Cultural Center: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  Rafael de La-Hoz

• Location

  Calle Alberche, Venturada, Madrid, Spain

• Category

  Cultural Center

• Direction Works

  Rafael de la- Hoz Castanys, Silvia Villamor

• Area

  6850.0 m2

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Alfonso Quiroga

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• Architects

  KNOWSPACE

• Location

  Song Chuan Nan Lu, Kunshan Shi, Suzhou Shi, Jiangsu Sheng, China

• Category

  Cultural Architecture

• Area

  1488.0 m2

• Project Year

  2013

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• Architects

  Robert Morris

• Location

  Kansas City, MO, USA

• Category

  Installation

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Josh Ferdinand

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• Architects

  aterlier100s+1

• Location

  Beijing, China

• Category

  Houses

• Architects in Charge

  Peng Lele, Zeng Renzhen, Yang Guang, Ling Lin

• Area

  1257.0 m2

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Zeng Renzhen

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• Architects

  Supermachine Studio

• Location

  Bangsaen Sai 1, Tambon Saen Suk, Amphoe Mueang Chon Buri, Chang Wat Chon Buri 20130, Thailand

• Category

  watching tower

• Design Team

  Pitupong Chaowakul with Sujinda Khawkam, Kasidis Peuktes and Mint Mintly

• Client

  Siam Cement Group (SCG)

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Wison Tungthunya

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NextOffice’s Sadra Artists Forum is a public cultural center to be located in the arid suburban town of Sadra. Consisting entirely of low-lying or subterranean building levels, the project's unique structure contrasts the surrounding urban area and uniquely shapes the relationship between interior and exterior spaces.

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Antakya Atatürk Stadium of Hatay, Turkey, was originally built in 1950 but closed recently due to its inability to meet growing demand. In a new public project titled Green Wings, ONZ Architects aim to transform this former urban center into a new park with a cultural hub.

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In their recently completed thesis project, Sebastian Siggard, Neemat Azizullah, and Thomas Ron propose the revitalization of a 19th century Parisian water reservoir into a new cultural hub. Addressing growing social issues and inequality across Europe, the project, titled “New Parisian Stories,” promotes social interaction in an effort to create a more integrated and cohesive society. Two primary questions motivate their design: With the 2024 Olympics games coming to Paris, what role can architecture play in capturing the opportunities and potential of such events? And how can architecture better the lives of those lowest in society while also creating social and sympathetic spaces for people of all languages, cultures and ages?

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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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