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Hortensia Herrero Art Center / ERRE arquitectura

February 24, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

The Hortensia Herrero Art Centre is located in the former Valeriola Palace in the city of Valencia, Spain, an emblematic Baroque-style building dating back to the 17th century that has served various purposes throughout its history, undergone various interventions, and, in recent decades, been unused and abandoned.

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Sorol Art Museum / Meier Partners

January 31, 2024 Paula Pintos 0

Offering an iconic destination to residents of the city and visitors alike, the Sorol Museum is part of the Gyo-Dong 7 Public Park, located in the center of Gangneung, one of the most scenic regions in Korea with a dramatic sea and mountain backdrop. The steep and undulating topography provides a natural hilltop site for the building. Outdoor spaces, gardens, forests, walking, and hiking paths are planned throughout the park, preserving and enhancing the existing landscape. This parkscape connects to the art center grounds, with the ground floor of the building sitting on a naturally high plateau (elevation of +62.0m above sea level) with panoramic views.

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Shanghai IAG Art Museum / BE Design

January 27, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

In CPARK, which is located in the Haixu Park in the core city of Changning District, we have designed a “exquisite white paper” for IAG. The texture of the paper is designed to provide a low -key, exquisite, open basic platform for the display in the future space, activities and events. The overall tone of the space is based on simple white, and the dynamic line pursues simple and clear. However, in the subtleties, such as paving, armrests, smallpox and other areas, it can interpret the detailed granular expression that fits the artistic temperament of the IAG pioneer.

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Sanqingshan Geological Museum / UAD

January 19, 2024 Pilar Caballero 0

The designing process began in late spring. After trekking through verdant and thriving mountains, we ultimately arrived at this tranquil valley with an oblique east-west strike. Amidst the undulating hills scatter several residential houses constructed from stone or brick. Behind those houses, we could see cascades of rice fields, above which there were scattered “field stones”, constituting a special and beautiful field scenery… That is where the museum is located. As we got closer, we noticed that the base was higher in the south and lower in the north. Two vague streams were converging among the veins of mountains. A century-old camphor tree was growing vibrantly at the center of the base, pointing its sturdy branches stretching toward the north as if it was resisting the slope of the base. Mountains, fields, trees, and stones composed our first impression of the base.

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926 Craftsman Museum / TJAD Original Design Studio

December 25, 2023 Andreas Luco 0

926 Craftsman Museum – The 926 Craftsman Museum and the 926 Park are located on the southeast side of the Qiantang River Bridge. They are adjacent to Wentao Road, where you can easily see the bridge and the river. It is a part of the 12-kilometer waterfront public space renovation project in the Binjiang District of Hangzhou, undertaken by the Original Design Studio of TJAD. The Qiantang River Bridge was completed and put into use on September 26, 1937. It is the first double-decker truss girder bridge across the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, a milestone in the history of Chinese bridges. It was presided over the design and construction by Mr. Mao Yisheng, a Chinese bridge expert and a founder of China’s modern bridge industry. The Craftsman Spirit Attributes – To commemorate the completion day of the Qiantang River Bridge, September 26th was established as “926 Craftsmen’s Day” in Hangzhou. So far, more than a hundred talents with superb skills have been recognized as “Hangzhou Craftsmen.”

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Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Center / Zaha Hadid Architects

December 7, 2023 Paula Pintos 0

Designed as a hub of contemporary creativity within one of the world’s most dynamic regions, the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre is at the heart of Aviation New City, an urbanization with a built area of 4.78 million sq. m housing 100,000 residents and incorporating new civic, cultural, academic and commercial infrastructure within Zhuhai’s Jinwan district. The Zhuhai Airport Railway, an extension of the Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Railway, provides direct connections with Zhuhai’s city center and its airport, while the new Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge enables those in Shenzhen and Hong Kong to reach Zhuhai in less than an hour.

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Yanzi Memorial Hall / Architectural Design and Research Institution of SCUT

November 28, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

Fengxian, which is named after the respect of Yanzi, is located among the river towns along the Yangtze River. Yanzi Memorial Hall is located in the core area of Fengxian District, Shanghai. It is used to display the stories of the sage Yanzi and spread the worship of Fengxian people to those sages. Yanzi Memorial Hall is a cultural exhibition with multiple functions, including museum exhibition, teaching, meeting, etc. As a public venue, it is not only an urban cultural garden but also a spiritual education hall for citizens.

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İşbank Painting Sculpture Museum / TEGET

November 21, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

The main approach of the project can be described as taking responsibility for the three lifespans (Baudouy Apartment, 4th Sigorta Han and İşbank Painting Sculpture Museum) of the building over a century and using this layered potential. The first and main goal is to preserve a historical building with its spatial articulation, atmosphere, materials and patina, while equipping it with the technical needs of today’s contemporary museum. In other words, to propose a new multifunctional and technological core structure for the interior with structural, mechanical and electrical loads, without touching the series of interconnected rooms arranged on the façade and damaging the existing structure of this thick shell. A strong reinforced concrete structure that anchors the preserved part to the ground and contains the exhibition areas answers the main design problem. At the same time, it provides a different type of space for the museum with its high and wide galleries.