Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas Texas, USA

Won the 2008 American Institute of Architects New Jersey Chapter Award, the Irving Convention Center that located at Las Colinas, Texas was designed by RMJM Edinburgh-based international architects to be as efficient and flexible as possible, reducing the footprint and making it appealing to a wide range of organisations. In an effort to avoid the [...]

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Corby Cube, 21st century civic hub and arts centre in Northants, United Kingdom

Designed by HawkinsBrown, Corby Cube, 21st century civic hub and arts centre is located in Northants, United Kingdom. HawkinsBrown’s striking glazed Corby Cube, the focal point of a major regeneration programme to revitalise the former steel making town in Northants, UK has completed and is now open to the public. Won in international competition in [...]

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Workers’ Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa

Designed by Henry Paine + Barry Gould, Workers’ Museumis located in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa. Industrial heritage has enormous cultural significance for a city like Johannesburg where the markers of mining and industrial heritage are often regarded as inconvenient and ugly. The workers’ museum has value, not only by adaptively re-using an historical / industrial [...]

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