
Environmental education is imbedded in this cultural center
Sometimes architecture is about much more than the materials and design of a building. This is the case for Pabellón...

Public space in South Korea has chimney-like design
In late 2022, the Metropolitan City of Incheon, South Korea, along with the Housing and City Development Corporation,...

Historic airport in Norway is transformed into a school
As a result of a competition to revitalize Oslo’s historical, decommissioned airport, the Bærum municipality...

Chinese cultural exchange hall combines politics and nature
aoe's new Sino-Italian Cultural Exchange Hall in Chengdu, China, has been built in a bamboo forest to the east...

Sustainable RAUM Pavilion can be continually reused or recycled in Utrecht
Utrecht's burgeoning cultural hotspot at Berlijnplein (Berlin Square) has recently gained the RAUM Pavilion, a...

Steven Holl’s new solar-powered concert hall plays up the dramatic contrast between new and old
New York-based Steven Holl Architects and Architecture Acts has won an international competition to design the...

Nearly 5,000 prefab concrete panels wrap BIG-designed “outdoor urban room” in France
Bjarke Ingels Group and FREAKS freearchitects have completed a new cultural center for Bordeaux, France that frames...

Award-winning innovation center harnesses recycled rainwater and solar energy
Rio de Janeiro-based architecture firm Atelier77 recently completed CASA FIRJAN, an innovation center that’s...

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...