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Cox Architects and Neeson Murcutt expand Australian Museum in AUS$57.5m renovation
Artist's rendering of the expanded Crystal Hall entrance / Australian Museum

Cox Architects and Neeson Murcutt expand Australian Museum in AUS$57.5m renovation

by Andy Knaggs | 16 Aug 2019
A major renovation by Cox Architects and Neeson Murcutt will expand touring exhibition halls and create new facilities at the Australian Museum in Sydney. The attraction closed to the public from 19 August for the improvements, that will see storage space being repurposed to give the museum 1,500sq m (4,900sq ft) of additional touring exhibition halls across two levels. This capacity means it could host either one major exhibition or two smaller exhibitions simultaneously. Project Discover has a budget of
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JRA create branded experience centre for Toyota in Texas
High performance vehicles are in the Racing Gallery / JRA

JRA create branded experience centre for Toyota in Texas

by Andy Knaggs | 14 Aug 2019
Car manufacturer Toyota has opened its first visitor attraction in North America – the 44,000sq ft (13,400sq m) Toyota Experience Center (TEC) at its headquarters in Plano, Texas. The company says the centre, which was planned, designed and project managed by experience designers JRA, is intended to educate visitors about Toyota's past, present and future as a mobility company. The centre features a variety of interactive exhibits and displays, all designed to reflect on the people behind the brand. "Many
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Waterway above Notre Dame among 'People's Design Competition' for new cathedral roof
The 'Flowing Fish' proposal replaced the iconic spire with an urban waterway above the historic cathedral

Waterway above Notre Dame among 'People's Design Competition' for new cathedral roof

by Tom Walker | 14 Aug 2019
A competition to find alternative designs to replace the destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral roof has attracted a number of innovative "solutions" – including a rooftop waterway over the medieval cathedral. The People’s Notre Dame Cathedral Design Competition was launched in defiance of the French senate’s plans to restore the roof exactly as it was before the devastating fire earlier this year. Set up by book publisher GoArchitect, the campaign invited architects to enter their designs for the new roof, "no
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Ney & Partners and William Matthew Associates create double cantilever bridge with symbolic sliver gap for Tintagel Castle
At the centre of the bridge, a 40mm gap between the ends of the two cantilevers is symbolic of transitions: between the mainland and the island, past and present, history and legend / English Heritage/Jim Holden

Ney & Partners and William Matthew Associates create double cantilever bridge with symbolic sliver gap for Tintagel Castle

by Andy Knaggs | 12 Aug 2019
A £5m (US$6m, €5.4m) programme of improvements at world-famous Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, UK, has reached a milestone, with the opening of a footbridge that joins the two halves of the castle for the first time in more than 500 years. Designed by Ney & Partners engineers and William Matthew Associates Architectural Practice, the bridge spans a 190-foot gorge between the 13th-century gatehouse on the mainland and the courtyard on a jagged headland jutting into the sea. There was once a
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Clark Enersen Partners are part of the transformation team working on the Truman Presidential Library and Museum
When it reopens, the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum will have a new glass entrance with a frosted presidential seal

Clark Enersen Partners are part of the transformation team working on the Truman Presidential Library and Museum

by Andy Knaggs | 30 Jul 2019
The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, has closed to allow a year-long renovation, which will see the facility reopen to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Truman becoming US president in 1945. Museum planning and design firm Gallagher & Associates has created the new designs, and is working in collaboration with Monadnock Media, architectural firm The Clark Enersen Partners, and construction company JE Dunn Construction. Among plans within the US$25m (€22.46m, £20.46m) transformation are a
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Ethos Design and Architecture design £10m aquarium for Belfast
The ReefLIVE aquarium is expected to draw more than 300,000 visitors per year

Ethos Design and Architecture design £10m aquarium for Belfast

by Andy Knaggs | 25 Jul 2019
Proposals for a new £10m (US$12.48m, €11.21m) ReefLIVE aquarium in Belfast's Titanic Quarter are to be put forward for approval, with hopes that the attraction will draw more than 300,000 visitors per year. Designed by Ethos Design and Architecture, and with planning by consultants Turley, the aquarium would be situated opposite the Titanic Hotel on Queen's Road, which is a short distance from the Titanic Belfast museum. ReefLIVE, a UK company for which this is the first such project, said
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"We set out by saying that our intention was to reflect the present with the Memorial Pavilion, whereas the two waterfalls going into the footprints of the two towers reflect the past"

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Tokachi Millennium Forest is being marketed as having a sustaiable vision of a thousand years

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The eco-friendly public plaza where over 400 trees surround the reflecting pools

A Living Museum

"It’s extraordinary to take in the authenticity of the site, the enormity of the space, and begin to contemplate the narrative of the museum exhibit"

Behind the scenes of New York’s 9/11 Memorial Museum – a place of collective memory, learning and inclusion
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