All Cultural articles – Page 82
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Building StudyHerzog & de Meuron’s Vitra Haus, Germany
Herzog & de Meuron’s showrooms for chair manufacturer Vitra puts domestic forms to unsettling use.
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield’s Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany
Following the triumph of the Neues Museum, Chipperfield’s latest building in Essen had a tough act to follow. And while it is accomplished, has the architect played it too safe?
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Building StudyO’Donnell & Tuomey’s historical inspiration
A Derry cultural centre for the Irish language looks to the Middle Ages for the inspiration for its dynamic concrete form
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Building StudyAnd the V&A said, let there be light
MUMA’s Medieval & Renaissance Galleries have unlocked hitherto unused spaces at the Victoria &Albert Museum, while making the exhibits integral to the design, using them to define the different zones
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Building StudyRoman horror day at Zaha Hadid's Maxxi
Maxxi, Rome’s National Museum of 21st Century Arts, displays a cynical disregard for its purpose, that marks a conceit too far for Zaha Hadid
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Building StudyCaruso St John's Nottingham curtain raiser
The dramatic green and gold facades of the Nottingham Contemporary art gallery are an outward expression of its relationship with the city
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Building StudyCultures successfully crossed at Oxford’s Ashmolean
Rick Mather’s reinvention of Oxford’s Ashmolean has written a dynamic new chapter in the history of museums
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Building StudyPawson’s Visual Centre is a temple for the senses
The new George Bernard Shaw Theatre & Visual Centre for Contemporary Art by Terry Pawson in Carlow, Ireland, is a spiritual monument for a post-religious age
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Building StudyBody building in South Korea with ARU
The latest of three buildings that Florian Beigel and Philip Christou’s Architecture Research Unit has designed for South Korea’s Paju Book City is complete
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Building StudySanaa's Serpentine pavilion shows a lightness of touch
If Sanaa’s buildings can be said to share a defining quality it lies in their marriage of a startling economy of means and a gleeful abandon in those means’ deployment — a strategy that imbues their best work with something of the impossible loveliness of a child’s drawing.
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins creates a well-tempered quintet at Snape
A cluster of five redundant industrial buildings at Snape Maltings, home of the Aldeburgh Festival, has been turned into performance and rehearsal space. Ellis Woodman is impressed by a sensitive, richly-textured refurb
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Building StudyKeith Williams mixes and matches to create new Athlone gallery
London-based practice Keith Williams Architects has won planning consent for a 600sq m addition and refurbishment of a former town hall on the River Shannon in Ireland
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Building StudyArtful arrangements at Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum
Though Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum — the latest addition to Munich’s emerging Museum Quarter — suffers from poor masterplanning, as a modern art gallery it is very successful
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Building StudyHull keeps on trucking with new theatre by Wright & Wright
For its next act, Hull Truck Theatre has opened its latest production in Wright & Wright’s new building, which reflects the easy-going, unpretentious character of the company
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Building StudyParallel lives at the Whitechapel Gallery
The expansion and refurbishment of east London’s Whitechapel Gallery by Belgian practice Robbrecht & Daem, working with Witherford Watson Mann, burnishes the city’s art scene
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield Architects' Neues Museum, Berlin
David Chipperfield Architects has undertaken a stunningly courageous transformation of Berlin’s ruined Neues Museum
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Building Study6a Architects’ Raven Row gallery
6a Architects has remodelled two knocked-through houses in an 18th century Spitalfields terrace to form Raven Row, a contemporary arts space
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Building StudyAlison Brooks' folk art for Folkestone
Quarterhouse, a performing arts venue and studio space in Folkestone, Kent, by Alison Brooks Architects’ is the advance guard of the town’s rebirth
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Building StudySeeing the whole picture
Stuart Shave’s latest art gallery, designed with exceptional attention to detail by David Kohn Architects, revitalises a former London fashion quarter
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ReviewGormley and Chipperfield three-way pavilion opens in Sweden
David Chipperfield and Antony Gormley’s pavilion for the Kivik Art Centre in south-east Sweden has opened to the public.