The project would bring the site up to standard and include a diagnosis, intending to propose various design and planning scenarios. The main goal was to improve the conditions for receiving the public and preserve the site. Rehabilitation objectives included: the upgrade of existing huts; development of administrative, reception, educational and commercial functions; and improved flows and PRM accessibility.

The Nature Education Center of Tangjiahe / CLAB Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Nature Education Center of Tangjiahe provides content for young families' natural study tours. Different from the type of school education, this building uses lifestyle and natural perception as the educational medium. Its public space includes a museum exhibition hall, multimedia classroom, natural-themed dining space (natural food education), and 9 guest rooms for study tours.