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Alaska's Kenai Visitor Center provides a refuge from the outside world

Leave the technology-ridden world behind for a little while to sink down into the Alaskan landscape. The visitor...

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Prefab Morgan Motor Company Experience Centre uses sustainable timber

Bath, U.K.-based Hewitt Studios has given a stunning makeover to Morgan Motor Company’s aging café, museum and...

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Abu Dhabi Flamingo Visitor Center blends into the landscape

Prague-based architecture firm Petr Janda / brainwork studio has won an international competition with its design...

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Studio Lotus designs an innovative and low-impact visitor center for Jodhpur’s Mehrangarh Fort

Delhi-based multidisciplinary design practice Studio Lotus has won a competition to design the new visitor center...

Glazed envelope Østerild Visitors and Operation Center by Cubo Arkitekter

Sleek fiberglass visitor center is a beacon for wind energy in Denmark

The wind turbines in Thisted, Denmark don’t just generate renewable energy — they're among the world’s largest...

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Yurt-inspired visitor's center in China blends into its exceptional surroundings

This gorgeous visitor center in China was inspired by Mongolian yurts. Architecture firm HDD combined locally sourced...

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Thousands of tomato-sauce jars to turn into “tomato architecture” at Mutti

An endless red waterfall of tomatoes will wow visitors at the new headquarters for Mutti - one of the world’s...

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Beautiful visitors center curves around a semi-natural ice rink in a Japanese forest

Tokyo-based Klein Dytham architecture completed a beautiful timber-clad visitor center befitting its surroundings...

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Three glass arms and a sunken visitor center enhance this renovated Dutch park

Some people have a wonderful knack for devising new ways of seeing the world - including Studio Maks and Junya...

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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...

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BIG’s LEGO House tops out with opening date in September

The place where “fun is handmade” just got one big step closer to becoming a reality. The Bjarke Ingel Group-designed...

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Green-roofed visitor center blends into Quebec’s lakeside landscape

This handsome timber building by the lake looks like a sumptuous holiday retreat, but rest assured it’s open...

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Visitor center disguised as a hill to welcome visitors to Denmark’s historic Kalø Castle Ruins

The beautiful historic ruins of Kalø Castle are unmissable, but its planned visitor center might not be too easy...

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LEED Silver visitor center is a portal to a historic American battlefield

Calling attention to a historic landscape can be difficult when there are few artifacts to differentiate it from...

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This green-roofed visitor center will be nestled under a hill in Denmark

The green-roofed Skamlingsbanken Visitor Center near Sjølund in southern Denmark will blur the line between nature...

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