Nanjing Sifang Art Museum First museum in China

The Nanjing Sifang Art Museum First museum designed by Steven Holl Architects is located in China.  Over the past few months WAN has covered a plethora of concept designs in the Tier Two city of Nanjing in China, including Populous’ masterplan for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games, the Nanjing City Concept by CK Designworks and [...]

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Renaissance Hotel at Zhongshan Park in Shanghai, China

The Renaissance Hotel at Zhongshan Park designed by HASSELL is located in Shanghai, China. Renaissance Hotel at Zhongshan Park is a five star hotel located in the heart of Shanghai, completed in December 2008. It is directly connected to a busy transportation hub which links to various metro lines and provides easy access to the [...]

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RedBuilding in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States

Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, RedBuilding  is located in West Hollywood,  Los Angeles, United States. The Pacific Design Center was a novel idea of sorts – an epicenter for designers that would house some 130 showrooms and a branch of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. But for architects, the project is noteworthy [...]

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Umeå Architecture Academy in Umeå, Sweden

Umeå Architecture Academy that located in Umeå, Sweden, was designed by Henning Larsen Architects. The Umeå Architecture Academy simultaneously enables independence and synergy. Integrated within the local context, each independent faculty shares common resources with the university community while simultaneously existing as independent entities. These entities possess distinct academic philosophies, teaching facilities and intellectual aims. [...]

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Interiors New York University, Department of Philosophy in New York, United States

The Interiors New York University, Department of Philosophy designed by Steven Holl Architects is located in New York, United States . Holl’s concept organizes the new spaces around light and phenomenal properties of materials. A new stair shaft below a new skylight joins the 6-level building vertically with a shifting porosity of light and shadow [...]

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