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Project: Glasgow Riverside Museum
Architect: Zaha Hadid
Program: Exhibition space, cafe, retail and education
Client: Glasgow City Council
Total Area: 11000 sq nt
Exhibition Area: 7000 sq mt
Site Area: 22400 sq mt
Footprint Area: 7800 sq mt
Photography: RiverSide Museum

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Project: Pabellon Cultural de la República
Author: Serrano Monjaraz Arquitectos with J. Francisco Serrano and Susana García
Location: Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, México
Type: Competiton
Date: 2008
Built Surface: 57,697.00 sq ft
Renders: Serrano Monjaraz Arquitectos

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Project: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH)
Architect: Belzberg Architects
Principal: Hagy Belzberg
Project Manager: Aaron Leppanen
Project Team: Andrew Atwood, Barry Gartin, Brock DeSmit, Carina Bien-Wilner , Christopher Arntzen, Cory Taylor, Daniel Rentsch, David Cheung, Eric Stimmel, Erik Sollom, Justin Brechtel, Philip Lee, Lauren Zuzack
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Project Type: Cultural
Construction Type: New
Size: 27,000 ft2
Structural Consultant: William Koh & Associates
Mechanical Consultant: John Dorius & Associates
Electrical Consultant: A&F Consulting Engineers
Plumbing Consultant: Tom Nasrollahi & Associates
Soils Engineer: Irvine Geotechnical
Methane Engineer: Carlin Environmental
Environmental Engineer: Enviropro, Inc.
General Contractor: Winters-Schram
Special Fabrication: Spectrum Oak Products, Swiss Woodworking
Photography: Belzberg Architects, Benny Chan – Fotoworks, Iwan Baan

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New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro have unveiled their design for a new Los Angeles museum for The Broad Art Foundation. Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Christian de Portzamparc, Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Foreign Office Architects competed last year for a 120,000 sq ft and $130 million dollars project for a new museum and in August Diller Scofidio + Renfro won the competition. [More info and images after the break]

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Fernando Romero / LAR, through his twitter account (@fromero7), has released a new video from the Museo Soumaya wich is being built in Mexico City.

Designs for the Zayed National Museum have been officially unveiled today by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Conceived as a monument and memorial to the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding president of the UAE, the Museum will be the centrepiece of the Saadiyat Island Cultural District and will showcase the history, culture and more recently the social and economic transformation of the Emirates. More info and images after the break.

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MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome by Zaha Hadid Architects has won the coveted £20,000 RIBA Stirling Prize 2010, in association with The Architects Journal and Benchmark. The presentation of the UK’s premier architectural award took place at a special awards ceremony this evening (Saturday 2 October) at The Roundhouse in London, and was televised live on BBC Two’s The Culture Show at 6.30pm. [More info and images after the break]

           
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Sauerbruch Hutton, an Anglo-German practice, has been announced as the winner of the M9 International Architecture Design Competition which will open a new cultural pole in Venice, Italy in 2014. Six firms participated in the competition: Agence Pierre-Louis Faloci(France), Carmassi Studio di Architettura (Italy), David Chipperfield Architects (Great Britain/Italy), Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos (Spain), Sauerbruch Hutton (Germany) and Souto Moura Arquitectos (Portugal). More info and images after the break.

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Sucker Punch and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon are organizing an open international ideas competition for a new home for the Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art, MoCCA. The MoCCA was established in 2001 and is based in the soho area of manhattan in New York City. [More info after the break.]

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Project: Aan de Stroom Museum
Author: Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Program: Museum for City History Antwerp, Museum, Restaurant, Party Room, Pavilions, Plaza
Surface area: 19,557 m2 Floor surface, 11,415 m2 Outdoor construction
Construction costs: € 33.409.000
Design: International Competition, 1st Prize, April 2000
Start construction: October 2006
Realization: February 2010
Images: Via Flickr, credits after the break in the gallery.

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Project: Agriculture Museum
Author: a10studio + lab07
Project Team: Mariano Arias-Diez, Luis Alarcón, Carlos Marín, Hugo Sánchez, Mia Modak
Location: Culiacan, Sinaloa (Mexico)
type: institutional, museum and park
Area: 45,000 m2
Project year: 2010
Client: Instituto Municipal de Planeacion (IMPLAN) de Culiacan
Status: Competition finalist
Landscape architecture: Hugo Sánchez / ENTORNO taller de paisaje
Structural engineer: Ing. Fernando Alvarez / Construcciones FASA
Rendering and digital visualization: Carlos Marín / lab07
Lighting design: a10studio

     
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Project: Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art
Author: studio za arhitekturu (SZA)
        Igor Franic
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Image Credits: Igor Franic 

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Architects: The Design Institute of Civil Engineering & Architecture of DUT
Location: Dalian, China
Project Area: 18,000 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Dalian Shell Museum

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The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will be a premier venue to attract major exhibitions and collections and serve as a showcase to enrich the educational experience and aesthetic enjoyment of art. The building, designed by world-renowned Zaha Hadid, will enable the museum to increase its visibility, showcase more of the permanent collection, organize and exhibit larger and more significant exhibitions, become more integral to university life and the greater community, and increase in stature

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Thom Mayne has revealed his design for the Perot Museum of Nature and Science at Victory Park, Dallas. Mayne describes the project as a “living educational tool featuring architecture inspired by nature and science”. The new facility will provide 180,000 sq ft of display and archive space on a 4.7 acre site in the north of downtown Dallas. More images and description after the break.

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