Architecture Design, Sculptured Reflections, Santiago Calatrava
May 4, 2001, marked the initial unveiling of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s new expansion and renovation which combines art, dramatic architecture and landscape design. Our new Quadracci Pavilion, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed building in the United States, features a 90-foot high glass-walled reception hall enclosed by the Burke Brise Soleil, a sunscreen that can […]
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Hydra Pier, Haarlemmermeer The Netherlands, Asymptote
The Hydra Pier, a municipal pavilion acknowledging and celebrating the fast growing city of Haarlemmermeer, was the winning entry in an International competition.
Haarlemmermeer is located in a region, adjacent to the Amsterdam Schipol airport, that was below sea level for most of the19th Century.
The dams and pumping stations, engineered during that time, are still in […]
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Guggenheim Virtual Museum, Cyberspace, Asymptote Architects
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has commissioned the New York firm Asymptote Architects to design and implement a new Guggenheim Museum in cyberspace. This is the first phase of a three-year initiative to construct an entirely new museum facility. The structure will be an ongoing work in process, with new sections added as older sections […]
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BMW Event and Delivery Center, Munich, Germany, Asymptote
For the recent competition by BMW Asymptote is proposing an Event/ Delivery Centre that architecturally embodies the sophistication and advanced technology of BMW. The building itself is seen as an extension of the corporate identity and progressive design of the products inside.
The interior is a fluid space that creates a dynamic theatrical event of the […]
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Museum of Erdos, Kang Ba Shi City, Inner Mongolia, China
The History and Science Museum of Erdos, located in the central zone of Erdos’s new city of Kang Ba Shi, is an external display window for the city of Erdos and the science and culture of inner Mongolia.
Located several kilometers from the old city of Erdos there is nothing in sight but the Gobi desert, […]
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Architecture Building, Techno city Karachi
Architecture (including landscape architecture) is the largest and most encompassing of the visual arts. One of the challenges faced by the user is to determine just how big a building is, and the yardstick against which we measure the size of a building is our own size. How big a building is, relative to the […]
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Conversion Theatre 11, Zurich, Switzerland
Nowadays musical theatres are inherent parts of our urban cultural landscape. There is a correlation between the establishment of this popular performing art and the choice of unconventional venues. Former industrial halls often give the musicals a special atmosphere. Both the rich industrial history of the location Oerlikon and the prominent neighbourhood to the Hallenstadion […]
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Extension Public Records Office Canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
The public records office is the collective memory of the political, economic and cultural life of a canton. This makes the questions of an adequate urban location and appropriate architectural expression of central importance.
The location of the existing public records office amidst smaller and larger residential buildings, cut off from the town centre by the […]
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Aussersihl Community Center, Zurich, Switzerland
A combination of several difficult circumstances formed the starting point for this project: the dramatic polarisation of the political parties for and against socio-cultural infrastructures, a building site that threatened to slip out of public control due to an open alcohol and drug scene but that was, at the same time, one of the few […]
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