Mary M. Gates Learning Center at United Way Worldwide in Alexandria, VA, United States

Designed by TPG Architecture, Mary M. Gates Learning Center at United Way Worldwide is located in Alexandria, VA, United States. The renovation began with removing approximately 40% of the original pre-cast concrete panels from the exterior of the annex building and replacing them with an energy efficient glass curtain wall system. The lobby entrance housed a massive cubiform passageway which, located... 

Tags: Alexandria, Alexandria Virginia, Architecture, Building engineering, Construction, Curtain wall, energy, Learning Centre, Mary M. Gates, Potomac River, Royal Ontario Museum, United States, United Way Worldwide, Virginia, Visual arts

Grand Park Orchard a Fashion Hotel in Singapore

Designed by DP Architects Pte Ltd, Grand Park Orchard a Fashion Hotel is located in Singapore. The hotel’s prominent location on Singapore’s famous Orchard Road emphasises its iconic nature and commands the attention of all those who pass by. Undergoing a retrofit exercise, Grand Park Orchard’s design concept was to create a series of new façades whilst retaining the building’s... 

Tags: Architecture, Canada, DP Architects Pte Ltd, Herringbone, Incorporating LED light technology, light technology, Orchard, Orchard Road, Royal Ontario Museum, Singapore

National Museum of China Expansion in Beijing, China

Located in Beijing, China, National Museum of China Expansion was designed by RTKL, a global architecture and engineering practice, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland has won an international competition to expand the National Art Museum in China. The Museum, which was completed in 1962 as one of ten buildings commissioned for the commemoration of the ten-year anniversary of the Founding of the People’s... 

Tags: Architecture, Art museum, Baltimore, Beijing, China, City, Geography, Maryland, National Art Museum, National Museum of China, National Museum of China Expansion, Royal Ontario Museum, RTKL Associates Inc.

Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada

Located in Toronto, Canada, Royal Ontario Museum was designed by Bregman + Hamann Architects is working with Studio Daniel Libeskind.  Libeskind’s sculptural Michael Lee-Chin Crystal addition transforms the ROM experience, creating a new landmark entrance along Bloor Street and providing dynamic gallery space. Renaissance ROM creates bold new architecture, retrieves the best of the historic... 

Tags: Architecture, Bregman + Hamann Architects, Canada, Daniel Libeskind, Deconstructivism, Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, Rotundas, Royal Ontario Museum, Studio Daniel Libeskind, Toronto, Visual arts

TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning In Toronto, Canada

Designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning is Located on Bloor Street West, Toronto’s Canada, main east-west artery and high end shopping district, the RCM occupies an important urban site adjacent to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). In concert with Daniel Libeskind’s transformation of the ROM, and KPMB’s work on the Gardiner Museum and the... 

Tags: Bruce Kuwabara, Canada, Daniel Libeskind, Gardiner Museum, important urban site, KPMB, Marianne McKenna, Michael Koerner Concert Hall, Museum, principal in charge, Royal Ontario Museum, Sonja Koerner Concert Hall, Telus, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, TELUS Corporation, The Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto