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Featuring the work of renown architects Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Foster + Partners, HASSELL Architects, Richard Rogers, DOS Architects, Minifie Nixon Architects, Williams Ross Architects, Yoshio Taniguchi, Eric Owen Moss, Cox Humphries Moss Architects, Lahz Nimmo Architects, Conrad Gargett Architecture, Asymptote, Massimiliano Fuksas, Arup, Information Based Architecture, Peter Kulka, designer Marc Newson, Saunders Architects, ALA Architects, Prior + Cheney, Metier3, Suters Architects, Woodhead International, Harmer Architecture, DesignInc Melbourne, Lyons, Santiago Calatrava, Brewster Hjorth Architects, Mulloway Studio, Williams Boag Architects, Lacoste + Stevenson Architects, Jones Coulter Young Architects, Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp Architects, and Ancher Mortlock Woolley Architects, among many others.
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Playful, futurist architecture is just a stone’s throw away, as Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects have won a competition to design a new aquarium along the Georgian seaport of Batumi. The scheme of the proposed Batumi Aquarium is inspired by the characteristics of pebbles found on Batumi beach. Made up of four pebble-shaped structures, each volume houses an exhibition space representing a unique marine biotype, the Aegean and Mediterranean seas, the Indian Ocean, the Black and Red Seas and an interactive exhibition. Each pebble will be connected by a central space that will include a café, auditorium and retail area, with extensive outlooks to the beach and the Black Sea. Around the aquarium, a landscape of sea archipelagos encourage new opportunities for outdoor research and informal meetings along the beachfront.
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Erick van Egeraat has won a closed international design competition for Dynamo Stadium in Moscow, a 300,000-square-metre proposal which will be one of the largest projects to be developed in the Russian Federation in the coming years. Sited in Petrovsky Park, the competition called for a contemporary, international design finesse to support Russia’s bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The scheme acts as a mixed use urban regenerator that will feature a 45,000-seat stadium arena, a 10,000-seat arena hall, retail and entertainment complexes, restaurants, parking and other facilities. Architecturally innovative yet historically sensitive, the new proposal is built within the ring of the park’s old stadium, an adaptive move that preserves the existing structure’s essence through its perimeter façade, whilst upgrading its facilities to meet contemporary functional requirements. The newer design grows quite literally out of the existing building as a seemingly floating bubble, taking Moscow to greater, new heights. Images: © Erick van Egeraat
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Like a tentacled creature emerging from the desert sands, Aedas have created a monster powerhouse scheme for a new performance venue in Saudi Arabia. Surrounded by desert and occupying its very own island in the heart of a nature reserve, the Arabian Performance Venue is linked organically to both its context and its use. Connected to the mainland via long spanning bridges, trains and motor vehicles, the scheme is also approachable by sea, with each of the entrances cut into the landscape to open into water-filled cavities. In the centre of seven dancing forms, each with their own functions, the solidity of the main performance venue boasts to be the crown jewel of the overall construction. The volume of the main hall rises up from the waters below, and the auditorium hall opens up above to the main lobby of a hotel sitting on top of the venue enclosed in an outer glass shell.
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Cleveland, Ohio is in the middle of exciting, cultural and societal change, as Foreign Office Architects have unveiled their design for the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, an assertion of urban renewal and downtown revitalisation. The museum rises from a hexagonal base four storeys to a perfect square roof, appearing as one unified volume as black mirror-finish stainless steel cladding blends harmoniously with tinted glazing. The ground floor’s lobby and meeting space will include a shop, café and a flexible event space, while part of the triangular site will be used as a public plaza and for seasonal functions. The new museum will fast become the beating heart of the city’s cultural centre, a building that will change and revitalise the way a community can learn, appreciate and see. Images: © FOA
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Pop music is a global phenomenon, but its popularity is almost always region-specific (with a few exceptions, in the case of Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and the like). This is no more so apparent than in Taiwan’s pop music scene, where global languages and inspirations are fused to create a truly unique local pop music genre. New York-based Reiser + Umemoto’s Taipei Pop Music Centre serves as a physical forum for the celebration of this hyper-realistic, hyper-tech creative musical art.
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It wasn’t all that long ago that Norman Foster designed the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation in Kazakhstan, a striking pyramid dedicated to the renunciation of violence and the unification of the world’s religions. Now, with the recent grand opening of Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre, Foster + Partners have designed two of the most prominent landmarks along Astana’s skyline. What this represents for the nation’s capital as one passes through the city, is a new civic shift from religious mythology towards entertainment and the arts, a powerful assertion that architecture is fast pushing Kazakhstan onto the world stage.
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Located in the heart of Queensland’s sunny Gold Coast, Robina has always had strong community ties, as the home of two of the area’s most recognised institutions, Bond University and the Robina Town Centre, one of the largest shopping centres in the region. This sense of fraternity led to calls for a new community performing arts centre to be used by the public for a number of purposes, including a training and performance space, meeting place, activities centre and a purpose-built after-hours child care facility.
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The sporting ethos and spirit unites the masses in gathering for rivalry, competition and celebration. With stadium archetypes seen over time as great colossal structures, on a smaller scale, DesignInc has enlivened a community in their recent completion of the Blacktown Olympic Park AFL & Cricket Facilities.
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We must be onto something this year, because the laureates for the 2010 Pritzker Prize are Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Japanese practice SANAA, featured in our April issue for their magnificent Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. The duo received their $100,000 grant and bronze medallions at the official award ceremony on May 17, held on New York’s historically iconic Ellis Island.
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England has Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and now Ireland has its own thespian landmark: the Grand Canal Square Theatre. Whereas the Globe sits on the banks of the Avon River, Daniel Libeskind’s masterpiece is placed right at the heart of the Grand Canal Harbour precinct: a dramatic (in every sense of the word) lynchpin not only for the Square, but for Dublin’s architectural and artistic scene.
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