This multifaceted renovation has transformed the Spencer Museum, turning its dark and disorienting galleries into luminous exhibition spaces, equipping it with state-of-the art study centers, and creating new connections inside and out, establishing the museum as a hub for community engagement and international research.
SITE: The existing Spencer Museum of Art on Mississippi Street, with panoramic views of Marvin Grove, the Campanile and the Stadium
COMPONENTS: New two-story glass entrance wall, expanded lobby for visitor services, expanded and new object study areas and teaching galleries, new research stations, expanded storage for works on paper, completed in two phases
CLIENT :University of Kansas Endowment Association
The design of the space, it carries the culture, civilization and the corresponding environmental factors. Mario Bellini
East Tai Lake Himalayan Audio Bookstore is Located in the East Tai Lake Ecological Tourism Resort in Wujiang, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. The project combines local characteristics without changing the original building walls and strengthens the cultural theme planning and design around East Tai Lake and Party Construction culture, creating a new characteristic cultural space that is stylish, intelligent and dynamic.
Fang Ting Bookstore is located in OCT O’PARK commercial district, close to Hutaoli. Looking from the street that is close to water, the building’s external facade is a transparent glass curtain wall. The arc’s external wall is half covered with a white metal curtain. Combined with the gradual glass film of the lower half, a delicate balance is achieved between the virtual and the real without affecting the internal lighting. Approaching the outside seating area, a “Book of Longing” opens a mottled brick entrance.
The design concept originates from the idea of “a book falling from the sky”, and the shape of book is engaged with the architectural form to visualize the metaphor. Visitors are expected to step into the architectural space and get immersed into the tranquility to develop a positive self-talk and a journey of self-discovery.
Guangzhou, constantly regenerating itself over the past 100 years and envisioning of becoming a global super city, has recorded and witnessed the great process of urban evolution.
Transportation drives urban development. Huadiwan, as one of the five earliest metro stations of Guangzhou constructed over 20 years ago, is undoubtedly the birth place of Guangzhou’s miracle and also a symbolic sign of the super city dream. During the two decades of development, Huadiwan slowed down its pace and turned into an old memory of the super city.
The famous writer Yu Qiuyu once wrote: Its water is infiltrating and extending; its civilization is a kind of spiritual life. The city is called Dujiangyan, located at south west of China.
The designer creates a unique landscape in the space with vivid expression and bold outline. Located at the coast of the East China Sea, Zhongshuge has interpreted the culture of the times in the city, Ningbo.
Walking close to zhongshuge, you will see that the symbolic glass curtain wall is embedded in the thick stone facade. The concise base sends forth power and the charms of the bookstore is quietly displaced.
Article source: Hikohito Konishi / HIKOKONISHI ARCHITECTURE INC.
Tsutaya Books commissioned us to design the company’s twentieth store since its restructuring, located in the city of Ebetsu, Hokkaido. The site is adjacent to Ebetsu’s Four Seasons Promenade, a landscaped walking path, and faces a wooded area with many large trees. With a store concept of “a slow-life library in the woods,” our focus was on creating a comfortable space for customers to enjoy.
The sparkling soul of Wuhan is inside the Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore
Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore, designed by Wutopia Lab, is a symbolism architectural renovation for Hubei Changjiang Publishing & Media Group. After two and a half years of design and construction, it opened at the end of 2019.
The building No.22 located on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg is associated with Alexander Smirdin’s bookstore — a center of reading culture and a legendary meeting point of the most prominent intellectuals of the XIX century. From now on this address belongs to Respublica* bookstore that recreates the historical function of the place and takes the idea of the store to the next level.
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