Zaha Hadid Architects completes highly complex Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre
Zaha Hadid Architects completed the Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre, a striking mixed-use facility...
LEED Gold hub for artists and activists takes over an abandoned NYC firehouse
An abandoned firehouse has been reborn as the newly certified LEED Gold home for the Caribbean Cultural Center...
Iceberg-inspired cultural center celebrates Inuit traditions
When Montreal-based Blouin Orzes architectes was tapped to design a new Inuit cultural center for the arctic region...
Kengo Kuma’s competition-winning aquatic center connects land and sea in Copenhagen
Kengo Kuma & Associates beat out the likes of BIG and 3XN Architects in a design competition for a new waterfront...
UNStudio’s striking Paris cultural center contorts for optimal daylight
UNStudio has unveiled competition-winning designs for Centre Culturel DédiéAu 7è Art, a new cultural center...
MVRDV wins bid for green-roofed Zhangjiang Future Park in Shanghai
MVRDV just unveiled competition-winning designs for Zhangjiang Future Park, a 100,000-square-meter park and cultural...
New light-filled learning center celebrates the food history of one of Denmark’s oldest towns
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter just won a competition to design a new cultural center for one of the oldest settlements...
This green-roofed cultural center in Sweden doubles as a vibrant public square
This green-roofed cultural center in Sweden blurs the line between the indoors and outdoors. Designed by Sweco...
Iceberg-inspired Greenland cultural center celebrates 20 years of resilience in the Arctic
Greenland’s harsh arctic climates are notoriously unforgiving, which makes the 20th anniversary of Greenland’s...
Rammed earth and bamboo cultural center keeps naturally cool in Senegal
In the remote Senegalese village of Sinthian rises a culture center that twists and turns like a sinuous sculpture....
Steven Holl Architects designs LEED Platinum-targeted cultural center for Shanghai
Steven Holl Architects has unveiled their latest LEED Platinum-targeted design for China, this time in Shanghai’s...
Rammed earth Palenque Cultural Tambillo is designed to celebrate Afro-ecuadorean arts
Caá Porá, Siete86 and Ingeniera Alternativa designed a cultural center in the UNESCO heritage province of Esmeraldas...
A giant zeppelin-shaped gathering space lands on the roof of the Dox Center for Contemporary Art in Prague
The design team found inspiration for the project in early twentieth-century airships and their symbolic qualities...
Homey village in France provides healing space for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia
Recent studies have shown that the quality and atmosphere of buildings can slow the progression of Alzheimer's...
Egypt’s new Science City International – an oasis of knowledge in the desert
The complex will be located on the western edge of Cairo called "6th of October City". Nestled underneath a series...
Keynsham Civic Center is a vibrant new public space for Bristol
The complex occupies a large sloping site located within the town center, and makes it accessible to pedestrians....
Mountain-shaped Ama’r Children’s Culture House in Copenhagen has no beginning or end
The center occupies a corner lot in Copenhagen surrounded by residential buildings of varying heights. It takes...
The reflective exterior of La Hague Cultural Center in France hides a playful red interior
An internal street cuts through the volume of the building and segments it to recreate an urban scale. This sheltered...
First images of SANAA’s curvy Grace Farms cultural center unveiled
The River is located on a former farm site in New Canaan in Connecticut and, together with the renovated existing...
Creative Cicada pavilion in Spain mimics the body of an insect
Each segment of the Cicada was created using distinct materials and geometry, to emphasize the division between...
Ismaili Center in Toronto is topped with a stunning angular glass dome
The building is located near the existing Aga Khan Museum, designed by Fumihiko Maki, and is surrounded by a seven-hectare...
Auneau Cultural Center in France mimics local covered market
Set back from the street, the Auneau Cultural Center is clad in a high performance concrete skin and glazed glass...
Timber-clad community center in France mimics the forest surrounding it
The region surrounding Chaville is a picturesque forested countryside, known for its idyllic landscape. As a tribute...
Kulturzentrum Ischgl is a green-roofed village center in Austria
The village center is a restored rectory that was built in 1763, and is meant to define the village identity...
UNESCO announces winning design for the Bamiyan Cultural Center in Afghanistan
The proposal, entitled Descriptive Memory: The Eternal Presence of Absence, envisions a system of negative spaces...
Dome of Visions: Mobile Greenhouse Studio Boasts a Facade of CNC-Cut “Fish Scales” in Copenhagen
The mobile Dome of Visions greenhouse studio and temporary cultural center has set off on a two-year tour of Denmark...
Mecanoo Breaks Ground on Multifunctional Cultural Center in Shenzhen
Winner of a design competition, the Shenzhen cultural center consists of four top-heavy volumes each clad in a...
Studio505’s Green-Roofed Phoenix Valley Achieves China’s Highest Rating in Sustainability
Although the original competition brief proposed diverting an existing axial canal to a less prominent position...
Beautiful Geometric Facade Protects King Fahad National Library from the Hot Saudi Sun
Originally constructed in the 1980s, the old library building consists of a cruciform frame built from reinforced...
Green-Roofed Tignespace Athletic Center Reflects the Mountains of Southeast France
Tignespace was originally a gymnasium at the base of an apartment complex overlooking the lake. The gym was replaced...