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Project: New Cultural Center in Ranica
Architects: DAP studio & Paola Giaconia
Location: Bergamo, Italy
Typology: Cultural
Photography: Alessandra Bello

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BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), Martha Schwartz Landscape, Buro Happold , Speirs & Major, Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, and Global Cultural Asset Management are today announced as the winning team of the international design competition for a new 27.000 m2 cultural complex in Albania, consisting of a Mosque, an Islamic Centre, and a Museum of Religious Harmony.

The capital Tirana is undergoing an urban transformation which includes the restoration and refurbishment of existing buildings, the construction of a series of new public and private urban structures, and the complete reconceptualization of Scanderbeg Square. This important square is the site of the new cultural complex that will consist of a Mosque, an Islamic Centre, and a Museum of Religious Harmony.

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Project: Mellat Park Cineplex
Author: Fluid Motion Architects
        Catherine Spiridonoff, Reza Daneshmir
Design Associate: Bijan Vaziri, Arash Javadi, Amir Badiei, Akram Lolaei, Elaheh Najafi, Iman Nedaei, Mohammad Mehrabani, Majid Ahmadi, Iman Daneshvarnejad
Location: Tehran, Iran
Type: Cineplex / Cultural Center
Total Site Area: 6,000 m2 (64,600 ft2)
Ground Floor Area: 2,600 m2 (28,000 ft2)
Total Combined Floor Area: 15,000 m2 (161,460 ft2)
Design Period: October 2003 – April 2005
Construction Period: April 2004 – November 2008
Occupancy: November 2008
Total Initial Budget: 160,000,000,000 Rial (US$15.3 M)
Total Actual Costs: 263,600,000,000 Rial (US$25.2 M)
Client: Development of Cultural Spaces Co. Tehran Municipality
Photography: Afshin Ghaderpanah, Ali Daghigh, Derek Kaplan

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Project: Centro Cultural Vladimir Kaspé
Architects: BROISSINarchitects
            JHG
            (Gerardo Broissin, Gabriel Covarrubias González, Jorge Hernández)
Design Team: María Teresa de la Torre Gorráez, Carlos Rubio, Jessica Vega
Location: Ciudad de México, México
GDI: Ing. José Hinojosa
Structural Engineer: Arq. Fernando Castillo
Date: 2006
Photography: Paul Czitrom

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Serero Architects won the competition for the new Cultural Center of Meudon-la-Forêt, their design is a building which is wrapped by an organic concrete shell, the project will be presented at the mediatheque of Meudon from June 22nd till July 10th, 2010. More images and project description after the break.

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Young practices WE ARCHITECTURE and Sophus Søbye Architects have been awarded with the first prize in the invited competition Kulturcenter Mariehøj, a new cultural center in Denmark´s Rudersdahl municipality. The future Mariehøj cultural center seeks to create open spaces for various activities where interactivity and connections between people have room to grow creatively. Other project collaborators are MASU Planning, Øllgaard Consulting Engineer, Spangenberg & Madsen Consulting Engineer, Hausenberg. More info after the break.

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