Cultural Center: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  Toni Gironès

• Location

  Montornès Del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain

• Category

  Heritage

• Architect in Charge

  Toni Gironès Saderra

• Area

  2500.0 m2

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Sabem.com i Aeroproduccions, Aitor Estevez

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• Architects

  José Adrião

• Location

  Largo Severa 2, 1100-341 Lisbon, Portugal

• Category

  Cultural Center

• Design Team

  Margarida Lameiro, Ricardo Aboim Inglez, Carla Gonçalves, João Matos, Ricardo Aboim Inglez, Tiago Pereira

• Area

  2014.0 m2

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  Hugo Santos Silva

A historic site in the heart of Basel will soon be revived as Kaserne Cultural Center, the city’s new urban hub by Focketyn Del Rio Studio.

The 45 million CHF (44.7 million USD) transformation project is the first publicly-funded large facility in the Kleinbasel district, and will unite and unlock two previously disconnected and enclosed spaces on the Rhine River. The 9,000 sqm project by the Swiss firm is currently under construction and is expected to be complete in 2021.

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• Architects

  METAA

• Location

  Yeongdong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea

• Category

  Exhibition center

• Architect in Charge

  Jongho Yi, Euijung Woo

• Area

  1892.0 m2

• Project Year

  2011

• Photographs

  Jaekyung Kim

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• Architects

  Archea Associati

• Location

  Via IV Novembre, 24128 Bergamo BG, Italy

• Category

  Library

• Area

  1960.0 m2

• Project Year

  2009

• Photographs

  Pietro Savorelli

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• Architects

  SsD

• Location

  Seoul, South Korea

• Category

  Housing

• Architects in Charge

  Jinhee Park AIA, John Hong, SsD

• Architects

  Alain Provost

• Location

  Paris balloon, Rue Montagne de la Fage, 75015 Paris, France

• Category

  Park

• Architect

  Alain Provost

• Design Team

  Gilles Clément, Patrick Berger, Jean-François Jodry, and Jean-Paul Viguier.

• Area

  140000.0 m2

• Project Year

  1992

• Photographs

  Cyrus Penarroyo, Andrew Kroll, Flickr user John Althouse Cohen, Flickr user ollografik, Flickr user Guilhem Vellut

• Architects

  Hans Scharoun

• Location

  Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße 1, 10785 Berlin, Germany

• Category

  amphitheater

• Architect

  Hans Scharoun

• References

  greatbuildings.com, wikiarquitectura.com

• Project Year

  1963

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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• Architects

  Approach Design (ZUP)

• Location

  Yunqi Town, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

• Category

  Cultural Center

• Architecture Groups

  Approach Design, Zhejiang University Urban-Rural Planning&Design Institute

• Collaborating Architects

  Zhejiang Province Institute of Architectural Design and Research

• Lead Architects

  Di Ma, Xin Jin, Lianping Mao

• Construction Team

  Zhejiang Provincial Yijian Construction Group LTD.

• Design Team

  Sheng Jiang, Jialiang Zhang, Weifen Shen, Shang Wang, Mengjun Mao

• Structural Design

  Jian Jiao, Yunjun Lu, Wuqiang Feng, Guozhi Peng

• Area

  66680.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Lianping Mao

This article was originally published on May 25, 2015. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Before the impossibly “super-thin” tower became ubiquitous on the Midtown Manhattan skyline, Raimund Abraham’s Austrian Cultural Forum challenged the limits of what could be built on the slenderest of urban lots. Working with a footprint no bigger than a townhouse (indeed, one occupied the site before the present tower), Abraham erected a daring twenty-four story high-rise only twenty-five feet across. Instantly recognizable by its profile, a symmetrical, blade-like curtain wall cascading violently toward the sidewalk, ACFNY was heralded by Kenneth Frampton as “the most significant modern piece of architecture to be realized in Manhattan since the Seagram Building and the Guggenheim Museum of 1959.” [1]

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This article was originally published on November 25, 2014. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Architects have never enjoyed a position of such supreme prominence as they did in the worldview of Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller. To him, architects alone were capable of understanding and navigating the complex interrelationships of society, technology, and environment as viewed through the comprehensive paradigm of systems theory. Architecture, in this model, was intended to exist in close contact with both mankind and nature, playing civilization’s most critical role in elevating the state of humanity and promoting its responsible stewardship of the environment. Emerging from the ethical positivity of postwar modernism, this melioristic perspective marks perhaps the zenith of optimism’s ascent in mid-twentieth century thought, and gave Fuller a uniquely moral blueprint for his revolutionary designs.

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Lithuanian city Panevezys will have a new cultural hub thanks to the winning design of architecture firm, IMPLMNT. The proposed design of the Stasys Eidrigevicius Arts Centre, which will be built in the northern part of the city center, won the competition due to its function, location, architecture, and the social/economic value it will be adding to the city.

The center will take the place of an existing movie theater, a historic landmark in the Lithuanian city. After performing structural analysis on the existing theater, a study of the conditions indicated that it can no longer be preserved or saved. Keeping in mind the importance of the movie theater to the city, the architects at IMPLMNT decided to draw inspiration from the existing building, as well as use its proportions to create the newly-designed structure.

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Oslo-based architecture firm Ekberg Lous Arkitekter have designed Norway’s first World Heritage Visitor Center, after having won the open international architectural competition in 2008. Following the competition, the project was halted for seven years due to a lack of funding, but has been given the green light in 2015 with revised plans and a new site. The center, which will be built on the tip of the northern shore of Vega Island, is expected to be a gathering point for both locals and foreigners. It will provide visitors with knowledge about the natural and cultural values of the Vega Archipelago and world heritage sites in general. The center is set to be open in spring 2019.

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• Architects

  Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University

• Location

  Intersection of Jiuzhou Street and Jiquan Road, Linan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

• Category

  gymnasium

• Principle Architect

  Danshen Dong

• Project Team

  Jian Chen, Jian Ni, Yi Cai

• Structural Engineer

  Gang Gan, Jianlu Zhou, Jiepan Shen

• MEP Consultant

  Yi Yang, Ping Li, Nan Li, Bing Jiang

• Quantity Surveyor

  Yunfeng Wang

• Area

  74986.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Qiang Zhao

UNStudio has been selected as the winner of the largest ever private initiative architectural competition to be held in France – for the keystone ‘Centre Culturel’ of the new EuropaCity development currently being developed in the Triangle de Gonesse region just north of Paris.

As a brand new ground-up district, in 2017 EuropaCity launched a call for the design of 8 key buildings to be located within BIG’s competition winning master plan, including a concert hall, hotels, contemporary circus and exhibition hall. UNStudio was chosen to design the new Centre Culturel Dédié Au 7è Art, which will house a cinema complex and “cultural laboratory.”

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