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[27 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Great Architectural Design of Marina Bay Sands in Singapore by Safdie Architects

Boston-based architect Moshe Safdie presents the great modern architectural design of Marina Bay Sands, 10 million square-foot urban district anchors the Singapore waterfront, creates a gateway to Singapore, and provides a dynamic setting for a vibrant public life. This building is a high-density, mixed-use integrated resort that brings together a 2,561-room hotel, convention center, shopping and dining, theaters, museum, and a casino across the water from Singapore’s Central Business District. Safdie designed an urban structure that weaves together the components of a complex program into a dynamic urban …

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[7 May 2010 | No Comment | ]
Architectural Design of Pitagora Museum in Italy by OBR Open Building Research

The Pitagora Museum placed on the hill side situated in the urban context in Parco Pignera Crotone Italy, inside of the Pignera Park on the area of 18 ha belonging to the municipality. The Museum creates a new magnet of interest for international cultural tourism stimulating both economical and social development of the city. For this motive the project acts on two different levels: on global level the museum offers valorisation of the historical and scientific identity of Pitagora, on local level it originates a process of requalification of urban …

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[9 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Architecture Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Plan in Michigan by Zaha Hadid Architects

The initial momentum for Zaha Hadid Architect’s Design is generated by developing a landscape carpet picking up these loose ends of the urban fabric and interweaving them with the different movement directions across and along the site. This landscape layout develops from an urban end at the western side of the plot. From this Western end, where the plot of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is neighboured by the large Berkey Hall, the new square exposes the western edge of the site by allowing for a deep insight …

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[7 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Architecture Dalian Shell Museum in China by The Design Institute of Civil Engineering & Architecture of DUT

The Dalian Shell Museum is one of key high-end construction projects in Dalian China. Built in 18,000 sqm project area, the concept plays with the building’s advantageous geographical site to establish the main exhibition space stretching out in an uphill direction. This arrangement allows views of the beautiful landscape from the wide picture windows inside the museum’s lounge.
The main exhibition building features an overlapping roof made of QuadroClad™ which evokes an oversized seashell. The material projects the natural flowing curves the architect envisioned and also demonstrates the customizable nature of …

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[11 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Architecture Design of Nanjing Art Museum by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten

The Nanjing Art Museum built in 10,605 sqm site area situated in cultural center of Nanjing and in the immediate proximity of the historical Presidential Palace of today’s provincial capital. This new Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum is one of the most important museums in south-east China. It has space for temporary exhibitions and houses a permanent collection featuring traditional Chinese art, which illustrates the cultural wealth of Nanjing – one of the oldest cities in southern China. The sizeable collection is kept in archive rooms in the Museum, which meet …

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[27 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Architectural Design of New Memory Museum in Santiago by Estudio America

The Memory Museum building in Santiago Chile recently completed by Brazilian based architecture office Estudio America. The architect Mario Figueroa, design this museum onto block-like, three-story construction is sheathed in a striking green metallic screen of oxidized copper. In addition to exhibits in its capacious hall, it will house a collection of photos, records and first-person chronicles by victims and their families, many of them wrenching accounts. Under the volume, a big shadow welcomes visitors, who pass by a small lobby before entering the triple-height inside the container, with the …

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[15 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Architecture Jeju Provincial Art Museum Building by Gansam Architects & Associates

The Jeju Provincial Art Museum located in Jeju Island South Korea and designed by Seoul based architects Gansam Architects & Associates. This museum building created accentuates the surrounding natural environment through material selection and carefully designed views to the exterior, made of concrete and local stone. The colonnade on the north and west façade frames the sky and transitions between interior and exterior. The program of the museum is planned for research, conservation, exhibition and education.The geometry is based off of the simplistic module of the cube, replicating this …

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[31 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Temporary Inflatable Pavilion Design in Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden by Diller Scofidio and Renfro

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which opened to the public in October 1974 will be extension with temporary inflatable pavilion for meeting space. This project created by NY based architectural practice Diller Scofidio & Renfro. The project is currently in the early conceptual stage. Preliminary planning for the project began in summer 2009 and the architects are working towards the first installation of the temporary inflatable pavilion in May 2011.

This addition aimed to create a vibrant public space offering diverse artistic and educational events, via a seasonally installed temporary …

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[15 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Architecture Design of Benozzo Gozzoli Museum in Italy by Massimo Mariani

The Benozzo Gozzoli Museum located in south-west of Florence Italy and designed by Massimo Mariani Studio. This museum designed for Comune di Castelfiorentino with 400 square meters total area. The building, due to its small size, retains something domestic; it is conceived like a home-studio where Benozzo Gozzoli, surrounded by his students, seems to join us while we’re looking at these frescoes and he’s still working on them.

The building is rooted to the ground through a functional island-shaped base which solves the problem of urban furnishing meant in the classical …