Located in a mountain village beside a man-made lake two and a half hours’ drive north of Tokyo, the Tomihiro Museum is dedicated to the work of local poet-illustrator Tomihiro Hoshino. Since 1991, when the Museum first opened on the refurbished premises of a disused home for the elderly, an average of more than 1000 persons a day have made the trip here, for a ten-year total of over 4 million visitors—a surprising number considering the remote location.
Danish POLYFORM Architects and Dutch SeARCH Architects have created the proposal ”The Flyer” for one of the most talked about competitions in Denmark in recent years – The design of the new Museum of Danish Resistance 1940-1945.
The POLYFORM/SeARCH-project suggests that The Museum of Danish Resistance lies as an elegant featherweight flyer in the Churchill Park in Copenhagen.
Wal-Chong Museum is not a work of architecture but a translation into a built landscape of the work of contemporary Korean artist Lee Wal-Chong. The much discussed theme of the boundaries between art and architecture and the collaboration between artists and architects, finds in this work an answer as simple as it is effective.
Project: Archaeological Thematic Museum of Piraeus “ONCE_NOW”
Location: Piraeus, Greece
Collaborators: E. Papaevangelou, G. Papanikolaou, E. Korompeli, E. Zntravkov , N. Xristopoulou Students of architecture: G. Kontominas, I. Tatli, A. Papadopoulou, Z. Iatridou
Consultans: F. Vlachaki (Architect, Museologist), S. Barbarian (Landscape Architect), P. Kinatos. I. Pagonis, K. Polyhronopoulos (Civil Engineers), Samaras & Associates – Consultant Engineers (Mechanical Engineer), E. Deko & Associates (Lighting Design), Beetroot (Logo)
The project, as the result of an international competition, consists of both the total renovation and restoration of the existing historic Central Bank of Albania, designed by Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo in 1934-36, and the construction of a new building. It includes the new Numismatic Museum, a new conference hall for 150 persons, offices, meetings room, an internal gallery, a roof garden and an underground four-levels parking.
A real student city has a flourishing pop scene, and Leiden is no exception. Already in 1969 there was the ‘Kreatief Sentrum’ [‘Creative Centre’] on Breestraat, later renamed as the Leids Vrijetijds Centrum. Thirty-five years later, the same organisation has a brand new building in the historic centre and a new name: Gebr. de Nobel, after the brothers who had a rags and scrap-metal business, well-known throughout Leiden, on precisely the same spot.
An international, one-stage architecture competition was recently held by Arkxsite with the purpose of developing compelling ideias for a contemporary museum located within the Castle of Montemor-o-Novo in Portugal. Placed on the top of a hill, 291m above sea level, not only it rules over a breathtaking view but also documents a continuous history from the Roman Period to the 18th century.
Within the framework of a restricted architecture competition organised by the authorities of the Meishan city, Sichuan province, in the south of China, the Spanish architectural studio Rafael de La-Hoz, associated with the Chinese design institute ADRI-HIT (Architectural Design and Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology), wins the design competition to design a large leisure complex which includes five museums and a sports centre.
70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is an occasion to think again about those events and their significance for modern society.
Oswiecim (Auschwitz) is synonymous with the greatest evil in the history of mankind. What happened is so monstrously and bloodcurdling that does not fit into the average person’s head.
Any time I manage to make something genuinely new, it is made of well-known elements of surrounding reality. It fascinates me as a kind of perversion, kind of unauthorized, unacceptable operation and I think it is the only way to find something truly isolated in art.
Design team: SławomirZieliński, architect(project leader), Tomasz Gomułka, Michał Marcinkowski, Marcin Kowalewski, Adam Wereszczyński, Marzena Surowiec-Dotoń, Monika Mackiewicz, Łukasz Skorek, Karol Grec, Katarzyna Ceran, Bartłomiej Łobaziewicz, Ewelina Siestrzewitowska
Author: Wizja sp. z o.o. andnsMoonStudio within the IQ2-Group Consortium, Stanisław Deńko, architect(Wizja sp. z o.o.), Agnieszka Szultk(nsMoonStudio), Piotr Nawara(nsMoonStudio)
Client: The Center of Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor – CRICOTEKA
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