Repurposed architecture is a trend that is slowly gaining traction around the globe. Take "Temp'L", for instance. Designed by the team at South Korea-based Shinslab Architecture, this stunning structure is fashioned from the rusty hull of an old, now-defunct ship. Currently on display at Seoul's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), the…
Back in 1421, the Biesbosch Museum arose like a phoenix after the St. Elisabeth Flood swept through the city of Dordrecht in the Netherlands. And now, the old museum is currently going through yet another remarkable transformation - courtesy of Studio Marco Vermeulen. The aim of the 8-month old project is to morph the antediluvian museum into…
Located in the Yunnan province of Southwest China, the new Qujing History Museum looks more like an anti-gravity spaceship than a museum of natural history. Designed by Chinese architectural firm Hordor Design Group, in collaboration with Beijing-based Atelier Alter, the newly-opened museum is home to a breathtaking range of historical artifacts, including the Entelognathus primordialis,…
Reinhold Messner surely holds his esteemed place in the adventurous realm of mountaineering, as is evident from a few of his extraordinary feats - including being the first man to climb Mount Everest without an oxygen cylinder, and the first man to ascend all of the world's fourteen 8000-m high mountains. Such feats are also…
UK-based architectural firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), has recently unveiled the design for a stunning trapezoid-shaped building, in Washington DC, which could soon become the International Spy Museum’s permanent address. Towering over six stories in height, this unusually-shaped glass and concrete structure is slated for construction at the L’Enfant Plaza, in the southwest…
With increasing demand for sustainable, green architecture, architects around the world are slowly embracing eco-friendly adaptive reuse practices. Previously, we talked about Christoph Kaiser, an Arizona-based architect who has transfigured a 1950s grain silo into a modern home for two. This time around, Chris Collaris has embarked on such a mission, as part of the…
The project that started back in 2001, and incurred several hiccups along the way, has finally reached its conclusion in the form of the new Musée des Confluences. Located in Lyon, France, this unusually-designed museum actually looks like a spacecraft meandering through the Star Wars universe. Having survived several construction hurdles and setbacks, the $301…