The NEMO Science Museum opened its doors in 1997 with a new building in the center of Amsterdam. The building, designed by Renzo Piano, is a popular attraction for children. With the recent extension Studio, in a former sports hall on the Marineterrein directly opposite NEMO on the other side of the Oosterdok water, the museum shifts the focus to adults.
The design of Studio fits well with the innovative character of the Marineterrein, a 12.7 hectare site, where the navy has been located for 360 years. The site is partially opened for public in 2015 by the Ministry of Defense. Since then, organizations and researchers that are working on solutions to social challenges and a sustainable living environment settled here. Many buildings on the site have been transformed for new uses. In 2016, for example, the SLA bureau transformed one of the navy’s educational buildings for innovative startups.
An auction house is a hybrid between museum, gallery, market – culture and trading. An auction house links past, present, and future. Ultimately, an auction house celebrates and passes on awareness of history and traditions; it provides a stage for cultural values: respect and responsibility, valuation and prediction, beauty and meaning. An auction house attracts and gathers people and auctions are social events for the appreciation of art and culture. The building acts as a social catalyst for cultural exchange and imagines a home for the arts in a broader sense – a home for its makers (the artists) and its keepers (the collectors).
Traversing the winding Randselva river, BIG’s first project in Norway, The Twist, opens as an inhabitable bridge torqued at its center, forming a new journey and art piece within the Kistefos Sculpture Park in Jevnaker, Norway. Kistefos’ new 1,000m2 contemporary art institution doubles as infrastructure to connect two forested riverbanks, completing the cultural route through northern Europe’s largest sculpture park.
Collaborators: AKT II, ÅF Belysning, AS Byggeanalyse, BIG Ideas, Bladt Industries, Brekke & Strand, Davis Langdon, DIFK, ECT, Element Arkitekter, Erichsen & Horgen, Fokus Rådgivning, GCAM, Grindaker, Lüchinger & Meyer, Max Fordham, MIR, Rambøll
Partners-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels, David Zahle
Project Leader: Eva Seo-Andersen
Project Architect: Mikkel Marcker Stubgaard
Team: Aime Desert, Alberto Menegazzo, Aleksandra Domian, Aleksandra Sobczyk, Alessandro Zanini, Alina Tamosiunaite, Andre Zanolla, Balaj Alin Ilulian, Brage Mæhle Hult, Brian Yang, Carlos Ramos Tenorio, Carlos Surrinach, Casey Tucker, Cat Huang, Channam Lei, Christian Dahl, Christian Eugenius Kuczynski, Claus Rytter Bruun de Neergaard, Dag Præstegaard, David Tao, Edda Steingrimsdottir, Espen Vik, Finn Nørkjær, Frederik Lyng, Jakob Lange, Joanna M. Lesna, Kamilla Heskje, Katrine Juul, Kekoa Charlot, Kei Atsumi, Kristoffer Negendahl, Lasse Lyhne-Hansen, Lone Fenger Albrechtsen, Mads Mathias Pedersen, Mael Barbe, Marcelina Kolasinska, Martino Hutz, Matteo Dragone, Naysan John Foroudi, Nick Huizenga, Nobert Nadudvari, Ovidiu Munteanu, Rasmus Rosenblad, Richard Mui, Rihards Dzelme, Roberto Fabbri, Ryohei Koike, Sofia Rokmaniko, Sunwoong Choi, Tiina Liisa Juuti, Tomas Ramstrand, Tore Banke, Tyrone Cobcroft, Xin Chen
The Alembic factory is located in the middle of the city and along the main railway line of the city of Baroda. In its 112th year of existence, the first ever Alembic industrial building in Vadodara has seen multiple surgical interventions. Similar to many old factory buildings, the building got altered over time due to change in the original purpose of the facility. Starting from manufacturing penicillin to alcohol.
The construction of the Minsheng Museum of Modern Art in Beijing, the biggest private museum in China, was financed by the Minsheng Bank. The museum building is a converted former Panasonic factory built in 1979. We used the factory hall with its simple concrete skeleton structure and modular façade almost as found, adding only a few interventions to make the new use visible. The museum design divides the building volume into different functions, which are supported by an external courtyard-like space, a roof terrace and a sculpture park. The renovation preserved the industrial character of the building, contrasting this in occasional places with new materials. The strongest intervention was needed for a new lobby that signals the entrance from the outside. It consists of interlocking cubes that blend together to form a multi-storey space. Generous, conical stairways are illuminated by skylights, and encourage informal use. The three exhibition rooms, the courtyard and the book-store are accessed from the lobby. Additional functions, including the auditorium, media library, cafeteria and restaurant are accessed from a corridor along the courtyard.
The town of São João da Pesqueira is in the most antique and relevant areas of the Douro wine region. As so, the necessity of a space to perpetuate the memory and ancient knowledge of the wine tradition emerged, and the Wine Museum has been created.
The Museum arises as a half-buried building, in a very restrict site with steep slopes, between buildings and located in the main street, that comes from the river, crosses the town and flows to the countryside. In the front, facing the town an antique wine press building is preserved and restored to its former glory, becoming integrated part of the Museum.
This is a big coastal development project for the historic Sevkabel factory (Siemens & Halske), situated on Vasilyevsky Island. The site is located in an industrial district, placed right between the street (Kozhewennaya linia) and the Gulf of Finland. Old red-brick 19-th century buildings of the Siemens & Halske manufactory coexist with and industrial facilities of the 70s of the 20th century on the same site.
These buildings are located in different Coordinate grids of the brick and concrete buildings differ from each other, and that diference creates complex, trapezoidal spaces between them. Dealing with an existing environment, we focused our efforts on the renovation and adaptation of existing buildings, as well as on the preservation of the industrial genius loci. This approach allowed us to emphasize the existing features of the site, including some of the industrial artefacts.
As the headquarters of Cyrus Tang Foundation (CTF) in mainland China, the project is a complex which integrates multiple functional spaces, including the foundation's offices, a museum for displaying various gifts that the foundation has received, and spaces for holding exchange activities with its college members, including exhibitions, conferences, and training, etc.
Situated at the central area of East Tai Lake Ecological Park in Wujiang District, Suzhou, China, it enjoys favorable site conditions and beautiful landscape. The design focuses on the integration with the surrounding environment, inherits CTF's mission of serving disadvantaged communities with love and passing on the spirit of giving, and produces a “dissolved” and green building.
Architects: UAD (The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd.) (Dong Danshen, Yang Yidong, Teng Meifang, Lin Zaiguo)
Project: Cyrus Tang Foundation Center
Location: East Tai Lake Ecological Park, Wujiang District, Suzhou, China
Photography: Zhao Qiang
Interior Design: Woods Bagot, Hangzhou Dianshang Building Decoration Design
Landscape Design: The Design Institute of Landscape & Architecture China Academy of Art (Zheng Jie Studio)
Structural Engineers: Zhang Mingshan, Xu Chen, Li Benyue
MEP Engineers: Li Haojun, Gong Zengrong, Dong Shaobing, Huang Zhengjie, Liu Haifeng
The Danish architectural firm COBE, which is headed by Dan Stubbergaard, has won an international competition for a new science museum in the Swedish university city of Lund. The museum will be constructed in wood, is fully CO2-neutral and has the potential to become a future icon of sustainability.
Science Center is the name of a brand-new science museum that is scheduled to open in the city of Lund in the south of Sweden in 2024. The museum is uniquely situated in the middle of the new urban district Science Village Scandinavia in the Swedish university city, which is known for a strong, international research environment, a rich cultural scene and its ancient history, which dates back to the tenth century. The plans for the new museum were announced yesterday at a major event as part of Almedalen Week on the island of Gotland.
1881 Napa, Napa Valley’s first wine history museum and tasting salon, is now open. Jean-Charles Boisset, proprietor of Boisset Collection, has created an homage to Napa Valley, with a tasting room that showcases wines from Napa Valley’s distinct sub-appellations, a museum where guests can explore Napa’s rich wine history, an extensive collection of historic wine relics from Europe and the United States and original artifacts from the Early California Wine Trade Archive. 1881 Napa is located in a historic Victorian home built in 1874 next to Oakville Grocery (founded in 1881) in Oakville, California, both of which were purchased by Boisset Collection at the beginning of the year.
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