CAN FRAMIS Museum that located in Barcelona, Spain, was designed by BAAS, Jordi Badia. This project consisted of restoring two current factory buildings and constructing a new one to link them, coinciding with the site of another former warehouse which – as a whole – forms a courtyard, paved with stones recovered from the former factory, which acts as the main entrance to the museum. Visitors...
Located in New York, United States, Museum of Arts and Design was designed by Allied Works Architecture. Cloepfil’s design dramatically opens up the building to natural light and views while putting the Museum’s core mission of “craft”, front and center. While the essential form of the existing 12-storey building has been maintained, right down to the lollipop-style arcade on which it sits,...
The Care for Life designed by BURO II & ARCHI+I is located in Limburg, Netherlands. The masterplan reiterates the central position of the existing castle complex, which acts as a beacon in the surrounding landscape. The historical castle and the boarding school wing have been renovated in the first phase of this two-phase project, alongside the generation of a Grand Café (“‘t Hof van Halingen”)...
Designed by WATG,House of Musical Arts is located in Muscat, Oman. The architecture of the House of Musical Arts is sympathetic to the grand style of modern Omani public buildings. It uses traditional forms of colonnades, terraces and sculptural tower forms, and is finished in locally-sourced light coloured stone and complementary stucco. One of the distinctive features of the project is that the concert...
Located in Astana, Kazakhstan, Abu Dhabi Plaza was designed by Foster + Partners. Abu Dhabi Plaza is a staggered matrix of buildings with a retail and leisure podium and a hotel cluster at the base that rises to form a series of office and residential towers to the north – creating a new landmark on Astana’s skyline. The retail podium contains elements which are a reinvention of a traditional...