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Korean island visitor centre by OUJAE Architects features a remodelled...
A refurbished schoolhouse with a serrated profile forms one of three tourist facilities designed by OUJAE Architects for a remote but scenic island off the coast of South Korea (+ slideshow). The...
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M-Arquitectos renovates and extends thermal baths on a volcanic Portuguese...
M-Arquitectos has upgraded a popular thermal bathing attraction on Portugal's São Miguel Island with a new timber-clad visitors' centre and a pair of stone-lined pools (+ slideshow). M-Arquitectos was...
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MLZD's lakeside bird-watching centre features rammed earth walls and an aviary
Walls made from compressed earth combine with timber-clad surfaces and glass to help this visitor centre for the Swiss Ornithological Institute complement its natural setting on the banks of a lake (+...
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Wooden pavilions by Lake Flato create an education centre in the Texas landscape
This visitors centre and education pavilion in Texas was designed by Lake Flato Architects to be one of the most sustainable structures in the state, but also to reference its Southwestern context (+...
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Feilden Fowles plans rammed-earth visitors' centre for Yorkshire Sculpture Park
London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has revealed plans for a visitors' centre with rammed-earth walls in Europe's largest modern and contemporary sculpture park. Set into a hillside in a former...
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Award-winning building destroyed by volcano seven months after completion
An award-winning visitor centre completed last year by Oto Arquitectos on the Cape Verde island of Fogo has been destroyed by a volcano (+ slideshow). Designed by Lisbon-based Oto Arquitectos as a...
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Namu Architects completes shed-like visitor centre in South Korea's CeongTae...
This visitors centre for a mountain in South Korea by Namu Architects comprises a pair of gabled buildings with vertical cladding and windows, intended to reference the trunks of tall trees that...
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PLH Arkitekter reveals plans for shield-shaped visitor centre at Danish...
Danish practice PLH Arkitekter has based its design for this visitor centre at a Viking landmark in Denmark on a circular shield (+ slideshow). The Copenhagen practice won the competition to design the...
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Timelapse movie captures visitor centre created by Reiulf Ramstad in the...
This movie by videographer Alejandro Villanueva tours the Reiulf Ramstad-designed Trollstigen Visitor Centre in rural Norway, revealing how its network of pathways zigzag across a landscape of rugged...
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CEBRA plans subterranean visitor centre for historic Skamlingsbanken hill
Danish architecture studio CEBRA has been appointed to create an underground visitor centre for a hill that has hosted some of the most important speeches in Denmark's history. CEBRA will work with a...
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Álvaro Siza's Alhambra project scrapped
Álvaro Siza's plans for a new entrance and visitor centre at the historic Granada palace the Alhambra have been rejected. The Portuguese architect and Spanish architect Juan Domingo Santos won an...
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Dark cedar boards shroud Quebec visitors centre by Anne Carrier
Quebec architecture firm Anne Carrier Architecture has completed a visitors centre in the Mont Orford National Park, built using a wooden structure that nestles into the landscape. The Bonnallie...
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Dorte Mandrup adds thatched wing to Wadden Sea visitor centre in Denmark
Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter paired thatch with blackened wood for this extension to a visitor's centre on the Wadden Sea mud flats in Denmark. Dorte Mandrup's Copenhagen-based firm updated and extended...
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New photographs reveal Snøhetta's Lascaux IV Caves Museum in southern France
These photographs capture the jagged roofline of the museum that Snøhetta has designed at the Lascaux Caves in France, to frame a huge replica of some of the world's most famous prehistoric cave...
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Henry Moore Foundation celebrates 40th anniversary with renovation of the...
Hugh Broughton Architects has added a new visitors centre and an oxidised-steel extension to the Henry Moore Studios and Garden in Hertfordshire – the site of the artist's former home. The architects...
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Reiulf Ramstad's kiln-inspired learning centre will celebrate Denmark's...
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has unveiled plans for a new agricultural and baking education centre in Denmark's Jutland region, which will feature teaching spaces skylit by a pair of kiln-shaped forms....
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Studio Maks and Junya Ishigami create three-pronged visitor centre for Dutch...
Three intersecting glass corridors sweep outwards from a sunken, triangular-shaped visitors centre designed by Studio Maks and Junya Ishigami + Associates for Park Vijversburg in the Netherlands....
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Office III builds simple open-air welcome centre on Governors Island
US studio Office III has constructed a visitors' centre for Governors Island in New York City using marine-grade plywood and cedar decking. The pavilion is the first-ever welcome centre for Governors...
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Chicago Architecture Foundation plans move to Mies van der Rohe-designed tower
The Chicago Architecture Center will take over a space inside a riverfront building by modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which will be designed by US firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill and is...
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Tourist centre perches above limestone canyon in Guizhou Province
This tourist centre by Chinese studios 3andwich Design and He Wei Studio stands on a platform facing out over a deep limestone canyon in Anlong County in China's Guizhou Province. Four buildings and a...
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