Located in Québec, Canada, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec was designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has won the competition for a major expansion to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). The 12,000 sq. m. new building, a cascade of three overlapping boxes at the juncture of downtown Quebec City and the historic Battlefields Park, will be OMA’s first...
The Spring, Nanterre designed by BRE is located in France. Spring in Nanterre was the first building to achieve an interim ‘Outstanding’ rating under BREEAM Europe Commercial 2009. The development by Bouygues Immobilier and Archon Group has achieved 90% – the highest ever score under BREEAM for a building at the design stage. Providing 35,200 sq m of office space spread over four floors,...
The Protected House, monochromatic communal residence for mentally disabled residents designed by Möhn + Bouman is located in Zoetermeer, Netherlands, the interaction of the building and its inhabitants with the environment is regulated by a white concrete platform, densely planted with a screen of birch trees.It is surrounding the building and its backgarden. In summer the trees provide shade,...
Located in Lewisham, United Kingdom, Trinity School was designed by Watkins Gray International. Construction is now underway on a brand new £18,660,000 campus building for Trinity School in Lewisham. Award winning architects Watkins Gray International are providing executive architecture and lead consultant services on the 6,310 sqm Church of England secondary school, which is a key part of Lewisham’s...
The Tree Museum located in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, oni Mitchell once sang about urbanization becoming so rampant that we’d have to put all the trees in a tree museum and charge everyone a dollar just to seem them. So for about $13 USD (or 15 CHF) admission fee once can see how trees in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland now have the honor of being objects of art rather than just the materials that...