The Gran Museo del Mundo Maya (Great Mayan Culture Museum) is a museum located in the city of Merida , Yucatan in Mexico . It has four permanent exhibition rooms, multimedia rooms and a screening room for documentaries, all related to the Mayan culture. The museum is located at the beginning of the road from Mérida to the port of Progreso , next to the Convention Center Yucatan Siglo XXI where industrial complex was Cordemex…
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Posted in COLOR,Dance / Music Center,Exotic Idea,INTERIORs SPACE,MASS & SHAPE,Metal Sheet,Steel,STRUCTURAL,TravelJune 4, 2013No comments
The La Luciole Concert Hall in Alençon, France designed by Jacques Moussafir Architectes, Despite the fact that it could only host an audience of 250, the unique Luciole has carved itself a powerful regional identity thanks to good quality programming and the way this concert venue brought audiences closer to artists…
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Posted in Architecture Award,COLOR,Concrete,Condominium,Featured,GREEN AREA,Green Roof,NATURAL VENTILATION,Skyscraper,SUSTAINABILITY,VOIDMay 22, 2013No comments
The Met designed by WOHA & Tandem Architects, currently Thailand’s fourth tallest building at 228 meters in height, demonstrates creative ideas for high-rise, high-density living in the tropics. The project explores how aspects of low-rise tropical housing can be adapted to provide high amenity through indoor-outdoor spaces in the sky…
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Posted in Architecture Award,BUILDING SYSTEMS,COLOR,FACADE / SKIN,Famous / Popular / Great / World : Building,Featured,GREEN AREA,Green Project,Green Roof,HISTORY & STORY OF THE BUILDING,Landform / Contour / Lawn,LEED,MASS & SHAPE,Mixed Use,NATURAL VENTILATION,Office Space,OUTDOOR SPACE,Planting Area,Pool / Pond,SCALE & SIZE,SOLUTION,Steel,SUSTAINABILITYMarch 6, 20131 comment
The Horizontal Skyscraper, designed by Steven Holl Architects and completed in 2009, is a mixed-use building that includes offices for the Vanke Co., a conference center, restaurant, an auditorium, a hotel, apartments and a large public park. By raising the 1,296,459 sf building on eight cores — as far as 50 meters apart and positioning the building right under the 35-meter high limit of the area…
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The Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, the cornerstone of Phase II of LACMA’s Transformation, complements BCAM architecturally. The Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, designed by Renzo Piano, dramatically expands the museum’s exhibition space and unifies the western half of the museum’s twenty-acre campus. The single-story, 45,000 square foot structure is the largest purpose-built, naturally lit, open-plan museum space in the world…
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Posted in Architecture Award,COLOR,DAYLIGHTING,Editor's Picks,FUNCTIONAL,Green Project,NATURAL VENTILATION,Pavilion,Shipping Container,SOLUTION,Steel,SUSTAINABILITYFebruary 12, 20131 comment
San Francisco Architects Zoe Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak (Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects), known for their progressive, modern designs that include new media technologies, discuss their creation of the Presidio Habitats Exhibit Pavilion from repurposed shipping containers arranged at 120 degree angles around a central atrium…
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Posted in Adaptive Reuse,Architecture Award,COLOR,Famous / Popular / Great / World : Building,Featured,Green Project,Harmony With The Context,HISTORY & STORY OF THE BUILDING,Market,NATURAL VENTILATION,Ornaments & Details,Prefabricated elements,SOLUTION,Steel,STRUCTURAL,SUSTAINABILITY,USABILITYFebruary 9, 20131 comment
The Iron Market in Port-au-Prince is a cultural, historic and architectural landmark in Haiti. Its location in the centre of the city means it is a significant commercial and social hub. John McAslan + Partners will rebuild and restore the market in time for it to re-open on the first anniversary of January 2010′s earthquake. The Iron Market will be an important resource for the residents of Port-au-Prince as well as an important symbol for the country’s recovery from devastation…
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