Tag Architecture And Culture

15-04-2020

Neri&Hu: Aranya Art Centre, Beidaihe district, China

Neri & Hu’s Aranya Art Centre is not only an interesting exhibition space but a community centre for a new beachside resort, with a coffee shop and a big auditorium serving as a public plaza for a resort community in China’s Beidaihe district.

10-04-2020

OPEN Architecture: Tank Shanghai Art Centre

Designed by OPEN Architecture, Tank Shanghai represents a new type of artistic institution, a blend between city and environment. Created by way of the renovation of 5 fuel tanks from the old Longhua Airport, Tank Shanghai is not just a cultural centre, but also a large park that runs alongside the Huangpu River.

18-03-2020

Barozzi/Veiga: Tanzhaus cultural centre and school of dance, Zurich

Barozzi/Veiga closed the year 2019 with another important project after winning an international competition: the new Tanzhaus in Zurich, a strong architectural symbol transforming the riverside promenade along the Limmat.

16-03-2020

CAMP - Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning in Prague

CAMP - Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning is an urban hub that aims to support and drive public debate about the development and planning of the city of Prague. Housed in a modernist building designed by the famous Czech architect Karel Prager, CAMP has been given a makeover by the Prague studio NOT BAD.

09-03-2020

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara win the 2020 Pritzker Prize

Their integral approach, generosity toward their colleagues, commitment to excellence in architecture, responsible approach to the environment and faith in collaboration are all merits the Pritzker Prize jury listed in its motivation for awarding the prestigious Pritzker Prize, a sort of Nobel Prize for architecture, to Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, founders of Grafton Architects in Dublin, Ireland.

05-03-2020

How will we live together? 17th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice

“How will we live together?”, the 17th International Architecture Exhibition curated by Hashim Sarkis and organised by Biennale di Venezia was presented to the press on 27 February, via streaming in view of the new coronavirus covid-19 and in the name of a form of architecture that unites us all. On this occasion Paolo Baratta announced that this would be his last day as chairman, handing over the organisation of the Biennale di Venezia to the new chairman, Roberto Cicutto.

21-02-2020

Prague’s Gulliver Auditorium of wood, steel and plexiglass

An auditorium for readings shaped like an airship now dominates DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, based on an optimistic view of art and literature as something powerful and unforeseeable

31-01-2020

Barozzi Veiga’s brick Lausanne Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts

Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne’s Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, is a dust-coloured brick building with a front wall marked at regular intervals by vertical fins that break up its 350-metre façade.