All under one roof: Focketyn del Rio Studio completes the transformation of the kHaus Basel, Switzerland. The transformation of a pre-existing building into a new cultural center has become a model for circular architecture and re-use: built 150 years ago as a military barracks, this seminal building has just become a new public nexus in the heart...
Project name
kHaus Cultural Center
Architecture firm
Focketyn del Rio Studio GmbH, Basel, Miquel del Rio + Hans Focketyn
Location
Kasernenhof 8, 4057 Basel, Switzerland
Photography
Adrià Goula, Piotr Hraptovich
Principal architect
Hans Focketyn, Miquel del Rio
Design team
Letizia Fürer, Anna Kuhli, Alastair Lock, Aljoscha Lanz, Angela Brasanac, Christina Fernandez, Dalila Godbahne, Carolina Osorio, Francessco Maria di Giusepp, Hajdin, Draguscha, Iris Carratala, Jaime Pesio Suso, Jonathan Bürgel, Felipe Bermudez Murillo, Joshua Thomson, Juan Pablo Gallego, Juan Pablo Pineda Vergara, Manuela Navarro, Marco Bamberger, Marco Lenherr, Marion Cruz, Pierre Marmy, Raphael Rattier, Santiago Martinez, Tomas Eduardo Echeverri, Montoya, Tomas Guerra, Vida Amani, Xavier Uriach, Xenia Heid
Collaborators
Stage design: Ducks Scéno, Paris + Wibbeke & Penders GmbH, Berlin. Generalplaner: Arge Kaserne Hauptbau ( Focketyn del Rio Studio GmbH + Caretta Weidmann. Baumanagement AG, Basel + Schnetzer Puskas Ingenieure AG). Building energy: Ehrsam Beurret Partner AG, Pratteln. Fire regulations: af-brandschutz. Heating: Ingenieurbüro Stefan Graf, Basel. Ventilation: Treuthardt Haustech, Binningen.
Structural engineer
Schnetzer Puskas Ingenieure AG
Environmental & MEP
Plumbing: Unico Gebäudetechnik AG, Basel + Suiselectra Ingenieurunternehmen AG, Basel. Electrical systems: Hefti Hess Martignoni, Aarau. Acoustics: applied acoustics GmbH, Gelterkinden
Supervision
Site supervision: Caretta Weidmann Baumanagement AG, Basel
Budget
CHF 46.000.000 (including taxes)
Client
City of Basel (Bau und Verkehrsdepartement des Kantons Basel-Stadt)
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Cultural Center
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been named winner of the competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre.
Project name
Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre
Architecture firm
Zaha Hadid Architects
Location
Jinghe, Xi’an, China
Principal architect
Patrik Schumacher
Design team
Sanxing Zhao, Lianyuan Ye, Shaofei Zhang, Qiyue Li, Shuchen Dong, Yuan Feng, Congyue Wang, Yuling Ma, Yanran Lu
Collaborators
容柏生建筑结构设计事务所 RBS, 中联西北工程设计研究院有限公司 China United Northwest Institute for Engineering Design & Research Co
Status
Competition winner
Typology
Commercial › Art Center
Sayeh Architecture Studio designs the museum as a kind of "rolling museum" with rotating exhibits from a stock of 300 restored cars, many in pristine condition and still in full driving order.
Project name
Porsche Museum
Architecture firm
Sayeh Architecture Studio
Location
Stuttgart, Germany
Tools used
AutoCAD, Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Abolfazl Malaijerdi
Visualization
Abolfazl Malaijerdi
Client
Stuttgart Municipality
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Museum
The new building of the Museum of Ethnography in the Budapest City Park (Városliget) was opened (23/05/2022). The multiple award-winnig new museum building – which is part of Europe’s largest urban-cultural development called Liget Budapest Project - designed by FERENCZ, Marcel; Napur Architect - has dynamic yet simple lines simultaneously harmonis...
Project name
New Museum of Ethnography
Architecture firm
NAPUR Architect Ltd.
Location
Városliget, Budapest, Hungary
Principal architect
Marcel Ferencz
Design team
György Détári, Filó Gergely, Holyba Pál, Nyul Dávid, Grócz Csaba, Mészáros Mónika
Interior design
Czakó Építész Ltd.
Landscape
Garten Studio Ltd.
Structural engineer
EXON 2000 Ltd., HVarC Ltd. Lucz Attila
Contractor
ZÁÉV Építőipari Zrt. and Magyar Építő Zrt.
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Museum
Prague has announced the winner of the international architectural competition for the design of the Vltava Philharmonic Hall, which is the team of the Danish studio Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), led by Bjarke Ingels and Brian Yang.
Project name
Vltava Philharmonic Hall
Architecture firm
Bjarke Ingels Group
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Principal architect
Bjarke Ingels and Brian Yang
Collaborators
AED PROJECT – Aleš Marek, Šárka Schneiderová; John Henley, Karel Košek, Tomáš Hrádek; NAGATA ACOUSTICS – Marc Quiquerez, Neza Kravanja; THEATRE PROJECTS – Findlay Ross, Mark Stroomer; BURO HAPPOLD – George Keliris, Kostis Lysikatos, Michael Keverne; SYSTEMATICA – Tiffanie Yamashita; FRONT – Marc Simmons, Jill Fredrickson
Visualization
Mozses, Bjarke Ingels Group
Client
Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Prague) & The City of Prague
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Philharmonic Hall
This project (an area of 20 hectares)is located in the southwest of Iran and in a city with very high oil and economic resources. Mahshahr city as an old city with 3000 years of history unfortunately has lost its historical works for unknown reasons. The wars in this region of Iran has caused that the city is turned into an immigrant taking city fr...
Project name
Mixed-use Complex of Mahshahr Port
Architecture firm
Asooarch
Location
Bandar Mahshahr, Khuzestan, Iran
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Mohammad Amini
Design team
Mohammad Amini, Alireza Moloudi, Reza Rahsepar
Visualization
Reza Rhsepar
Client
Mahshahr Municipality
Status
Under construction
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Amusement, Mixed-use
Intervening in an existing building is in itself a good challenge, when we have added centuries of history to the pre-existence, the challenge is even greater. The intervention focuses on the creation of an exhibition structure, alluding to the life and historical legacy of Damião de Gois, inside an old, restored church in Alenquer.
Project name
Museu Damião de Góis e as Vitimas da Inquisição / Damião de Góis Museum and the Victims of the Inquisition
Architecture firm
Spaceworkers
Location
Alenquer, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG. Video: Building Pictures
Principal architect
Rui Dinis, Henrique Marques
Design team
João Ortigão, Marco Santos, Tiago
Collaborators
Carla Duarte (Finance Director), Bairro Design (Furniture design)
Visualization
Spaceworkers
Client
Alenquer Municipality
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Museum
The gallery was endowed by a company. Nanjing University of the Arts found an open space among the crowded dormitory buildings, preparing to use the public housing space on the ground floor of the original 46th dormitory to renovate and expand a two-story art exhibition hall.
Project name
Art Gallery Extension of Nanjing University of the Arts
Architecture firm
Atelier Diameter
Photography
Aurelien Chen
Principal architect
Zhang Nan
Design team
Zhang Nan, Yang Junwei, Zhang Xiaoyuan、Sun Xiao, Ou Renwei
Collaborators
Design Institute:ZhongSen Architectural & Engineering Designing Consultants LTD.
Structural engineer
Jian Jin,Yulong Qiu, Yong Liu, Feng Wang
Environmental & MEP
Water and Drainage Supply Design:Yujin Huang; Heating and Ventilation Design:Lingye Song; Electrical Design:Kelan Cao
Lighting
Ning Field Lighting Design Corp., LTD.
Client
Nanjing University of the Arts
Typology
Gallery, Cultural Architecture, Pavilion