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
Immersive theater noir in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a closed type institution for wealthy people, therefore privacy must be respected. The building is designed as a labyrinthine structure, which plays a key role so that neither the guests nor the staff members meet.
Project name
Multifunctional Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Architecture firm
Kerimov Architects
Location
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Shamsudin Kerimov
Visualization
Kerimov Architects
Typology
Cultural › Multifunctional Cultural Center
The project's site was originally an elementary school, and later located the factory of an enterprise, with buildings in poor condition. The surrounding area is mainly occupied by waterfront residences of the villagers, and in the front of the site, a memorial archway of chastity and filial piety, built in Qing Dynasty in year 1790, has been prese...
Project name
Future Rural Life Center in Tuanshi Village
Architecture firm
y.ad studio
Location
Tuanshi Village, China
Principal architect
Yan Yang
Design team
Shen Chuan, Wu Kejia, Zhao Siyuan, Yan Yu
Collaborators
Development organization: People's Government of Xiaonanhai Town, Longyou County
Completion year
October 2022
Construction
Shanghai Deluo Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.
Material
Weathering steel, manganese-magnesium-aluminum metal tile, aluminum plate, coating, fair-faced concrete
Typology
Cultural Architecture, Cultural Center
BDD is a new cultural paradigm that places contemporary ideas in a constantly moving and evolving time frame that connects the deep history of culture, creativity and geographical maps of architects, designers and artists in the Bintaro region, the presence of activities and works of artists that continuously project into the future.
Project name
Bintaro Design District Center
Architecture firm
OXO ARC
Location
Tangerang, South of Jakarta, Indonesia
Principal architect
Moelyono Kurnawan
Design team
Sri Moelyono Kurniawan, Yuli Sri Hartant
Collaborators
Muhammad Imam Solikin
Client
BDD (Bintaro Design District)
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Cultural Center
LA 68 is a cultural center located in a restored building in Yucatan, Mexico. The project by FMT Estudio considers the architectural proposal, interiors, custom-made furniture, and lighting design.
Project name
LA 68 Cultural Center
Architecture firm
FMT Estudio
Location
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Photography
Russell Andrade, Pedro Castro, Pim Schalkwijk
Principal architect
Zaida Briceño, Orlando Franco
Design team
Veronica Canto, Noemí Coral, Melanie Rejón
Interior design
FMT Estudio
Tools used
AutoCAD, Adope Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom
Construction
RQ Bauen: Luis Rodríguez, Erick Mex
Typology
Cultural > Center
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
Next to the renovated main building of the Tabalugahaus (former youth hostel Jägersbrunn), which was financed by the Thomas-Haffa-Foundation + Peter Maffay Foundation in 2010, was an old, dilapidated summer house. Already parallel to the renovation, long before the building owner knew what was to happen to it, we proposed to create a bold and mode...
Project name
Begegnungshaus Jägersbrunn
Architecture firm
WSM Architekten
Location
Jägersbrunn, Starnberg, Germany
Photography
Andreas Hofer
Collaborators
Maffay Stiftung, Gesch.-Führer
Structural engineer
Krämer
Landscape
Terrabiota Landschaftsarchitekten
Visualization
WSM Architekten
Material
Wood, Glass, Metal
Client
Thomas-Haffa-Stiftung + Peter-Maffay-Stiftung
Typology
Commercial › Cultural Center
The Xinxiang Cultural Tourism Center is the architectural icon of the new tourism district, which will be dedicated to winter sports, including the presence of the future indoor ski slope.
Project name
Pingyuan New Area Cultural Touristic City Exhibition Center
Architecture firm
Zone of Utopia + Mathieu Forest Architecte
Location
Xinxiang, Henan, China
Principal architect
Qiang ZOU, Mathieu FOREST
Design team
ZENG Teng, DI Wu, WANG Zhuang, Arnaud MAZZA, MA Jia, XUE Qixun
Collaborators
Local Design Architect: Henan Urban Planning Institute & Corporation. Curtain wall / Facades: EDUTH
Interior design
WU:Z DESIGN
Structural engineer
Arup Group Limited
Landscape
Landscape design: Hassell Shanghai Landscape. Design construction: QIDI Shanghai
Client
Henan Rongshou Xinchuang Culture and Tourism Real Estate Co. Ltd.
Typology
Cultural › Tourist Center
