The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa is a museum of contemporary art located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. Architect: Sanaa Project Locatin: Japan The museum was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architectural office SANAA in 2004. In October…
The angular concrete form of the OMA-designed Qatar National Library in Doha has been photographed by several Instagram users, ahead of its imminent completion. Architect: OMA Project Location: Qatar Rem Koolhaas’ firm has disclosed…
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has unveiled its design for a new library in Christchurch, New Zealand, to replace the building left wrecked after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes (+ slideshow). The Danish firm is…
Snøhetta has finally unveiled its competition-winning design to create a new public library wrapping around a functioning railway line in the Canadian city of Calgary (+ slideshow). Working in partnership with Calgary firm Dialog, Snøhetta saw…
Tiel’s new culture building, “Zinder”, is situated in the city center and the river Waal. The new culture cluster pulsates and stimulates and invites the inhabitants of Tiel and the…
Where are we going? After appearing the modern era and Rene Descartes thought, human and the artificial environment built by him or her and the way of dwelling his or…
1.Acquaintance with territory: There are not so much people who at least once in their life did not visit the museum. Large and small, they offer for their visitors to get…
This project proposes to reimagine the cemetery as a city that receives, houses and allows for Korean ancestor pilgrimage. Twice a year, Korean families visit their ancestors’ burial sites in…
This project focuses on the effects of a complex overlap between landscape and architecture on form and space. Ground is the area where landscape and architecture negotiate their relationship. Whereas in…
This project sets out to create the unfamiliar with the familiar, offering a new logic and order that is not visually apparent but intuitively negotiated. The art collective is located in…
What is the future of death and memory in the 21st century? Spaces for the dead and for memory are needed in every country. Death is something that affects every…
“Holidays and Holy Days” seeks to understand the relationship between event, ritual, and urban form in a heavily layered site in the city of Rapperswil, a small urban node that…