A personal review of design creations
Shan-Shui: A Duality | The Chuan Malt Whisky Distillery
For Pernod Ricard, Neri&Hu designed a distillery on a site close to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Mount Emei.
Chapel of Sound
Designed by OPEN architecture, this monolithic open-air concert hall overviews the ruins of the Ming Dynasty-era Great Wall, just two hours away from Beijing.
Shepparton Art Museum by Denton Corker Marshall
Australia’s newest art museum, Shepparton Art Museum opened its doors with nine free exhibitions, four new artwork commissions and presenting more than 200 artists in a celebration of the area’s rich and diverse culture, people and landscape.
Denver Art Museum Design Galleries and Studio by OMA
For its new design galleries, the museum has inaugurated an open, central piazza surrounded by perimeter rooms organised in an alternating sequence of rooms and islands.
M+ Hong Kong, Asia’s First Global Museum of Visual Culture
Announced back in 2012, M+, by Herzog & de Meuron, opens to the public on November 12th with three weekends of celebratory programmes.
An Absent Architecture
In architecture, clients often look for the best view from a hill, but what happens when the desired location is inside the ground… Discover the hidden retreat by HW Studio.
Munch Museum by estudio Herreros
Over 13 floors, five time the size of the original building, the new museum on Oslo waterfront, will house more than 26,000 works that Edvard Munch bequeathed to the City.
Villa Marteau Concert Hall
Well hidden underground of a 19th-century historic villa, the Villa Marteau Concert Hall is designed with 33 large granite splinters.
The Library Stanbridge Mill
In Dorset, Crawshaw Architects turned a cow shed into a new library. With vaults, columns and structure in solid oak planks.
Bistro Bergsteiger
Located in the midst of the UNESCO Natural Heritage area of the Dolomites of Sesto, Bistro Bergsteiger by Plasma Studio, fits properly and carefully into its natural and built context.