The Bruce Museum is a regional cultural institution located in Greenwich, Connecticut with a multi-disciplinary collection and exhibition program bringing together art, science, and natural history. In 2014, following a national design competition, the Bruce embarked on a journey to revitalize its campus to carry the institution into the future.
Project name
Bruce Museum
Architecture firm
EskewDumezRipple
Location
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Design team
Steve Dumez, FAIA, Principal-in-Charge. Noah Marble, AIA, Design Principal. Shawn Preau, AIA, Project Manager. Javier Marcano, AIA, Project Architect. Haley Allen, AIA, Project Architect. Guan Wang. Vanessa Smith-Torres, AIA. Kyle Digby, AIA. Sam Levison, AIA. Mark Thorburn, AIA. Max Katz, AIA
Collaborators
Geotechnical Engineer: Melick-Tully and Associates; Acoustical Engineer: Jaffe Holden; Theatrical/AV: Jaffe Holden; Security: Ducibella Venter Santore; Food Service: Futch Design Associates; Museum Programming: M. Goodwin Museum Planning; Envelope: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger; Cost Estimating: Stuart-Lynn; Code Consultant: Bruce J. Spiewak, Consulting Architect; Owner’s Representative: Stone Harbor Land Company; Commissioning: The Stone House Group
Interior design
EskewDumezRipple
Landscape
Reed Hilderbrand
Lighting
Fisher Marantz Stone
Construction
Turner Construction
Typology
Cultural Architecture > Museum
RDA’s Hong Kong Palace Museum, a flagship project of the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) development, has officially opened. As a new centre for Chinese art and antiquities in Hong Kong, the building will be home to more than 900 objects from the Beijing Palace Museum in the Forbidden City, including 160 Class A artefacts considered national...
Project name
Hong Kong Palace Museum
Architecture firm
Rocco Design Associates
Location
West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
Photography
Edmon Leong, Hong Kong Palace Museum
Design team
Rocco Yim, CM Chan, Freddie Hai, Hoi-Wai Sze, Ryan Leong, William Lee, Kwong-Kiu Wong, Qingyue Li, Doris Yue, Samuel Wong, Bong Yeung, Thomas Cheng, Elaine Tsui, Felix Chow, Pak-Chuen Chan, Victor Chu
Collaborators
Structural: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd. Building Services: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd. Quantity Surveyor: Rider Levett Bucknall Ltd. Landscape: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd. Traffic: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd. Façade: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd. BEAM Accreditation: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd. Security: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd. Acoustic: Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd.
Structural engineer
Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd.
Landscape
Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd.
Construction
China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Client
West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Museum
Showcasing the city’s contribution to the genre’s evolution and popularity around the world, the new Chengdu Science Fiction Museum has opened by hosting the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and Hugo Awards, the first time the events have been held in China.
Project name
Chengdu Science Fiction Museum
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)
Principal architect
Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Andrei-Ciprian Cojocaru, Berkin Islam, Chu Zhou, Hao Wen, Jillian Nishi, Lianyuan Ye, Meng Zhao, Shang Li, Stefan Manousof, Sven Torres, Yang Liu, Yuling Ma, Xiaoying Li
Interior design
上海建筑设计研究院 SIADR
Structural engineer
中国建筑西南设计研究 院 China South West Architecture Design Institute
Environmental & MEP
中国建筑西南设计研究 院 China South West Architecture Design Institute
Landscape
杭州园林设计院 Hangzhou Landscape Design Institute
Lighting
LIGHTDESIGN, BPI
Supervision
四川飞红工程管理咨 询有限公司 Sichuan Feihong Engineering Management Consulting Co., Ltd.
Construction
中建三局集团有限公司 China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Group
Client
Chengdu Science and Innovation City Investment and Development Co.
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Museum
The concrete palace designed by Wutopia Lab, namely The Eye of The Museum of the Palace Museum of the Manchurian Regime (Changchun), which is the first decorative fair-faced concrete building in Jilin Province, the largest fair-faced concrete building in Northeastern China, and the largest thin-shell large-span earth-sheltered swept surface undergr...
Project name
Deep Time Palace
Architecture firm
Wutopia Lab
Location
No. 5 Guangfu North Road, Kuancheng District, Changchun City, China
Photography
CreatAR Images
Principal architect
Yu Ting, Huang He (Project Architect), Pu Shengrui (Project Manager)
Design team
Pu Shengrui, Pan Dali, Sun Liran (Conceptual Design Phase), Xie Jialin (Drawing Compilation Phase)
Collaborators
Installation Design: Kuang Zhou, Huang He, Xie Jialin. Design Consultants: Wei Minfei, Miao Binhai, Zhang Zhun, Qian Yanmin, Lin Xingchun, Zhang Kejie. Chloe Zhang, Zang Yanting, Deng Xiaodan. Low-voltage System Design: Jilin Beihua Electric Power Technology Design & Research Institute Jilin Yongji Branch
Interior design
Jilin Wuyi Construction Co., Ltd. Shanghai Hip-pop Architectural Decoration Design Co.,Ltd. (Concept)
Landscape
Changchun Garden Planning Research Institute Co.,Ltd.
Lighting
Gradient Lighting Design
Construction
Owner Construction Committee: Wang Zhiqiang, Hu Hailong, Zhou Bo, Ai Xuesong, Su Zhenda, Liu Yongwei, Wei Wei. Construction Proxy: Changchun Municipal Government Investment Construction Project Management Center. Construction Drawing: Tianjin Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd. Construction Side: China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Co.,Ltd.(North China)
Material
Fair-faced Concrete
Client
Palace Museum of the Manchurian Regime
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Museum
The art museum, situated in the west of Kunming City, is an important public building in the Cuifeng Ecological Park. The meaning of “Mountain & Sea” comes from its position, keeping away from the hustle and bustle of the city and appearing vividly on the mountain, as well as from its location at the north end of the Dianchi Lake system, with excel...
Project name
Mountain & Sea Art Museum
Location
Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
Photography
Guangkun Yang
Design team
Jiangfeng Wang, Wei Wang, Jiaying Chen, Chao Zhang, Yinghui Deng, Xin Li, Ziyi Yan, Sheng Sun, Hui Xu
Collaborators
Project Director: Jiangfeng Wang; Project Creator: Jiafeng Wang, Jiaying Chen; Structure: Jie Wang, Yuan Ren, Liang Huang, Long Zhang, Zhan Shi, Zhuo Chen, Yichao Xi; Water Supply and Drainage: Ning Tuo, Mengxiao Wang, Hao Zheng, Hai Sun
Interior design
Shenzhen Matrix Interior Design Co., Ltd. (IDM Studio)
Completion year
April 2020
Environmental & MEP
HVAC: Dake Mao, Zhifeng Xu, Yafeng Wei; Electrical Engineering: Jin Wang, Xiaoyun Chen, Feng Sun, Jianpeng Zhang, Weijie Yan
Landscape
ZhongDi Landscape Design Co., Ltd.（Beijing, Shanghai）
Visualization
Construction Drawing Design: gad
Client
Yango Group Co., Ltd.
Typology
Cultural Architecture > Museum
In 2021, I was invited by my friend Qiye, to design a central building in the center of the creative industry park that I renovated for him. However, we are both spaced out those days as our wives are facing a similar dilemma. We are distracted yet tried to take our minds off anxiety by working, but it was hard to fully concentrate.
Project name
Copper blockhouse
Architecture firm
Wutopia Lab
Location
Pudong, Shanghai, China
Photography
CreatAR Images
Principal architect
YU Ting
Design team
MI Kejie, XU Nan, DAI Ruoyu
Collaborators
Project manager: MU Zhilin; Construction drawing design firm: Shanghai Southeast United Engineering Design Co., Ltd
Construction
Shanghai Qikufangyun Culture Technology Co., Ltd
Material
Copper, stainless steel, micro cement, glass
Client
Shanghai Jiayun Investment Management Development Co., Ltd
Typology
Museum › Cultural Architecture
Oklahoma Building by Johnson Fain Widely Awarded for Expressing Mission Through Design. Twenty-five years in the making, First Americans Museum (FAM) in Oklahoma City is a testament to mission and perseverance. It was created to honor the 39 tribes in Oklahoma today, reflecting their history through design metaphors of nature’s elements of earth, w...
Project name
First Americans Museum
Architecture firm
Johnson Fain
Location
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Photography
Scott McDonald; McNeese Studios; Mel Willis
Design team
Scott Johnson, FAIA, design partner. William H. Fain, Jr., FAIA, managing partner/director of urban design and planning. Larry Ball, AIA, principal. Juan Carlos Begazo, AIA, principal. James (Jed) Donaldson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, principal. Daniel Janotta, AIA, principal. Suma Spina, AIA, principal. Craig Lawrence, AIA, senior associate
Collaborators
Associate Architect: Hornbeek Blatt ( David Hornbeek, AIA, NCARB. Anthony J. Blatt, AIA, NCARB, RID)
Civil engineer
Benham Group, Cardinal Engineering
Structural engineer
Arup, KFC Engineering, Nabih Youssef Associates
Environmental & MEP
Darr & Collins, Stantec
Landscape
Hargreaves Jones
Lighting
Lighting Design Alliance, David Weiner Design
Construction
Centennial Builders (joint venture of Flintco and Manhattan Construction)
Client
American Indian Cultural Center Foundation (AICCF)
Typology
Cultural › Museum, Cultural Center & Museum Master Planning
In August 2021, Wuhan University received the largest donation in its history: 1 billion yuan, from alumni Dongsheng Chen of Taikang Insurance Group. In the same year, WIT Design & Research completed a most notable project: the restoration of the former residence of Dong Fureng into a memorial museum, commissioned by the Dong Fureng Foundation, wit...
Project name
The Dong Fureng House Museum
Architecture firm
WIT Design & Research
Photography
Tantan Lei, TOPIA and One Thousand Degree Image
Design team
Gongpu Zhao, Yanli Zhang, Rui Tao, Qianxuan Niu, Xiuwen Xiao, Liang Zhao, Yongcheng Xia，Wenyi Chen
Collaborators
Foundation project management team: Yanfei Tang, Yuan He; Taikang management team: Bin Tang, Shuang Sun, Shanshan Sun, Xiaofu Gao; Copywriting Agency: NARJEELING; Project Planning: Le Brand Strategy Agency
Lighting
PROL Leading Designer: Zhenhua Luo
Material
Brick, concrete, glass, wood, stone
Client
Taikang Insurance Group & Dong Fureng Foundation
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Museum
