Set into a steep hillside, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) includes a 1,200-seat concert hall, a 400-seat theatre, three performance studios as well as recording and editing facilities.
Project name
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Architecture firm
Grimshaw
Photography
Paul Rivera/Archphoto, Peter Aaron/Esto
Principal architect
Andrew Whalley
Collaborators
Donnell Consultants (Cost Consultant)
Civil engineer
Buro Happold
Structural engineer
Buro Happold
Client
Rensselar Polytechnic Institute
Typology
Arts Culture and Exhibition Halls
Grimshaw: The Eden Project endeavours to recognise our country’s heritage of plant exploration while simultaneously looking to the future. This has been successfully achieved through the transformation of a place of relative anonymity into an impressive multi-functional site with visitor experience at its core.
Project name
The Eden Project
Architecture firm
Grimshaw
Location
Cornwall, United Kingdom
Photography
Hufton + Crow
Principal architect
Nicholas Grimshaw
Landscape
Land Use Consultants
Structural engineer
Anthony Hunt Associates
Environmental & MEP
Arup, BDSP Partnership
Construction
Cladding: Arup Facade Engineering
Client
Eden Project Limited
Typology
Arts Culture and Exhibition Halls
To introduce this meeting of culture, aoe created a Cultural Exchange City Reception Center in the city where it all begun. The marriage of the Italian and Sino style was at the heart of the project to illustrate the cultural mix and was adapted to merge the structure and its surrounding.
Project name
Sino-Italian Cultural Exchange City Reception Center
Photography
Arch-exist Photography
Principal architect
Wen Qun
Design team
Ma Jianning, Fan Ruixue, Wang Ye, Chang Zhiyu, Pan Jichang, Li Xiangting, Lu Yu
Interior design
Zhu Dan, Du Jing, Liu Jingyi, Xue Yawen, Liu Chen
Structural engineer
CSCEC AECOM CONSULTANTS CO., LTD
Material
Low-E glass, local wood, and green roofs
Client
Tianfu Investment Group Co., LTD
Typology
Cultural › Exhibition
Mayslits Kassif Roytman Architects have been selected to design the new Academy and Museum of the Hebrew Language in the national cultural district of Jerusalem. Mayslits Kassif Roytman Architects were chosen out of 100 proposals in one of the largest international architecture competitions ever conducted in Israel.
Project name
The New Academy and Museum of the Hebrew Language
Architecture firm
Mayslits Kassif Roytman Architects
Location
National Cultural District of Jerusalem, Israel
Principal architect
Ganit Mayslits Kassif, Udi Kassif and Maor Roytman
Design team
Igal Tartakovsky
Visualization
Mayslits Kassif Roytman Architects
Client
The Academy of the Hebrew Language
Status
Competition Proposal- First place
Typology
Cultural › Museum
For its 2020 edition, the “Hut Festival / Le Festival des cabanes”, an international architectural competition, awarded a prize to the“Exercice” collective. The festival aims at the construction of twelve ephemeral wooden structures in the Lake Annecy region (Savoy, France), selected upon the dialog and relation they create with both their surround...
Project name
La Charbonnière
Architecture firm
Collectif Exercice
Location
Chevaline, Haute Savoie, France
Photography
David Foessel, Yannick Perrin, Collectif Exercice
Principal architect
Vincent Vergain, Nicolas Vallée, Nicolas Bien
Design team
Vincent Vergain, Nicolas Vallée, Nicolas Bien
Client
Le Festival des Cabanes 2020
Typology
Cultural › Pavilion
Kamran Afshar Naderi + Javad Sheri: In order to create a lasting impact that communicates with the environment and its community, the roots need to be addressed, regardless of the practical and technical issues that are least expected of a project. In this particular project, the first root to be considered was the identity of the city of Mashhad o...
Project name
Limited design competition of Mashhad Theater Campus (Third place in the competition)
Architecture firm
Kamran Afshar Naderi + Javad Sheri
Location
Mashhad City, Iran
Principal architect
Kamran Afshar Naderi, Javad Sheri
Landscape
Kamran Afshar Naderi + Javad Sheri
Civil engineer
Morteza Farahmand
Structural engineer
Morteza Farahmand
Environmental & MEP
Morteza Farahmand
Visualization
Javad Sheri
Tools used
AutoCAD, Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion
Material
Stone, Metal, Wood, Tile, Glass
Client
Mashhad Municipality
Status
Competition (Third place)
Typology
Cultural › Theater
The Leonardo Glass Cube in Bad Driburg was designed by the German design studio 3deluxe and celebrated its opening in March 2007. After numerous innovative temporary design projects and architectural concepts, the Glass Cube is the first permanent building 3deluxe was able to realize.
Project name
Leonardo Glass Cube
Architecture firm
3Deluxe
Location
Bad Driburg, Germany
Photography
Dynamic Forms / Martin Foddanu Photography
Lighting
Licht & Gestaltung Schiefer GmbH
Construction
Metallbau Renneke
Tools used
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Client
Glaskoch B. KOCH JR. GMBH & CO. KG
Typology
Exhibition Center
Zaha Hadid Architects announced winner of the design competition to build Phase II of the International Exhibition Centre in Beijing. As the cultural, academic and civic centre of China, Beijing has also developed into one of the world’s centres of communication and scientific research.
Project name
Beijing’s International Exhibition Centre, China
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects
Principal architect
Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Patrik Schumacher, Eduardo Camarena, Enoch Kolo, Che-Hung Chien, Felix Amiss, Genci Sulo, I-Chun Lin, Jiaxing Lu, Juan Liu, Mariana Custodio dos Santos, Meng Zhao, Michael On, Nastasja Mitrovic, Nicolas Tornero, Ying Xia, Zheng Xu
Visualization
Atchain, Slashcube, Brick Visual
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max , V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Typology
Cultural › Exhibition
