The media library in Colombes, near Paris, is part of a new Social Center whose purpose on a broader scale is the urban renewal and upgrading of the town’s Fossés Jean/Bouviers district. For this reason, the building had to be exemplary.
To strengthen the unique characteristics of this site, the volume is open to the city, detached from the ground and creates a transparency and a deep view into the edifice from the place Michelet all the way to the gardens of the Social Center. The raised and aerial volume generates a space under the building that enables one to see, through a glazed lobby and interior street, all the various entities of this facility.
DUTS design has recently completed the new“Chengdu Jinniu District Library”, after four years of construction. The project is located in the northern part of the downtown area of Chengdu. As a cultural landmark of the Jinniu District, it comes out as a surprising \”three-dimensional book\” for the city of Chengdu with its unique and charming architectural image, reflecting the public culture of the new era into a high-level of architectural culture.
In the Chinese province of Jiangsu, within the catchment area of Shanghai, lies the city of Changzhou which, with its about 5 million inhabitants, has developed into an important industrial metropolis in the Yangtze Delta region. In the newly created city center of Changzhou, the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have created a cultural center with an art museum, library, hotel, offices, and retail areas. gmp won the international competition with a design that generates a spatially diverse urban landscape with buildings and a public park. With this concept, the Changzhou Culture Plaza has become a symbolic and unmistakable new public center of Changzhou.
Project: New city center for Changzhou Culture Plaza
Location: Changzhou, China
Design: Meinhard von Gerkan and Nikolaus Goetze with Magdalene Weiss
Project Lead: Competition Kong Buhong, Martin Friedrich
Competition Team: Dominika Gnatowicz, Sebastian Schmidt, Yao Yao, Jiang Lanlan
Project Lead Detailed Design: Kong Buhong, Fan Xiaodi, Chen Ying, Detailed Design Team Ralf Donner, Martin Friedrich, Alex C. Fu, Huang Meng, Ren Peiying, Gao Shusan, Wang Zexin, Wang Xi, Sevde Erdogan
Project Management China: Cai Lei, Sa Xiaodong
Client: Changzhou Jinling Investment and Construction Co., Ltd.
The new media library is set in the context of a richly abundant built heritage and landscape. It is located in the town of Pélissanne in Provence, formerly a fortified town, which has preserved a large number of town houses of great heritage value. One of these is Maureau House in the heart of the town, together with its park, which are now home to the media library.
To the southwest of Mexico City is located the Monte Sinaí School, an institution of more than 60 years that has trained guys of all ages in their primary and secondary education. The design of the digital media library and the new cafeteria arose from the identification of an underused space of the school, a remaining area in the basement of the auditorium of approximately 4,000 m2 that was adjacent to the elementary building, the cafeteria and some computer rooms.
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.
Henning Larsen Presents Design for Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Our design is inspired by the rich landscapes of the North Dakotan Badlands, united by Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy, and rooted in the community of Medora.
In a single, dark February day in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt’s mother and wife passed within hours of each other – an event he commemorated in his diary: “The light has gone out of my life.” Deep in grief, he journeyed from New York City to Medora, North Dakota, where his time in the Badlands would come to transform and define him as the man, conservationist, and American civic icon we remember today.
Article source: equipo olivares architects + jorge díaz
The reinstatement of the memory of the place, as well as the social and uniqueness of thesite, constitute the corner stone of this intervention. The promenade acts both as a catalyst for architecture and as a meeting and connections pace for a historically divided city.The place proposes the intervention, the routes formalize it and the solar orientation defines it.
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After opening its Shanghai studio more than 12 years ago, Danish architectural firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects realizes its first library project in China, the31,800-square-metre NingboNewLibrary. Located 200 kilometres south of Shanghai at the centre of Ningbo, China’s new cultural hub, the library is a vital element in the ongoing development of the city.
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