View and learn more about the design of museums, convention centres, exhibition halls, exhibition spaces, art galleries, memorials, monuments, lookouts, heritage discovery centres, learning centres, cultural centres, zoos and aquariums, and conservation centres; for case studies, precedent studies, and inspiration.
Featuring the work of renown architects Hames Sharley Architects, Woodhead International, Shigeru Ban, Neeson Murcutt Architects, SLAP Architects, Durbach Block Architects, Studio505, UN Studio, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, and Antoine Predock, among many others.
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In 2004, the French Ministry of Culture drew up a shortlist of cities to host a new outpost of the Louvre. Thanks largely to then Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin’s policy of France d’en bas (grassroots France), the most elite institution of the metropolitan centre had decided to open a regional branch office in the depressed North.
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After founding the firm in 1989, Asymptote's principals, Hani Rahid and Lise Anne Couture, shot to fame almost instantly for their daring, transporting the architecture industry from paper and streetside to the more elusive theory and virtual reality.
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Architectus, Brisbane
The last round of RAIA National Awards seemed to prove that innovative, welcoming and democratic public architecture in Australia is the preserve of two cities – and Sydney isn’t one of them. Brisbane’s selfconscious boosterism, its steady flow of southern state refugees, and its significant investment in public works and public art, has made it Melbourne’s nearest rival for cultural vibrancy.
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The world press gave a collective shrug when Paulo Mendes da Rocha, resident of São Paulo, was this year awarded architecture's highest honour, architecture's Nobel.
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Shuhei Endo, Kengo Kuma, Tezuka Architect, Yoshio Tanaguchi, Akira Sakamoto
Japan has one of the world's most admired architectural traditions, one that has influenced artists and architects worldwide from the mid-19th century onwards. Presented here are some of the best of a new generation of Japanese architects, intent on making "something new of tradition". |
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Woodhead International
Shark Bay, WA Woodhead International’s $7.7 million centre is a collection of simple polished concrete boxes, subtly highlighted with titanium zinc cladding, copper fascia and glass. Nothing too flashy: it’s the landscape and the nature that’s on show here. The rustic, earthy materials speak also of a sturdy endurance in the face of inevitable change. It is due to the relatively untouched nature of Shark Bay’s landscape and ecosystem that the Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery Centre exists at all. |
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UN Studio
Stuttgart, Germany
With limited time to design and realise one of the most complicated structures recently conceived, Dutch firm UN Studio brought in some expertise.
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THE "Commune by the Great Wall" signalled a resurgence of confidence in Chinese and Asian architecture at a time when Western names (Koolhaas, Holl, Foster, Andreu, Herzog & de Meuron) were being awarded control over many of Beijing's status projects. It won a Silver Lion at the 2002 architectural Biennale in Venice, and cemented the careers of two unlikely Chinese architectural heroes.
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Jürgen Mayer H.
Seville, Spain
One of the stranger projects being built today is at the produce markets in the Plaza de la Encarnación in Seville, Spain.
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