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Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE), Shenzhen, Cina, Coop Himmelb(l)au

Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE)

Text description provided by the architects. The project combines two independent yet structurally unified institutions, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Planning Exhibition, as cultural meeting points and venues for architectural exhibitions. Both museums are designed as separate entities emphasizing their individual functional and artistic requirements and yet are merged […]

Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France, Coop Himmelb(l)au

Musée des Confluences

Text description provided by the architects. Right from the 2001 international competition for a natural history museum in Lyon, the museum was envisioned as a “medium for the transfer of knowledge” and not as a showroom for products. The building ground of the museum is located on a peninsula that […]

House of Music, Groningen, Netherlands, Coop Himmelb(l)au

House of Music

Text description provided by the architects. The “House of Music” in Aalborg, Denmark, was designed by the Viennese architectural studio Coop Himmelb(l)au as a combined school and concert hall: its open structure promotes the exchange between the audience and artists, and the students and teachers. “The idea behind the building […]

Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands, Coop Himmelb(l)au

Groninger Museum

Text description provided by the architects. The complex of the Groninger Museum is a fancy combination of forms, colors and materials. The overall planning was done by Alessandro Mendini, based in Milano, who invited the designers Philippe Starck and Michele De Lucchi, as well as Coop Himmelb(l)au, to conceive the […]

Dalian International Conference Center, Dalian, China, Coop Himmelb(l)au

Dalian International Conference Center

Text description provided by the architects. With the International Conference Center, the Viennese architectural studio Coop Himmelb(l)au has constructed an unmistakable landmark for the prospering harbor city of Dalian, China. Opened in 2013 and featuring a shell-shaped roof, the center hosts a multifunctional “small city within a city” with conference […]

Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea, Coop Himmelb(l)au

Busan Cinema Center

Text description provided by the architects. The basic concept of this project was the discourse about the overlapping of open and closed spaces and of public and private areas. While the movie theatres are located in a mountain-like building, the Centre’s public space is shared between an outdoor cinema and […]

BMW Welt, Munich, Germany, Coop Himmelb(l)au

BMW Welt

Text description provided by the architects. The realization of the technical building facilities within the scope of the architecture led to a planning model with five thematic blocks: Hall, Premiere, Forum, Gastronomy and Double Cone. Hall A low-tech concept optimized ecologically using high-tech methods The technical solution here is based […]

Hill House, Kingsburg-Nova Scotia, Canada, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

Hill House

Text description provided by the architects. As its name implies, the Hill House is as much landscape as building. Extruded from its bald drumlin hilltop site, the house is a landform, with its pair of monopitch roofs complementing the curvature of the hill in section. In plan, its midline is […]

Canadian Chancery and Official Residence, Dhaka, Bangladesh, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

Canadian Chancery and Official Residence

Text description provided by the architects. An embassy is a privileged architectural commission. It offers the opportunity to represent the cultural values of one’s ‘guest’ country and to show respect for the culture of the ‘host’ country. Bangladesh is one of the world’s densest and poorest nations. It has a […]

VIA 57 West, New York, United States, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

VIA 57 West

Text description provided by the architects. VIA 57 West introduces an entirely new typology to New York City: the Courtscraper. The 830,000 sq ft high-rise combines the density of the Manhattan skyscraper with the communal space of the European courtyard, offering 709 residential units with a lush 22,000 sq ft […]

Vancouver House, Vancouver, Canada, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, DIALOG

Vancouver House

Text description provided by the architects. Vancouver House is located at the main entrance to Vancouver right where Granville bridge triforks when it reaches downtown. The resulting triangular slices of land had remained undeveloped until now. When engaged by Westbank to design a residential high-rise for the highly complex site, […]

Maritime Youth House, Copenhagen, Denmark, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, JDS Architects

Maritime Youth House

Text description provided by the architects. Maritime Youth House is located on the island of Amager, in Copenhagen. In 2002, PLOT (BIG + JDS) was invited to design a new building for two user groups with different requirements: a sailing club that needed most of the site to moor their […]

Howard House, Halifax, Canada, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects

Howard House

Text description provided by the architects. The Howard House was conceived as a landscape installation for an art historian and his family of four. It is a 12’x110’ wall that distinguishes the cultural landscape of the fishing cove to the east, from the natural landscape of the wild ocean to […]

CopenHill, Copenhagen, Denmark, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

CopenHill

Text description provided by the architects. Located in an industrial area near Copenhagen city center, CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, is an exemplary model in the field of waste management and energy production, as well as an architectural landmark in the cityscape of Copenhagen. The building replaces the 50-year-old […]

Copenhagen Harbor Bath, Copenhagen, Denmark, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, JDS Architects

Copenhagen Harbor Bath

Text description provided by the architects. Copenhagen’s harbor has transformed from an industrial port and traffic junction to being the cultural and social heart of the city. The Copenhagen Harbor Bath has been instrumental in this evolution. It extends one of the city’s most popular parks over the water by […]

8 House, Copenhagen, Denmark, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

8 House

Text description provided by the architects. 8 House is located in Ørestad South on the edge of a canal with a view of the open spaces of Kalvebrod Fælled in Copenhagen. The mixed-use building has three different types of residential housing and 10,000 m2 of retail and offices, comprising Denmark’s […]

VM Houses, Copenhagen, Denmark, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, JDS Architects

VM Houses

Text description provided by the architects. The VM Houses – shaped like a V and an M when seen from Google Earth – are the first residential buildings in Copenhagen’s Ørestaden neighborhood. Through a series of transformations, BIG opened the block up and turned it to ensure maximum views of […]

The Mountain, Copenhagen, Denmark, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, JDS Architects

The Mountain

Text description provided by the architects. The Mountain is located in Copenhagen’s Ørestad City neighborhood and offers the best of two worlds: a close proximity to the buzzing city life in the center of Copenhagen, and the tranquility of suburban life. The Mountain is the second generation of the BIG-designed […]

Superkilen, Copenhagen, Denmark, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, Topotek 1

Superkilen

Text description provided by the architects. Superkilen is a park conceived as a giant exhibition of urban best practices. The park wedges through the Nørrebro area just north of the Copenhagen city center, creating a contrasting yet unifying space in one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in Denmark. The […]

Danish National Maritime Museum, Helsingør, Denmark, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

Danish National Maritime Museum

Text description provided by the architects. The Danish Maritime Museum is located in a unique historic and spatial context: between one of Denmark’s most important and famous buildings, the Kronborg Castle, and a new, ambitious cultural center – the Culture Yard. BIG was invited for a competition to design a […]

Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium, Copenhagen, Denmark, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium

Text description provided by the architects. The Gammel Hellerup School just north of Copenhagen is a well-preserved piece of architecture and a good example of building on a human scale. BIG was asked to design two new buildings, a new multi-purpose hall and a new arts building for the growing […]

Villa Lóla, Akureyri, Iceland, Arkís arkitektar

Villa Lóla

Text description provided by the architects. The design of Villa Lóla was an especially enjoyable dialogue process between client and architect. Various ideas of materials, concepts and techniques where discussed in the process. Inspirations range from Swiss mountains cabins, a sea ranch in Sonoma County in California, and Japanese solutions in […]

Snaefellsstofa Visitor Center, Egilsstaðir, Iceland, Arkís arkitektar

Snaefellsstofa Visitor Center

Text description provided by the architects. Visitor´s Center Snæfellsstofa Visitor Center communicates the dignity of the surrounding nature and is closely connected to its immediate surroundings. It attracts visitors to its unique appearance and simultaneously works as an attractor for indoor and outdoor activities. The building is divided into three […]

Reykjavík University, Reykjavík, Iceland, Arkís arkitektar, Henning Larsen Architects

Reykjavík University

Text description provided by the architects. “UniverCity” The new Reykjavik University is seen as a town rather than a building. Laying out the University as a classic, closekniturban structure with streets, squares, recesses and courtyards creates a place with urbanity, dynamism and community at its centre. The main central space […]

Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Reykjavík, Iceland, Arkís arkitektar

Icelandic Institute of Natural History

Text description provided by the architects. The Institute The Institute of Natural History is a public institution, carrying out diverse research and monitoring of nature. Research is especially focused on botany, ecology, taxonomy geology and zoology. The new building for the Icelandic Institute of Natural History houses research facilities and […]

Park Ranger‘s Cabins Blágil, Reykjavík, Iceland, Arkís arkitektar

Park Ranger‘s Cabins Blágil

Text description provided by the architects. Ranger cabin in Blágil Ranger cabins in Vatnajökull National Park both serve as the ranger’s workplace and home, during the period of duty. The cabins are designed in three different sizes as they have the capacity to be inhabited by 1 – 4 employees. […]

Residential Care Center H. Hart, Kortrijk, Belgium, B2Ai

Residential Care Center H. Hart

Text description provided by the architects. Zorggroep H. Hart is dedicated to offering high-quality, contemporary residential care. This means that the care must be able to respond to changing demand, and that as a senior citizen you can live there without the stigma of needing help, just as you would […]

Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Support Facility, Portland-Oregon, United States, Skylab Architecture

Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Support Facility

Text description provided by the architects. The Columbia Building supports the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services. Housing workspace, a visitor reception area, and public meeting spaces, the 11,640-square-foot building not only supports the engineering department of the wastewater treatment facility but also functions as an immersive educational experience, […]

Yogananda Library, Solan, India, Archohm Consults

Yogananda Library

Text description provided by the architects. ‘To rebel with a cause’; The big blank concrete central library-the Yogananda library of the Shoolini University in Solan, overlooks a beautiful green valley. Sitting in the landscape as an impassive built piece, peacefully positioned, the building stands out reflecting the nature of its […]