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
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
“Architecture is an art that takes from everything, like music does. It’s really robbery, but robbery without a mask. You don’t really care where ideas come from. You pick and take from yourself and others.” We used these sentences as an exemplar during our Copy Right Studio.
Student
Masoud Abedimoghadam, Pegah Rahmani
University
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Tools used
Autodesk Revit, Rhinoceros 3D, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Project name
Sheldon Annex
Location
Nebraska, United States
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Museum
The man stared out the window. The water was calm and the speakers were playing Bach. Several solar storms had been seen in the orbits since morning, the latter damaging the protective cap above the hypogeum. The time to repair the cap was four hours, and it was seven hours before the next storm. All the plants and cells of the world were in good c...
Project name
Museum of Life
Architecture firm
Davood Boroojeni Office
Tools used
SketchUp, V-ray, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign
Principal architect
Davood Boroojeni, Saba Ammari, Majid Mokhtari, Hamed Kalateh
Visualization
Peno Visualization Studio
Typology
Cultural › Museum
In designing a design museum, we have aimed to create a place to celebrate the intersection between creativity and ingenuity of the human mind. Conceptually the practice of design arises from the tension between form and function, between tradition and innovation, it is the fusion between technique and curiosity, the recognition of ancient craftsma...
Project name
National Design Museum Sejong
Architecture firm
AIDIA STUDIO in collaboration with ArchiWorkshop
Location
Sejong, South Korea
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, V-ray, Lumion, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Adobe Package
Principal architect
Rolando Rodriguez-Leal, Natalia Wrzask
Design team
Emilio Vásquez Hoppenstedt, Rodrigo Wulf Sánchez
Built area
14,514 m² + 5,328 m² (underground parking)
Collaborators
Local Design Representative: ArchiWorkshop: Su-Jeong Park, Hee-Jun Sim
Visualization
AIDIA STUDIO
Client
National Agency for Administrative City Construction (NAACC)
Typology
Cultural › Museum, Library and Archive
3XN, B+H and Zhubo Design were recently awarded first place in an international design competition for the new Shenzhen Natural History Museum, set to be one Shenzhen’s "Ten Cultural Facilities of the New Era" and the first large-scale comprehensive natural museum Southern China once complete.
Project name
Shenzhen Natural History Museum
Architecture firm
3XN, B+H Architects and Zhubo Design
Location
Yanzi Lake, Pingshan Dist., Shenzhen, China
Collaborators
B+H Architects and Zhubo Design
Visualization
Courtesy of 3XN
Built area
42,000 m² (Planned construction area), 100,000 m² (GFA: tentatively)
Budget
About 3.5 billion yuan (excluding costs for the tender)
Client
Engineering Design Management Center of Shenzhen Municipal Construction and Public Works Administration
Typology
Cultural › Museum
Conceptual project for organic modern art museum located in the ruins of Mexico City to contrast ancient architecture with modern.
Project name
Conceptual Modern Art Museum Mexico
Architecture firm
Aldo Elihú Avila Ayala
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, V-ray
Design team
H7 Mantenimiento Y Construcción
Visualization
Aldo Elihú Avila Ayala
The MUNA Argentinean Naval Museum is a building where flows and pathways overlap and connect in order to create a dynamic and interactive space. Although the programme is clear and organised on the ground plan, flexibility of use is the main objective of the project.
Project name
MUNA - Naval Museum
Architecture firm
Tc.arquitectura
Location
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tools used
AutoCAD, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, Corona Renderer
Principal architect
Thomas Cravero
Visualization
Thomas Cravero