The recently completed $400m expansion of the Adelaide Convention Centre (ACC) by Woods Bagot saw the practice realise the client’s vision, which was “to be inspired by and be inspiration for South Australia”. The brief for the project, which is an entrant in the 2018 Shaw Contract Design Awards, was to provide three venues that […]
Barcelona-based Estudio Carme Pinós has revealed a design inspired by origami for its MPavilion 2018, which will be located at Queen Victoria Gardens in Melbourne. The design comprises two surfaces of timber latticework that intersect with each other to form the roof. The floating planes rest at angles on elevated points, while the roof both allows sunlight and […]
In Skeletons, AR looks at notable and iconic buildings when they were still just a twinkle in their creator’s eye. The impressive Lotus Centre was completed in 2013 in the centre of Wujin, a rapidly growing city in the southern district of Changzhou in China. With a population of 13 million, it is striving to […]
A new community centre designed for the remote Nunavik Inuit communities in Canada has an intriguing shape that was inspired by the silhouette of an iceberg. Despite living in extremely isolated communities, Nunavik’s Inuit do not hesitate travelling long distances to visit each other or to attend an important cultural event. Originally planned as a […]
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